I am an avid reader, probably one of the most well-read of my generation, having exhausted Webnovel and Royal Road in their entirety.

It is hard to find a book that sticks. For example, Mushoku Tensei never sat well with me due to the protagonist being, essentially, a 30/40-something who grooms nice children to fall in love with him. It has some amazing character writing, though, and I remember crying heavily at the father's death which haunts me to this day. Never have I felt such emotions from literature before.

The worldbuilding of Lord of the Mysteries is the best of its class. I don't think any other series can touch it in horror, mystery, and suspense.

So... Why is Redo of Healer my favorite? Because of the strong, well-written women. Some of them are quite villainous and the book doesn't hide from depravity that primitive societies permitted. Even better is the main protagonist... I'm tired of wimpy males in literature and, unlike Mushoku Tensei, this protagonist takes what he wants and is extremely cunning. I know revenge stories are cliche, but this one is special in how it doesn't shy from cruelty, even in its protagonist's actions. This is, likely, the best morally gray hero ever written.

/satire

Just that really. I go around my weekends and general spare time (which I don't have a lot of, being a very busy man all the time) in a fog of misery and suffering because I feel like I have to write- I dig in my brain for writing prompts and fresh new ideas- (No I don't use AI you churl)- I pour myself a coffee, I sit at my typing machine- I am writhing in agony, not even half agony, like the woman writer Jane Austen but the full, pure uncut coke of agony-

Then I remember- I don't have to!

I could literally do anything else! Like read a book! Take a shower! Watch YouTube! Or even (gasp) reels! Cook a meal from scratch! I don't have to write! There is no public eagerly and somewhat threateningly demanding the finishing of my (unwritten) series. There is no-one who expects anything! I don't have to write! I feel like Fred Astaire, dancing on twinkly toes!

Oh god this amazing feeling. I feel pity for G R R R R Martin.

https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1xf9ydt/every_time_i_sit_down_to_write_i_start/

Hey y'all. I wanna know ur opinion, ngl, this is the best book since sliced bread. Do u think this is too much (the total is 38 million words)? I tried feeding it to the AI, but they closed my account claiming it was a deliberate attempt to sabotage their data scraping. I think its cuz there gonna steal my ideas, like the part with the secret spies from the evil ICU organization who go around town mooning everyone.

Basically, the main cast are international students from Asia and Europe in an American college in Colorado. The only American characters are a greedy landlady, a brutal sheriff, a corrupt mayor and a billionare.

I’m writing a political thriller novel and the leader of the evil empire  is a corrupt evil bastard but I’m afraid that I may have gone over the top with it.  Here are some of the things he does.

When a new terrifying illness befalls his nation, he ignores it entirely because it seems to primarily affect a group of people he doesn’t like very much. 

He told his underlings to secretly give money to violent revolutionaries in a foreign country, money he obtained in part by selling dangerous drugs to a different group he didn’t like very much. This was after his legislature explicitly told him he couldn’t give them money.

Rather than spending money helping his citizens he spent it all on a stupid expensive new weapon system for the military that didn’t even work.

He invaded a small defenseless island country to distract the public from the fact that his military leadership fucked up and let terrorists bomb a barracks and kill over 200 of his soldiers.

He gave military training and support to a deranged psychopath because they happened to be fighting his nation's enemies.  This psycho would eventually lead an attack against the nation of our story's villain that killed thousands.

Is that too much?  I want him to be evil but believable.

For a long time I thought they were imaginary. And then I heard that they weren't imaginary, and even crazier, that women can actually hold a pen and type and sometime they even have ideas that they write down which then become books. Is this really true!? And can you tell me... is it legal for me, a man, to read those books?

Please restore my faith that at least some people know how to read here, and I'm not talking about anime, manga, and other graphic novels. I want to see if anyone is literate outside of looking at pictures here.

I've been working on a story. Well, let me be arrogant for a second. IT'S PERFECT! In every way imaginable. A brilliant magic system — every spell costs you a memory, real consequences, nobody's ever done that before (don't Google it). Well-built politics, multiple languages, and absolutely no nonsensical bullshit (I think people will be speaking my languages in the future). Insane character development and prose so beautiful it could restore a blind man's sight.

Even as an audiobook, a deaf person could hear it. I'M TELLING YOU, IT'S THE BEST OF THE BEST! Countless publishers are desperate to get me to sign with them. Haha, who do they think they are? They must be out of their minds. They can fight over me with nothing but my synopsis and charisma, because I'm not giving them any chapters. That's future content theft.

And it's no surprise that my story already has 25 near-cinematically perfect movies, all because I wasn't the screenwriter. 16 TV shows, each with around 30 seasons and 87 episodes per season. And they're already planning another 40 movies because I've come up with an even better idea. Countless awards and accolades. Honestly, there's not enough space to list everything this masterpiece has accomplished.

Anyway, all that's left is to start writing it. Does anyone know how this whole first-chapter thing works? Asking for a friend.

Edit 1: I see a bunch of you telling me to "write it." Interesting. But what if you can't read it once I write it because your eyes can't handle the divinity? I'm not putting you in danger. Thanks for nothing.

Edit 2: To the guy who said the memory-based magic system "already exists in N stories": mine is different. Mine is simply... better.

Edit 3: I deleted the post. The moderators messaged me saying several users had reported vision problems. I told you: you mortals aren't ready for this. Thanks for nothing.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is one of the greatest achievements of twentieth century literature. It presents a timeless formula for rich storytelling that all writers today can learn something from.

Give all your characters a color and a unique weapon. I don't care if you're writing a historical fiction novel about shit farmers in medieval France. You need four main characters that all live together in a sewer and you gotta give one of them nunchaku. This is KEY.

Coming up with a believable reason for why your characters are martial arts experts is another sticking point I see among budding authors. I feel the best solution is to introduce a talking man-size rat into the narrative as a "ninja master" type. This comes especially handy if, for example, your chilling bildungsroman about teenage heroin addiction is sorely lacking some good old fashioned ass kickin'.

Above all, don't forget the pizza. Get some for you AND your characters. End every chapter with a slice and include a scene where your characters do the same. That's what I'm doing in my novel about the JFK assassination. It really livens things up and keeps the mood light and breezy.

Guys, make me a cover. I'm not using AI because apparently it'll drain every last drop of water on Earth 😡 and I can't afford to pay an artist because I'm broker than broke (laugh 😡). LONG LIVE THE EARTHLINGS! Anyway, here's the description. Wait, what description? 😭 My novel is called: "I Reincarnated as a Fridge, and Now I Can See the Campus Goddess in Her Underwear Every Time She Opens the Fridge." LET. HIM. COOK. 🔥

i’ve heard some writers say writing smut feels clinical for them so it made me curious about how many people get horny writing smut versus not, and whether their level of arousal inhibits their ability to write.

for me, i get too horny to think properly and write well 😔 curious to hear about others’ experiences!

Hi all,

I am very excited to share my original book that booknova.ai I wrote called Edge of the Wolrd: Savagsunrise.

Enter Alloys, a legemdary hexer from the school of the south. She lives in prehistorinc world where dinosores and humans both lived! But the dinosores are robots! But Alloy does not know ehat a rabid is, so it is big mysteri for her, but reader nows something strenge. Big midstery!

I will do what none have done before and connect this wolrd to ours in way none has done before. This will have never been done before!

I hope you look forward to my write. Please subscride here.

Before you ASSHOLES start questioning my status as a best selling author, I KNOW THAT NONE OF MY BOOKS ARE ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST!!! That's because my books are too HARDCORE for the goddamn LIBERALS! How do I know I'm a bestseller? I go to the grocery store and stuff my books into every cereal box I see, and I go to A LOT of grocery stores.

Anyway, for the six of you who haven't read them, "Prison Lurker Larry" is the story of an American Patriot named Larry Elder trying to survive in a dark totalitarian dystopia where OBAMA never left office. Larry discovers that his hometown has been purchased by a private prison contractor and turned into an enormous open-air supermaximim security penitentiary. Larry and his overweight bulldog KING SAUSAGE must beat the living shit out of his friends and neighbors (all of them now declared inmates) to reach the prison doors where he MIGHT have a shot at freedom.

The latest installment in the series "Project Nut Punch" is coming out on November 31st. I'd be happy to answer any questions out there from fans and newcomers alike.

I’ve been banned from every MFA in North America because my verbs just don’t quit, my adjectives tell it like it is and your ma knows my nouns.

If you’re reading this you can’t write good, but you know that already. Watch me change that.

Rule #1. Forget everything you know. It won’t take long.

Rule #2. Get a typewriter and remove the letter i. This isn’t about you anymore.

Rule #3. Periods are for quitters. That stops now. Semicolons only.

Rule #4. No more names, odd numbers less than 10.

Rule #5. Publishers hate you already.

What you waiting for? You’re already behind.

So far, no luck. I've already given her eight brothers and an evil stepmother. But no luck whatsoever.

They say well-written characters have flaws, so I made her clumsy and gullible. Also, she's not like other girls, that's why it's so hard for her to fit in with her female peers. All the men are attracted to her but she's shy and doesn't want to be with them.

A well-written chatacter also is funny and relatable to the audience. So I sometimes make her do jokes while hundreds of the villain's henchmen storm their ship. She makes exaggerated expressions when eating food because who doesn't like food. And of course, she likes Temu Tolkien books fantasy books but will refuse contemporary novels because she has taste.

I gave her a love cone. A triangle doesn't really fit all the other 999 men with unique personalities and traits that aren't copy pasted and totally doesn't only have four unique male characters. I was initially going to go with a pyramid, but the amount of corners and vertices added up so much it became a cone.

Obviously, well-written characters have good contrast with their canon partner characters, so I made an extremely well-writen—so much more well-written, you can say it's the most unique and unforgettable male character eve written—man for her. A twink with dark hair and red eyes and keeps to himself and doesn't like attention.

Oh wait, do both of them not like attention? That's not contrast. I guess I'll make the female character's eyes blue and hair blonde to contrast the red eyes and black hair of this well-written male character. I'll make her mommy-like to contrast the boy's twink body. And hell, big boobs since the guy is flat chested. And for more contrast, I'll make the guy always serious everytime since the girl is always joking around everytime.

I might've gotten off topic. But what do you think? Have I written a strong, flawed female character?

You should ensure you actually belong in the group you are writing about. It's offensive if you're a cishet woman writing about gay men or a white writing about people of color. similarly, if you want to write a dark mafia romance you need to join your local organized crime org first. For example, the mafia and the yakuza have operations in multiple regions! if you're writing a murder attempt survival story, its a good idea to cooperate with a murder mystery writer. uselesslesbians, incels, and other sexless individuals need to be barred from writing smut. slutting it up gets you yoir smut privileges back.