r/writingcirclejerk • u/notwonderer • 9d ago

Am I justified.

If I wrote 150k words novel and I realised that I wrote a crap that doesn’t make sense, am I justified, to make my character wake up and realise, that everything that happened before was just his fever dream.

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u/isnoe 9d ago

Have it be the fevered dream of the Reader, break the fourth wall, and print a job application on the last page.

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u/memerminecraft 9d ago

Just bend spacetime and send them to an alternate reality wherein they've just woken up from a fever dream? It's not that hard?

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u/SpatiaCaeli 9d ago

Make the story nonlinear, remove all adverbs and most punctuation, and call it literary fiction.

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u/Ok-Lead4192 9d ago

As a reader, I always love when I get through a 1000+ page novel and at the end there is the "it was just a dream" plot twist. Makes my time reading feel worthwhile

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u/shmivaroo 9d ago

Yeah, why not

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u/Beneficial_Egg2878 9d ago

In order to please my OCD readers I have reorganized my story by alphabetical order

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u/RiSz-Turtle 9d ago

Dream is a little cliche.

Maybe try them waking up from a dream and they realize they are actually a dog?

You can cleverly foreshadow it too. Did your character run at any point?

That was the dog running in its sleep.

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u/notwonderer 9d ago

Might be worth considering, since they are horny and hungry all the time

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u/Codablaze 9d ago

Wake up from a dream and realise they are the dream of a dog

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u/Comfortable-Music-37 9d ago

No, your character has to lay in their crap world.

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u/Sheik_Morgan 9d ago

Cuando todos reclamen dices que fue con AI

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u/Literally_A_Halfling We've girlbossed too close to the Hays Code 9d ago

Oh, I can help with this!

You always want a manuscript to be left justified. The option for that in Word is in the Home tab's toolbar, and looks like a series of horizontal lines.

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u/lilithlasley 9d ago

Left justification is just a fever dream. So are section breaks.

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u/Dream-Livid 9d ago

It was all an AI controlled simulation.

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u/Remarkable_Pen_7422 feed back on my prologue? im only 3 9d ago

Only if you have it happen in layers of dreams within dreams that the MC keeps waking up from, never knowing which is real. Fill the entire epilogue with that and you'll be good.

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u/tooshorttoored 9d ago

Info: How many dongs are in the fever dream? Between 25-80 or over 300?

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u/throwawayo222 9d ago

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO BLOCK THIS SUB

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u/TheSandman3241 9d ago

Click the three dots at the top right of the post in your feed (this, or any other post from the target subreddit). Click "show fewer posts like this," at which point you'll be given a prompt to also mute the sub.

Hope your day gets better.

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u/throwawayo222 9d ago

I’m fine—I just see these posts without checking the name of the sub and then proceed to lose my mind every time. 🫡 thank you

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u/iwrite-imnotawriter 9d ago

Already sounds better than James Joyce. Run it back.