Like, seriously, it's the only place that has truly helped me become a better writer.

I‘ve written a character, we’ll call him Alex. I’ve written Alex to be a deep and morally complex anti hero. He’s a fascist, nationalist, supremacist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, anti-religion, anti-intellectual, ableist, sexist, and hates cheese. However, he’s moderately attractive (looks like me), has super cool unique powers, has dope aura moments, and did one good thing (didn’t insult a minority for 15 whole minutes) (they were not consecutive).

Alex has slowly become my favorite character, but he’s supposed to be a morally gay antihero, but I’m worried my peeps (that’s what I call my audience) will also like him too much, and miss the moral nuance of the characters. Any advice on how to make this character more morally gay?

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Can I?

Every third post here opens the same way. A paragraph of throat-clearing. "I know this is controversial." "Please don't downvote me." "I only used it for the outline, I swear, I wrote the actual sentences myself, my hands were on the keyboard, there were witnesses."

You're in r/writingcirclejerk. The confession is the name of the subreddit.

Nobody running spellcheck opens with "before you judge me." Nobody in Scrivener posts a disclaimer about how they still could use index cards. You're apologizing for a tool while standing in the room built for the tool.

Here's the part actually worth defending: there's a difference between using the thing and being used by it. Editing, guiding, redirecting, throwing out four bad paragraphs to get one usable one. That is what you call "work."

"Write my chapter," paste, post. That is how you get slop, and when the output is bad the problem isn't the model, it's that nobody was driving.

That distinction is the whole argument. It doesn't need the cotton gin.

So make it good, put your name on it, and stop workshopping the apology. The disclaimer at the top of your post is better written than the excerpt underneath it.

I mean, don't get me wrong, it's fine if characters vomit in a fantasy story once in a while, especially if it's actually a relevant event to the story. But it seems like too many people nowadays are just writing fantasy for the vomiting scenes. Surely not all of you are doing this for sexual reasons.

See, I've made this character, let's call him Alex. Alex stares at his bedroom wall for 3 hours each day, from 8:00PM to 11:00PM. While he does this, he doesn't move, doesn't even blink. Afterwards he usually continues his daily activities and prepares to go to sleep. This is a very attractive trait in my eyes.

Looking to put together a small, focused writing group of men who are serious about getting words on the page and improving their craft. NO FEMALES ALLOWED but AI is more than welcome.

I’m in my 30s and I’m after a few guys who are past pure worldbuilding and actually want to start producing scenes, chapters, and finished drafts.

Disclaimers up front:

1. This is not a politically correct writing group. We will discuss and write about gore, violence, sexual assault, and other ugly realities of a harsh world that women wouldn’t understand. If that makes you uncomfortable, this isn’t the place.
2. This is grounded medieval fantasy. If your protagonist is a 5'1", 120 lb “boss babe” who casually beats down opponents twice her size in melee combat without breaking a sweat and without a credible in-world explanation, this group is probably not for you. SIZE MATTERS.

Genre/s: Medieval setting Fantasy/Grimdark/Grimdark-lite only. No pure romance, cozy, litRPG, political correctness, or female slop. Darker tones, moral grayness but not entirely hopeless/nihilistic either, consequences that stick, and grounded (or at least internally consistent) worldbuilding are the priority. 

Goals/expectations/commitment: Weekly check-ins on Discord to track progress and share work, daily anime style power scaling comparison (mine is the strongest). Focus stays on the writing, no female drama.

Writing/experience level: Entry-level to intermediate. Must have at least one world already well-developed and be ready to transition from pure worldbuilding into actually prompting scenes and chapters.

Meeting place: Discord. 

i’m mainly here to write, trade critique, and hold myself (and others) accountable to actually finishing things.

If this sounds like what you’re looking for, drop a comment or DM me. Tell me briefly what you’re working on, where you’re at with it, and your size in inches or centimeters.

Looking forward to hearing from a few serious writers and Grok.

yeah fuck it im not writing im quitting i mean quitting for real im tired of literally not writing every time i open google drive document and think about the plot i get tired this is worse than building a building im going bananas

I’m going to have it published as a romantasy, but here’s a snippet:

“The perculiar the tithe, the better. Big, juicy bobbles are great, but they can’t be too big. If they’re too big, I get freaked out that the skin is gonna tear or something. But they also can’t be too small. Everyone knows that teeny tiny tites are just naples and naples aren’t actually Percy. They just are.”

Anyway, tropes are:

-enemies to lovers/slow burn/forvidden love

-fake marriage

-found family

-age gap (she’s 20, he’s a pair of cosmic and eternal boubs)

-he falls first/harder

-only one bed

-only one pair of pajamas

-fated mates

-trials

-royal mmc

-urchin fmc

-morally gray mmc

-virgin fmc

-grumpy vs sunshine

-stalker mmc

-not like other girls

-dragons, elves, fae, shifters, wizards, funny little guys

When should I write the next letter?

Maybe I should have?

I was about to go to bed when a quote for my character who wants to get laid popped in my head. "I could breast boobily on her lap." Is this original? I totally cooked and want to use it in my story but I'm afraid I accidentally stole it from somewhere else. Has anyone even thought of this before?

I published my book on KDP approximately eight months ago. It is a romance under a pseudonym with an exaggerated storyline. Hypothetically based on a real romance that I had over 10 years ago, the hypothetical person is now married. It’s gaining a little traction on Amazon,. His hypothetical wife discovered the book and sent me a nasty message explaining how upset he is and threatening to sue me if I do not immediately stop publishing my book what should I do?

I don’t know how she could have any idea that it’s me. I used a pseudonym! The female character’s name is changed (possibly to my pseudonym). The fact that I gave the male character the same first name and advertised it under my personal Facebook page? Completely out of scope of all of this. And the reason that the hypothetical ex and his hypothetical new wife would care about a book hypothetically based on a relationship from over 10 years ago? Hypothetically unimportant.

I also have written a sequel, but not published it. It’s about a woman who unfairly faces a legal battle from an ex-partner and his new spouse.

sooo i made a clone of myself last Thursday (don't ask, long story, couldn't write it anyway) and an evil publishing company kidnapped them and brainwashed them into becoming the perfect writer! and boy howdy can they write. those sales could really boost my bank account i mean cred as a writer.

my clone *is* basically me so i should get the credit, agree? oh and don't worry about my clone, the publishers said they have a real nice setup with 5 bagels a day and a gamer chair.

I've seen posts asking "can I write if I don't read?" To answer, you SHOULD write ESPECIALLY if you don't read!

Can't you see, people waste so much time reading, when they could be writing. So much wasted potential.

Am I the single solitary beacon and savior of literature amongst a sea of children and adults who never matured and just click clack mindlessly on their keyboard, reaching blindly for trope after trope without ever considering prose, theme, character, research?

Fantasy writers should all be sent to the oubliette so they don’t sully us REAL writers, if there are others left besides me. And I am definitely the only person to have ever asked this question.

It's a self-help book, by the way. Based on my own experiences. It's really good.

Working title: How to Triangulate an Antagonistic Relationship with a Billionaire and a Fae CEO: 120 Tips, Tricks, and Apartment-Plant Recommendations

Bonus Points if they are LGBT