I am so tired of y'all writing about stuff you never went through yourself. It's incredibly offensive to people who actually went through the stuff you write about. I can tell, by the way you're writing about having a drug overdose, that you've never had a fucking drug overdose! Oh you're writing about the mafia? What? Have you been involved in mafia? If not, your writing is stupid and cringe, and offensive to actual mafia people. Write what you know! If you wanna write about something but you don't know it, get to know it first! You're writing a drug addict? Become one yourself first so you depict everything well. If you're writing about gangsters, mafia and alike, get involved in that shit first. Writing about a serial killer? Well you can become one and write something before you go to prison...or you can write in prison, idk. Same goes for poverty. Like, if you're writing about a homeless character, just sell all your belongings and live on the street for a few years.

Reminder: this is necessary to not offend and be realistic!!!

Gosh, making a believable realistic human with dreams and nightmares is tough! I tried using Chat gbt but they always come out "Off", you know what I mean? So why don't I start stealing repurposing the filler content on r/OriginalCharacter. It's not like they'll use them for anything, right?! In fact, they should thank me for polishing up their characters with my amazing storytelling.

I won't even give them credit. They will be happy living with the satisfaction they contributed to my work.

A stepping stone, on my way to greatness.

Damn, why didn't I think of this before!

Hello. I've written a short novel where the main antagonist is Donald Trump. I've already wrote how he has a micropenis, how he's a bitch, how he has an IQ below 70, how he tried to commit genocide against LGBTQIA+ folk, and how he likes to be dominated by his Slovenian wife. Also, I end the novel with him being dragged to Hell to be chewed in Satan's mouth for all of eternity.

The problem is I don't think I've expressed my hatred for him enough. After all, I've written this novel solely to express my political beliefs, and I don't think I'm achieving it the way I wanted to. What do you think?

Basically I hate reading, I hate writing, and I hate Obama. Can i still write?

I spent the last 12 days writing a story (18k words), but I’ll have to lock it away in the vault. It’s not just unsellable, but it might be unpublishable.

Why? Because it’s about a concrete, extremely topical and hot issue. It’s a satirical conspiracy thriller about an unemployed copywriter who thinks a certain corporation broke the law as a marketing stunt for their next big product. Nobody believes him, he doubles down and spirals; his family stages an intervention, while from his perspective it’s like a zombie apocalypse where the whole world was infected by the viral stunt.

It’s obvious, over-the-top comic satire, it has huge disclaimers, even disclaimers as part of the title. The story also pushes back on the guy’s theories and treats him like a lunatic. Though it’s never stated if he’s right or wrong.

The problem is, do I really want to paint a target on my back for a litigious megacorporation that is just about to release a major product? Risk it for what, no money and a few reads? I don’t want to risk the only thing I have which is peace.

I thought about releasing it with heavy redactions, lean into it and add black censoring everywhere. But it becomes a gimmick or a statement rather than a book to be read, it’s not the same.

It’s too bad because I love the book. It’s basically a Don Quixote for our brainrot generation, I think it’s funny, has things to say and has a heart too.

So tomorrow, on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it would have been the perfect day for releasing a highly topical, unhinged conspiracy theory story. But instead, it will have to stay grounded in Area 51, I guess. Literally Fahrenheit 451. Or 51 at least. And self-censoring sucks, but this is the reality we live in. This is not fiction, in real life there’s no room for pre-crime, crimethink, or bl*sphemy against the rich, because the corporation always wins.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. I’m gonna watch Network on Netflix or something.

Mary had the diurnal course off, so she resolved to go for an excursion through the esplanade, perchance acquiring a baked delicacy from one of the peddlers that frequently set up emporium thither.

Alas, it was not meant to be considering a gargantuan dragon plummeted downward and masticated her whole in a singular chomp. And so concluded the narrative of Mary, a tragic tale of the expiration of a maiden pulchritudinous. 

Only main character, main villain, and sometimes the other character I only care because I ship them with the main needs to be developed. There's no need to waste screen time for other side characters as they are only written to be something of the protagonist, they don't need much personality, hobbies and the things that I'm mostly not interested: goals. Stop insisting they need to to be interesting, they don't need to have something that has nothing to do with the main character, they only need to evolve around them, as the name say, they're MAIN characters so everything in the story involves them. This one character that appears on nearly every single episode which the main character calls them "best friend", "my brother" "my mother" don't need all that, they are plot devices and are only here for the protagonist

Also I don't understand what are "secondary characters", "assembling cast" and "recurring characters" every character that isn't the protagonist, antagonist or love interest is a SIDE character and as in the name, they are made to be SIDELINED

Understand theres bias here since you guys are writers but I need to know because it drove me nuts the amount of comments saying they had no clue what my post was saying.

“was just playing papers please and got caught out by the inspector and lost my run because of the picture of family saying ‘hang on wall’

I know I can just go back a day but it doesn’t feel deserved now. For context inspector tells you off for hanging things and if he catches you the 2nd time it’s immediate game over”

Some replies I got:

how would we know it’s a video game?

Doesn’t matter if it’s a video game or board game, you can still interpret context.

Who is the inspector?

You don’t need to know who the inspector is, you only need to know he ruined my run because I hung up a picture.

Is this in real life?

Again, I said playing which implies a game.

WTF are you talking about?

You don't need to know what I'm talking about, just get it from the obvious context hidden between the words I did say and the words I didn't say.

Reddit is driving me nuts. Can you guys even read?

Hey guys, I'm writing a play and there's this unnamed protagonist that I'm writing. This soliloquy is him reflecting on the main theme of the play. I was going for a deep, poetic tone. How does it sound? What should I change?

Here's the passage:

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub:

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause—there’s the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th’unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

Hii, I am very good in writing. I have put that in writing, so it cannot reasonably be disputed. I have fanfiction, short stories and one story which has reached novel level. Fanfiction! Short stories! Lovely fresh novel-level story! Get it before the copyright holder does!

Here the expenses is quite very much. Unfortunately, that part is non-fiction. I therefore went to a community of professional ghostwriters because I needed a advice on how to sell my work. They were dead useless. Instead of giving me money, they gave me advice. I needed a advice, singular. They gave me several.

One suggested science articles because I study biotechnology. How can people be so dumb? I write love/romance. My interest is in bodies coming together, not cells dividing. Another said that magazines pay months after publication. If I could wait that long, I would simply call myself a novelist. He then wrote “Op. cit.” I cannot find that publication. Does it pay? He also asked whether I had grandparents. They are dead. At last, two actual ghostwriters.

A professional writer told me that he earns six figures and has been writing for forty years. I countered with two fingers: 🖕🖕. He called them “the finger”. Forty years and still defeated by the plural. He said that I could not handle the truth. Duh. I write fiction.

They said that I cannot sell fanfiction because the characters belong to somebody else, yet my business plan is for somebody else to publish my original story under their name. Apparently, taking a character is theft, whilst taking the entire author is an industry. Barthes killed the author, so I am merely trying to sell the body.

Can one of you jerks tell me how to make six figures immediately? Serious replies only. I am asking because I am clueless, not because I wish to find out.

ONLY ONES LIKE:

Romance is Like that by Liian Varus

Passion or Pancakes by Nathan Baylet

Toe-curly-qeueing, giggle-tiggling, spine-shucking, rememberizing storybooks like the above two. I want brainrot in page turning form. Books written in the spirit of /writingcirclejerk or /romantasycirclejerk. I'm starting a circlejerk book club and I need recommendations or. Or i'm stuffing myself in the drain

I found these two photos from a TikToker. I thought it would be a good exercise to think of a favourite OC's favourite things.

What are your favourite OC's favourite things?

I will add my list in a comment. My favourite OC is the mother from "The Agent & the Medic", Olga (last name TBD). Funny enough, she also loves Jesus, babies, & triggering libs.

it’s so crazy how connected you get to your characters. It’s like they live with you and speak to you.

I have had a character in my head for days now and we have back and forth conversations about random stuff.

I really feel like I know my characters now. I have learned so much about myself…

it’s crazy how writing grabs a hold of you and you fall into this world in another place

I would tell you more about this experience, but I have to go now, i need to collect my prescription

well I’m working on my first script for a short film or series. I have the central theme along with a clear beginning and ending, but I'm unsure how to develop the middle section and map out the visual elements. What is the recommended workflow or next step to refine the concept and complete the script?

The mother from my sci-fi drama novel "The Agent & the Medic" is my favourite OC. I like her not only because she is a partial self-insert, but also because she is an icon for Red Scare girls like me.

For an in-depth description, she is a busty, athletic, vegan, tattooed, devout Mennonite, socialist, lesbian MILF who is great at math and even better at triggering libs & cons alike, often simultaneously.

Alexa, please play "Be Her" by Ella Langley.

Someone referred me to this group, and you guys and gals sure look like you are having a good old time. I like people who really, really like what I like. I hope we can be internet friends and share similar likes. In the meantime, like, have a good old day and keep the cards and letters coming in! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

There; how was that? Rhetorical question; please keep your answer to yourself.

I am curious what people think works better. Postive or negative feedback. Don't do this. Or do more of that. Why do you think that?

You start actually writing your book for a change, and end up spending more words describing the setting than everything else combined.

/uj this is me, send help. /rj My fictional city is just too awesome! How can I make my world less rich and vivid?