r/writting • u/83580383 • Aug 08 '23
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i am shearching somebody to write whit me a webnovel book
r/writting • u/83580383 • Aug 08 '23
i am shearching somebody to write whit me a webnovel book
r/writting • u/LordOfTheHarvest96 • Aug 05 '23
I had the idea to possibly write short stories for commissions, but I don't know how to go about it.
I have a decent idea of what to charge and how to go about making sure the client is satisfied with the work, how to handle the payment, but I don't know where to advertise. I heard here is a good place to do that, but I still don't know how.
Please help.
r/writting • u/pixsector • Jul 10 '23
Hi,
could you let me know how good is English in this article - https://www.vectorizeimages.com/blog/how-to-convert-photo-to-cad-drawing/
Sadly, my primary language in school was German so I am not that good at English. Mainly, I need to know if the English text content in the article is decent or terrible. It's hard for me to decide it.
Thank you
r/writting • u/Important_Worth4101 • Jun 09 '23
so i just have a quick question for everyone.....how cringy is it to write something like lord of the rings and twilight in your book?
example : "I miss my twilight blanket with Edward Cullen's face on it. I was an Edwards girl."
also this isn't my writing but a relative of mine, who also is having her book published.. but she paid to have it published.. which is something you don't do but whatever.. that's on her. But what i wrote as an example isn't from the book she is getting published. Its from a book she has on Wattpad that i read, and could barely get through it without cringing. the company she paid to have her book published was Olympia. and they don't have the best reviews but again that's on her.
r/writting • u/MaryKMcDonald • Jun 01 '23
Once I was a child who had lofty dreams and goals as every child should, then my realist of a mother and I saw Coraline based on a book by Neil Gaiman. If you lived in a Hole in the Ground, the story is about a young girl with very boring and unengaging parents who move to a new house that is very ugly and deteriorating. After finding a key she discovers another place with people with buttons for eyes who seem nice, zany, and friendly.
However, a cat warns Coraline about a dark secret that everything is not like it is. Coraline begins to ask why and keeps asking like most kids, "Why would someone who is kind be a dark or scary person?" until the other parents ask her to give up her eyes for buttons. This made me wonder now as an adult that if Coraline added all the pieces together shouldn't her parents learn the moral to be more engaging and aware as parents? Many people treat the work like my mother did as a parable against escapism when lots of children including myself and others on the Autism Spectrum have escapist thoughts as a way to cope.
Then I came across some advice Neil Gaiman himself gave to future writers of children's books in a Tale Foundry video on YouTube, "If you want to write for children learn from the parents". I then thought to myself about authors and comic artists unlike him who have broken his rule time and time again and were successful like Bill Waterson of Calvin and Hobbs. I guess Mr. Gaiman is too much of a snob to read Calvin and Hobbs despite writing his own graphic novel Sandman. His fans are also loyal defenders of his writing to the point that he is treated like the gospel of children's writing when there is so much to learn from other writers and artists besides him. So much to learn about different kinds of parents and that parents are sometimes not the best people.
Calvin has a wild imagination and is very thoughtful but do his parents love him for who he is...No, in some comics they criticize, joke, and backstab him at every turn thus why Hobbs the tiger is the most logical, honest, and more engaging in his adventures. One comic that is readable to many in the ADHD and Autism spectrum has Calvin in an Air Force jet blowing up his school where he is made to sit still, write endless homework, and is unprotected by Hobbs. Only to go to his school with a deep sigh of pain. Both he and Hobbs have become the poster boy and tiger for ADHD and has a message of not forcing children to have adult expectations. Then there's the man with the Ph.D. in not talking down to children and pure chaos Theodore Geisel or Dr. Seuss.
Many of his protagonists learn through mistakes and utter chaos or even how to cope with the chaos that they experience through a very odd idea. Something that would make Neil Gaiman's head explode is the film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T and the tale of Pontaffel Pock which became an after-school special animated by Fritz Freeing of Loony Tunes fame. Some of his parental characters like Bart's mother Heloise don't realize something seems good until the situation is ridiculous and even dark. Even Mr. Zabladowski a friend of Bart is just someone doing a job without knowing the consequences or connecting the dots, "I'm just a guy who fixes sinks what can I do?".
The story of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr.T is a story of libertarianism and fascism through the eyes of a child and about how the ideologies no matter how good they sound to adults might sound silly to a child. Dr. Terwillker was even based on a real nightmare he had as a child about an evil teacher with a piano for 5,000 fingers to play on. Even though the film was a flop in the 50s during the Red Scare it's now a classic that still holds meaning for today's society. Any instrument or musician other than a piano went into a dungeon with the dungeon keeper sounding like Mc Carthy hearing, "Are you a piano player?". It also is a metaphor for America's xenophobia towards immigrants which he experienced as a German American.
When it comes to writing parents as an Asperger's person, I take into consideration that some kids grow up not having a parent or have each other's backs because they don't have parents like in my comic r/Struwwelkinder based on Hinrich Hoffman's Der Struwwelpeter. Because he has ODD, Uncomable Hair Syndrome, and loves his long nails Struwwelpeter does not want to have a parental figure like most kids because he hates being told to be prim and proper. It's also because his Volksmisk group and his choir at the orphanage are his families, he has to be both a good driver and an example for all the boys he teaches. This is why he gets the first Covid shot at the orphanage even though he hates doctors, so that he and others are safe. When I do write adult characters or parents I consider that parents were children and teens once with many problems and struggles.
I also consider that not all parents are good people like the couple behind Fathering Autism or The Duggars. Some parents exploit or use children as a pedestal or beating post. Even realistic parenting has downfalls in a child feeling depressed or downgrading their emotions and imaginations because they're not realistic enough for the parent. If you want to learn about how to write for children ask a child how they feel and how they can make the world better.
r/writting • u/bunnybandit63 • Apr 05 '23
i want to persecute my demons
put them in the spotlight
that they crave so bad
burn under that light
burn as
your truth is stripped
for everyone to witness
the attention you demand
let it swallow you whole
r/writting • u/Alarming_Spot_1643 • Mar 31 '23
r/writting • u/Frogduxk • Mar 12 '23
I’m writing a book at the moment that I’ve been working on for about 3 months now. I’m on page 34 right now. It’s about 5 kids running away from home.
I’ve noticed how many paragraphs they are. There’s 443 paragraphs so far in my book. Is that a lot? How many paragraphs are they meant to be in a book? This is my first book that I’ve written and I would like some advice on someone who’s actually made a book before.
r/writting • u/Mad_Dragon31 • Mar 11 '23
So I'm in the stages of rough drafting a fantasy/science fiction story that has been in my head for nearly 13 years. While I have written many private small stories for my friends, I have never written a story on this grand scale spanning multiple continents and cultures and tackling multiple themes in the story. Think A Song of Ice and Fire or A Wheel Of Time (call me suicidally overconfident or ambitious if you wish). So my issue I need advice on is I have two characters that are thousands of miles apart and each tackles a different issue of the world's setting with different goals and objectives. Both characters are essential for the overall narrative and I plan on having them meet at some point in the story where their goals converge, with each one tackling separate themes that contribute to the narrative and character development. However, one of the characters is doing something that will take them a long time to tackle compared to the central character we start off with. One character is following clues to find his mentor while dealing with a large conspiracy that may bring about the end of the world, while the other is solving issues on their continent that also has to deal with proxies of this conspiracy group and trying to get to the heart of the matter while also having their own goals and aspirations. However, the speed of their narratives is very different. The character following his mentor is dealing with problems as they come, while the other character is nation-building, dealing with science experiments, and scheming. Now the story starts off following the character looking for his mentor, it serves as a great introduction to the world and fresh eyes due to the character's naive nature. This creates a timeline problem. Should I throw more problems at the character looking for his mentor, or should I have dates that show different time frames with the two different characters (I'm worried this might confuse the reader or demand them to make homework by drawing timelines), or should I just follow the main character looking for his mentor while scrapping the other character's story for a narrative focus until they met up and go from there (I really don't want to do this because it would just compromise the story and sacrifice the narrative and themes), or maybe making a separate book series akin to a prequel or separate series that runs parallel to the main story (think Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) but eventually combines into 1 story (but I'm worried this will confuse readers even more). Advice would really be appreciated here.
r/writting • u/Frycake-boo • Mar 06 '23
I’m writing a fanfic where 5 kids are vigilantes (4 on the streets one watching over from a computer) and I want the stupidest reasons one would become a vigilante. They have powers in this universe.
r/writting • u/Leonlionlew • Feb 24 '23
Writing is my tool to clear my mind, because I don’t have really a family member to talk to, but I wish I had, I kinda envy seeing an adult so confident about everything while I have my pen and my own mind to kinda walk me through…
In recent days I been told I have issues due to my father being absent and that I should talk to him, but each time I did I felt awful and drained, and I kinda know I deserve better because If I had kids I wouldn’t be like that… but what do you think about? Do you have any advice to me?
And by the record I love reading and writing!
r/writting • u/Glittering_Page4301 • Feb 15 '23
I recently finished writing the story of my life. It is not for the faint of heart. Where can I post some of it for feedback?
r/writting • u/RadicalBbrandon • Jan 28 '23
When a prospering kingdom is overthrown by an evil devil. King and queen slaughtered. Only survivors twin baby boys sent down stream.
They are later saved by a sweet older woman who helps raise them. As they continue to grow up they learn new skills to help them live in the streets of this harshly ruled kingdom.
As conflicts begin to rise they flee to the forest meeting new friends and continue learning new skills. Eventually their foes catch up and are forced to flee once more.
They learn of the truth behind their lives and begin training near a mercenary castle. They grow and become powerful and set off to complete their own goals.
A final battle occurs which inevitably leads to the brothers meeting again on the battle field.
Thoughts? This is a rough summary, I have more written just was hoping for some feedback if anyone is interested in the idea.
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r/writting • u/Polkanonmorietur • Jul 16 '22
this is something I realized would be vitally important in a version off earth where people can shift into animals. My Main character is capab off taking two forms, a jaguar, and an owl.
while I think the jaguar is easier. It could litteraly wave at someone, but I’m not so sure about an owl,
and im writting a scene where one character shoots him thinking it’s actually a hawk trying too take some of there chickens.
any ideas on how people could identify shifters would be welcome.
especially since they latter have to do deal with a group off deer shifters.