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No, you're supposed to find a different project that will work
🍽️ حلال Connor Bible - Everyone's Favorite Molly Ringwald loving, adoption hating, aspiring writer and bellybutton fucker
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No, you're supposed to find a different project that will work
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So... basically you're going to never even try to get any better, but you're going to constantly say, "I'm going to make something great one day!" and use that as a crutch?
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If you're interested in movies, write a movie script.
If you're interested in novels, write a novel.
Do not try to write a movie script in novel format.
It's pretty fucking simple.
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Give us a one page excerpt of what you'd write. Doesn't have to be a fully formed story, doesn't have to really be connected to anything. You can write it right here, right now if you want. Basically, as if someone ripped a page out of your book and posted it. I'm interested what you'd think an "action novel" would be like.
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There's nothing new under the sun. I'm not saying it's wrong to want to try something different, it can be great and you shouldn't plagiarize other work, but it's not necessary for every novel to be a genre-busting industry pioneer. Not to mention that since you are inexperienced it is extremely unlikely that you can pull it off.
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What genre?
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Horror? That's easy to write for.
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Have an original thought for once in your life.
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I was referring to @sugoi-chan 's post. What genre would you like the excerpt to be?
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Okay, but what do you, without looking this up anywhere, feel the primal forces of the writing universe even are? Except perhaps the need to make large piles of words happen?
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I think Connor was trying to imply through sarcasm that there are no primal forces of the writing universes, and that his action novel is just as likely to work as a more traditional dramatic or literary novel.
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You know what? I never dreamed of being a literary writer. Not once. I'm a genre guy, and I don't see anything wrong with that. I love the occasional literary novel with higher aspirations, but I find commercial genre fiction to be, y'know, more fun.
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You want to write commercials...? /hurr
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you trying to say you want to write books like Tom Clancy's? Because he's good at what he does. You aren't.
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Whatever would best demonstrate your idea of what this "action novel" concept would end up materializing as.
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You know there's really no difference between "literary" and "genre" fiction, right?
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You can't have it both ways, Connor. You can't say "hi, I'm just a genre writer modestly trying to entertain within the limits of my craft" and then start claiming that you are going to redefine what a novel is, and that there are no restraints on what can work in novel format.
I'll ask again - why not write movie scripts?
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I think it's because he knows movie scripts are harder to succeed with and he doesn't want to put in the effort. He just wants to bang out a 1200 word story about people shooting each other, call it a book, and then have it published so the world can jack off to his amazing genius.
Edit: @Connor you know it's true
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Who gives a shit, @Treblinkachu ? Tom Clancy was Tom Clancy. King is King. Koontz is Koontz. Fucking Stephanie Meyer is fucking Stephanie Meyer. I'm Connor Bible. I'm the only Connor Bible in my shoes. I have but one life to live, one life to write, to get a teaching job, to fuck, to get married, what have you. I'm an original human being. You are, @Null is, everyone on this fucking site is. I haven't even built up a body of work, so who are you to judge?
@Dudeofteenage , I'm not even claiming I wanted to redefine what novels are. Action scenes may be difficult to pull off in prose, like I said before, but damn it, it's fucking possible.
To confess something, I actually like this website. It's the cynicism and the naysayers that I can't stand. They tend to be either broken dreamers or the kind of people who just have a bad habit of breaking dreams. In either case, both cut the dreamers down to boost their own egos. To those people, I say: fucking dream.
@Dudeofteenage , I'm not even claiming I wanted to redefine what novels are. Action scenes may be difficult to pull off in prose, like I said before, but damn it, it's fucking possible.
To confess something, I actually like this website. It's the cynicism and the naysayers that I can't stand. They tend to be either broken dreamers or the kind of people who just have a bad habit of breaking dreams. In either case, both cut the dreamers down to boost their own egos. To those people, I say: fucking dream.