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I think everyone knows what I'm going to say by now lol

You're spinning your wheels over a blank page which is less than helpful. It's long past due to actually do some work. I'm sure when you get into it everything will fall into place, and you'll probably throw everything you've planned out.
 
All words are meaningless, empty, vacuous, and inherently incapable of ever communicating anything of any depth or substance. Nothing true, nothing transcendent of this paltry mortal plane has ever been said. Nothing will ever be said.

I try to write about 2000 words a day.
 
Chinese Democrat said:
All words are meaningless, empty, vacuous, and inherently incapable of ever communicating anything of any depth or substance. Nothing true, nothing transcendent of this paltry mortal plane has ever been said. Nothing will ever be said.

I try to write about 2000 words a day.
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Do you cut your finger and write in blood, too?

 
Commissar Fuklaw said:
I think everyone knows what I'm going to say by now lol

You're spinning your wheels over a blank page which is less than helpful. It's long past due to actually do some work. I'm sure when you get into it everything will fall into place, and you'll probably throw everything you've planned out.
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Can't disagree! Been meaning to get some writing done on my end, and when I can get a proper day off, I'll likely end up starting. Believe me, you genuinely have NO IDEA how long I've been trying to get something written down for myself; I'm more than ready to get started.

EDIT: Plot, theme, and overall story is confirmed, btw; got them sorted out earlier. Only things left are getting a proper starting locale and finalizing some MC design choices; of the two, the former is already in progress and the latter is comparatively minor, so I'm essentially golden. Just got to get enough free time to actually write; IRL job and stuff, you know?

EDIT 2: Introduction confirmed, MC design still in-progress. Like you said, everything's falling into place, and quickly!

BrunoMattei said:
Do you cut your finger and write in blood, too?
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Can confirm, bad idea.
 
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Chinese Democrat said:
All words are meaningless, empty, vacuous, and inherently incapable of ever communicating anything of any depth or substance. Nothing true, nothing transcendent of this paltry mortal plane has ever been said. Nothing will ever be said.

I try to write about 2000 words a day.
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I can't believe more people didn't get that joke and if it wasn't intentional then that's even funnier.
 
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I've been on fire the last three days. After writers block of like two months I've come back, finished a chapter, and well into a second. I don't know how long I can keep this pace up, but right now I'm harnessing it.

As to where its coming from? I'm frustrated at the state of writing as a whole. I saw a video on booktok from a fan perspective... I never realized it was this bad. This town deserves a better class of criminal.
 
Commissar Fuklaw said:
I've been smashing back into it as well after several weeks of being unable to get rid of this god damn wog that's going around. I find I become frustrated if I can't be creative.
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I just started putting words on paper. Became unhinged. That's my best recommendation for breaking a block. You can go back and fix stuff later. Just have fun. All this stuff about tropes and tiktok trends can go in the trash. Your story, your rules. Don't let other people put up artificial rails to tell you what to do. There's too much of that garbage as is.
 
Polentic said:
Kiwifags, what's your biggest tip for writing action?
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Action in books is as much the physical acts as the feelings of the characters. You don't have pictures, so if someone gets hit, you have to not only give it detail about the impact itself, but other things- the pain, the adrenaline rush, all that shit. It's chaotic, but you can have ordered chaos.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
I just started putting words on paper. Became unhinged. That's my best recommendation for breaking a block. You can go back and fix stuff later. Just have fun. All this stuff about tropes and tiktok trends can go in the trash. Your story, your rules. Don't let other people put up artificial rails to tell you what to do. There's too much of that garbage as is.
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I think you may have misunderstood what I meant.
 
Polentic said:
Kiwifags, what's your biggest tip for writing action?
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WelperHelper99 said:
Action in books is as much the physical acts as the feelings of the characters. You don't have pictures, so if someone gets hit, you have to not only give it detail about the impact itself, but other things- the pain, the adrenaline rush, all that shit. It's chaotic, but you can have ordered chaos.
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This. A great example is how Frank Miller writes internal monologue in his Batman and DareDevil comics: He goes into moment-by-moment detail describing how the hero is gasping to keep going, how much their bodies hurt running and taking the abuse, etcetera and etcetera. Reading Dark Knight Returns and DareDevil: Born Again are excellent examples of action dialogue that's not like an autist having a fit: "Then bam! Guns go off! A guy does the machine gun dance! Zoom! Wham! Based. Bet. Fires exploding in the sunset as Rock You Like a Hurricane plays as the hero fistfucks the succubus controller of the 300 Families and has a pyrrhic death -two elbows deep- slaughtering the beast while taking a final shower in it's acidic squirt."

You know, that kind of thing.
 
Polentic said:
Kiwifags, what's your biggest tip for writing action?
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Best tip for action scenes I learned from an old professor of mine. Match your brevity and vocabulary to the pace of the scene.

Giving a lot of detail and expounding upon your interactions slows down the pace a lot more than you'd think, and for a lot of action scenes can really harm the reading experience. The worst action scenes I've ever read have been meandering and without impact because the author struggled to maintain tension and flow.

Now, sometimes, you want the scenes to drag on, to feel long and vibrant. The hard part is figuring out what to use when and sticking to it.
 
Coldsteel the Hedgehog said:
Best tip for action scenes I learned from an old professor of mine. Match your brevity and vocabulary to the pace of the scene.

Giving a lot of detail and expounding upon your interactions slows down the pace a lot more than you'd think, and for a lot of action scenes can really harm the reading experience. The worst action scenes I've ever read have been meandering and without impact because the author struggled to maintain tension and flow.

Now, sometimes, you want the scenes to drag on, to feel long and vibrant. The hard part is figuring out what to use when and sticking to it.
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It's not that hard.

They'll be "action" scenes if you're thinking of it in movie terms where the violence is supposed to be cool, "heroic", and stylized. They'll become murder scenes instead if you strip the "action" part down as much as possible and focus on the gore/its effects on survivors instead. The question of which type you prefer to use more of in your works answers itself.
 
Does anybody know where to find literary agents for literary adult fiction who isn't a toothy white woman? Trying to find any relevant information about this through mainstream sources and writing forums is like finding cancer in your left testicle; it's never right.

If not, how to do good marketing for self-publishing and what is the best platform for self-publishing? I don't know marketing or visual design for shit and realizing that modern fiction is now reserved for menopausal women porn and semi-literate mud people leaves me confused how best to proceed.
 
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