feeling unmotivated and need to laugh? 
try r/fantasywriters
normally i wouldn't tell people to give up on their dreams but come the frick on 💀💀
in typical reddit fashion, everything is so so bad. 
the advice, the depressed writers looking for people to validate their awful ideas. i distinctly remember one poster who wanted to know if people wanted to read about dinosaur bones. 
that's it. no mention of characters, no worldbuilding, no paleontologist murder mystery set in the heart of the african jungle. if you can't convince yourself, why should we care? 
here's a quote from Adaptation (2002):
People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fricking day somewhere in the world somebody sacrifices his life to save somebody else. Every fricking day someone somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church! Someone goes hungry, somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you my friend don't know crap about life!
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I unironically want to be a fantasy fiction writer
I’m not giving up my day job anytime soon, but it’s always been a dream of mine and I try to set aside time for my black hole of a first draft.
Reddit is the last place I’d go for advice, and I actually do get a mocking chuckle out of these goofballs. You can also attend writing “panels” in places like your local Barnes and nobles or half price books for the same effect.
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ive noticed good fantasy is wayyyy harder than other genres so keep that in mind if you feel discouraged
blind leading the blind. look for professional writers on youtube - i love film courage. stay tf away from self published booktubers though
here's some advice from the elder scrolls lore creator: when it comes to worldbuilding, think about God's perspective, then the farmer's perspective, but write from the pov of the farmer's dog
if you're stuck on plot, try instead to focus on sympathy. a businessman worries about his shop, his family and friends. take those away and who does he become?
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Thanks for the tips
That’s a pretty ironic quote coming out of Elder Scrolls though. Story is the last thing I think of when it comes to Bethesda, and all the ES main characters are pretty egregious examples of “chosen one” protags.
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michael kirkbride isnt bethesda, i don't think he even works there any more. not his fault they failed to use his talents better
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https://web.archive.org/web/20200406041031mp_/https://www.c0da.es/t/c0da
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tbh I never looked into c0da not sure what its supposed to be
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May God grant absolution to my soul but you should look into Brandon Sanderson's lectures on writing because he's the most popular fantasy goyslop writer right now.
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ive seen almost all his lectures more than once. its useful as a starting point but pretty surface level once you have a better grasp of storytelling. imo the real secret is capturing what works in other genres and studying relentlessly real historical weirdness and people who found success in the industry who aren't Stephen King and the like
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From what I've seen all you can do is either go indie on amazon, self pub porn or get in with short story mags
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The state of the publishing industry really does bother me
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If you're engaging in giga autism then RoyalRoad and adjacent sites might be right. Honestly you just have to have decent enough quality, good enough premise, and spin the slots enough times until you get something that sells.
If you want to go through traditional publishing then prepare to get mogged by sensitivity readers and the like because Fantasy and Sci Fi are run by those people now that the Chuds have been felled.
Remember that some r-slur b-word made hundreds of millions of her repurposed Twilight fanfiction self published on Amazon.
The people need to consume and Marvel has made them amenable to most filth now, exploit that for shekels and prestige.
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I have something rather generic that could be a novel but I'm thinking about putting pictures and if statements in it
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lol what
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It's bleak in Canada
Submissions CLOSED unless u r INDIGINX/BIPOC/RTARDED
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indie outsells trad these days but you get no respect from fat cats like hollywood and award committies
i hope they start going under
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worldbuilding is ok for fantasy but you need to get in your daily 400-500 words practice. For me, the actual writing is what helped me develop the worldbuilding. I think it's counterproductive to develop the world before writing, personally, which seems to be the preferred method of redditards.
For that, they'll be a lot of dud passages you end up not using, but will be important as part of the spitballing process. If you write 1000 words and then delete it, you still wrote those 1000 words and still went through a dialectic, alchemical process in your head. It's all part of the process of creation.
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