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Why does a neighbor expect praise for accomplishing a goal
Your writing is just words till it affects someone, either makes them reflect, cry, sneed, enraged, fricking something. Only people getting praise for simple finishing a work are writers with a history of delivering
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'I wrote a book' is, for most people, a practically identical statement to 'I took a shit'. Nobody will be impressed, everybody will be repulsed. There's a reason pen names exist.
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I now believe in this unironically.
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'I've done it: after sixteen years, I have finished writing my 3.3 million-word fanfic for Super Smash Bros Melee. No, I have not edited it. No, I have not proofread it.
'Yes, I expect you to spend the next three years of your life reading about my self-insert inserting myself into Kirby's holes.
'Does anyone know who I talk to now about getting this turned into a Hollywood movie starring myself? I'm ready now...'
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normies have 100 million other things to read and watch. more than half don't give a shit about anything unless it's on netflix
guaranteed you talked their ear off about how the gleebos used a bingbong (it's not a dragon, mom!) to end a centuries-long war with the dingling folk
you can't be this fragile as an artist, it's embarrassing
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Or maybe write some short story and show it to a friend who enjoys literature instead of seeking validation and criticism from everyone you know. The majority of people barely read any books, much less a 230 pages handwritten manuscript, no wonder is hard for them to react to it beyond a “good for you”.
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xhe finished 230 pages but missed the whole point of storytelling lmao. art's the subtext for your soul, framing life-struggle in an interesting way that people can relate to. not 'i'm so fricking lonely and insecure UwU why doesn't anyone get meee???'
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I was so excited when I finished my manuscript! I ran outside to tell my dad, and he stared at me. "Here, dad! It's my book that I've been working on for so long. Won't you read it!?" He took one look at the cover, rolled it up, and smacked the shit outta me.
"TYPE IT UP, YOU LITTLE SHIT!"
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Unironically why I love writing chars like Hubert from Lolita. I <3 making people feel dirty in their soul
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Humbert Humbert was disgusting but at the same time a fun character, so bitchy and snarky. The end when he faces and kills the other p-do was just
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loved that book as a kid
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humbert humbert is literally me
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These people are all desperately trying to avoid another lengthy spergout by OP about his fantasy universe.
I already know the book stinks because the last line is "the end"
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If it ended with “the end…?” it would be pure kino though.
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"the end....lmao can't believe you really read all that shit neighbor"
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Put /s at the end
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Based and Chekhov pilled
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My first instinct is to have a muted response so I don't get asked / an offer to read it
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Could be worse. Could be one those battlegrounds (eta: spacebattle, sry
) forum autists who think a good fantasy book should describe in excruciating details the magic behind every darn spell (darn I hate magic systems nerds).
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Magic systems are fine if they exist in like a glossary. The author establishing rules is fine, the story just shouldn't become about those rules.
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https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Duck
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I hate Star Wars so goddarned much.
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Lmao, as if writing by hand instead of typing made it more significant.
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It's bafflingly r-slurred to do that. You're just going to have to end up typing it into a computer anyways, why not just do that in the first place.
Like wtf is he going to do with it now? Make photo copies?
No.. he has to go through each of the 230 pages and enter them into the computer. When he could have just written the whole thing there.
If this is true ... It's painful how dumb it is.
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I like writing things down. Helps me remember things.
But writing a whole butt book on pen and paper is just brain-rotted in 2023. That was still r-slurred as frick even in 2013.
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Not only that, but he's angry because his friends pointed that out lmao. And the other redditards offer no constructive criticism whatsoever, just validation and upvooterinos.
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If it's some Joycean/Shakespearean palimpsest of a holograph containing countless crossouts and rewrites and page-inserts and redeletions and rephrasals, I'd be impressed. There's a reason to do things by hand.
But you just know it's written in fricking gel pen, and he/she started the page anew when an error was made 'because crossouts are icky ew'.
Wonder how many Pokemon make appearances in her story...
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"noo I asked my friends their opinion and they called me a moron for legitimate reasons, nooo"
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He can't even post excerpts for validation and updoots unless he wants to take pictures of his shitty hand writing. You know that book is going to be underlined in red every other word when he enters it.
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He'll have to edit it anyways, so can as well do it this way.
Also tbh it gives proper vibes. Like my favorite Oscar Wilde quote
And the part where Kubrick had some people type 500 pages of "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" on typewriters, no xeroxing allowed.
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In multiple languages too for all the international versions
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What? Is that true? Source!
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You are pulling my leg, you perfidious kraut.
@G look at this, look!
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It's superior German Humor
Soon we will invent the funny bot 3000 and you will laugh
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That's what I figured too but I like to handwrite but in 2023, I'm typing because you can easily do on the fly edits with the magic of the space and delete buttons. Your notebook is just gonna be a mess when you remember character such and such could not have possibly been in that scene.
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0% chance anyone, including the author, reads this mess.
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I don't think it really matters either way since most (good) books go through drafts/rewrites in the process. Either way, a decent author is most likely gonna wind up typing the same shit a couple times
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The idea is to prevent over thinkimg and editing. You pay someone else to type it up for like 200 bucks.
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At least it's an opportunity to proofread
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Scanning it and putting it into AI reader should work too.
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Yes, but that will depend on how clear your handwriting is
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The book is a mess because he didn't edit a darn thing
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They don't have a career. He's not finished and nobody's paid for it.
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I fricking hate teenagers so much it's unreal
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one of his main characters is a prostitute why tf does he want his parents to read it
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Why no marsey tendies?
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Moms just don't understand.
I didn't even want to use her blood for the ink: that was Belial's idea.
Moms just never understand
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Actually, all labor is equally valid and there is no difference between s*x workers and neurosurgeons. We need to remove the stigma surrounding the girlboss career of prostitution and my novel is extremely important for stigma-removal
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Son you need to be more like Muelder, I certainly haven't you seen with a woman before let alone a smoker like Scully
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Aw I wanted to make this comment
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This post makes me sad. But yeah don't look for writoid validation irl
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We need him here, only our wise writing group can advise him.
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This but unironically. We have an audience of a couple hundred people so has some diversity but still small enough to learn what they want. Which is mostly marseys and "dude bussy lmao".
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Do we have enough people here for !writers?
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If no one else does by tomorrow then I'll make it
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someone just need to post once a week right? once a week r-slurred writing prompt shitposting when?
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Even if its just u and me it would mean a lot for my self esteem
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Sometimes people ask for me to read their writing. It's always an uncomfortable experience. It's always bad, not entertaining bad or cringy bad, just zzzzz this is completely boring kind of bad. Then when you force yourself to read through it they want feedback. I don't want to lie to them like a kitty so then it just ends up them being defensive however gently I make the criticism.
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Meanwhile when I read my mom's first draft, I told her it sucked and broke down every part that was bad. She was super thankful and made improvements based on my feedback.
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At some point writers might get to that stage of 'I should actually make something worth reading'. Most people who write are doing some kind of bare my soul onto this page kind of thing though so every criticism is taken personally.
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I still don't understand the audacity one has to write something if you're not willing to face criticism for it. You should be so happy that you have someone willing to waste their time on you.
That's why we all have
@XY: READ AND GRADE OUR FRICKING FANFICTION AND TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
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next comes the manifesto
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Tranifesto
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Actually sad, a person's family and friends should support them when they accomplish big goals like that.
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hard disagree
Premature acknowledgement leads to abandoned projects, CMV.
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My mom is working on a book, we aren't celebrating until it actually gets published. Anything else is just stupid.
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What's Mum's book about, bucko?
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Not today feds!
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here's his story
https://rdrama.net/h/lit/post/204180/i-finished-writing-my-manuscript-and/4986373#context
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I mean. If it was my kid I'd at least read it at a minimum and give my critiques at the max.
Blind praise isn't healthy but neither is total apathy
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Gay take. I would slam a coors, burp loudly in their face reeking of beer breath and skol, and ask if an AI could have wrote what they made. When I see their soul is crushed, I would follow up with “so you're gonna work at the trash incinerator like your old man, yeah? Work a real job?” That way if they're truly dedicated to their craft then they would use that experience which haunts them for the rest of their life, competing against LLMs to make the a novel that is completely unprecedented, and probably blow my fricking head off with a shotgun as they rightfully should. That's how greatness is made.
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Yeah it's why we're on rdrama
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Well, yes. But you see, I am r-slurred (which is also why I'm on rDrama), so I glossed over that.
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You're my huckleberry
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Just throw them into the trash incinerator
problem solved
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He needs to read a book on Hollywood pitches
You don't walk into a room saying I wrote a 230 pages and expect attention
You give a short 10 second overview that makes people interested
100% he already told all of these people the idea and they don't give a shit cuz it sounds boring or he's boring
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Shoulda advertised it with a shooting spree
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Your rif still works? Neat
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if the app just continues working like this then I will forever view spez as the lord of shitposting
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if you dont write for yourself youre ngmi
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i dont see how finishing a manuscript is that impressive
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I wish he was still with us
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You're back!
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Marsuscript?
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