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89wc th/thh kalm  1yr ago (image post) 1,241 thread views #204180

I finished writing my manuscript and no one cared :marseycry:

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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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>Oh Geez I'm terrible at this but.

>It's my heros journey story, so it might be a little generic.

>It's about a man and a woman who are both in terrible situations in their life (s*x worker and a wrongfully dishonorable discharged army guy) who meet each other when they are wrapped up in a conspiracy to find a an ancient treasure.

>The villain is a powerful rich man who stalks the woman online and develops a parasocial obsession, which is what leads her to be wrapped up into it. And a powerful army captain who is after the treasure for personal reasons and uses the guy as a scapegoat to get it, nearly getting him killed and forcing him into hiding.

>The treasure they find are two swords. One that harnesses the power of light and the other dark. Within them is an ancient spirit, one of light and dark. To master the weapons and break free from the powerful men that plague their lives, they need to question the meanings of light and dark and good and evil. To find the perfect balance between them in order to harness both light and dark.

>Lots of questions of morality and what good and evil mean. As well as dark Gothic undertones, like characters turning out to be monsters like a Wolfman or a shadow fiend, or a cannibull (werewolf, vampire, minotaur). Hence , they are after the weapons of light and dark for their own sinister reasons. It's very action packed as well.

>But the true villain is just a man who becomes obsessed with a woman, and the core story is about her gaining the stregnth and confidence in herself to break free from the terror he causes her while stalking her, trying to mind control and force her to be his wife and find Justice for herself.

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>wrongfully dishonorable discharged

stahhp

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Isn't dishonorable discharge a thing that involves like a court and a bunch of evidence?

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dishonorable discharge

It's when you c*m in gussy instead of a bussy.

:marseydisgust:

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:#marseyscream:

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Yeah, usually you get court-martialed and possibly tossed into military prison

It has to be serious shit for them to go through all that effort

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You have to literally be r-slurred to get dded and not othd

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The villain is a powerful rich man who stalks the woman online and develops a parasocial obsession

If the dude is rich and famous why does he need to become a reddit simp?

Wolfman or a shadow fiend, or a cannibull (werewolf, vampire, minotaur)

Fricker couldn't come up with an original monster so he just renamed them :marseyxd:

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Fricker couldn't come up with an original monster so he just renamed them :marseyxd:

That's 50% of fantasy, the other 50% doesn't rename them.

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Don't these guys get tired of writing about magic swords or whatever? Nobody's come up with a cooler weapon than a special sword since fricking king arthur?

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Swords are gay and every ancient army knew it. The chads used spears.

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:marsey300:

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ye the re-writes should be left to professionals as far as publishing goes.

Lots of stories are copypastas for newer gen and I think that's good thing, because the stories are great and worthy of retelling.. let the professionals reword the story and modernize it. By all means as an amateur do it too as practice but don't try and pass it off as some kind of novelty lol you just aren't going to do it the way a master can

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I think retellings absolutely serve a purpose but I wish authors would just branch out and try to put new spins on stories from other cultures instead of circle jerking themselves raw by constantly "deconstructing" the same few western myths all the time

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At least deconstruct the Journey to the West or something - I want to read about how the Monkey King is actually toxically masculine or whatever.

Or perhaps “want” is the wrong word.

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Journey to the West but Sun Wukong is a white man cancelled in the West so he has to redeem himself in Africa

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Every single fantasy author is absolutely confident they have reinvented the tropes

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>I'm gonna show how innovative of a writer I can be by taking this trope that has been done to death 100 times, except this time I'm gonna subvert all characters and plots. OH MY GOD! I'M SUBVOOOOOORTING!

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The idea of an actual bull that has a taste for human flesh meanwhile would be so much more interesting. See? That idea took me like 5 seconds.

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It wants revenge because you fricking :marseygrilling2:ed its wife

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:marseyclapping: @Fabrico I am so proud of you good job, great even. How is your mind even capable of so quickly creating such ideas? It's like the way you order your words, it looks so simple just from a first glance but I know it's not.

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Lmao :!marseyxd:

The secret is to have something called creativity, this wannabe author doesn't seem to have it just yet.

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how about a werecow? the protagonist transforms into a cow during the full moon and at the end they get eaten

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:!#marseylaugh::!#marseylolcow:

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It's the opposite of a werewolf because everybody is hunting you during the full moon and not the other way around

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>The treasure they find are two swords. One that harnesses the power of light and the other dark. Within them is an ancient spirit, one of light and dark.

https://media.giphy.com/media/SWoRKslHVtqEasqYCJ/giphy.webp

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Teenager definitely wrote that. Give xer a pass. Xer will find out xer is r-slurred in a few years.

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Her being a teenager would make going upstairs to share the news with her "depression family" much less pathetic.

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😴😴😴

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Y'know what, pitch this is 1998 with Rob Schneider, Bruce Willis and Fran Drescher and it would be a cult classic

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I thought this going to be a joke version of the comment :feelsguy:

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:marse#yxd:

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>hero's journey

:marseysigh:

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