'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...'

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???'

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"

Based and Chekhov pilled

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

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.

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

The idea is to prevent over thinkimg and editing. You pay someone else to type it up for like 200 bucks.

At least it's an opportunity to proofread

Scanning it and putting it into AI reader should work too.

The book is a mess because he didn't edit a darn thing

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Why no marsey tendies?

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

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".

Do we have enough people here for !writers?

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.