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I ended a line of dialogue with a double exclamation point and I'm not changing it
the second draft of my manuscript had 849 em-dashes in it
I mentally swap the races of characters in Golden Age sci-fi to make it more interesting for the modern audience (me)
I make fun of audiobooks, but I actually just can't concentrate on them.
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All of my X-Files slashfics were written with myself in mind - not that b-word Scully - but I lacked the integrity to put the Mary Sue self-insert in my head onto the page.
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I commend you for that, honestly
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Heh
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I stopped writing since generative AI got passable enough. I was never satisfied with how I explored an idea and turned it into a short story. Now I can be unsatisfied with my idea much faster and it'll leave me alone.
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I am not satisfied with the prose of AI, I want to write things the way I see them in my head. I could see AI be useful as a storyboarding tool for a first draft to give you an idea for a narrative structure though
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As an adult, I gave up on writing years ago
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what are your ideas like?
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Dashes are good
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Ctrl+F-ing the em-dash felt like shining a blacklight in a gooner's bedroom
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OP just needs to balance that out with some en-dashes and hyphens. A thousand of each should do the trick.
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Holy facking 10th grade
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My teacher says I write like Emily Peepeeinson!
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I love the Gor series by John Norman. Especially how Norman blatantly uses inner monologues to pontificate how women are natural slaves lololol
!bookworms
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better than Conan?
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Dude's in his 90s and he was still publishing books about it. I Conon a bit more since it's so classic but Gor can be very entertaining in how wild Norman goes in them.
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I went through an Ayn Rand phase and would bring her up in conversation with normal people.
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I read terry goodkind
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That is an actual sin.
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I didn't really like Blood Meridian that much
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I generally liked it but it's definitely overrated. I wonder if it would get the same critical acclaim if it wasn't super verbose.
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Of course not r-slur the point is his prose is amazing. The story itself is extremely mid and the book is solely carried on his ability to use language to make you see what he's writing about
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It's an absolute masterpiece of writing and it was what really convinced me thay McCarthy was an amazing writer. His mastery of contemporary English is beyond reproach and he should be lauded as one of the literary greats.
It fails as a story.
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I liked it a lot, but I think All the Pretty Horses is way more enjoyable to read.
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I think the road is probably the most crowdpleasing
Plot is easy to process and the setting doesn't piss off western-haters
Has a nice message about fatherhood and even a somewhat happy ending even with the death
Also has several moments where he shows off his descriptive prose
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I watched the movie of the road first. It was very good, I think they did the absolute best job they could have done with the source material. But when I later read the book, there was so much more to it than the movie. The book really went all out to drive home the point that the father was a Macgyver, with long descriptions of him building all kinds of shit out of the leftover trash of society that just weren't translatable into film. And that, to me, is McCarthy in a nutshell, he's always focusing on weird details that in the hands of a lesser author would be annoying. In The Crossing, he spends an inordinate amount of time talking about what the wolf hunter's bait smells like, and it should be completely unnecessary and stupid, but instead it's captivating. The guy just has a way with words.
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I unironically enjoyed the Twilight books
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THey've aged better retroactively due to the subhuman slop coming out since
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This is true of all media of the time period tbh. Everything's gone downhill so hard I'll watch a movie that I considered mid in 2008 and think it's the best thing ever.
...but I first read Twilight in 2008 so I have no excuse
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I read them when they came out (so I was like, 13?) and then I binge read them again just last summer.
Also I just watched the contrapoints video on it a few weeks back, it was really interesting.
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keep yourself safe
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Kill me yourself, r-slur kitty b-word
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lmao based im gonna steal that
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I used to write hundreds of times better than before I started posting online in the live journal days. Now I can't go more than one sentence eigovut spelling words wrong I don't care correcting and saying cute twink
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I've had a huge story conceptualized for over 5 years now and I haven't written anything other than a general outline of important pieces of it for reference. I don't even think it would have an audience.
Instead I began writing fetish smut fics because I have fun with it. And after posting them, other fellow neurodivergents have given me props for the stuff I write. On one hand it feels very
but on the other hand I'm like heck yeah someone actually read the bullshit I wrote, I was never aiming to be an esteemed writer or anything so I stopped worrying about it
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Just publish your actual story to royal road
And sell your smut
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I despise when shit is locked behind a paywall, and I'm not willing to advertise that I'll take commissions to write.
If anyone wants to read a genderswapped death note parody where instead of dying you get a wedgie when your name is written, it should be something you can do for free. I'd be disgusted if I found out something like that was monetized
also I'm not really struggling with money, maybe if I do my stance would change on that
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i can't imagine being this small
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My female
versions of Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw were far more interesting 
than the original but then the Apple tv show of Foundation 
actually 
went and made Daneel a foid so now I'm ashamed 
of myself.
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Demerzel is a foid, and Demerzel is just one of the personas Daneel asumes. I don't mind it, he's a robot so it makes sense that Daneel would asume different personas and genders throughout millennia.
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god behead apple for ruining hober mallow
pure merchant SLANDER
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I refuse to place exclamation and question mark inside of a double quote
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I mean it bugs me sometimes too but... Isn't this just proper writing? Like if I was asking someone if I got a quote right, I'd say
Not
That second way just looks r-slurred to me.
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Let's rearrange it so the quotation is in the middle
I don't see a good reason for quotation rules to work differently at the end of a sentence.
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I never learned how to read
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I...I have written probably hundreds of cyberpunk flash fics
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link?
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Theyre on SA somewhere, god speed
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It's probably been half a decade since I wrote something longer than 2 sentences by hand
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I still believe we could get A Dream of Spring.
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That's not a literary sin, just pure delusion and
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Maybe if we get GRRM on ozempic and vyvanse
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I haven't finished reading any novel in last two years
I just fall asleep
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I read Ready Player One and actually kind of enjoyed it.
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100% not as bad as people say. The protag actually has to change and suffer some, which really isn't true in the movie. Also introduced me to the song 2112 which was pretty cool
I think the main reason this is hated is that it frontloads a couple of its worst passages: the one where he rants about how the world is terrible and God isn't real, and the epic catalogue of all the slop he consoomed. After that intro, a lot of people won't have much patience to look past later, smaller bits of cringe; or notice how the protagonist changes.
I've heard the sequel is much worse, but I haven't read it.
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Audiobooks arent terrible. They arent reading, but they arent terrible.
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