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r/writers discusses a 60k word gay Gilmore Girls fanfiction about 9/11 written by a 14 year old

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I (14) finished writing my first book!

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737911075S3E0E2YcoKZsMA.webp

I know age shouldn't be an excuse for bad writing and I kinda rushed the end of my book, but I put all my heart and feeling into writing this book. I hope you enjoy reading it.

(PS: this is a pen name)

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wyfzJTYu7ER34xCSLjETM1YCgBYCm-AvVsCQjuxVsk4/edit

Here comes the critique:

You posted this, so I assume you want feedback.

Your opening few paragraphs do a good job of setting the stage, but there are a few places where the prose could be cleaned up. For example, you mention Starry Hallow I think three times right off the bat.

The year is 2001, when being gay isn't really normally accepted

Try to watch out for unnecessary filler words really normally. We all use them, but they drag the narrative, especially where you can use this opportunity to attach an emotional value to the sentence.

The year is 2001, and being gay sucks.

:tayclap: :tayclap2: The grown adults on Reddit, when given a chance to critique the writing of a literal child, somehow make it worse

Not that there's not anything to critique, check out the opening line:

I looked out at my window from the bus to Stars Hollow, Connecticut, and then checked my watch. The time was 1:45 p.m., but I really didn't know what time it was because my clock hadn't adjusted to the time zone yet. It's about an hour until I reach Stars Hollow.

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"The time was 13:45:32 on the dot, but actually I didn't know what time it was because my (analog) watch hadn't adjusted to the time zone yet"

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"The year is 2001, and being gay is r-slurred"

lol

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>"The year is 2001, and being gay is r-slurred"

:!#speechbubble:

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For a 14 year old she's got a pretty good grasp on the era I'll give her that.

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What if an r-slur was gay?

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:marseygiga#thonk:

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:#marseyemojilaugh: /u/TroposphericDucting

"The year is 2001, and being gay is r-slurred"

Is a very funny comment!!! :#marseyemojilaugh:

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It's funny because Gilmore Girls is a hella gay show. I remember this kid I went to elementary with in like the 3rd grade everybody knew he was gonna end up being gay but he was obsessed with Gilmore Girls and desperate housewives and shit like that. Ended up coming out in like the 10th grade to nobodies surprise.

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So…what's your point? What's the interesting or surprising part of this story? That you went to school with a gay? that a seven year old wasn't openly gay? That a cute twink liked gay shit?? That you completed at least ten years of formal schooling??

Like what is my experience of this comment supposed to be if it's not a shit post (and tbh I don't think it is). How do you have conversations IRL?

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The point is that Gilmore Girls was a gay show... Thought that was pretty clear

trans lives matter

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wheres YOUR 226 page fan fic? I'd rather my 14 year old be writing gay 9/11 fan fic instead of getting groomed online ig

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Given your bio and general aesthetic, I feel like you'd be the one doing the grooming

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:marseygroomer:

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It's the fricking Information Age, you're gonna learn way better online than in any other medium

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They're writing fanfic neighbor that just makes them more likely to be groomed

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Omg thank you for posting this!! I am going to read the whole thing

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Would you consider yourself more of a seme or a uke?

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I don't know what that means but I'm a Rory stan, even after she stole the boat.

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I'm gonna go ahead and say you're more of a uke. That's just the vibe I get from you

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what about me :cute:

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You're such a uke you're being played by a fat butt Hawaiian neighbor

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is that good :marseysad:

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I don't know, but one could say you being "played" by a mordbidly obese Hawaiian man is one of the subplots in a new enemies to lovers fic I'm writing. I feel like you're gonna really enjoy it

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:marseysad: i don't get it :marseytears:

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It's dominate or die in slav lands so MenAreWorst ONLY dominates

Also, meet Ollie

@MarseyIsMyWaifu

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Cute! :marseyfluffy:

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:#marseyhappytears: that head tilt

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"Chocolate!" Jess replied, and while he started drinking the milkshake, I would also join in and drink from my respective straw. I felt the chocolate through my tongue rush into my veins, feeling the sugar help satisfy my hunger even more. I then smiled at myself because I can always love myself a chocolate addiction. After that, the drink was finished, but then, Jess then toppled me over and began kissing me.

It didn't feel like a regular kiss, though. It felt more chocolatey than others, and that's when I began to want to kiss him too because I would want to know more about chocolate kisses.

I pressed my chocolate-filled tongue onto Jess's tongue passionately. I hugged onto his waist and held it tighter the more it grew passionate. I gripped onto his butt, while he gripped onto my butt. When the chocolate flavor began to stop, we stopped making out in the car. I then got the car ready and we started driving.

I only have two things on my mind: kisses and kissing Jess.

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:marseylaughpoundfist#:

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:pe#poboner:

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I felt the chocolate through my tongue rush into my veins

:#marseycocaine:

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I guess she hasn't gotten to biology class yet. :marseyshrug:

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:#marseyretardtalking:

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Since there was a terrorist attack announced today, it was mandatory to close all schools if this happened.

I was in a tornado-like state of mind as to why someone would do that, all of the emotions on that tornado were pessimistic. I was angry at the people who could do such a thing, and I was worried for anyone who was involved in the incident. This was such an unfortunate day for America.

:#speechbubble:

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To be fair, he/she wasnt even alive when 9/11 happened so not having a good grasp of what it was like is kinda understandable.

In 20 years we'll read a fanfic from a 14 year old about the janny 6ocaust

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>I unsheathed my viking peepee and mounted the steps, prepared to mount lady liberty herself to save America by putting a baby in Mommy Trump - a new birth of freedom, conceived right here in the capitol of the ancien rΓ©gime.

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:#capynut:

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The year was 2001. @PillsburyDoughboy think. The twin towers stood against the New York skyline as erect as @PillsburyDoughboy's peepee would be mere hours after the planes hit and @PillsburyDoughboy was let home from school early too masturbate furiously in @PillsburyDoughboy's bedroom too @PillsburyDoughboy's sisters latest Victoria Secret catalogue. @PillsburyDoughboy's parents in the living room, so wrapped up in the unfolding catastrophe, @PillsburyDoughboy knew they wouldn't come knocking at @PillsburyDoughboy's door. Tyra Banks in lingerie. Rap videos on MTV. @PillsburyDoughboy reclined into @PillsburyDoughboy's beanbag chair free from interruptions and intrusions, and embarked on a journey too explore @PillsburyDoughboy's developing body and burgeoning lust for black women… this is the 9-11 @PillsburyDoughboy will always remember

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An unlucky day in america

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"Ok," I wiped away my tears, which to be honest, was a bit therapeutic to free emotions from a cage. "I hope he doesn't become something who he isn't and thrives to be his usual self."

"That's good," Todd smiled and unlocked the stall. "Just don't make sure that the rumor of us being gay is true."

"I won't!" I called out and walked to the lunchroom. Although I wish the burden of my sexuality was lifted. I wish I could scream in pride that I was bisexual and loved being a cute twink. But for now, I have bigger fish to fry.

but most of it isn't laughably bad tbh, just kind of boring and plotless. one day it'll be 'lol remember that whole fricking book I wrote when I was 14?'

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Oh my God, this guy seriously wrote it in Google docs instead of paying 300$ for Adobe InDesign to do it like a professional? I bet his line spacings don't even have custom definitions and his figures aren't pixel-alligned. What a fricking pleb, and he's 14 already as well, he really should know better at this point. You will never make it, you will never get published, might as well start looking for those vacancies at McDonalds to plan for the future.

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:marseyagreesuperspeed: If that Eragon guy can get his slop published to millions anyone can with a little gumption and (probably) nepotism. There's no reason for it not to be professional slop.

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My understanding is that Microsoft Word is often the format of choice.

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this kills the latex-cel :marseyarchgenocide:

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Among plebians perhaps

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See here: https://mwl.io/faq

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Honestly I have no idea what people use to write their books, I was just taking the piss out of it. The reason that I mentioned InDesign is because the only person that I know who actually published books always used InDesign, and when I offered him to switch to LaTex (it was scientific literature), he said that he has to adhere to some strict formatting guidelines or something. More likely the guy was just clueless tbh.

Actually now that I think of it it probably makes sense, because he was doing more merging and formating of papers sent to him than he did actual writing, it really was mostly for design (which was pretty btw)

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Nope, InDesign and Word is pretty much required.

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I'll keep that in mind if I ever decide to publish something other than a research paper (I won't)

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In contrast you're always so eloquent MIMW :marseyfluffypat:

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SO fricking true

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https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737914370A5Xprb0jnHCKmw.webp do the z00'smers think we walked around the streets pike in hand ready to spear murder the first gay we cam across ?

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I wish, we'd have far less problems now if we had.

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We were so naive back then. I, like pretty much everypony at the time, didn't really give a shit, and figured why not let them get married, who cares? But the age of innocence is over and trans lives matter now

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How do they think we won all those medals in men's figure skating?

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>the year is 2001, when being gay isn't really normally accepted

reminder that from 2001-2005 the highest-rated tv show for the 18-49 demo was literally about two gay guys and their strag hags

smdh you know at least 99% of that must have been bigots hate-watching because in the 2000s america was a theocracy :marseyscared:

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Yea like they couldn't get married but gay culture was very much a thing. But remember these are teenagers they weren't alive

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damb that's crazy

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I read the thread about this on RSP and there's a funny line in there about the main character not being able to read an analog watch/clock (in 2001) like a modern day Zoomer lol.

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0 comments conparing it to My Inmortal. Sad

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My Immortal was deliberately bad tho

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My Immortal was a hermeneutic alchemical manual: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/26/my-immortal-as-alchemical-allegory/

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Did you even read any of OPs writing?

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bro wtf is that crusty butt screen

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Can't take screenshot.

Screen is a biohazard.

Managed to write 60,000 words about nothing.

Mental illness strikes again. How much do you want to bet that they're not actually a teenager?

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Roasting a 14 year old's gay Gilmore Girls fanfiction is peak rdrama

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!biofoids peak fanfic post

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Holy frick that was hilarious! I cannot stop laughing! Take my upkong! Take another from my second account! Heck, take a silver, why not? Scratch that, a gold! Scratch that, a platinum even! God, just come to my house and plunge your 2-incher into my gaping butthole already! You can have my wallet afterwards too! Take the credit cards too, I'll even give you the PIN numbers! Heck, you can take the whole darn house while you're at it! You can even have my wife and kids if you want! I'm willing to go into poverty just because your post on reddit.com was that funny! I think there's only one thing that would have made your post even funnier, though:

If it wasn't a goddarn repost

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https://old.reddit.com/r/writers/comments/1i5y4ty/i_14_finished_writing_my_first_book/:

You posted this, so I assume you want feedback.:

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In terms of sheer volume of work this btfos the dipshits on that sub pretty hard

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Good content

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Can one of the russian bots on this site give me a chatgpt summary. I'm banned.

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I need jenny nicholson to do a reading video on this, yesterday

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