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reignofevil posted:Let me know how it's going from time to time! Are you thinking more fictionalized life-events or trying something totally new? it's similar but more based on my adult years. I also have ideas that are totally different from that and aren't based on my real life at all
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wesflarger posted:you didn't even read it you obsequious swine even your posts are florid
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wesflarger posted:you didn't even read it you obsequious swine I actually did try to read and couldn't muster the strength to get past the second paragraph. It reads like an angry 15 year old's blog. Sorry broseph.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:O cool carry on are you not entertained?
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bradzilla posted:I actually did try to read and couldn't muster the strength to get past the second paragraph. It reads like an angry 15 year old's blog. Sorry broseph. That's actually exactly what I was going for. HAHA you read the first paragraph and you can't unread it now. The protagonist is a whiny teenager and it reads as such deliberately.
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Mar 24, 2020 17:54
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wesflarger posted:are you not entertained? I'm gay
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Mar 24, 2020 17:55
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Writing and re-writing, giving out sections to an appropriate Creative Convention thread, getting your rear end punched in, rewriting and rewriting some more, trepidatiously giving out your newest drafts to a small circle of readers, knowing in your hearts of hearts that its still not good enough, gotta put more work in that will probably only bear fruit in your next book or the one after it Or i could just make a post in gbs about a clearly unfinished and unedited wall of screeds and call everyone a malignant
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Torquemada posted:I fell out with a friend of mine permanently because he wrote a book that was basically him as the main character having bullshit small town adventures. He whored it to me by email, by text, by facebook, by whatever self publishing marketplace he was using. Eventually, I just blocked him out of my life just so I wouldn’t have to listen to his moaning about why I hadn’t bought his $20(!) self published autofellatio manual. All that, so I didn’t have to explain to him that he was a talentless hack, and that I wouldn’t have read his loving book if he’d been paying me instead. You had a chance to support a friend for only $20 and you blew it. LOL that's the price of like one lunch
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wesflarger posted:That's actually exactly what I was going for. HAHA you read the first paragraph and you can't unread it now. The protagonist is a whiny teenager and it reads as such deliberately. 
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Shageletic posted:Writing and re-writing, giving out sections to an appropriate Creative Convention thread, getting your rear end punched in, rewriting and rewriting some more, trepidatiously giving out your newest drafts to a small circle of readers, knowing in your hearts of hearts that its still not good enough, gotta put more work in that will probably only bear fruit in your next book or the one after it i don't take it nearly that seriously its just a stupid e-book written by some random whiny rear end bitch that happens to be me lol
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I'm gay i'm touched that you feel comfortable enough with me to come out to me. the hardest part is telling your parents
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Mar 24, 2020 18:03
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yeah thats right you have no response so post a gif of an ugly confused aryan chipmunk
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Mar 24, 2020 18:04
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you have brain damage op
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bradzilla posted:you have brain damage op why do you think this exactly?
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Mar 24, 2020 18:14
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wesflarger posted:why do you think this exactly? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EngT3zJnAZE
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OP, never lose that boundless self-confidence and shameless love of self-promotion because that really is the best way to get ahead in life.
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Mar 24, 2020 18:16
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If I were Burt I would be so proud of this video
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Mar 24, 2020 18:18
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I have brain damage for being amused at my rule breaking on a website? You've got a severe delusion of grandeur. You are the brain damaged one, bresus
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Pick posted:You had a chance to support a friend for only $20 and you blew it. LOL that's the price of like one lunch Jon, is that you?
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wesflarger posted:I have brain damage for being amused at my rule breaking on a website? You've got a severe delusion of grandeur. You are the brain damaged one, bresus """""""amused"""""""
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Mar 24, 2020 18:29
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wesflarger posted:yeah thats right you have no response so post a gif of an ugly confused aryan chipmunk what the gently caress is this
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Honky Dong Country posted:what the gently caress is this Someone who is absolutely not turning into a corncob. Honest.
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Mar 24, 2020 18:45
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OP you started off strong, but this isn't how you greet your fans.
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Mar 24, 2020 18:47
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OP I edited your book
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:OP you started off strong, but this isn't how you greet your fans. I have fans?
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I guess you could say this thread truly is...something awful
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the good news is we can keep telling OP to gently caress off and it clearly wont stop him giving Lowtax money gently caress off OP
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Thanks for the pats on the back, gang. Check out my band too while you're at it. https://septicbaptism.bandcamp.com/
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wesflarger posted:Thanks for the pats on the back, gang. Check out my band too while you're at it. What does your band think of your book
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in seriousness gbs are unappreciative but most users are lurkers. your audience aren't itt, you gotta buy some banner ads son.
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Mar 24, 2020 20:43
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what the gently caress are you even talking about
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:OP, never lose that boundless self-confidence and shameless love of self-promotion because that really is the best way to get ahead in life. Ironically I'm not very confident at all but the self promotion has absolutely drawn many goons in like moths to a flame just to insult me in any way and I legitimately am very entertained by it. Of course, I would prefer positive feedback but that's nowhere near as fun as reading the insults.
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you could always try to re-write the book and make it better does that count as positive feedback? maybe try switching to 3rd person limited perspective, might make the character seem less whiny and annoying
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wesflarger posted:what the gently caress are you even talking about You'll understand when youre older.
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get old bitch
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Zippy the Bummer posted:you could always try to re-write the book and make it better Not really but it is feedback. I'm not changing the perspective. I want everything to be from the perspective of an angsty teenager. It's "whiny" or "complain-y" on purpose because that's what I was like as a teen and so are most teenagers.
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wesflarger posted:Ironically I'm not very confident at all but the self promotion has absolutely drawn many goons in like moths to a flame just to insult me in any way and I legitimately am very entertained by it. Would you say that we are like puppets dancing at the end of your strings?
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So... your bandmates haven't read it then?
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wesflarger posted:Not really but it is feedback. I'm not changing the perspective. I want everything to be from the perspective of an angsty teenager. It's "whiny" or "complain-y" on purpose because that's what I was like as a teen and so are most teenagers. the only people who want to read that are other angsty teens, and they have a wealth of blogs on the internet exactly about that (for free). consider perhaps twisting the characters and setting so that it doesn't read like a blog post memoir. swap the genders of the characters, or add more, move it to a different country, or even a different time period. make it a story that is informed by your experiences rather than about them and your thoughts specifically. or just make it a straight memoir with no poetic license or flourish
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