Hey guys! I was wondering if anyone knew if any novels existed with a similar premise to Lord Of The Flies, but in a more relatable setting. Like a friendly game of tag/manhunt that turns deadly?
Well, I wasn't expecting this. When I decided to start writing seven months ago, I was looking forward to putting some ideas to paper. I had written some short stories and some really short stories, but the idea of a novel was daunting.
I've just written the last word of my approx. 59,000 word first draft and feel proud of how dedicated I have been to it. Obviously, now the hardest part begins. Cutting, restructuring and possibly realising it's not very good at all. Hopefully I read through it and it surprises me.
I'll probably give it a month or so before I come back to it, but I just wanted to share this feat with the group and now I will go out for some beers. Cheers! Any second draft advice is more than welcome.
I started writing in January, or at least I started actively writing as a hobby since then. I know deep down this most likely won't be published in any form, but I have been writing up a story about a fictional village in the north of England. It follows a pub landlord and a writer who become unlikely friends and they try to uncover an ancient corruption eating away at the village. It's about village life, retirement and the stagnation of that period of life. It also has elements of folk horror and hints at a possible supernatural danger lurking among the water supply
I'm just over three weeks into it and I'm 25,000 words in. I feel great about this and I hope that when it has an ending, I can stomach going through all of the bad writing and tightening it up.
I just thought I would share this sense of pride with people other than my girlfriend. It's the first time I feel like I'm really writing and ideas are just flowing from my brain to the laptop almost effortlessly at times. (Prose is another situation altogether. I'll assess that down the line.)
Hey guys, I've been writing since January. I am refraining from posting anything more writing on here, for now. I am 9000 words into a draft I started last Sunday and I think it's going well and could make for a good story.
To the more experienced in the group, when it comes to first drafts:
- How many words is a good amount to reach before going into the editing stage? (I'm aiming for a relatively short novel or long novella)
- Should I bother going through it at any point before "draft 2"?
- Should I be concerned if there's a few mistakes regarding tense and punctuation? Or should I be strictly concerned about the plot and how the characters and setting feel?
I just found myself reading back through it and while I think it's definitely my best story to date, there are a lot of repeated adjectives, but maybe I should consider that issue once I have a finished first draft to look through.
It kind of feels like I've just answered my question with the last paragraph, but any advice would be appreciated. Thank you guys. This subreddit has been so helpful.
I'm very new to writing and found myself leaning against the bar at work and decided to type something up. It was a rainy day and I saw some worms on my way to the bar.
Hey guys! I'm a painter who a couple of years back was doing a collection of paintings based on photographs of my friends and I hanging out at the campsite of different festivals. If any people would be willing to send me some photographs of themselves and/or friends surrounded by tents and drunk festival goers, that would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance!
I'm just over 100 pages in and I don't think it's for me. I will keep it on my bedside table for some casual night time reading, but I'm finding myself avoiding it. I really like the characters and the premise is interesting, but it feels like something I would enjoy more if I was American and/or more interested in the 50s-60s. Do let me know if this isn't the case. I think I would've DNFd it by now if it wasn't a Stephen King book and wasn't so highly considered by everyone here.
Ignoring the ghastly cover of the book I found for £1, I am here to say that I have been avoiding Carrie for a while as it didn't sound like a book I would enjoy very much. I'm pleasantly surprised. Not as surprised as I was when I read Cujo, but pretty surprised by how much I want to keep reading.
I'm still very new to writing, starting this year. I've posted some stuff earlier on and had some really helpful advice and some others who have told me my writing isn't even worth critiquing. (I bet you're wondering why I would bother posting here at this point) I struggle holding on to a single tense and do think I have an issue with pacing, but I just thought I would stick a couple of pages of a recent first draft in here to see what can be improved. Maybe I just need to keep writing it and it will all make more sense when I run through it at the second draft stage.