u/ak_khainal

Not “cool.”
Not “iconic.”

Just… human.

The kind of character whose pain, silence, or decisions stayed in your mind long after the book ended.

Trying to study what actually makes readers emotionally connect with fictional people.

Not “cool.”
Not “iconic.”

Just… human.

The kind of character whose pain, silence, or decisions stayed in your mind long after the book ended.

Trying to study what actually makes readers emotionally connect with fictional people.

I’m a debut writer and my first book is coming soon - “This Is For You, Dad”

I need someone who can edit my book. I will pay you too…

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I’ve always felt that a lot of incredible writers never get talked about enough outside of small reading circles. So I decided to make a curated guide featuring 50 unique, rising, influential, and legendary authors that readers should genuinely explore.
It includes a mix of:
modern voices
cult favorites
literary icons
underrated writers
psychological & dark fiction authors
philosophical storytellers
contemporary internet-era writers
I also tried to make it visually clean and easy to scroll through instead of just dumping names randomly.
Would genuinely love feedback from readers here:
Which authors would you remove?
Which names absolutely deserve to be added?
Do you prefer classic literature lists or modern/internet-era writers?
Here’s the document: 👇🏻
Scribd Guide – 50 Authors Names

Not talking about edgy one-liners.
I mean a quote that genuinely stayed in your head because of how true or disturbing it felt.

I’ve been reading and writing darker emotional/political fiction lately, and honestly some lines hit harder than entire stories.

Drop the quote + book name if you remember it.

I don't need upvotes, just wanted to know.
I'm planning to live off my book soon, and if things go well, I want to donate 50% of the revenue to a meaningful cause.

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I don’t need upvotes aur any engagement, just wanted to know…
I’m planning to live off my book soon, and if things go well, I want to donate 50% of the revenue to a meaningful cause.

View Poll

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This may sound harsh, but I've noticed it a lot.

Everyone says they're "working on something."

A book, a startup, content, anything.

But very few people are actually doing boring work—
sitting alone, working for hours, without any validation.

I'm 22, working on my first political thriller.

When I started, there was no audience. There was no guarantee anyone would read it.

And honestly, that's the part people don't talk about—
how lonely it feels when nothing is happening.

It's easy to post about "building."

It's very hard to keep going when no one cares.

Maybe I'm wrong.

But it seems most people aren't afraid of failure—
they're afraid of being irrelevant.

I want to know what others think.

I will read those books