/hob/ - Hobbies

>>68536
Something like silver would be fragile so can't be used for armor or weapons and doesn't really have the same folklore connections.

Plus aesthetically cold iron gives off a more gritty image then delicate and gleaming silver.

In fact, because silver is such a good conductor, I was thinking of it a common element in magical devices and artifacts, along with other things associate with jewelry such as gemstones, gold, platinum, etc.
That way the reader could know at a glance how powerful a magical device is because it usually directly correlates with it's monetary value in a rather obvious way.
Which makes cold iron even more of a contrast as a anti-magical material.

>>68537
ok. so whats your magic system?

>>68538
Still working on it.
It's pretty soft for now, to be hardened as the main characters (and thus the audience) learn more about it.

>>68539
cool

Damn, I don't remember it being this hard to make progress the last time I tried to write a larger project.
It's not that I am getting stuck. I know more or less what to write next. It's just focusing enough to get it down.

3000 words later and I feel I am finally out of the prolong slog. The second half of it honestly didn't feel that hard to write.
The first half was painfully slow going for some reason and I am still not totally happy with it.
Might add detail to the very first part in subsquent drafts but for now I will leave it alone.


So how are things going with your projects?
Maybe practicing your craft with some juicy writing prompts?

It's felt dead in this thread lately. Anyone still regularly writing besides me left?

Another chapter down.
This one a very dialog heavy one that hopefully fleshed out the main characters a little bit.
My diolog is shit but at least it's quick to write.
1500 words in 3 hours ain't bad.
Next chap has a exposition part then once I wrap that up it's a action scene.

I will prob try to keep both parts around a 1000 words unless I really start feeling myself with the descriptions of stuff.

>>68576
whats your book about?

>>68577
I am this dude
>>68531

So portal fantasy with 3 protagonist, in the sword and sorcery direction of things.

>>68578
sounds good. it's a novela?

>>68553
I'm forcing out 1000 words a day but they aren't words I'm proud of.

>>68579
Not sure yet, I am writing it as I go along, with only a very rough outline that is mostly in my head.

It feels like a big enough story to justify a full novel but I am not sure if I have it in me to write that much when I only have 2 days a week to dedicate to long writing seassion.
Other then those days I spend the rest with editing and may adding a paragraph or two in while waiting for my next days off.

It means a lot of it gets banged around in my head for awhile before it actually gets written down.

>>68581
if you need help ask us!

>>68624
>opens
>sees drawing
>closes without even reading
Nope

>>68644
Kek

>>68858
Is this something you wrote?

should we make another writing thread? is this one dead?

>>68939
worst poem itt so far

>>68940
here's a poem for you

As water flows
some arrows
and if the flower tingle
through the night it will giggle

The closer I get to finishing my manuscript, the more ambivalent I feel about its quality. Spending so much time thinking about my characters has made me realize I lack a certain type of empathy or understanding of others. This feels like an unavoidable hurdle.

>>68950
whats your book about?

>>68953
it's about two guys who are writing the biography of a writer who's been mostly forgotten by both the general public and academia

>>68954
sounds intresting

>>62813
WOW! i just skim & scanned here and there and i am most impressed! i do not fancy the cover, though, thank god i saw it later, hah. thank you! very rare to find nowadays a book like that.

>>64122
this is so conceptual

sic transit gloria Monday

>>69158
You are reminding my why I loath poetry as the lowest form of art, below all else.

>>69159
I tend to agree.
Shite poetry is unbearable, even the very best poets are just about tolerable.

Noooo he just wanted to share his poems. Why did you guys bully him?

>>69163
I'm sad too… He politely asked me to delete everything. Poor guy.

Writing in first person feels weird and I keep on mixing tense.
Never have this issue when writing in 3rd person.

Got clickbaited into learning about en and em dashes. The title has almost nothing to do with the majority of the content, which was really just a framing device to spend a half hour yapping about grammar.
Don't recall them ever going over them in school, so learned something new.
Still, video lacked focus to the extreme. How can something be so clearly scripted yet at the same time so rambling.

>>69256
Wrote a few paragraphs using em dashes.
Conclusion, them not having a key of their own make them a pain in the ass to use while writing.
I will instead use a dash with spaces around it while writing then convert it into a em dash during editing.

>>69256
>How can something be so clearly scripted yet at the same time so rambling.
because succubi

I have ran out of steam on the book I was working on again.
This time dropping only 8 chapters in.

I think rather than epic fantasy I will write a stand alone horror book and try to keep the world building limited and focus on developing the characters.

A pointy bird
A pointy point
Anoint my head
Anointy noint

am trying to nail down how certain aspects of the MC works compared to others in the world.
Both him and his pardner/sidekick can do both particular/preset powers but also have a pool of energy to do more flexible powers/magic with.
They also both have separate ways of gaining energy to use their powers, and have negative effects of going too low on energy, where their body literally starts being consumed and converted to energy if they use too much.

I hope I explained it well enough.
Anyway, while I got the sidekick's powers and resource figured out. (They can dramatically enhance their physical abilities as their active power, and have a sort of spidy sense style reflexive precognition as their passive power, and are basically a vampire who gains energy by drinking the "essence" of others using blood as a medium during a bite. Simple)
I mostly worked out the MC's power set (passive ability is ESP that can be enhanced or expanded by using dowsing tools. automatic ability of direct eye contact creating a telepathic link, which when focused triggers a telepathic trance, and the active ablity of very limited matter manipulation that is both slow and requires total focus as well as drains energy quickly.)
I was thinking of maybe some sort of passive energy conversion from the environment as their main source. Like converting heat or environmental psionic resonance into the magical energy at a slow but regular rate, but I can't think of a good active way of gaining energy that has as much thematic impact as vampire bites.
I just am looking for second opinions since I am going a bit far into my own head with this.

tl;dr
What is a interesting way for a MC to quickly recharge their magic/psionic energy stores?

>>69575
Decided to removed the telepathy and eye contact related powers and keep things thematically related to being able to connect with and manipulate matter/objects rather than minds.

ngl this AI fanfic thing actually slaps?? was skeptical at first but it literally writes exactly what's in my head. been using it for my comfort ship and it gets their dynamic perfectly. kinda obsessed rn lol.
https://fanficgenerator.com/

anobody actually interested in penpalling?

>>69659
I never know how to arrange something like that over a chan without putting yourself in a really dangerous situation.

I wrote these.

>>69706
My first impression

>>69707
Fuck you nigger you probably haven't even written anything.

>>69708
Go cry, emo kid.

>>69708
it's lright, poemmaking by yourself > poemmaking via Eyyy Aiiii

>>69710
Why do you type like this?

>>69711
Both phoneposting and carelessness

>>69706
Let me be less of an asshole than >>69707.
What do you think of Notes from the Underground?