I wrote half a book that is just my wish-fullfilling fantasies about my high school days that I never got to enjoy and my romance with my tomboy oneitis. Is this salvageable or should I just continue? I set out to write something entirely different and I have near 90 pages of this stuff which is just slice-of-lice stuff.
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90 pages about slicing lice?
Hehe I wish. I'm liking it, it's catharthic. like i'm purging my own demons but I know it's just fiction. I wish she was ready to have a boyfriend but she didn't. We met again but she'd been through stuff and wasn't the same person. Like the girl I loved was dead. It was an awful feeling.
i'll read if it two girls makeout
>slice-of-lice
You got my attention, OP.
Unironically if I were you I'd just post it somewhere and continue working on it until I had closure. I mean, you're already balls deep into it, might as well let us read.
Thank you for your interest but t's too embarasssing and more than that, too personal. Happens when the sole thing you've been thinking about for the past 9 years you've been out of high school is this one girl. This one fricking girl.
The problem with my oneitis that got away is that she is still awesome and beautiful. I thought that if she were to turn into a different person I would finally get over her. But it seems that in your case even though she isn't the same you still can't let her go.
>the sole thing you've been thinking about for the past 9 years you've been out of high school is this one girl
I know that feel.
I tried doing many times what you did, but I never could handle my self-defeating sentiments, so good on you that you managed to make something.
Revise, rewrite, edit. Should not be difficult to dredge a few themes out of that and develop it through the whole.
I think it was Damon Knight in his book on short stories that said something to the effect of: all initial attempts at writing are narcissistic fantasies and the way to move on to the next stage is extremely simple. Just pick a character other than the protagonist and examine the story from their point of view.
i didnt see "give up and throw it away" in those options
>is this salvageable
Reading clearly is not your thing.
you never said you quit, so "salvagable" means nothing. please finish high school before posting on IQfy
OP is asking if such a thing could be salvaged, if your answer is no you are telling OP to give up and toss it. You should not be offering language advice.
wrong (of course). the question was "continue or salvage", which makes no sense. i offered a third suggestion. this website is for 18 and up
good shit anon. creating is the way. keep going.
Keep on writing until it's not fun anymore.
You should continue. Who cares if it's good or salvageable. Most people can't even write a bad book.
Hmmm, you've just given me an excellent idea for a novel (pertaining to my own adolescent wish-fulfillments). Thanks, anon. I may actually try and write this one. Most of my novel ideas have intimidated me to the point of non-action. This one, I may actually be able to handle.
As for your own novella, it just depends on how well written it is. A good slice of life novel might be a fun read.
Post it and I'll tell if you its any good
Write it anyway. Get it out of your system. If nothing else, you'll free up mental attention so that you can think about something else.
>whole hog, maybe they take it as satire
>70 scenes = film script
Looks slightly before my time. Possibly early 90s, when I was still in middle school
Hmm, I seem to have accidentally written an epic poem about my idol befriending me and my oneitis being literally the most wonderful woman in history as confirmed by God himself and all my enemies and bullies are suffering forever in Hell, should I try to get this published?