r/writingcirclejerk • • 13h ago

Look at me!

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431 Upvotes

I'm so unique, so quirky. No other writer gets it like I do.

No, I'm still in the worldbuilding phase. Why do you ask?


r/writingcirclejerk • • 20h ago

Rate the intro to my book, "How to Fuck Up a Dragon," 10/10

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78 Upvotes

He ends up fucking the dragon in the end. Don't ask which holes cause there's A LOT


r/writingcirclejerk • • 2h ago

I wrote a full SENTENCE today. AMA.

42 Upvotes

r/writingcirclejerk • • 12h ago

I have writer's block, but it's because my main character refuses to follow the story. I've started negotiating with him, but I haven't been able to convince him. That's the downside of making characters too alive.

18 Upvotes

r/writingcirclejerk • • 19h ago

Looking to the past for story ideas

16 Upvotes

Has anyone had the idea to look to history for their novels? I feel like there’s so many ripe ideas for stories or settings based on historical events or time periods. Just imagine using industrial age London for the backdrop of a tense and impossible romance, or the 1960s for a gritty detective novel. And the best part is the world building is already done for you!

You could even blend fantasy elements in, like super natural werewolves in Civil War America. I feel like Imperial China would be the perfect political system to base a faction off of in a fantasy novel.

Curious to hear what others think!


r/writingcirclejerk • • 13h ago

How do I add foreshadowing?

13 Upvotes

I don’t know how to do it without making it obvious. Is there anyway to allude to something without explicitly mentioning it? I want to show readers that X thing is going to happen without actually telling them.


r/writingcirclejerk • • 14h ago

Just got my first book published!!!

11 Upvotes

See the redditor. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged uniqlo V neck sweater. He stokes the verbal fire of multitudinous r/datingadvice threads. Outside lie green fields of grass and the sun, untouched by him, and greener fields beyond which harbor a few real women. His folk are known for teaching K-12 and middle management but in truth his father has been an unemployed sex-offender. He lies in seedy 4chan threads, he quotes from internet legends who names are now lost. The redditor crouches by the gooncave and watches him.


r/writingcirclejerk • • 5h ago

✨️ Character Depth ✨️

9 Upvotes

"My character has a dead daddy and mommy, and it is the reason she is an archaeologist; NOT because she loves it, she just has no passion and drive of her own!"

OML, I hate you people.

(Based on the survivor fucklogy Lara Croft)


r/writingcirclejerk • • 11h ago

People Say that the Leading Lady of my Novel is Problematic & Makes Bad Decisions

6 Upvotes

Lord forbid a wahman is an active player not a passive viewer in her own life. Yes, she is a fundie & an alcoholic, but she was not a fan watching from the stands, she was out on that ice, playing forward, shooting pucks, when she decided to make such decisions./metaphor.


r/writingcirclejerk • • 5h ago

"Read to learn"

2 Upvotes

"Read to learn."

What does it LOOK like I'm trying to do?! I read ONE page and instantly start writing again. I CAN'T READ MIJO. I WISH I could read a book normally! The hands are glued to the keyboard شاطر! I'm not waiting around until I don't wanna write no more!


r/writingcirclejerk • • 7h ago

Shit from a Butt Magazine?

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Hi all,

Happy Tuesday! Sooooooo I was thinking about starting a new food writing magazine about cuisine that looks like shit from a butt but probably tastes good? Like that one extremely relevant meme? Anyway, I was kind of hoping we like-minded writers could converge upon this post and form an editorial board. We're especially looking for a Wyndham Lewis type, and to publish things that are approximately midway between Anthony Bourdain and Ben Lerner.

More soon,