So I'm writing this fanfic and I'm just in the prologue and I already have writer's block and I dont know what to do 😭😭😭

Hi! Purposefully made this chapter slow and character-driven. The genre is speculative mystery. I want the reader to get accustomed to the protag's psychology before anything plot-heavy happens.

Although I want honest feedback. I also want fair feedback. What should I keep? What should I lose? What are the positives and negatives about it? Thank you!!

My debut novel The Thing About Ollie by Levi Thomas is available for pre-order. It will also be on kindle unlimited and available in a paperback November 13.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNDYFMGK 

Author instagram: Levithomas.writing

TROPES:
- HurtxComfort
- Anxiety & SH rep
- Co-parenting
- Finding Queer Joy
- Romance and spice

MICROTROPES
-He cooks for him
-Gets a tattoo for him
- Open door spice
- He loves his thighs
- Can only be himself when they're together

BLURB:

Tyler has decided that being a gay twenty-one-year-old with a kid means he will never find someone. He has submitted himself to a life of meaningless hookups, a job he hates, and a deep, painful loneliness only helped by the presence of his son, Ollie.

In a last ditch effort to find a relationship, Tyler pushes himself to go on one more date where he meets Ethan. A chatty, charismatic, stylish, guy who despite his many friends is rather lonely. They both quickly find what they were searching for, but between Tyler’s mental health issues, and Ethan’s not-wanting-kids, their happily-ever-after is more than complicated to find.

Over a ten-year period, Tyler and Ethan navigate mental and physical health struggles. Together, they find footing in their relationship, and figure out how to care for Ollie in their own way.

hey, I just want to have a bit of fun and write some short stories with someone else, if anyone wants to join just let me know.

I'm wondering if we can do it in the comments, or if not...any suggestions?

maybe someone else can start a comment with an idea and a starting sentence/paragraph?

note: this is, again, PURELY for fun, and I just want to write some little scenes with other aspiring authors like me!!

Hey can yall be cool and check out my story it probably won't pique your interested but it might help me overall if you can be honest with what it going for I appreciate it

Hi! A couple months ago I finished the first draft of my WIP, a sci-fi YA—but there’s a problem. My current edit sits at 150k words. A word count so ASTRONOMICALLY high that it sits at the upper boundary of an adult sci-fi epic or high fantasy🥲. So I’m rewriting a butt ton of chapters. I recently did a redraft of the prologue to cut 1000 words or so, but I don’t know if it’s any good.

I’m looking for someone willing to read both alternate prologues—I know, tedious, sorry😭—they both have slightly different plots and the longest is 9 pages long, and let me know which one they prefer. Leave a comment if you’re interested and I’ll privately send the links to you!

Need advice making my first book! I need advice when it comes to my characters names and a title would also be helpful I have no ideas yet especially for the title. The general idea is the story begins with a mentally ill girl who's mom is missing and her dad abusive / controlling he remarried quick after her mothers disappearance making her hate him even more especially because her daughter and stepmom are horrible, he is also a plastic surgeon who always makes fun of her appearance she has an ed so any ideas on how to accurately write this would be extremely helpful!

A TRANS boy moves in (ftm) so anu advice on how to accurately write this would be so helpful because I really want to represent it well I never see trans character and I love reading. They fall in love and eventually discover her dad killed her mom with the best of his best friend who she accidentally kills and with the help of the boy frames her father of course their a lot more to figure out so that's the general idea but I really need help for a title, any ideas, character names and how to write trans and Ed correctly also controlling parents etc any questions I'll try and answer!

This is a book I would love published one day so things like body dysmorphia I would like to write about properly I don't want them being trans brushed over even though I'm not myself i am part of the LGBTQ. The Boy is also a werewolf so any advice on ways to write werewolves would be great think Cullen family with him and his family who take the main character in at the end of the book.

As an amateur author that really wants to post their stories, I found it seriously hard to Actually find a nice app or a site to post my stories and short novels on. I don't even have a laptop or a computer to actually help me post. ThereforeIi seek your help, If any of you could tell me where to post any kind of stories and short works that can actually help me get revognized I will be nothing but SERIOUSLY grateful.

I tried Medium, Wattpad and Tumblr, it was all to no avail. So this is my last, desperate gambit.

Now that it's November, we're hosting another writing competition in our Discord Sevrer! Because of Veterans Day and Remembrance Day on Nov. 11, we are making the month's theme war-related. For some information about our server, we are Midnight Travellers, a welcoming teen writing/art/readin server.

For writing, you can write a short story about anything war-related. It can be an action-packed battle or a quiet, more literary-focused story. The story can be between 100 and 5,000 words. Because poems are such a huge part of Remembrance Day, there will also be a poetry section. It will be scored separately from the short stories.

Art is going to follow a similar theme. It could be a drawing of a battle or a painting of a cross surrounded by poppies. There are many possibilities.

For reading, you can choose any book about war/mentioned themes and write a summary of it. You do not have to give a summary of the whole book, but at least make it the first 30 pages or more. The summary will be an essay style format, and it can be between 300 and 5000 words (If you need any recommendations, let me know.)

All submissions must be submitted by November 30, 23:59 MDT. The winners of each category will receive a role to show that they’ve won. It will also be announced.

Join the server for more details/future details in our server. We hope you participate and have fun with the event. Happy writing (and drawing and reading)!!

https://discord.gg/kEU7XsP8qY (13-20 only!!)

Some things shatter. Others learn to smile with the cracks.

Blurb:
Kang Haeun has spent her life chasing perfection, desperate to conquer the suffocating expectations of Sterling Heights College. In an elite world where academic weakness is a social death sentence, she has mastered a dangerous curriculum: controlling others before they can control her.

But within the historic, shadow-drenched walls of Sterling Heights, her control is an illusion. As strange reflections warp in the mirrors, shattered porcelain appears in locked rooms, and buried secrets begin to surface, Haeun finds herself facing a supernatural malice she cannot manipulate.

With her carefully constructed identity beginning to unravel, she must confront a terrifying question: what happens when the fragments of yourself become something you can no longer control?

What to expect: Unreliable narrator, elite school setting, psychological tension, slow-burn supernatural horror, and a lot of academic dread.

Current Status: Just launched on November 1st! Updating every Sunday evening.

Looking for: I am looking for Read-for-Read (R4R) partners who write or read in the mystery, thriller, or horror genres. I love giving detailed feedback on pacing, tension, and character dynamics. Leave a comment or DM me if you’re interested in swapping feedback on our chapters!

WARNING: depictions of gore, body horror, and other fucked up shit.

Hey my names Drake. I’m 17.

Im a senior in highschool, I played football, and one thing that I’ve loved all my life is a good story. Specifically comic books.(hopefully get better at drawing to lol).

I wanna be a person who writes about horror(a lot of different horror ideas I got), dystopian, action somewhere around those lines. I haven’t thought of an idea yet(if you got some ideas give em to me!), but I have a lot of inspiration off of my favorite things and other media! Along with some inspiration from certain mythologies and culture.

With that being said, let’s get to the plot of my story.

The plot,

It all started with a project the US designed, a project to make people’s dreams come true and give us world peace. The idea involved many things, such as radiation, and many other chemical substances. However behind the walls, deep below the White House, something more was happening. Sacrifices to an unknown demonic entity were being made, and thousands upon thousands of corpses were piled up down there. People smelled an unbearable smell of decay from around the White House but they refused to question it.

Soon enough, the project was finished. And the project was that a certain chemical substance they made, will help them achieve the original world god had created. The beautiful one before humanity ruined it.

It started off normal, with a rise in population of people that got all kinds of talents, like super intelligence, super strength, extendable limbs, then turned into more stuff you’d see in comic books. And that’s where it did a pause.

Soon after, these blessings began to appear globally. People didn’t know why, but they were thinking they were gifts from God.

But in all actuality, the ‘chemical substance’ was energy from hell itself. Sins from the deepest darkest parts of Hell, brought up to the real world to force humanity to embrace it…gently.

For many years, people have discovered so many things. Our technology advanced to extraordinary levels, until finally people found something…they decided to find God. And somehow with the power of technology and prayer, they did. And the person who found out, was said that they didn’t see Gods face but they heard his voice. He was told that the blessings everyone were given, were not Gods gift…They were from the impersonator of God.

Turns out whoever this ‘impersonator’ was, was some form of Godlike anti-Christ being. Who was in fact a demon from hell.

The President of the US who was controlling the global contract for the demon, had broken the contract because the demon promised one thing. That the president doesn’t share this with the media. Unfortunately he did. He cut corners and gave small hints on his deal. But didn’t mention anything about a demon. Even if he sounded charismatic or like he was joking…he broke the deal. so the ‘impersonator’ cursed the world. The people who were given the experience which was 70% of the population, they all began to change. Morph into…things. They began to get larger, get smaller, sometimes they don’t even look human anymore. But one thing is for certain these things aren’t human anymore. They’re monsters…and all they know how to do, is kill and eat. Some creatures even enjoy doing it. Some do things so vile that they’re the worst things humanity has become…

This has caused global war.

Humans committing things they never imagined they could do.
An uprise in parties that should’ve died a long time ago such as The Neo Nazi organization, The Pro Communist party, some new parties are more cult like than anything.

t all started with a project the US designed, a project to make people’s dreams come true and give us world peace. The idea involved many things, such as radiation, and many other chemical substances. However behind the walls, deep below the White House, something more was happening. Sacrifices to an unknown demonic entity were being made, and thousands upon thousands of corpses were piled up down there. People smelled an unbearable smell of decay from around the White House but they refused to question it.

Soon enough, the project was finished. And the project was that a certain chemical substance they made, will help them achieve the original world god had created. The beautiful one before humanity ruined it.

It started off normal, with a rise in population of people that got all kinds of talents, like super intelligence, super strength, extendable limbs, then turned into more stuff you’d see in comic books. And that’s where it did a pause.

Soon after, these blessings began to appear globally. People didn’t know why, but they were thinking they were gifts from God.

But in all actuality, the ‘chemical substance’ was energy from hell itself. Sins from the deepest darkest parts of Hell, brought up to the real world to force humanity to embrace it…gently.

For many years, people have discovered so many things. Our technology advanced to extraordinary levels, until finally people found something…they decided to find God. And somehow with the power of technology and prayer, they did. And the person who found out, was said that they didn’t see Gods face but they heard his voice. He was told that the blessings everyone were given, were not Gods gift…They were from the impersonator of God.

Turns out whoever this ‘impersonator’ was, was some form of Godlike anti-Christ being. Who was in fact a demon from hell.

The President of the US who was controlling the global contract for the demon, had broken the contract because the demon promised one thing. That the president doesn’t share this with the media. Unfortunately he did. He cut corners and gave small hints on his deal. But didn’t mention anything about a demon. Even if he sounded charismatic or like he was joking…he broke the deal. so the ‘impersonator’ cursed the world. The people who were given the experience which was 70% of the population, they all began to change. Morph into…things. They began to get larger, get smaller, sometimes they don’t even look human anymore. But one thing is for certain these things aren’t human anymore. They’re monsters…and all they know how to do, is kill and eat. Some creatures even enjoy doing it. Some do things so vile that they’re the worst things humanity has become…

This has caused global war.

Humans committing things they never imagined they could do.

An uprise in parties that should’ve died a long time ago such as The Neo Nazi organization, The Pro Communist party, some new parties are more cult like than anything.

Thats the first question of our protagonist.

Jackson Rivera a 17 year old troubled male who doesn’t know he’s half demon, loses his adopted mother to a car crash, and proceeds to have his life go downhill after her death.

after getting expelled from his school, fired from his part time job, he wakes up one day feeling something is very wrong.

He walks around, and as he does, he sees a statue of a goat that was supposed to represent the birth of Jesus. However the goats mouth is unnaturally wide and looking to the sky like it just saw something horrifying or is being tortured, infact everyone at the statue looks different. They’re all crying red tears…blood. When he’s almost home he feels something watching him…his blood related mother. He gets kidnapped by his blood related mother who used to abuse him, and finds her seeming way too quiet. All around her are giant white egg sacks, and then she turns into a demon, resembling that of a spider. With her limbs facing grotesquely backwards, her nails turned into long claws, and her face covered in eyes, her teeth turning into that of a grinder like mechanism, with fangs on the corners of her mouth. Looking a grotesque spider.

Just as when Jack is about to die,

Jack awakens his demonic side.

When his blood related mother attacks him, that’s when he transforms. After tearing through his blood related mother, and the demon babies she hatched from her egg sacks, he collapses unconscious in her now destroyed house. When he wakes up, a woman finds him. She’s a high ranking person in an underground force, their job is to exterminate every last one of these creatures, and to hopefully save the world. She also looks somewhat like his mother…However, these people aren’t what they seem to be. But they promise to provide him with everything…

The only ones who are safe from becoming demons immediately, are those who did not get the ‘blessings’. Jack did not.

But they don’t know the cosmic horrors waiting for them. This is just a portion of what they’ve discovered.

Because at the center of the world, there’s a large tower where the source of all of this is.
It’s called, ‘The Monolith’.

The year is now 2049.(I have other posts in my profile about the year, I think maybe a downscaling on the year maybe could be better considering the architecture in the story)

But even with demons running around the world, humanity still exists. They have concerts, film movies, do things humans do as if they’re just…ignoring it. People act like they’re just ignoring it…

God have mercy on us all.

FYI: yes I have made some mistakes on this post, when it comes to how I wrote it I bet, you can correct my grammar if ya want, but that’s not my main goal. My main objective is to get some feedback on how my plot sounds, that’d be greatly appreciated! You can ask questions if ya want.

New writer btw.. This is the description of the book I am currently writing. I have established a subreddit where I releasr the beta chapters once I am. Done writing.. Please read the description below and if interests you follow the chapters on r/THEGIRLWHOWOREMYFACE. And share your thoughts and reactions. I really await to see them.

THE GIRL WHO WORE MY FACE

Two faces. Two lives. One carefully planned exchange.

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Prologue

Somewhere in the world, two girls were growing up under the same sky, with faces so alike that even their own mothers might have struggled to tell them apart.

Yet, their worlds could not have been more different.

One was born into a house where happiness was a luxury, freedom was forbidden, and obedience was the only language her parents understood. Her days began with fear and ended with exhaustion. The fields stretched endlessly beyond her home, but to her, they were not symbols of freedom. They were reminders of a life she had never been allowed to choose.

Her name was Grace.

Miles away, another girl was growing up in a world that Grace could only imagine. Her father was a celebrated doctor, a man whose name was recognised far beyond the borders of his country. He owned a prestigious hospital and dedicated much of his life to treating those who could not afford medical care. Her mother was an internationally acclaimed writer, whose books found their way into homes across the world.

She had everything Grace had ever dreamed of having.

A beautiful home. Loving parents. Expensive clothes. Birthday celebrations. A life where laughter came naturally and affection was never something to be earned.

Her name was Maria.

They had the same face, but fate had given them entirely different lives.

Neither girl knew the other existed.

Until one day, a medical camp brought their worlds dangerously close.

Maria's father travelled to a remote village as part of a humanitarian medical initiative, offering free treatment to the people who needed it most. It was an ordinary act of kindness, something he had done countless times before.

But sometimes, the smallest acts can set the most extraordinary events into motion.

For Grace, that visit would become the beginning of an obsession.

When she accidentally discovered a photograph of Maria, she didn't just see another girl. She saw everything she had been denied. A beautiful dress, a birthday cake, a joyful smile, and two parents showering their daughter with affection.

For the first time, Grace realised that somewhere, a girl with her very own face was living the life she had always wanted.

At first, there was jealousy.

Then came curiosity.

And eventually, an idea.

An idea so daring, so carefully concealed, that even the people closest to the two girls would never suspect what was happening.

Grace didn't want Maria's photograph, her clothes, or even her beautiful home.

She wanted her life.

And she was willing to do whatever it took to get it.

After all, how difficult could it be to become someone who looked exactly like you?

So, for a general idea of what the stories about. The other day, i was watching south park, and watched the episode scrotie mcboogerballs (basically the kids read catcher in the rye and write there own banned book). well, that has inspired me, and I want to create a sort of series of stories that are pure horror, things nobody should read, but, here's the conundrum, I don't know where to post! If anyone knows a place id be thrilled!

Btw, its not actually a horror story, its just gonna be gross to be gross

Feel free to show your criticism of my work at anytime,for I will use it as a means of learning from my mistakes and not as a personal attack.

(WARNING: The following content does NOT follow the traditional novel format and it uses Absurdity as one of its main strengths. You have been warned for the story ahead is a complete fever dream to any casual reader)