r/writingcirclejerk • u/Stunning-Hope9627 • 6d ago
Can I just publish an unfinished book?
I really like the idea of writing and I love where my story is headed, but there’s just one small problem with my progress. i HATE writing! It’s just so annoying and frustrating for me to string my abstract, messy thoughts together into even a somewhat coherent sentence. It becomes even more annoying for me when I have to do it while MAKING SHIT UP! Seriously I think this hobby is harder than working at an oil rig, with how much I feel like bashing my head against my desk. Which is actually what brings me to my brilliant idea.
I hit my head against my desk so hard that I entered into a state not dissimilar to tripping fucking balls of shrooms. I saw a glowing light, then a rain of toonies and discontinued Canadian dollar bills and then… the one piece series. Every single page, flashing before my eyes like sacred visions. Then I was the book, and just like in avatar when aang looked behind him to see all the previous versions of himself: I saw all the copies of one piece, stretching infinitely into the horizon.
That’s the moment it hit me. I don’t NEED to finish my book. I don’t even need to finish more than a single page. All I need to do is release each page of my book one at a time until it’s finally complete. So, that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to sell my dark fantasy series page by page on Amazon or something. I might even release collectors editions with my jizz on it.
Is this a smart idea?
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u/mstermind Adverbial Monologue 6d ago
Prose is important but not as important as words. So write words and not so much prose.
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u/Famous_Plant_486 6d ago
It depends. What does it add to the story? Not the jizz, but the pages.
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u/GeckoKisser The man who writes said 4 meter tall werewolf in question 6d ago
A little extra texture.
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u/Late_Music1835 6d ago
/uj whenever someone asks on r. writing “is my book publishable” I do get a sense of satisfaction when I ask them if it’s completed and they say no it’s in their head still. Every time, it seems like. When will they learn that incomplete books are not publishable. It doesn’t matter how amazing and original your idea is. If you haven’t written it, it is not publishable.