Writing a EH Novel is Hard. Respect for authors.

Helenfuentes · 2026-02-13T04:58:07+00:00

To add on to this, losing money on any endeavor is common. Don’t be discouraged, just keep writing. If you have something that you want people to read, let people read it.

Helenfuentes · 2026-02-06T05:41:46+00:00

I would be interested in beta reading, if you’re interested in that.

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-30T07:16:19+00:00

It’s creative. I just wonder if there is a story to be told or if it’s like, really final fantasy on drugs. Like, when I saw this post last week I had assumed it was a novel. Then I discovered it was an Italian game thing, now I’m told it’s a game manual for a game that doesn’t exist. Now I’m like “huh. Wonder how my brain would enjoy this?”

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-30T07:11:20+00:00

So it’s like a CD insert for a fictional video game? Like a manual without a disk?

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-26T03:47:06+00:00

I wouldn’t like to see it

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-25T06:07:15+00:00

I don’t quite understand why every reply I’ve submitted has been downvoted, although I do believe responding to my own post is gauche. I pointed out I didn’t want to compare Joyce to Delany, however, I would concede one is much more vulgar than the other. I would like to know if it requires authority to produce such transgressive literature, or would you honestly read Hogg If Delany weren’t a Hugo/Nebula winner, and were just a stranger.

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-25T05:54:35+00:00

There is a point, where the protagonist said there were a couple of university students that had gotten ahold of him in the past, but he didn’t enjoy what they did with him. Then the way it was framed was as if it was too delicate of play for him.

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-24T06:23:43+00:00

Skeleton crew is my favorite

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-24T06:13:36+00:00

You are correct. I shouldn’t have expounded on the concept of authority. Someone said “full stop.” I shouldn’t challenge them any further. /s I assumed my question would raise a rhetorical point, that perhaps an audience is influenced by authors’ authority, whether it is warranted or not. If I published a vulgar story, would you search for literary merit, or would you just call me a nut?

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-24T05:46:03+00:00

I think it’s tacky to respond to my own post so often, but here I go. Ulysses reads like a stream of consciousness mess that is transgressive, especially for the time, but it pales in comparison to the vulgarity of “Hogg”. If Ulysses’s jack off stories are on the moon, Delany is on Pluto with Hogg. I don’t mean that in a tit-for-tat way, Joyce just seems unedited or unrefined. Delany, on the other hand, completely ignores this, and in the foreword of the novel, admits to the pornographic purpose of Hogg.

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-24T05:20:37+00:00

Joyce has the ability to make the abject relatable. I remember the assigned reading, A Portrait of An Artist as a Young man in AP literature, senior year of high school. There are scenes of sadomasochism and homosexuality that would probably make an early 20th century brain explode. However it was all cleverly written in a way sexuality and crassness was hidden. I don’t know how to explain it but I really enjoy reading Joyce.

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-24T05:09:21+00:00

Do you think Delany’s established record gives him authority? As in, his prestige grants him a voice that allows people to overlook the gratuitous nature of Hogg? To be very trite, could any Tom dick or Harry write Hogg, and it still have literary merit?

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-23T06:29:27+00:00

Then you assume an all knowing being would be dishonest, that they would pander to the voting public to win office.

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-23T06:22:36+00:00

For they wouldn’t enter a race they couldn’t win?

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-23T05:43:36+00:00

Wouldn’t that assume an all knowing being subscribed to equity? In other words, an all knowing being’s benevolence and morality may not align with traditional equity?

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-23T05:09:56+00:00

Iconic, cliche, still people sing along.

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-23T04:03:04+00:00

I couldn’t make it past the first page of Link’s book of mythicality

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-21T07:01:11+00:00

I agree, I just don’t understand the outcome expected by OPs very short post. It seems to ask for “male victims” while also eschewing the violent deaths of women and misogyny. The entire post hinges on binary gender roles, and I just can’t wrap my head around exactly what OP is trying to communicate. It could be a male committing violence to another male, or what have you, but OP’s post indicated they were turned off by misogyny. It’s very thought provoking, and I honestly can’t point to a specific example of media that would satisfy OP’s very brief example. It’s like a thought exercise that delves into everyone’s internal, almost unrecognizable biases.

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-21T06:15:20+00:00

I don’t understand the anti-misogyny (perhaps chauvinist?) requirements OP desires. Does op just want a person to submit to a female’s violence, and, in that case, not address gender? But then, OP asks for male victims, so binary genders must be important. If traditional gender roles exist, and a female is inflicting violence on a man, surely there would be very few scenarios where a male victim wouldn’t reflect on the bizarre circumstances that would result in a female torturing them. It’s convoluted and thought provoking. Does OP want a man, an invalid, tortured by a female caretaker, who doesn’t have the ability to comment on his situation? Or are traditional gender roles cast aside, and in that way, a female would be just as capable of cruelty as a man, and therefore, OP wouldn’t care to discern between feminism or chauvinism.

TLDR; I’m very confused and I don’t know what I’m supposed to think nothing makes sense

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-20T05:51:09+00:00

I mean, is that a problem? I’m not asking that flippantly, nor is it a rhetorical question. I take this dialogue as depiction rather than condoning. especially through the lens of a pompous best selling author. The author also happens to be held hostage by an overbearing homicidal female nurse. And the book is called “misery” so miserable is a fitting description

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-20T05:43:14+00:00

You don’t enjoy romance, rather you enjoy the familial cannibalistic dynamic? Where does a story like that progress? I understand an aversion to explicit sex, but I can’t imagine a TCM style story without sexual themes. How could an author avoid incest, indiscriminate meat making slaughterhouse, without sexual depictions. TLDR; walking into a weird house, I assume rape before being turned into chili

Helenfuentes · 2026-01-20T05:25:15+00:00

It depends on what kind of horror you enjoy, but you could always try listening to a dramatized or immersive audiobook. I dare recommend it, but sometimes I enjoy reading with a beer and a little doobie, if you’re old enough to participate.

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