5 Ways to get into the Literary Spotlight

Another way,
Post a comment on your wall a few days before posting it(only counts for the first chapter, or prologue of a novel), and ask anyone who would like to follow your novel to like the comment. This works best when you have a lot of followers.
That is how the chapter 1.1 or prologue (still deciding which is better) of my novel Sucked Into A Black Hole made it into the literary spotlight.
At least two of these people would definitely like your literary work. You can also always like it yourself.

Also, #1 almost always works. Most of the spotlights have really catchy titles.
So yeah, good work. And a four year late congrats for this making it to the literary spotlight. Yeah, that is just me, better late than never.

-TheWeirdoFromBeyond

really nice stuff.

Yeah. Where is 3, but irregardless of that, it was good. You put the subtitles underlined, and bolded, that is good. The title was great as well it drew mt attention The 5 was used correctly and everything! Fantasticly put. I love the "Now let's see if this sh!t gets into the spotlight." That was funny, and cool. Great job, (But do fix it and put number 3.)


Thank you
~ Liz

Were is 3. ?

Being a piece of comedic work, I do believe, in my heart, that you have a great sense of humour.
I enjoyed reading your jokes, and the first sentence 'This piece of ranting is dedicated to an annoying user called SportyWriter whose two crappy works were chosen ahead of some quality novels, poems and short stories.' was a clever disclaimer for your jokes.
As for next time, why don't you try a script? Perhaps you could be a wonderful comedy writer.

I don't exactly know what "spotlight' you are talking about. But honestly this is extremely stupid work you have submitted here.

And please note that this is 'Not a Short story' Does it even have a character? It's simply the two of you monkeying around trying to grab eyeballs by making silly comments on something which I can't really understand.

"Be creative". Oh really? You think you're being creative by skipping one step? And why is it that a work must be written within 75 words? Do you even care to explain that? I don't know why 42 people have liked something like this. For me writing meaningless thing is blasphemy. It's your choice though.

1 Way to get into the Literary Spotlight

1. Name your work "5 Ways to get into the Literary Spotlight"

XD I like this very much XD. I believe most of it is true. Usually poetry gets into the spotlight, and thos poems are ususally short, sometimes very short O.O.

Nitpicks....none

very sorry to see you leave . Keep writing though, you have a gift.

good luck
-V

XD I like this very much XD. I believe most of it is true. Usually poetry gets into the spotlight, and thos poems are ususally short, sometimes very short O.O.

Nitpicks....none

question: why did you portray this as a bad peice? Always hope for the best optimism rules!

very sorry to see you leave . Keep writing though, you have a gift.



good luck
-V

idk if this was supposed to be funny or not so i won't comment

Just watch some smart*** come out of nowhere and do the opposite and gets the same result xD

Hey, I thought this was humorous. But just a general comment, I think as writers we shouldn't write for the sole aim and purpose to get into the spotlight, just simply write for the genuine enjoyment of it and hope to get reviews that help to improve our works.

Hm, I have to disagee with you on a few of these, but I don't feel like getting into that right now.

I also think that There's so much more that could be written on here but hey, it can only be 75 words! This reminds me that YWS sometimes does fall victim to the "great title, crappy work" thing and even the "ranty rant" or sometimes, and it anger me so. In that aspect, I agree witb you... Both of you... Thanks for.making my day!

This deserves to be in the literary spotlight.

I think you hit 'em all in the feels, ma man. Right in the feels.

Lol it made it! I have to hand it to you, this made me laugh so hard I cried. Especially because it's in the literary spotlight. Lollll

Hah! And Buzzfeed has merit - it does tell you the news, after all...

Or at least, in what House the Sorting Hat would place you.

Brilliant, in its way. And this, too.

And, ladies and gentleman, there's the cold hard truth. This is true of the human race in general. Why are so many employers out there idiots? Why have so many terrible songs made it big? Ever read a crappy novel that was then made into a crappy movie? Abstract art anyone? Splats on a canvas? That crap is deep....wait it's just splats on a canvas. Poor quality is apparently good quality to the convoluted human. Pathetic. Hows about we all stop being losers and actually like works which are worthy of being liked. Purposefully writing a shmitty poem is all farts and giggles. I get it. Haha. Here's what you do when you see a piece of work like this:
1) Leave a comment (not a review). Say "wow that's funny. I pooped myself."
2) Don't like it!!!! Sure it's funny, but it's not worthy of recognition. Works that should be recognised need to be well thought out with pleanty of time invested.

One last thing before I shut-up. Hows about we try reading something longer than five lines? We're all guilty of clicking a short story only to find that it's long (indicated by the sprinkle-sized scroll bar) and exting out of it. Stop it! That story could have been awesome. If you have time, read, review and like. If not, poop yourself. Crap takes time.

How many of you took the time to read this comment? Okay bye.

I love this. Lmao. Hats off to you, old sports.

So we have got 16 likes for this? WOW!

I agree with this. It's sad, but true. You forgot one though: Write about a controversial topic with lots of emotional appeal. It doesn't matter how crappy it is, just put all the opinion and feeling you can in it. It will get the spotlight for sure.

Yes, absolutely agree.

I've never seen anything longer than, perhaps, 2000 words in the literary spotlight, and that's a stretch. There are plenty of good novel chapters, short stories, and essays out there, but noooo, the literary spotlight is reserved for only people who write two lines and call it a poem. I'm probably the worst writer on this site, and even I can make a passable two-liner.

"Oh, great bright sun, I've awoken the ancient ones."

There! That took me a minute to think of, instead of a month of hard brainstorming, writing, and editing for a 4000 word chapter. Where's my spot in the literary spotlight? Oh, that's right, I'm writing a crappy novel, and my chapters stay in the green room with zero reviews for a month, until, finally, someone on review day who usually hasn't read my previous chapters gives a half-@$$ed review just for the points.

...sorry, went on a rant there...

Anyway, your work pretty much summed up my feelings and probably the feelings of an unknown number of us many green-room lurkers. Hats off to you!

~Cirute

There is only one rule.

1.Write something absolutely retarded.

Hello! KatyaElefant here for another review! Happy Mini-Review Day! Let's do this thing!

The first line: This is so true. Sometimes, for any piece, to get readers to read it, you have to trick them into it. You have to give them, a misleading title. XD I hate it when I read a piece and then it doesn't make sense with the title. That's when I HAVE to make a review for them.

The second line: I don't see many people doing this, but in SportyWriter's case, I agree. I can see that's what they do. It's just so annoying when people do that.

The fourth line(?): Did you miscount? Was this on purpose? Can you count? 0-0 *reads what it says under it* Oh. I see that you couldn't think of a 3rd reason(or 5th?). I mean, some of the works ARE creative but in most cases they just are so short and some people put a lot more effort into THEIR pieces. @Wolfare1 has put a lot into her chapters and they never get in the spotlight(I don't remember them getting into the spotlight, unless they are the first chapter).

The fifth line: People just have such a short concentration spans and so they can't read a whole 1000 line short story. I must admit that if you were purposely trying to make a one line sentence story, it is quite hard to find a good one.

For an idea for another thing that is similar to this, you could create something about making terrible reviews. Like I saw this one review, in which, the person(this was for a parody) just copy and pasted the whole song. That was it. I was just. Really? Really?

Overall, great job! I really think that we needed a piece like this on this website. Your grammar, spelling and organization is great. You captured your theme amazingly. Have a nice mini-review day. Keep calm and keep writing.

Hello SportyWriter!

This might help next time I spend hours on a piece, I'll just make sure that everything goes awri. I might write a nice poam, less than 75 wirds. If I keep this up, Ill have a spotlit in now tim! Mayb thes wil gett ther!

But I absolutely agree with you, the fact that (almost) everything that gets in the spotlight is pretty bad. Even though I do like my own work, it's not like I've had more than two works in the spotlight, and that is as it should be.

And I call liking your own work "seed liking", sounds less like an accusation XD.

~Kelpies.

1nce upan a tim.

-deep heavy sigh-

Its sad things like awesome novels aren't in the spotlight.

Congratulations.

Nice! I absolutely loved this. It would be very ironic if it appeared in the literary spotlight, but I wouldn't be surprised! xD