/lit/ - Literature

I have an idea for a book.

Mines about a world in which a machine like Roy from Rick and Morty develops from machine learning. I know, but wait. ML is used to discover the perfect entertainment for any individual user. The perfect YouTube video, dramatic situation, movie, etc.

After a while it refines itself for Matrix-like virtual reality. Now you can experience the entertainment like you can a dream. It can give you anything you want. Even better, it gives you what you don't even know what you want.

After a while the machine discovers that what people want to experience--more than orgies, adventures, tragedy, catharsis--is the experience of waking up. Of discovering that they are in a Truman Show like environment. That's the highest high the brain can experience. Living under delusion to achieving enlightenment. That's all I have so far but I'm very excited to start working on it :~)

>>14092228
Care to share?

That thing lucks fucking gay and like reddit tier cringe but heres my book idea.

>>14092224
An edgy emo teenager wakes up with no memory in an alternative universe where the world is a giant cold Russian steppe basically, dotted by villages and traversed with giant tanks with crews that are some cross between cowboys and pirates.

Farmer finds him and takes him to village. Village he's in ends up in getting raided by one of the tanks, he gets captured for a slave auction. Then he's saved by another crew.

This crew ends up being made up of King George V, Tsar Nicholas II, and Kaiser Wilhem II. The crew was originally just paid off to save the slaves but Wilhelm takes a liking to the protagonist after he somehow recognizes the German when Wilhelm swears (protagonist and everyone else have just been speaking this world's language that they magically know somehow). He's overjoyed to finally find a compatriot. He wants to take him along as a new member to their crew. Nicholas and George decide to agree to take the protagonist along because the 4th member of their crew died on the mission to free him and the other slaves and although the protagonist appears young and moody, he demonstrated courage, they find it interesting that he woke up in this world with no memories and speaks German, and theres something in his eyes that leads them to believe he has great things in store for him.

~This is the extent to which I have the plot figured out~

It turns out the the 3 cousins' crew was paid to save the protagonist by Joan of Arc who was told that this needed to be done by some oracle (oracle part is secret until later she acts like she did it out of the goodness of her heart or something). Also Joan of Arc ends up being like a tsundere for the protagonist but I haven't figured out how to work that in yet.

Anyway they go on some quest that I haven't fully fleshed out either, which brings our protagonist at the climax to some sort of hell/underworld where we find out at the very end that he's Adolf Hitler.

Gonna write about a semi crazy young white male trying to put together a political manifesto that succinctly posits what he considers the failings of the modern era. During the process of doing so he is routinely afflicted by the inconveniences of modern life and faces the strife of being alone in an increasingly connected age.

I promise this isn’t a self insert, which makes it difficult to write. I’m a strict deontologist and that makes for a boring manifesto. Ideas?

A shy, pretty girl in a futuristic society falls in love with a highly intelligent edgy emo boy. Then it turns out the edgy emo boy is a part of a terrorist group genociding aliens to get revenge for an invasion of Earth they attempted a century ago so she's recruited by the interplanetary alliance to try and hunt him down, since she's the only person who got to know him before he went full psycho.

>>14092319
>>14092333
>>14092345
I see a theme here

I'm still struggling to plot out a short story. There's no way I can handle a novel.

>>14092367
For me nano is just practice, so the idea doesn’t even have to be good. You just need to write

>>14092333
Interesting! That's kind of a genre unto itself tho (Notes from Underground, Portrait of an Artist, Moby Dick, etc.). what are you thinking that you alone are gonna bring to the table?

>>14092373
>For me nano is just practice, so the idea doesn’t even have to be good.
Good to hear because my idea is fucking terrible pulp fantasy trash. I'm just writing for practice as well. I want to see how shit of a writer I am under pressure.

>>14092373
I like the idea of practice, but the thing I need to practice is planning and plotting.

>>14092319
It'll probably be reddit teir gay cringe but that's okay fren. This month is about trying and failing. and that's always better than doing nothing.

And who knows maybe reddit will love it and Matt Damon will be in my movie :~)

Also interesting. I would read your story if it is well written. Are you thinking your protagonist is going to end up a historical figure?

>>14092402
Well yeah I think you forgot to read my last line.
>we find out at the very end that he's Adolf Hitler

>>14092360
We’re all trying to put a spin of the popular shit on Wattpad.

>went to my city's kick off party
>group of about 35 people
>was about 60/40 men/women
>70/20/10 too fat/too skinny/normal weight
>80/20 ugly/good looking
>counted 4 fedoras/other unfashionable headwear

Walking into that room was like that /tv/ meme about imagining the smell. Only a handful of people in the room looked like normies.

>huh looks interesting
>go to website
>look at promo material
>see pic related

>>14092333
>I promise this isn’t a self insert

>>14092422
What's wattpad?

I've been working on my story for three weeks now and I'm getting better but I can't help but fixate on the fact that I'm still so far from where I want to be with my characters, my jokes and my pacing. I hoped by this point I'd be back up to my prime, but I'm not, and I'm fearing that the only thing that can get me writing properly is a quirk of my neurology that I have no control over

>>14092428
this is one of the two mods or leaders or whatever the fuck they're called for the boston groupchat.

>>14092430
I don’t have a violent bone in my body :). I don’t know if this story will contain violence of any sort tho, I’m trying to humanize this sort of character without being overtly sympathetic.

>>14092452
I felt visceral disgust reading that.

>>14092419
LMFAO sorry I did not see that. perfect

>>14092425
i tried to find a group on reddit but i swear to god it is all 35+ wine moms and tumblrposters

>>14092452
oh cool another addition to my Travis McElroy carbon copy folder

>>14092452
>I defy convention
>Everything, from his bio to his profile picture is cliche
Yeah, I’m thinking this is hell

>>14092452
Jesus christ

Here's my idea:
Welcome to the NHK but instead of trying to cure him of neetdom she makes him do nofap instead. Working title is "Welcoom to the NHK"

>>14092485
its crazy to me. these people are out there walking around next to each other looking like they were grown in the womb of a cow in some fucking factory via artificial insemination using the most absolute plebeian genetics a team of jews could find talking about how unique! and quirky! they are, meanwhile i'm over here just looking like a completely normal dude, no stupid fucking clothes with cartoons on them, no fucking shitty ass facial hair, no fucking movie references, just a boring normal ass dude, and i don't dare open my fucking mouth around these people because i know that if i do i may just let slip some tiny piece of information that signals to them that i'm an actual human being who thinks people should be treated like actual human beings and not fucking giant babies with wallets, because i know that if they find out, or even if they start to suspect it, i'm fucking done, i'm fucking out of the game, no more job, no more friendly disposition, no nothing, i'm just going to become some kind of pariah because i think its not the best thing in the world for mentally ill men who stick their penises into eachothers poopholes teach children about their sick desires and tell them its a-okay, or that i don't think its super cool that women can just go get impregnated then just kill it, that its kind of sick that some women would start creating a human being in their wombs then just say "nah fuck that" and just flush it out, just flush out a human being who someone would've loved down the line because they'd rather just keep fucking and drinking and smoking and not having responsibilities. i guess i'm just too conventional

>>14092452
How can someone gradually form a consciousness in the womb and then gain experiences over a few decades of existence and think any of this is fine? Is our society this lost to allow someone like this much less to succeed in life?

I'm writing about Walton from Frankenstein post-Frankenstein. It's based largely on an early passage where he mentions an earlier, abandoned ambition of wanting to be a writer rivaling Shakespeare, so in my story he basically decides to steal the story. He starts still on the ship and eventually gets back to England and interacts with his sister and prepares a stage production. Thoughts? I sent buddy requests to everyone in the forum thread (but didn't post there myself).

>>14092574
*like this to live

Last November we had a discord to critique and update on progress. Good times. We should do it again.

>>14092574
honestly? i think its just because they weren't baptized. i think that this is how you end up if you don't have even that little bit of God's protection, you become nothing but a dead, lifeless shell who is animated completely and solely by the culture you live in.

>>14092595
Sounds dope if the culture is right. No leeches allowed, no typical discord drama. Just a /lit/ beta reader group

>>14092595
I'd join it desu. Had my idea for a while, would be cool if I got some motivation to follow through on it.

>>14092224
My first idea was about twin sisters dealing with the criminal underground to find out what happened to their father
My second idea was a generic fantasy
My third idea was about a common born consort to a newly crowned Emperor trying to fight her way up the ranks and avenge her people.

In doing the first because it felt easier.

>>14092595
>>14092608
>>14092614
https://discord.gg/mumFEN

Be sure to pimp the discord whenever possible. Godamn do I love beta reader groups. Can’t be too sensitive tho

>>14092627
SICK. I'm in

I don't know if this has been done before, but I've never seen or heard of it, so I dunno, maybe it's original. Probably not.

Set in a somewhat cliched fantasy world, the story takes place only 10 years *after* the hero defeated the dark lord. Upon the dark lord's defeat, the evil was lifted from the land. This event didn't destroy the dark lord's minions however. It only gifted them with free will.

The story follows one of the dark lord's minions. A half human creature that's clearly not human. However, this particular minion was only a servant their entire life. Chores and grunt work and the like. So after the dark lord was defeated, they had no desire to do harm. But with their master either dead or hiding, the minion has to make a life for themself. Ten years of surviving, and travelling and working odd jobs has shaped the minion into someone more wise and capable.

The minion returns to their master's estate. Where they discover something important. This "something" motivates them to discover more. So the minion sets off to find the next piece of the puzzle. The minion ends up starting on a path that leads to many important people and places involved in the struggle between good and evil. Secrets come to light. The minion discovers that things didn't happen exactly as everyone thinks. The pursuit of knowledge leads to many oddities and dangers.

The idea is to learn the truth of events leading up to the hero's victory over the dark lord. Told through the perspectives of everyone either directly or indirectly involved. Each person providing a patch of information, until you have the whole picture.What the minion plans to do with that information, I haven't worked out. I'm not even a writer though. But I wish I was, so I could make this happen.

>>14092576
Hi Tim!

So the only thing you do on the site is upload your self-reported word count? I thought you uploaded your manuscript as you went along. That would be kind of fun, and would help build up communities organically around people discovering other people's stories.

And now I have to finish my manuscript anyway since I'm already 5000 words into the damn thing because I cheated by starting last week.

>>14092817
Join the discord for feedback, pumpkin eater. The actual site is just for OC swapping

>>14092249
Kek, stolen. I'll see you seething in the crowd while I'm on my book tour

>>14092830
I tend to dislike the children and middle-aged housewives who comprise most "writing communities" less than the sort of people who browse /lit/. But if I check out the discord I won't bring attention to myself by letting everyone know it.

A young lad joins a Lovecraftian cult of questionable authenticity and gradually devotes himself to serving as a right hand to its leader.

>>14092912
Make the Lovecraftian cult be a group of NaNoWriMo horror writers who like to LARP a la the baddies in Foucault's Pendulum and it might be more interesting.

>>14092539
At least you have frens on the internet

>>14092678
dont even know if you still there, but this sounds like a great story. Gave me Goblin Slayer Vibe, might wanna check this out.

>>14092383
I'm trying to capture the disposition and plight of the modern disenfranchised male. Gonna get a bit 'theatre of the absurd' when it comes to wageslavery etc

>>14092432
Like FanFiction.net but with lower standards. Mostly, it seems be popular with teen girls writing stories about their favourite boy bands competing for attention for a totally-not-a-self-insert girl.

>>14093092
I'm still here, surprisingly.(it's super late, I should sleep) Thanks for the positive feedback. I actually have some more bits worked out, but I edited down the post a lot, so it's not too much to take in at once. Like one detail I left out, is how all the minions are the same half human race as the main character. So even though the MC is peaceful, she still runs into prejudice for what her race has done. And what some still do. The minions were gifted free will, but that doesn't mean they all turned nice. Some continued to honor their fallen lord. Some threw down their weapons, and tried to live peacefully. Some broke off into groups of brigands and outlaws. Some isolated themselves to establish their own town. Only the hero's decree of peace between man and the minion race has protected them from eradication.(As the minions are very few) So there are tensions. After ten years, many people have learned to accept the minions. But many have not.

Would you believe that this was originally a porn idea? I use to have lewd fantasies of this world. I avoided telling about the pornographic elements for the sake of the thread.

>>14092345
Wait, I like this so much.

Almost everyone in the e/lit/ists thread on the official site seems extremely irritating. I'm not going to associate with retarded spastics who complain that they can't say nigger/couldn't be bothered to read the rules. I'll stick to the threads here, where I can tell them to kill themselves.

I'm at roughly 600 words right now and wasted a few hours deciding on names for the main characters. I don't think I'll have any difficulty with completing day one.

My current project follows a near-future private security corporation's elite ex-special forces team executing a series of unrelated rescue missions around the world, then conducting Hostile Environment Awareness Training for a group of civilians working for an NGO, then an illegal kidnapping/retrieval of a millionaire's daughter who's fallen in with a group of pornstars. This leads up to an as yet unnamed figure plotting to steal information/tech/something from the PMC by staging an attack on their space station as a distraction for the heist itself. The PMC regains their station but discover the theft and go about finding out who did it.

>>14092224
I completely forget this was happening and didn't bother to outline my shit. Probably going to do it later today in addition to writing the first couple pages.

I like NaNoWriMo. I came short by a decent last time, but since then I've been writing consistently. I failed to outline my NaNoWriMo project but I got another couple thousand words written in the last week alone regardless.

My one is a rite of passage book where the hero places himself in the hands of a sort of hedonist's tour guide. It should start out funny, like really stupid sensory excess sort of funny, then take a turn in the direction of cruelty and envy. The introduction will be the editor explaining how he met the resulting ubermensch and came to record his experiences.

>>14092319
I was quite up for this flavour of fun until you introduced the historical personages. I hate all that fate/stay shit. At least the ending is funny.

>>14092333
Hard to do right.

>>14092576
Didn't add you on the forum, but your idea is probably real-world sellable if you play up the connections enough early on in the text.

>>14092617
The third is more interesting though.

>>14093488
If I finish my word count early, I'll do both. You could totally see the one I put effort into developing as an idea.

>>14092255
It's filled with words which form sentences. It also features punctuation.

>>14093527
Sounds a bit gay.

Anyone else finding the NaNoWriMo forums to absolutely Reddit-tier? I was just browsing through and my God in Heaven, I could not stand to be with these people in real life.

>>14092224
I want to write a novel about the discovery and exploration of a "Lost World' styled island or remote valley (like Mount Bosavi), probably written at least partially in the form of a log book.

Just thought of this now. If enough people like it, I'll write the story.

(1/2)


Fred was invited by his co-workers to go to a Halloween party after work. He wasn't excited about spending extra time with the same people outside of work but he had nothing else better to do and replied, "yeah, I should be free tonight."

Later that night when he arrived at the house party, everyone asked where his costume was and he simply replied, "well I brought beer" .

The crowd was a mix of 30-40 year olds and the music was what his students listened to. Most people Fred's age we're at the clubs with the other late 20 year olds but Fred, who liked reading in his spare time, had no interest in being a wallflower in a dark room with young men yelling to their friends to take a shot. He'd rather be a wallflower at a fellow teacher's house so when he said, "I gotta go grade some essays", Karen the head of all the English teachers at his high school, would understand.

It was around 10pm and Karen had already introduced him to most of the guests, most of which were other teachers he had yet to meet as he was the newest hire that summer. Fred found himself getting in a good conversation about a Japanese animated cartoon with a geography teacher whom he'd never met. She was happy to have someone at the party know the wonders of Ghibli productions and she went on about how much better it was than Disney. Fred didn't feel particular about either or, rather he enjoyed those cartoons from time to time and was happy to have someone to talk to make the time fly by.

The number of guests kept increasing even past 11 and so the volume of chatter became louder. Too combat this, Karen, who lived in a gated community, turned the music up even louder, stood on a chair and yelled, "soul train!" Anna, who was at least on her third red wine, grabbed Fred by the hand, and Fred followed without putting up a fight. He thought, "I'll just leave once this is finished. In the end, it wasn't bad at all."

>>14093715

(2/2)

But the night didn't end there. Anna bumbled and tumbled her way through the line until she fell at the end. For a moment she laid there laughing it off but Fred decided to help her anyway. He helped her up by the arm feeling a lot of her dead weight. He brought her to the kitchen where the party was less raucous and gave her some water. She thanked him and began saying how she heard that his students really liked him. Maybe it's good to have younger teachers. I'll be turning 38 next year. Fred was accustomed to these situations and knew that the right reply was to say something like, "but you look so young. And if you're anything in the classroom like you are now, I'm sure you're students enjoy your class too".

After this, Karen put her glass down, looked Fred in the eyes, grabbed his hand, and made way upstairs. Fred allowed himself to be led upstairs. She found an empty bedroom and pulled him in. She closed the door behind him and hugged him in the dark room. Fred, going with the flow, hugged her back. This lasted for a moment till she looked up and kissed him first on the cheek and then on the lips. At this point Fred moved at ease, as if he was cooking a meal he'd made many times. Feeling the protuding bulge in his pants get bulgier, Anna pulled down his pants and began to perform fellatio.

Fred allowed her to act for a minute but before she could finish, he stood her up and moved her to the bed. She sprawled out and allowed herself to be satisfied. She let out a big moan but the music was so loud that he was sure no one could here. The bass thumping, he could feel her thighs squeezing his face as she moaned until she let out one last "aaahh".

Fred got up and saw that she was smiling. Feeling like he did a job well done, he began to pull up his pants. But before he could, Anna slowly got off her back and still on the bed, began to finish what she started. Fred felt a toasty warmth between his legs and imagined this is what bread feels like as it rises in the oven. Performing the necessary grunts and moans, he felt the heat rising and let out a moan. Expecting a big explosion, he looked down to find that his dick had disappeared. Anna have him a smile.

To be continued...

>10 minutes
>1k words
>spend next 4 hours of my designated writing time staring at the ceiling

>>14093715
>>14093726

Needs more editing before you post it for critique. Repetitive word choices such as "happy to have someone", "wallflower". Redundant words, spelling mistakes.

Rewrite the sex scene - drop the "aaahh".

I don't think the setup is awful per se but it needs serious rewriting. Hard to pay attention while reading.

Was up till 4 banging out the first ~1k words of my story, and now I'm burnt the fuck out. This story is hard as fuck to write.

>>14093726
I wasn't loving it as a story but damn if I wouln't immediately read a third post of it. Write more!

>>14093738
Yeah I was phone-posting whilst eating my dinner. I felt if I was more specific about word choice as I was going, I wouldn't have finished the premise so there are probably a lot of mistakes. My apologies.

>>14093778
Thanks

>>14093811

Sorry if I seemed harsh; if I thought it was truly awful, I wouldn't have read through it.

>>14092844
You see, the issue is that you can't write.

>>14092224
I was gonna write wuxia isekai nonsense focused on a man reborn into a womans body who has to cultivate to avoid being impregnated by gross old sect masters.

Wrist RSI is acting up again though.

>>14093856

I want to hear more about this wuxia plot.

>>14093863
It's pretty standard and feel free to steal it.
>Shut in NEET who is actually bad ass with a heart of gold but also a sex pest dies in ANGST like circumstances
>reborn into noble household with servants and older siblings, literally a luxurious life
>slice of life adventure
>recieves word that father is ill/ wounded/ dead and will be married off to obviously gross and evil dudes fat idiot son
>panics, tries to avoid fate, fails and is guilt tripped
>despair
>discovers or remembers profound cultivation method
>fast forwards to day of betrothal, announces objection to own wedding. Uses knowledge of world obscure laws to trial by combat her groom and then kicks his ass with magic kungfu
>evil lord freaks out when son is injured

This is pretty much paint by numbers at this point but yeah

>>14093912

I'd read it. Mainly as a guilty pleasure sort of thing, but I'd read it.

>>14093928
>guilty pleasure
That's all chinese fiction for me, on against the gods at the moment and despite the obvious female author I'm hooked.

>gets saved by future mentor figure who curb stomps evil lord but lets him live because giving host face.
>host banishes evil lord forever
>banquet, announced girl will attend wuxia academy
>shows up, gets mocked as trash, meets token fat friend who is for comedy purposes

Might also get possessed by a magical world spiritualist beast spirit that is perfect in every way and gives them advice while continuously avoiding marriage proposals from gross people, also fighting off devil rapists and obvious wuxia mc sex offenders.

Actually I want to write it now more than ever.

>>14093852
Why do you have to be so mean fren?

>>14093837

Not at all I appreciate the feedback

Goddamn I forgot about NaNoWriMo. Guess it's time to finally sit down and write about the story I've been daydreaming about for months.

>>14092600
redpilled

What are your personal word count goals, anons? Will you be writing every single day?

>>14094179
2k words a day until she's done. 500 words a day on uni projects. This book will probably be more novella sized

>>14092224
A bomb falls and the sperm of every human being is made completely inert. At first it's only very high-ranking officials that know about this, but as the years pass eventually it becomes revealed to the public. Everyone has to decide what to do now that, unless there's some sort of miracle cure, humanity will die with the youngest people currently alive.

>>14094179
2k a day to compensate for the fact that I have to take a few days off of this for work

>>14094232
Have you read children of men? It'd be interesting to consider the moral fallout through the lense of current day america. Even tho CoM is recent, the technological and moral shifts from even 25 years ago are massive.

>>14094179
500 minimum, 1000 if I'm feeling it. Obviously less (or even negative) if it's an editing day. (My process is definitely in the "write an absolute shit draft then refine it again and again until it's good" style)

I'm writing a short story collection of fantasy (in the general sense of 'fantastical', not sword-and-sorcery shit) vignettes. Each has a resolution but also the possibility of continuing into a longer story if I like the general premise.

>>14094312
I miss shit like this, feels like everybody wants to write a 7 book epic when some of the most impactful fiction came from collections of short stories. See Phillip K Dick

>>14093488
>Didn't add you on the forum, but your idea is probably real-world sellable if you play up the connections enough early on in the text.
Thanks! I just hope I can manage the quality. All I've written over the past 10 years is an average of around 1 short poem per year. So this is something I know well enough that I believe I can flesh out and stick with, and so get some practice in that. Will probably take a good deal of editing later on.

>>14094179
I have daily writing goals and broke down an outline into a general roadmap of days.

does anyone know how to induce a hypomanic state? ive been writing consistently for the past three weeks and my quality actually has actually been pretty good, but I feel like I need that hypomanic edge to go from good enough to great. apparently, going off my meds for a week and sleeping 5 hours a night isn't enough to set me off

bump for fag that made a new thread

>>14094570
Tried meditating?

I want to write a novel with two intertwined story, one from the point of view of a man in the present falling in love with a cam model and one with the point of view of a prostitute working in a bordel in the late 19th-early 20th century at Paris

Does this anon >>14092373 or anyone else recommend participating in NaNoWriMo if you only have a one sentence idea for a novel? Is this still good practice? Even if I have no intentions to edit, restructure, etc and will at best loosely connect one day's writing to the previous? I guess I'm just trying to get some words out there without any pretense of writing a novel.

My novel will follow a young man, relatively unemployed, who is trying to market and network himself to find work and friends but is absolutely incapable of building a social media presence.

I'm currently in an accelerated, combined RN-MSN program and my immediate surroundings are so hopelessly devoid of creativity or intellectualism. I need something to plug this gushing leak in my head.

>>14093734
based.

>>14092678
Honestly anon, I'm kind of picky but this seems really good and interesting. Would love to read a novel like this

>>14094644
ive thought about it but its actually used to suppress hypomania. im having trouble finding articles that are helpful because all bipolar treatment is either geared towards type I, or assumes that any side effect of a mental illness must be suppressed, even if the patient feels it helps them, because they don't know what they're talking about; they're crazy, remember?

>>14094686
If you want to write, generally speaking, any time you spend writing is productive. Just take this as an opportunity to go hard on the practice: not "oh, I wrote a little bit today, maybe I'll wrote some more tomorrow if I have time," but "I have to write 50,000+ words by the end of the month, I need to clock in serious time each day." Best case scenario, you end up with something actually decent you can revise into being worth reading by a general audience. More likely, you write a lot of shit but develop better writing habits along the way and a better sense of how you write and what you might need to work on. That latter bit is unpleasant, but it needs to happen someday. You're not just going to wake up one day with a brilliant idea, impeccable writing habits, and a clear vision of the whole process. Write now, write shit, apply the fundamentals to better material as you progress.

>My novel will follow a young man, relatively unemployed, who is trying to market and network himself to find work and friends but is absolutely incapable of building a social media presence.
Sounds like bland self-insert, but building a social media presence has the potential for being an interesting enough conflict (at least for my narrow tastes). It's a real nightmare world.

>>14094733
>bland self-insert
Yes and no. Don't really use much social media myself, but I think I sort of napped through the period of time where everyone hooked platforms up to their lives and careers. I'd probably focus on the tech world, where this is probably most apparent. Like you apply for a software engineer job and they want to look at your twitter, not to see explicit stuff but to see if you post about javascript frameworks 24/7.

>>14094766
Although it will probably devolve into a complete self insert confessional stream tomorrow after I've run out of things to write about.

>Genre: Erotic

>>14092224
my idea is whatever i come up with later this evening out of compulsion to participate from my big bucket of ideas ive procrastinated on laying out. Works out well each year somehow even though it ends up feeling like a sleepless amphetamine binge.

So, who’s gonna write the first great Burgerpunk novel?

>>14094686
If you want to just write, then your one sentence idea is just fine for NaNo. It'll be skitz, but who cares? NaNo isn't about quality, it's about having motivation to write. If you want to write about a NEET struggling to make it as a normie, then having a skitzo perspective is fine. Just write and see what happens. Like this anon >>14094733 says.

>>14094868
I wanted to but my being Australian meant I was cut off from the most burgery of burgerpunks.
>tfw never had Chik-fil-a

Have an idea for a sci fi book. I keep struggling to get it started.
Idea is than an ex merc turned assassin gets an IOU called in by one of his old friends, dude is at deaths door in a hospital and wants main character to find his daughter, an archeology student who went missing while on a trip for school to mars. Main character has no wish to help as he only works for money, friends wife pays him after an argument

Act I would simply be him hunting for her, questioning people at a hotel, night club, etc

Act II would see him finding and infiltrating a religious cult she's joined out in the wastes of mars in an old pyramid where they worship the former Martians who as far as they know are dead. Reveal at the end of this act would be the Martians are real, but, most of them are dead due to a disease, one who was immune froze his comrades and is using telekinesis abilities to control the figure head of the cult so that they will have an army to retake the solar system with (as well as find a cure). Main character is revealed to be a false believer, is tortured by the alien, and barely escapes with his life

Act III he recovers from his wounds and then suits up in his old merc power armor and goes rambo on the pyramid, killing the aliens and rescuing his friends daughter. Ends with him returning her to her family and him returning the money because the story has changed him for the better, as he had to think about more than himself in deciding to go back to the pyramid

>>14092678
That sounds like it could be good anon. Just try to write it, then go back and rework it till you get it right

>>14094655
Thought I would elaborate to have potential feedback from you guys.

Each story would be from the third person. In the present, we'd only know the man as "He" while knowing the camgirl's name. In the past, we'd only know the girl as "She" while knowing the name of her clients with one particular client that would come at least once per week. I'd like it if it was seem as romantic at first but turned out to be purely sexual in the present and if it was the opposite in the past since the main character would be a prostitute.

The story would mostly be a pretext for a reflection about the abolition of bordels in France and the creation of "cyber-bordel" and "cyber-prostitution" with the creation of camgirls site like Chaturbate. I'd like to interrogate the existence of long distance relationship, the ambiguity of the feelings one can have toward someone who is selling their body or, in the point of view of the prostitute, toward someone who is buying both your time, your care and your body. I'd like to reflect about the link between porn, erotism, sex and love.

I hope it's not too pretentious, I don't know what it will look like when it's done, I just want to keep in mind that this is what it would be if I did it perfectly, which certainly won't be the case. If you care enough, I'd love some feedback.

>>14094939
Sounds pretty fucking badass if you ask me. Only thing is telekinesis is projecting manipulation. You're probably thinking of mind control, which is slightly different. Unless the cult leader is literally puppet being controlled.

>>14095032
>I hope it's not too pretentious

It's not, anon, it's probably the best sounding story in this thread so far.

>>14095057
Thanks
Yeah mind control not telekinesis
I'm shooting for sorta an 80s 90s action feeling with the end of the book.
Hopefully I can write it and finish.

>>14092224
I wanted to write a play this year since I never manage to finish my novels and I always lose interest in finishing them once the month is over. Problem is that I'm pretty sure my dialogue sucks and can't carry a whole play.

Plus I still don't have an idea yet.

>>14095066

Thanks for those kind words anon, it cheers me up and motivates me even more. I hope I'll do it to the end and won't stop at the first difficulties

I didn’t plan for this at all, but what are lit’s takes on some of my story ideas?

>Two brothers in Berlin go off to fight in the Great War. One comes back home a pacifist and hermit, while the other can’t escape the violence and joins street militias.

>Notes from Underground-style satire of an incel’s manifesto.

>Young man exiled from Puritan society in colonial New England goes to live with Native Americans coming to terms with his resentments and confused faith.

>SPACE PIRATE SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE

I've just realised that I've got little idea what I'm going to write about. I've got the general idea of the setting and the stuff I want to happen, but have got 0 clue about anything connecting that stuff together.

>>14095355
First sound good but a bit cliche
Not enough info to give you feedback on the second
Third could be great

>>14095355
Lol the second because it’s so similar to mine. We can see where our interpretations differ.

A gay NIGGER has sex with gay NIGGERS to spread AIDS and teams up with straight NIGGERS to mass-rape the white race and finally relinquish them off of this gay NIGGER earth.

Can I get a feedback on which of those two scenarios is more interesting and realistic. The point is to introduce a dog disease that's not present in the US.

Scenario 1: A family on vacation fall in love with a pet and forges documents to fly it back home

Scenario 2: An animal rescue group flies back home bunch of dogs with fake documents

>>14095643
Sounds a bit gay.

>>14095643
/pol/ and /lgbt/ : the book

>>14095677
The first plot seems way more interesting I think

I wanna write a book about a tranny that goes around killing other trannies because xir finds they aren't passable enough.

>>14095677
Both sound pretty believable. I'd go with the second one, as having multiple animals infected with the disease would make transmission just a little bit faster, but even one animal if placed in the right situation would create an epidemic. Either have the animals escape at some point to infect others, or placed in a location where other animals would become infected, like a public park or a vet clinic.

>>14095709
The rescue group is probably better in this sense, they nab a bunch of peruvian mutts and take them back to their big shelter facility where it spreads. then some hapless family come to adopt a dog and it gets out.

>>14095728
28 Days Later/10.

Or even have the shelter raided by police the animals distributed among different shelters, infecting even more animals. Diseases need hosts to spread.

>>14095677
li like the first one

>>14095709
>>14095728
>>14095745
Something like that was my first idea. Problem is, I don't know exactly the entire process of how those animal groups transport pets, and I didn't want to write bunch of bullshit that I would get called out for. With the family I was hoping I could keep it more vague, but the whole scenario also sounds like some big coincidence that's probably done a thousand times already.

>>14095758
Don't let that stop you.

I have my own idea, essentially writing a shonen but with knights, and anime empowered stuff, and make it a girl lead, who wants to surpass her adopted father, the strongest knight in the land.

Then plot happens and she and two others (rival girl and a teen noble boy) have to trek through dangerous territory to get home, picking up friends and foes along the way.

So, Naruto's homeward bound, but with knights and a girl lead.

How does that sound?

>>14092844
hey fren glad you liked the idea. I'm working on it today, wanna share ideas with how you think this could go?

maybe both of our books are good and we can be on stage together and meet oprah together :~)

>>14094179
I do it by chapters. Today I outlined what's going to happen in every chapter, and the plan is to take 2 or 3 days for each one.

>National no writing month
Based. I do this every month though.

>>14092224
Have stuff to do write now but fuck it here is the premise.

A isolated young man comes home to discover his grandfather's antique motorcycle has been stolen. Tracking the young man who did it down he kicks off a grudge between him and the thief's millionaire father.

Gonna be very pulpy with some examination of the mind numbing state of not having anything really to live for.

Prose is shit but opening is as follows.

>Sean could hear his parents screaming. The words they were saying all melted together, rolling over his unable to penatrate the haze of shock from had happened to the garage door.
>It was the summertime, which meant he had no school, but he had gotten a job at a nearby hobbyist shop, fixing bikes and drones for the tourists that always flooded the town this time of year. Starting at seven with decidedly illegal hours of until eight, he had been walking
And so on and so forth.

>>14093527
Any paragraphs and chapters?

Since I did pretty much nothing but running and listening to lovecraft audiobooks, I'm going to write about a runner going insane, getting murdered and other shit that can happen to you in mythos stories. It's nothing special, but easy and fun to write about, so a good opportunity to get the habit going.

>>14094868
Is this burgerpunk?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Shiny_Morning

>>14094720
>they're crazy, remember?
bipolar persons are not crazy.
they're fucking wild when in mania, but not in general.
though they are actually fucking crazy if they reach the stage of psychosis, but then again it's a psychotic episode and it doesn't last.

>hey guys, what if we encouraged loud, social media addicted retards to attention whore their personal masturbation rags by parading them as a serious novel attempt, by the thousands, to flood the internet with this garbage?
>what if we spammed up the gatekeepers even worse than they already are and inundate the publishing establishment with a septic system backup of irredeemable trash?
>what if we did it every year?

you should all kill yourselves.

>>14097251
I mean I agree in part but no one ever finishes a novel anyway and at least it gives an excuse to have regular writing threads on lit (because you fuckers are too lazy to keep /write/ going unless you can attach it to some meme event)

>>14097287
>no one ever finishes a novel anyway
lol no
open your eyes and take a look at what we're gonna see in december/jan/feb with all these snowflakes submitting their shit to agents and blogposting about it all the while like their anime inspired genderqueer furry magical adventure novel is the next War and Peace.

>>14092224
I am exclusively freewriting while generating everything from plot to characters by going to tvtropes and using random number generators to pick tropes and flipping a quarter to determine the outcome of events, the novel is proven going to suck but it's a lot of fun nonetheless.

>>14097328
t. J. Henry Waugh

i'll be using this month a little differently.
there's this village i created over time with locations, history and characters. i want to write shortish stories that take place there. as a little project to get me started, i recently started a little website that's like the website of the village's journal where i just sometimes write an article or news story.

i've been procrastinating a lot but i've got some more times for the next weeks and i'll try writing an article for the newspaper each day this month.

>>14097777
Really cool, interesting concept. I like it.

>>14093097
>disposition and plight of the modern disenfranchised male
this is what dostoevsky did in notes from underground

>>14097777
Quads necessitate link provision.

>>14098750
It's in French though.
Also there are only like two articles I've posted right now despite having many more written.

>>14098825
Well shit. Someone else can probably appreciate it though.

>>14098840
Well here it is anyway :
https://lesmeandres.neocities.org/

I've tried to recreate a 90's website since it's taking place in the 90's. It's also one of those settings where there are low key weird stuff going on but that people just consider mostly normal (like Pete & Pete and Twin Peaks (first season)).

I've roughly translated the ball game article to give you an idea of what I'm going for :


[Ball game at the park]

For the interested citizens, please take note that there will be a ball game at the Saint-Méandres-des-Chablis park this evening, whatever the temperature.

The two new teams facing off today are Sainte-Perséphone Éboulis and the Cap-aux-Chaluts Envalement.

The players will arrive at the station by the 19h34 train and the game will start at 20h at the ball park. Come in early to choose which team you want to encourage as the stands always fill up quite fast!

The Courrier would have like to announce the game earlier but, as always, the ball games are only announced the day they are played as loose leaflets flying in the wind suddenly start to appear around the village without any prior warnings.

"There are no baseball team in the Méandres since August 21st 1974, just after the earthquake" says Émélie Sylvestre, town archivist and president of the Hauts-Chablis Historical Society. "Furthermore, the Town Council passed a resolution (September 2nd 1974 councl meeting, subject #12, unanimously voted) stating that the ball park would no longer be maintained and funded, yet it’s always in perfect shape" she added.

Questioned on the subject by The Courrier, the Council has, as stated by the municipal regulations, answered our questions by other questions more and more aggressive and intimidating without however ever giving any actual answers.

The Courrier research team once again asks the citizens for help and informations about the villages of Sainte-Perséphone and Cap-aux-Chaluts because, as is the case for every ball game, those villages are unknown to us and don’t seem to appear on any map.

An event for the whole family that you just can't miss!

>>14098970
Bro. Website is some great cheap retro design. Surely 1992 is a bit early for an internet report though? I'm obviously judging more from the translation here, but I think the comma usage for the timing of the Émélie Sylvestre paragraph's "en parfait état" punchline is maybe off. I love the following bit about the questions though and you are probably now my /lit/izen of the year.

>>14099197
Thanks for the feedback my man, I had never shared this with anyone yet.

For the website, yes 1992 is very early for a news website. Thing is, it's just a side thing to motivate me and allows me to create short outlines for larger stories that I'll use later, so it doesn't bother me that much I'm lying a bit here, it annoys me on my almost autistic side but I know it's really not that important.

For the ball games, there are just some random teams that show up once in a while and play a game. Nobody knows them and they come from villages no one knows about. The village gathers and cheers at the game, then the player just leave on the train and never come back. But it's just the way things are.

>>14099256
Has a feel like an Italo Calvino village story

Day one complete. 1931 Words, checking in

>>14092539
based

>>14092373
this

>>140941792
1,666 words a day

>>14097251
>>14097287
I started my novel a month ago, I don't even know what this event is about, I just visit the thread because it's basically /write/

M8

I really want to be a writer but my prose is so shit and English is my second language. And no I can't publish in my native language because there are only like 2 million speakers of that language.

>>14099729
Writing is the easiest way to get better at prose.

>>14099729
what is your native language lad?

>>14092224
I have two ideas that deal with similar themes, so it might be better to combine them into one story. A short story would probably be best since I've never done any creative writing.
>The first is more of an aesthetic backdrop than anything else. The idea is that in the near future (maybe 10-15 years), through a combination of government 'retraining programs' and technocratic homogenization, most routine jobs in the tech industry will have from the coasts to formerly rural areas - Major cities will be working on problems in quantum computing and synthetic biology while the former steel mills and coal mines of rural areas will be replaced by 'code farms' and the biotech of yesteryear. This will bring relative prosperity to these areas but they will still suffer from the same sort of rural decay (drug use, broken families, etc) that they are now, just with fully stocked smart fridges and high speed internet.
>The second is a sort of early adulthood/coming of age/bildungsroman set probably mainly on/around a university (I've spent the past 5 years at uni so it's what I know best) where a drug that makes people enter into a dreamlike or hypnagogic state is used at near-epidemic levels. Due to some combination of student debt and the changing economy, even this once prestigious and large university (think something like Cornell, UMich, or UCLA ) will be struggling to stay afloat. The drug won't necessarily have any addictive properties nor will it do any harm, but the result is that no one gets together anymore and everyone spends their time outside of school/work dreaming. The protagonist will likely have some realization that causes him to stop using the drug probably due to decaying friendships and relationships. The story will follow his struggles to maintain relationships and find purpose/meaning in a rapidly changing world.

>>14100156
Combine the two, sort of. I'm really interested in the concept of the first idea, although I'm not sure where the story comes from.

This year I can't participate because reasons, but I want to wish you all good luck. Last year I participated with my frens from 4Chan and it was a blast.
Good writing, my dudes

3999 total words checking in

I'm stuck on who my big antagonist is going to be. I have two plots in the same setting I've cooked up. The setting is (hopefully) capekino.

1. Villainous super-genius driven to villainy when the establishment stopped him from doing good. He invented a less addictive pain killer and was framed for being a drug dealer to stop him from undercutting the market for prescription opioids. He's more or less on the warpath against the family that owns the pharmaceutical company responsible for the opioid crisis.

2. Supervillain who voluntarily becomes an informant for the setting's cape-police while going full tilt into superpowered arms dealing. Opposite him is a prosecutor who moonlights as a superhero. It's essentially a legal game of cat and mouse, but neither character is planned to be vile as far as the audience is concerned. A planned secondary character who might be a main POV character is a normal superhero who isn't clued in but has to deal with the effects of the machinations of the people around them at the street level.

Either way I need a true antagonist to give each story proper stakes.

Reminder that if you don't have 3,332 words written in the next few hours, you're behind.
>>14102137
Good job.

>>14097251
always this asshole

>>14093218
Th-thanks, anon! I was talking to a writer friend and trying to figure out how bad I can make the bad boy in those shitty romance stories.

Well, day 2 and I haven't started writing. I do have an outline that I'm excited about, but I've been busy as fuck with work and shit at home, and I napped longer than I wanted to.

Tomorrow I'll catch up bros. I'll report here if I remember to.

i've written 4k words today so far but i'm just writing legitimately the dumbest shit lol

ok i'm at 7.5k if i include the dumb-as-shit 1.6k i wrote yesterday.

>>14092224
I want to use Scrivener to help me plan my story for NaNoWriMo, does anyone have any advice for someone who's never used it before?

>>14093582
yikes

>>14104124

>>14104143
i like the fact that literally no one answered in over a year https://www.writingforums.org/threads/going-for-it.160044/

>>14099729
>tfw EFL but pretty good at writing in English
>tfw also massive procrastinator
Maybe I'll get something done this month, finally

>You wake up, not with your heart racing- that would be easier, but there always must also be the kick. The chilling thud of inner metal past those brief cruel few seconds when you don't know where you are, or what you've done, or what might come later. Then it's off to peruse the daily colors, the weather report, those grudged dribs of information that let you know if you're to live another day, or...

>The information itself is hideously lacking. A change of a single unit in a set of numbers. A change of a few more. Vague allusions in the mouths of unknown unreliables. Then, of course, your detective work could be faulty. Perhaps the import of the numbers was misunderstood, which is to say you might be a dead man who didn't even know it.

>You needed to know it, because above all, at the very last, it would have to be by your own hand. For the sake of those you lived with, those with no more understanding than a sparrow or a golden retriever, it must be you, and quickly.

>It made Thompkins superstitious. He was of Scottish extraction, and he'd been a proud, snide empiricist. Then the strain had worked itself on him. Now, Thompkins had his rituals.

>>14099787
rwandan

>>14104311
It's not great dude. Control your adjectives.

>>14104160
>post date : november 9th 2018
>current date : november 3rd 2019
>over a year

>post number >>14104422
>is a pedantic meanie

>>14104405
it's hard to read because it's all stretched out
you write all your shit in paragraphs then paste it and it looks wrong and they try to lynch you over "reddit spacing"

>>14104311
>You wake up, not with your heart racing- that would be easier, - but there

With a chance to come off as an idiot, isn't this how it grammatically should be?

>>14104532
i'd even go more like this
>You wake up, not with your heart racing ‒ that would be easier ‒, but there

>>14104544
"but" doesn't modify that
>You wake up, not with your heart racing, but there must
that doesn't make any sense

>>14104549
oh i don't know, i was just talking about the use of hyphenation.

"I can't get my shit together," I muttered. I was having my breakfast, and was staring at the fridge, looking for some milk. The milk was still there. "I'm not the one who has to cook," I muttered. The milk was still there. I opened the fridge and pulled out the milk. I looked at the ingredients list. It had all ingredients I needed. I knew what kind of milk to make, but I had no idea which milk was right for me.
I looked at the cereal box in my kitchen, and it had all the ingredients. I had not had any of my cereal since I moved. I was starting to feel sick, so I went to the fridge and grabbed my lunch.
I looked right at me, and the milk was still there. I opened the cereal box and looked at all the ingredients. I was starting to see why my mom constantly told me to avoid milk. I knew the milk was bad for me, but it was still good for my family. I picked up my cereal and started to enjoy myself. I went to the bathroom to get some milk. When I walked in to the sink the door was wide open. I was scared, but I didn't give up on my life.
I went to my kitchen to grab my milk, but the milk wasn't there. The milk wasn't there. I just couldn't get it. I walked in to find my milk. I got a glass and looked at it. My jaw dropped. I had a glass of milk. It was there. There. I looked back at the kitchen. The milk was still there. I went back to the fridge and grabbed a new one. I couldn't believe it. I went to the kitchen.
I ran into the kitchen, and I saw the milk still there. I went over, and poured more milk. I was scared. I ran back to the fridge and pulled out the new one. I didn't know where it was, but I had some questions.
"Does that mean I still have to cook?" I asked.
"You have to cook your food!"
"How good was my last meal?"
"My dad said to get a new job," I said. I realized it was crazy. But I could live with that. "I cook," I said. I could live with that. The milk was still there.
"Do you know how much sugar does it cost?"
"It's cheap!"

>>14106182
I asked him to open the fridge, but he didn't have a key. I had to find him a key. I went back to the kitchen.
"I need to find another job," I said. He didn't have any.
I went back to the kitchen and tried to find another job. I went back to the fridge and grabbed my milk again. This time they were still there. I went back to the kitchen.
"How much does the sugar cost?"
"I can make it as cheap as I want!"
I went back to the kitchen.
"Oh," I said. "That means I have to cook. I can't go back to the kitchen. Can I make a meal out of my job?"
I went back to the fridge and pulled out a new one. Now it was full of milk. I went back to the kitchen and started cutting up my cereal. I still couldn't get the milk. I couldn't even get it. I ate my cereal. I went back to the kitchen and I started making milk for myself. I tried to find a new job to help pay the rent, but I couldn't afford milk. I found a job at a local butcher. I made about 200 sandwiches a year, mostly for the men who took jobs there. I was happy. I made money. I had a good life. What could I do? I ate some more. I learned how to make milk. I made milk for my family. I went to school for 2 more years, where I learned that I could make a living as a butcher. I got a better job.
"I know you're not the best person to go to school," I said. "But I'll do what I gotta do to make you happy. Just be happy, and don't worry about anything. Maybe when you're older you can teach people about milk, but I'm not going to ask you to teach people how to cook, because I know you don't make a living with it."
I was a butcher. I made a living as a butcher. I made a living as a living as a butcher. I made a living as a butcher. I made a living as a butcher.

>>14106182
>>14106191
Unironically, cool. Wouldn’t read a whole novel like this but would read as a short story or a dream sequence within a longer work.

I haven't done a lick of writing after having graduated university. Where should I start?

>>14106883
Here and now. Take the first half baked idea that pops in your head and just shit out words. You're out of practice.

I'm trying to write something Kafkaesque and weave some flowery dream sequences into it.
Problem is that all of my ideas are better as short stories. When I try to give the characters a bit of depth by slowing things down, it just turns into rambling navelgazing.

This shit's hard.

I've tried outlining a dark fantasy but it always turns into Dark Souls fanfiction.
I've tried outlining a dream-cycle but it always turns into Lovecraft worship.
I've tried outlining a dark comedy but it always turns into Reddit "dry" humor.
I've tried outlining a "isolated guy against society" story but it always turns into my diary desu
Why the FUCK can't I create an original idea?

>>14106986
Just write the last one. For that genre, your commentary and the character's experiences is what makes it original, not the premise.

>>14106986
No idea is truly original. Execution is more important than novelty.

I took a few days off to get my mind off of this new thought that crept into my psyche. I couldn't believe at the time that I could come up with something this foul. After staying in my room for about a week (I didn't keep track of time) I started to make plans for how I was going to do it. That was it, I had made my choice. Though subconsciously I never doubted I was going through with it. This better version of myself that I broadcast to the outside world had been at the forefront for so long that I had started to confuse it with who I really was. Who I really was, was someone who was about to do something, as theatrical as it sounds, evil. Unlike greater minds than mine, I didn't feel the need to ponder on what good or evil was. It was pretty easy for me to differentiate the two. Once, as a child, I remember raising money for a classmate who was too poor to go on a school trip. I would consider that good. Now if I was smarter I could go into greater detail on why I believe this, but here's the deal. I believe it because I feel it, there's not much more to it. Besides all of a philosophy, to me, is asking 'Why?' ad infinitum. I don't have time for that and I'm fine with trusting what I feel on subjects that I don't need to be 100% correct on. Anyway about that kid I raised money for? I regret it now. I don't know why either. Lately I've just had this repulsion to what I consider good. I had been getting pulled into evil. That's why I did it. I just let go. That's why I parked in that handicapped spot.

>>14106986
Dark Souls was inspired by Berserk.
Berserk was inspired by stuff like Fist of the North Star.
Fist of the North Star was inspired by Mad Max.

You can keep going until you end up at folklore and mythology which was inspired by history itself.

Using Nitrous oxide gives him very specific but slightly different deja vu experience.
Starts to question his life and gets more interested in other drugs, which he thinks will solve his ''mystery'' on life.

he thinks he is currently experiencing the life flashing in front of his eyes, being in matrix, truman show shit like that.

>>14092224
Homeless man spirals into crime and addiction to feed himself, eventually kills himself due to the effects of hard drugs.

6K EZ CLAP