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/Ideas Thread/: in a single sentence, post an idea that you've had for a book.

>> No.5458621

>>5458606

my memoirs so people can admire how great I am

>implying you don't think about people reading your memoirs on a daily basis

>> No.5458625

a depressing fiction centered around a relatively well-off white male who has no right to be as mopey as he is which winds up saying more about the banal and sheltered upbringing of the author than anything else, since the author has experienced the slimmest possible shard of what the world has to offer because, at an early age, he allowed fear and loss to guide his actions.

>> No.5460181
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>> No.5460189

A novel about a teen who becomes a vampire-werewolf-zombie and falls in love after finding out he has cancer and sees Heaven in his death bed.

Supposed to be satire on today's flooded media market

>> No.5460206

Some guy gets too involved with the black market in Suburbia, and he tries to get out on good terms with everyone.

>> No.5460218

>>5458606
I want to have a book from a god's (or a supernatural being in general) perspective.

in a lot of books you have humans plagued by deities, there were and still are tons of philosophers arguing whether gods exist or not.

a book written in the perspective of a god would be so amazing.

>> No.5460281

>>5458606
Fanfic about Hawthorne Heights (greatest hard metal band ever) battling Freddy Kougar and jerking off fans.

>> No.5460294

>>5458606
It would start out by focusing on an insider (who fancies them self an outsider), living in a very new, uber-suburban development, which will oppress them and make them go off, trying to find something that isn't plastic and "branded", which will of course end up futile as he realizes that his own personality is of the same nature.

>> No.5460301

Big guy with a mask crashes a plane with no survivors.

>> No.5460308
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>>5460301

>> No.5460320

Consciousness inevitably leads to the extinction of any species.

>> No.5460324

>>5458606
i have an idea for a book that teaches people how to use Microsoft Powerpoint
i am pretty sure it has never been done before

>> No.5460326

>>5458621
>implying you don't think about people reading your memoirs on a daily basis
Is this a bad thing?
I know I'm destined for greatness, after all.

>> No.5460328

>>5458606
A story about some 20 something going out to a bar with friends only to be caught in an attempted mugging that leads to an accidental killing of a gang member which in turn leads to a dark ride through the city's underbelly only for it to be revealed that the 20 something got seriously injured during the mugging and is delirious on medication in a hospital, as he slowly recovers he meets a young girl and they slowly start building a life together only for the closing pages to reveal it's just the lofty musings of a NEET posting on a mongolian imageboard.

>> No.5460329

>>5460189
I'm an editor. Make it a trilogy and it's a deal.

Is 2 million $ enough for the first book?

>> No.5460337

>>5460218
>a book written in the perspective of a god would be so amazing.
I often think of this too but how the fuck do you write from the perspective of a god or of an intelligence much greater than yours?
Any attempt I've seen until now depicted these super beings as flawed as humans. I think it's inevitable: readers couldn't understand or empathize with a perfect superior being.

>> No.5460341

Travelers on a long transit through space communicate immersively with one another and have entirely too much time to introspect, obsess, artistically (or autistically) create, form insular cliques and grow the seeds of mental illness into a dysfunctional garden.

>> No.5460345

>>5460324
I'm pretty sure you're joking.

I have an actual interest in writing a book involving a girl who gets in a car accident with her boyfriend. She spirals into a depression and never recognizes his death. Ever weekend she goes to visit him in a cheap motel room and they live their life.

In the end its revealed she has been writing what their life would have been in this motel room for years.

The story line heavily involves Excel 2013.

>> No.5460366

Documentary about a guy who tries to not leave his appartment for a whole year, by making money online, ordering food, buying stuff online... i know its not really /lit/ but still...

>> No.5460370

>>5460329
As long as that includes a guarantee of a movie deal to further the irony

>> No.5460379

>>5460345
Sounds very similar to the twist at the end of Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz.

>> No.5460387

>>5460345
>The story line heavily involves Excel 2013.
Do go on

>> No.5460389

>>5460370
One movie? Make it 9, champ.
We're gonna split each book in 3 parts and dedicate a full 2 hours movie to each of them.
Fuck I'm already hard. When can you give me the first draft?

No need for rewriting or editing, your target is 13 year old girls and borderline illiterate soccer moms.

>> No.5460392

Guy looking to innovate publishes a short story about a group of revolutionary rabble rousers on twitter. Intel subsequently peg him for a terrorist, build a sinister mind prison for him by beaming actionable thoughts into all the people around him in his every day life. Having transcended more vulgar, physical forms of torture, they use tools of psychology to isolate him and inflict mental suffering of all sorts on him.

>> No.5460395

>>5460392
1984 + 30

>> No.5460397

>>5460345
Sounds similar to that movie with Uma Thurman, "Life before her eyes" or something like that:
>little slut high schooler gets killed by school shooter
>she survives and lives another 20 years of her life
>in the end we find out they were an illusion she had in her last seconds, bleeding to death on the floor

>> No.5460420

>>5460389
Two months tops if you want ~300 pages.

>> No.5460482

>>5460379
A bit but not really; essentially the entire novel is an imagined family life that never occurred.

A large element is how the community around her basically enables this fictionalized version of her life.

There isn't a big reveal; the reader will be aware of the full situation from at least the midpoint of the book as a lot of the writing involves the evolution of this constructed reality.

>>5460387
Girl works as an accountant. An overarching theme is the monotony of daily life (represented by long repetitive blurbs detailing Excel 2013) paralleled by the wonders of her imagined life.

>>5460397
Its not.

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>> No.5460501

>>5460486
I want to read it

>> No.5460505

>>5460482
>represented by long repetitive blurbs detailing Excel 2013

Stick to gmail Tao.

>>5460486
11/10 would write introduction to

>> No.5460541

A philosophical treatise on the nature of Anonymous from a phenomenological standpoint.

>> No.5460657

A suicidal Japanese teenager kills herself and becomes an internet celebrity when she finds out she can't actually die.