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ITT: Explain the plot of your book in a few sentences.

>> No.8736800

Meet Samuel Rothschild. After his rich father collapses of a heart attack one day, Samuel is suddenly entrusted with the Rothschild fortune. But Samuel isn't as good at keeping money as his father was, and he's more of a party animal!

>> No.8736804

>>8736800
why would i read non fiction

>> No.8736813

France, late 80's. An unlucky but steasy young man who works in a record store suddenly can't fall asleep, strong insomnia and shit. It lasts for days until he discovers he can only fall asleep in movie theaters.

>> No.8736819

800 Year into the future, young man steals an enchanted sword from his former comrades in arms, gets into shenanigans while learning about himself, mankind, and history while being hunted down by said comrades

>> No.8736839

>>8736746
The child awakens from his deep coma, the sky bleeds a darker shade of orange than he has ever witnessed. He has entered a wound in time, escaped the linear and entered temporal infinitude.

>> No.8736856
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8736856

Political satire where a bored low-grade politician becomes disillusioned with democracy and defects to a totalitarian state.

>> No.8736863

>>8736800
if that's serious (maybe I don't get the meme) that's interesting.

>>8736839
what the fuck is that plot.

>>8736856
not really original but might be great

>> No.8736878

>>8736863
>if that's serious

It is, the title as of right now is "Project Goy"

>> No.8736891

>>8736839
now i feel better about my own ideas

>> No.8736906

The rearriving places the setting off of beforehand, squarely in the fore. The now, knowing and being known, as and of cantankerous things, shoots ahead hardly farther than is needed. The soft end rounds off the body and suffices.

>> No.8737025

The story of Benjamin Hopkins, a man who eats the same meal of bacon sandwiches everyday. He is content, but the people around him find it odd and disturbing. He cannot see why, because he thinks bread and bacon go together marvelously, why would he have anything else?

>> No.8737034

a novella about an artificial intelligence that begins to write artistic masterpieces using formulae.

>> No.8737081

Here's a shitty idea I came up with for a middlebrow-novel

>Fairly successful painter gets a chance to participate in a big exposition
>Paints renaissance motif in modern style
>extroverted multi-billionaire gets interested in the piece and the painter
>he begins to openly stalk the man
>painter flees the country, hides in Europe
>due to his autistic interest in art history he always hides in obvious places, e.g. Florence, Paris, etc.
>rich guy tracks him down multiple times
>painter finally murders him to get peace
>paints renaissance motif again with blood
>vanishes just before being found out

Story is filled with homoerotical innuendos and art history cross references.

>> No.8737095

Feminism indirectly causes the apocalypse

>> No.8737153

>>8737095
/pol/-tier

>>8737081
this sounds kind of cool, reminds me of a mixture of 'Perfume' and 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'

In my book tanks are cute girls instead of giant machines. The first tank of the Chinese People's Liberation Army gets renovated for a parade in Beijing and when her new commander molests her she flees south. The stories of other tanks and her own backstory in the Chinese Civil War and the Mao-Deng eras are filled in as the government pursues her. She ends the novel back in Beijing because a tank will always be a tank.

>> No.8737185

>>8736746
I'd be concerned too if my cock were a ream of printer paper

>> No.8737189

>>8736746
It's about a greenday cover band that become the hottest band on earth. They sign a recod deal with a shady producer, (who is also the head of the american cartel), he forces them to change their sound and sell out. He then takes over the world with his power as a producer/drug lord and tries to end it.

I've written the first 100 pages and was wondering if any of you seemed interested in reading it.

>> No.8737191

Metal Gear Solid Big Boss rip off

>> No.8737200

>>8736746
The second coming of Jesus.

>> No.8737262

Aliens make contact with Earth in order to create friendly relations that will lead to humans being brought into the galactic fold. Some alien ships offer a program to take humans aboard and allow them to travel along with them. Main character war veteran goes on one of the ships while coping with PTSD caused by devastating world war that happened prior to alien contact.

>> No.8737295

>>8737025
Interesting

>> No.8737300

>>8737262

Everything but the last 9 words is the plot to childhoods end senpai

>> No.8737313

>>8737300
That's disappointing. Though I'll just take it as me being on a similar wavelength to Arthur C. Clarke.

>> No.8737320

>>8737262
IT'S A COOKBOOK

>> No.8737323

>>8736746
An earth collapsing under a century of bad genetic engineering begins raiding lost colonies for people to clone

>> No.8737324

>>8737320
is that some sort of slang or jargon?

>> No.8737329 [DELETED] 

Elijah White and his son Dylan White are among the few surviving male aryans in what was once the United States of America. They live together in the attic room of one of Chicago's many destroyed formerly white middle-class neighborhoods. They scavenge for what food they can (fortunately most shops are easily accessible due to previous looting by what are at this point the ruling Nigletes and their minority allies). They also correspond with a loose network of fellow aryans, some whose women have been protected against the Nigeletes and the ceaseless propaganda campaigns of the [redacted] who successfully encouraged most of the female population to abandon their own race when looking for a romantic and sexual partner. One day Elijah is visiting a house a few blocs away occupied by Jeremiah Lassman, an elderly white male who sells ammunition in exchange for books and other miscellaneous items written on a list he has handed to Elijah. During the visit however Dylan, Elijah's son, signals his father to inform him that the Blue Kangz, a brutal enforcement unit who hunt down remaining white males, is heading for Jeremiah's home. Elijah is told to save himself by the old man, who hands him as much ammunition as he can before Elijah leaves and hides nearby with his son. When the Blue Kangz surround the home, Jeremiah emerges onto the porch and proceeds to blow up his home and the ammunition remaining therein. The rest of the story involves Elijah and Dylan's struggle to survive and unite the scattered survivors of their ethnic demographic.

>> No.8737345

>>8737081

if it was funny I would read this desu

>> No.8737371

I want to make the /lit/ version of Harry Potter. As main idea (secret magic academy/world) only with a better plot, a lot less YA, and written with actual style and prose.

>> No.8737376

Retired guy gets a job at a department store, out of boredom. The misfits, addicts, and mentally ill people working there make his life a living hell, until they ultimately get him killed, which they all end up profiting by.

>> No.8737383

A literature professor whose only relevant work has been a plagiarized book travels across the country to try and finish - and appropriate - the work of one of his pupils that killed herself due to his harsh criticism and left her book unfinished.

>> No.8737390

>>8737081
Actually sounds like a good read

>> No.8737394

It's well known that Jack the Ripper had his killing spree abruptly ended. He basically gets his head smashed in during a bar fight in London. A short story.

>> No.8737396

>>8737034
Would buy

>> No.8737402

>>8737324
no you philistine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrabZFhnBIA

>> No.8737412

>>8737025
>bacon is win XD
no.

>> No.8737442

>>8737402
Okay. So I read the synopsis as I can't watch the episode atm. I see the similarities though the ships with these programs aren't taking them to any specific planet. It's just meant to be an opportunity for humans to "shadow" these aliens like how a civilian can do a ride along with a cop. Also, my aliens don't present humans with any technology as to not overwhelm them. Their initial visits are more like "hey, just wanted to let you guys know that we exist and there is a greater galactic community at large. This story really isn't meant to demonstrate advanced technologies or anything like that but instead be about one man coping with his past while experiencing a big exotic universe as a backdrop. Along the way he learns that humans aren't the only beings that possess "humanity" while also demonstrating the universal frailty of life no matter how advanced. Now that I talk about it I feel like it's kinda a stupid concept but I'll still keep it in my back pocket.

>> No.8737466

>>8737402
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxI7B758XBQ

>> No.8737472

Moon Man:
The Animated Series

>> No.8737613

>>8736746
A young Elven Werewolves is selected to be the bodyguard of the Duchesses eldest daughter. While they grow close over the years, so too does the chance of war with the South.

(Been world building the setting for years. I think I'm almost happy with it.)

>> No.8737653

Guy walks around town, things happen.

>> No.8737670

>>8737412
Should i change it to silverside?

>> No.8737676

>>8737670
Literally anything but bacon.
Make it anchovy.

>> No.8737719

a dude dies setting of a chain of events u'd haff 2 c 2 believe

>> No.8737744

Fantasy Novel about reincarnation of "Hero' class people being forced to relive over and over to shape history. It will reference texts that only exist in its world, with a collection at the end of the novel of texts that exist in the world.

>> No.8737750

>>8737676
But it's set in England which has a very strong bacon sandwiches culture I want to dissect.

>> No.8737758

>>8737750
I thought that was a more american thing?
Anchovies are funny because they are disgusting as fuck.
But write what you want, as long as it doesn't come across as "BACON XD REDDIT" because no one wants to read that.

>> No.8737770

>>8737758
Perhaps I could make a caricature of that in the story. Like an internet journalist trying to interview Hopkins for the meme, while Hopkins refutes his irony with a genuine love for the meal?

>> No.8737793

>>8737376
why would he keep working there if it was out of boredom?
he's driven to suicide from a job he doesn't need?

>> No.8737926

>>8737793
You clearly underestimate the human need for social connection.

>> No.8737938

>>8737793
He only works there for like 2 days, and decides to quit, but it's too late.

He also doesn't commit suicide.

>> No.8737939

>>8737095
I'd read that

>> No.8737947

>>8737758
Bacon sandwiches are of course a percectly mundane and nigh universal foodstuff in Britain.

We have been eating bacon (real bacon) longer than America has been a nation.

But a person who consumes nothing but bacon sandwiches is still considered abnormal because they are the near singular constituent of his diet.

The very things that in part make us perfectly unremarkable ordinary people; like enjoying a bacon sandwich, when turned up to eleven become marks of strangeness that others may recognise and shun you for.

And so life is a delicate balancing act in that regard.

>> No.8737999

>>8736746
Replace Aurellius with Diogenes and you got a nice pic.

>> No.8738547

>>8737999
Wanna know how I know you're not happy?

If yes, You know the distinction.

>> No.8738584

>>8736746
A man finds a suit of armor and a purpose with it as the revolutionary hero the universe needs to free them from evil. In the wake of his hard-won victory he becomes a divine king who rules justly and with great honor for a thousand years, but with a turn of the wheel it comes to an end as all things do when he's assassinated as an idolater and aberration before God by a crusading force of future-era Teutons. This all happens in space, by the way, and it's about the endless, universally constant handing over of states between opposites in all things.

>> No.8738586

>>8738584
I don't want to sound too harsh, but that almost made me throw up.

>> No.8738590

>>8738586
It's alright. I can understand how the concept could sound terrible, but I believe in it and myself

>> No.8738599 [DELETED] 

>>8736746
shit is all in threes. its about the yes, no, and maybe. the right, wrong, and ambiguous. your side, my side, the truth. and mostly a perspective on work and family told through 3 separate middle aged men. one is a dentist, another a granite fabricator, and another young retiree who was an entrepreneur

>> No.8738601

>>8738584
Dude....you're fucking 100 word description of it was hard enough to read. DO NOT PROCEED WITH THIS! Get medication, therapy, maybe rehab, and neutered, then start thinking about picking the pen up again.

>> No.8738603

>>8738584
>>8738590
>but I believe in it and myself
keep fighting the good fight, anon

disregard >>8738586 and >>8738601

>> No.8738604

>>8738603
The interesting thing is that they're totally correct. I made the thing sound awful by putting very little thought into my description. This was a useful experience for me

>> No.8738614

>>8738604
>The interesting thing is
Ah, now I see the whole problem.

>> No.8738615

>>8738604
In fairness, it is a stupid enough idea to become the best selling novel in the world, and made into a movie staring Ben Afleck

>> No.8738620

>>8738614
It was interesting because the guy was telling me to disregard people whose opinions were valuable to me. That's not something that should be done, even on an anonymous image board

>> No.8738631

>>8738620
That was me and my last opinion was that you are currently a poor judge of what is interesting, i.e the whole problem. Pls don't disregard this.

>> No.8738641

>>8738631
I'm not going to disregard anything said to me. I can be a poor judge of what's interesting to other people, but I know my tastes and I write to them. I'm just a simple man who likes to pass some of his time writing, and I'll be damned if I'm going to write what other people want to read. Fun is my yardstick for success, and I'm having a lot of fun writing

>> No.8738649

>>8738641
pick a position or pls shhhhhhhh

>> No.8738653

>>8738649
I think I'll cut my losses

>> No.8738664

>>8737025
Mayonnaise.

>> No.8738671

>>8737081
please make the painter not know who stendhal is and also make him a fainter and make his stalker call him stendhal as a pet name kthnx

>> No.8738680

>>8737153
is the official tank story in there too? i would like government recissions pl0x

>> No.8738692

>>8738584
if by "space" you mean "back mountain virginia", it's salable

>> No.8738741

>>8736746
The banality of identity politics is examined through a group of 20-something young professionals in Austin, a city perceived as a liberal utopia that has huge issues with economic segregation that are never talked about. Start-up culture is mocked and Austin's actual culture being replaced by San Fancisco 2.0 is grieved.

Everything that people believe makes Austin great actually makes it an exhausting, tiresome city to live in.

>> No.8738748

>>8738741
Grew up in Austin, hope you're actually a good writer and not a pseud because holy fuck do I miss the way my hometown used to be.

Would've voted for Trump if he campaigned on walling in California. Mexicans are fine, at least we get cheap labor and good food from them.

>> No.8738783

A children's book about a housefly that flies up a man's ass one day. Told through multiple perspectives.

>> No.8738833

Ok, get this, a guy goes on an adventure, meets some people, falls in love, and returns home.

Oh, and on the way he writes a diary.

It's pretty honest.

>> No.8738874

>>8737034
>mfw it's an autobiography

>> No.8738920
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8738920

A story of a failing but "gifted and talented" author (according to himself) as he copes with the fact he will never reach the level of recognition he desires with an overall focus on the questions of integrity as he has the opportunity to join a successful, hot, popular, rad-left, blogging website but knowing he will have to give up all semblance of originality and write cookie cutter articles with faux depth meant to sway the upper middle class white college students who feel they are doing the world a favor with their political correctness but lack any form of self awareness.

While this may seem like "/pol/:the book:the musical" the main character leans in the political center leaning slightly left or right depending on the issues as he is half hispanic-half white with an absent father raised by an agnostic mother who tried to instill in him catholicism at an early age through her words but her actions did not match that.

TL Note: This is not autobiographical in any way whatsoever because that would imply I'm a good writer and that I have opportunities in life :(

>> No.8738925

>>8738920

Nothing funner in fiction than the inane, soul-breaking realities of modern publishing.

>> No.8738930

The world is over. The last 'King of the world' only has one quest: Photograph every monument in the world before the passage of time time destroys them.

>> No.8738938

>>8738930
Won't time destroy the photographs?

>> No.8738944

>>8738938
Yes they will, but he's so self absorbed in his quest he doesnt really care.

>> No.8738947

>>8738938

Erm....uh....yeah. Guess so.

Shit....I had like 140k words too.

>> No.8738956

A man is saved from the end of the universe by a mysterious cube like object. He begins a journey in a foreign place that's scattered with many other cubes. I don't know if it's going to be a short story or a novella or full on novel. Depends on how much content I actually have.

>> No.8738965

>return of saturn
>man's gf breaks up with him
>existential break down
>starts suffering from severe derealisation anchored in solipsism
>starts wildly stumbling through every day activities and life in an attempt to straighten himself out and find some semblance of the stable existence he knew before the return

>> No.8738976

>>8738956
Sounds like an Iphone game

>> No.8738992

1:
a blonde boy meets a trap in the woods while looking for "the fairy queen", and then they start a nomadic child society while commiting horrible acts of terrorism and having orgies all day every day, until the blonde boy fakes his death and returns to his rich arms dealing married to diamond company owning family until he grows up and takes over the family african country

2:
a wizard dies and comes back as a fairy that can transport peoples perceptions into timeless realms of ultimate hedonistic pleasure

3:
the librarian of souls and the blood god travel through time and record/guide all tangent realities of every universe.

>> No.8738993

>>8738680
I don't know what a 'rescission' is, but I'm using what there is of the tank's official story. And the rest is crazy made-up stuff about Panzer IVs and T-34s and Patton tanks and etc.

>> No.8738999

>>8737653
>>8737719
>>8737744
stolen :^)

>> No.8739004

small new england city converts from being overrun with xanax addicted bourgeoisie white fucks into a cult of existentialists(nihilists) that end up burning the city down and retreating into the woods. main character travels around to explore falling society with group of teenage satanists who keep accidentally summoning demons from hell. lots of sacrificial ceremonies and parades.

>> No.8739034

>novella set during the final months off ww2 in the pacific theater
>protagonist is a kamikaze pilot
>the first part covers him leaving on his mission, but his plane's engine fails and he crashes.
>he survives and drifts in the ocean for a few days
>part 2: he's washed ashore on a "deserted" island
>becomes depressed because he failed his mission and wants to kill himself
>he encounters things like a tribe of savages, an American radio post, weird visions, man-eating animals, etc.
>part 3: he's rescued by a Japanese patrol just as he's about to kill himself
>he's taken back to Japan and treated like a long-lost hero
>a parade is thrown in his honor and during the parade he finds he wants to live again.
>at the end of the parade he finds the procession is carrying him to an airfield where another kamikaze plane is waiting for him
>he's expected to fly it again
>novel ends with him taking off from the airstrip
>should i just kill myself now?

>> No.8739047

>>8739034
>Part 4
>He instead flies off to monster island to battle rapist octopus monsters.

punched it up for you, thank me in your acknowledgements.

>> No.8739105

>>8738783
>>8737095
>>8737034
these are the best

>> No.8739107

a loser of a man decides to change his life around and starts growing as a person, while the font size of the book is growing, to parallel his own growth.

>> No.8739118

The protagonist jerks off a lot.

>> No.8739121

>>8736746
A sociopathic crown prince seeks to wed the sociopathic princess of a sociopathic king. Meanwhile, his sociopathic father (another king) abuses his bastard son who gets interested in the eldritch horrors that no mortal mind was meant to know. When the crown prince proves himself worthy of the princess, they officially become betrothed; the crown prince then narrowly escapes death at the hands of a sociopathic assassin who was hired by yet another sociopathic king. The crown prince's father is not so lucky, and the crown prince becomes king, then exiles his brother and tries (but fails) to have his bastard half-brother burned at the stake for practicing witchcraft.

>> No.8739139

Guy wakes up one day and all of time is frozen across the entire world
Deals with his loneliness and eventual descent into insanity as he moves around doing everything he's wanted
Eventually finds another guy who's handled it all perfectly fine
Enraged by the normal guy's acceptance of it as a reflection of his own disappointment he couldn't handle it as well
Kills the other guy
Eventually kills self after some time has passed
Would probably all take course over about a decade

>> No.8739144

>>8739121
the sociopathic crown princess should factor into the story more.

>> No.8739147

>>8739004
It seems like if they're doing sacrificial ceremonies then they're not really summoning the demons on accident

>> No.8739156

>>8739147
nah i mean its like they dont actually think its working, they're just doing it for shits and giggles, meanwhile a bunch of demons are going around fucking people up. said demons appear human.

>> No.8739159

A guy relates stories his grandfather told him about their town, which used to be thriving and is now almost deserted.

>> No.8739169

>>8739159
this is basically a flannery o'connor story called the artificial nigger.

>> No.8739173

>>8739144
How so? The arrangement is a pretty good deal for her; the whole "daddy wants the princess to marry x but she wants to marry y" is a tired cliche.

>> No.8739204

>>8736746
Snarky comic relief character aids her younger sister's journey of self discovery in a comfy slice of life book.

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>>8739144
she should be one of the eldritch horrors
but dont do that, because thats what im doing.

also why is everyone a sociopath

>> No.8739226

Midwestern university town, late 1980's. A middling adjunct professor has to return to his rural southern hometown for his grandmother's funeral.

>> No.8739238

OP put his penis in many holes, and never found the right one. However, many viruses kept him company.

>> No.8739244

Government Agents with superpowers VS Anarchist with Dark Matter Powers

>> No.8739263

>>8736804
Non fiction is the only thing that interests me. I am hopelessly bored by fantasies.

>> No.8739265

>>8739226

Punch Up:

He's a former Green beret and motorcycle gang member, this guy. Everything starts out alright, until he comes into conflict with a gang of satanic punks, who've taken over the town, when they kidnap his grandmother's corpse and use her for gangbang practice. Now he has to clean the trash out of town, all while enlightening the local school children by teaching them Proust through hip hop.

>> No.8739271 [DELETED] 

>>8737320
"HOW TO SERVE HUMANS"

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>>8739265
>Now he has to clean the trash out of town, all while enlightening the local school children by teaching them Proust through hip hop.
10/10

>> No.8739342 [DELETED] 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nV5kdpYaC8

>> No.8739397
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8739397

>Man, this whole being alive shit is fucking weird. Is this how it's supposed to be or am I missing something critical?

>> No.8739514

>>8739118
I would read this. Very relatable.

>> No.8739611

>>8736746
An organization of the state identify and tracks potential dissidents, gathering any potential information that can be used for dis and misinformation should they become an 'enemy' of the state

>> No.8739634

A perfectly rational man becomes convinced that Taylor Swift's album 1989 will set off WW3 by exacerbating already poor Indian-Pakistan relations; his assassination attempt of her fails and nuclear holocaust follows shortly thereafter.

>> No.8739656

It is the distant future and """Reality""" has fallen apart into hetero-ontology. The apocalypse has come and gone and people have long since moved on to new tiers. Pages of the Necronomicon are being sent """backwards""" in time by cave-dwellers seeking to disrupt epistemology while an ancient conspiracy of philosophers works to repair the damage. All the while, a trolley is moving with devastating speed towards helpless victims, and a thought policeman is the only one who can stop it, but there is just one problem: he can't violate the categorical imperative. Side-by-side the """past""" versions of the characters begin to receive their Necronomicon pages and work to stop the great mess-up unaware of the true nature of their mission.

>> No.8739834

>>8738956
I think there was an anime like this once.

>> No.8739837

>>8737034
>reader's face when the novel is recursive

>> No.8739841

A civil war reenactment in the remote Appalachians turns serious when they realise the blanks have been replaced with real guns. Preventing each other from leaving, they bunker down for a bloody and violent Winter.

>> No.8739926

a retired e-sports pro sees a vision of one of his past lives as a resident of Aleppo. he becomes determined to journey to the war-torn city, where he eventually uses the tactical wisdom gained through e-sports to lead a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to restore peace to the area.

>> No.8739933

>>8739034
>>at the end of the parade he finds the procession is carrying him to an airfield where another kamikaze plane is waiting for him

I like this a lot.

>> No.8739991

>>8739034
>>8739933
yeah i would read/buy this if it is executed well

>> No.8740000

Man gets sick of work, walks out, walks, continues walking, prose devolves into unintelligible mess, probably (?) dies or something but you can't really tell

>> No.8740007

>>8739926
What is Aleppo?

>> No.8740013

Super humans exist, but maintain extreme character flaws. Follows one who works for the USA and ends with one super erasing all of humanity because someone flashed all of human suffering through his mind. It will be semi-satirical, but I'm not putting much thought into my critiques of modern society so It'll be shit, guaranteed.

>> No.8740398

If Jesus Christ came to save all, then why did Judas need to be damned?

>> No.8740513

the book is actually just an armed explosive trap that detonates when opened, killing anyone in the vicinity

>> No.8740572

A story of two siblings and their childhood friend. One of the siblings commits suicide at the end, I haven't decided yet who.

My second plot idea is a lot more interesting but it's based on ongoing events in my life, which might just be cut short before I even get to start.

>> No.8741331

>>8739034
Airstrip should get nuked afted he takes off.

>> No.8741462

a male turned female gets superpowers as a side effect of transitioning

>> No.8741591

>>8736800
Looks like Kira finally found out about the Rothschild family banks...

>> No.8741800

drunken amchild awiats his friends upcoming novel. The novel is every post in this thread. He does not know his friends but he collects,subconsciously, his friends novel plots and hopes that someday he will enter a Waterstones and see a plot summary on the back of some random book and it will trigger some wild dejavu. "Were all gonna make it, right?"

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>>8736746
Guy follows the bible literally for a whole year.

>> No.8741848
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Poop becomes sentient. Shitokor has arisen.

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>>8736746
In simplest terms: Bucolic journey peppered with philosophical ruminations. I hope to make it a pretty read that inspires.

>>8741462
Rumiko Takahashi did this already.

>> No.8742109

A street magician discovers one day that he can actually make things disappear. A crime boss, who has taken notice of this, forces the magician to put his unusual talent to use working for the mob.

>> No.8742179

>>8736813
Does he wake up with cum on his coat?

>> No.8742194

Antihero called "the Pharmacist" comes to a solemn town in search of people who can help him/her (not sure what the gender should be yet). More specifically, people about to die in unnaturally painful or traumatic ways. The Pharmacist always keeps a purse of pills that will guarantee any people in such situations a peaceful and immediate death-- in return for their soul.

>> No.8742227

>>8742194
>The Pharmacist always keeps a purse of pills that will guarantee any people in such situations a peaceful and immediate death-- in return for their soul's ass virginity.

Made that a little better for you

>> No.8742267

>>8742227
I tried that already, didn't work out so well.

>> No.8742286

An artificial intelligence has replaced the need for democratic elections in america. It can calculate the probabilities of each citizens vote based on statistics and genetics and automatically elects the most likely candidate to win.

>> No.8742289

>>8742286

Shit, also, it continually votes itself into office.

>> No.8742292

>>8742194
Why wouldn't they just kill themselves?

>> No.8742294

>>8737189

100 pages, straight into the trash

>> No.8742296

>>8737323

Star Trek TNG already did it.

>> No.8742483

>>8737442
I think it's really cool, it sounds like a fun read. Admittedly, I'm not really a /lit/izen (I did read Dubliners and Invisible Man though). I would definitely read your book.

>> No.8742584

>>8742292
Don't know if this comment was serious or not since suicide is a meme... But they have no desire to die. They have a need and they live life like anyone else trying to fulfill it-- except the reward is more satisfying than for other people. They sort of thrive on souls. I haven't worked that part of the character out yet, so I'm not quite sure.

>> No.8742626

>>8736746
Why OP is always a fag.

I'm serious. I am writing a book about chan culture.

>> No.8742659

A commoner who wishes only to serve his King and glory of his country enlists as fusilier just in time for a series of really mediocre monarchs to start running his country into the ground with a series of costly and misguided wars of imperialism.

He spends 75 years as a rank and file private fighting for a dying empire, eventually witnessing a bloody revolution of then redeeming his chosen career by serving under the greatest general ever to have lived. He dies at age 108 as a revered hero.

>> No.8742725

Space travellers find an obelisk that telepathically asks them thousands of unanswerable philosophical questions per second, which causes them to fall to the floor and slowly melt onto the floor, like a giant wad of bubble gum that has turned black after being stomped on many times. Instead of avoiding it, the civilization to which the space travellers belong keeps sending increasingly skilled philosopher fighters to rescue the victims/destroy the obelisk. Novel ends when the last citizens of said civilization try one last time to destroy the obelisk, and they all end up going insane.

>> No.8742729

>>8742725
>thousands of unanswerable philosophical questions
What sorts of questions? Can't they just be refuted as SPOOKS?

>> No.8742748

A vigilante zeppelin captain on a gas giant has to moderate between fascist corporate order and pirate chaos to save his planet's civilization. In the end he realizes he has to destroy his civilization's capitol to preserve his way of life, so he does.

>> No.8742755

>>8742729
It starts with personal questions that are relevant to the victim, such as "If your mother wanted the best for you, why were you sad when she died instead of carrying on as usual which made your life worse? The total amount of time and effort you spent on being sad for her amounts to roughly $8542.40, which could have been spent saving 154 children in Africa. If you cede that you were simply sad, then don't you cede that you are an irrational being and cannot be trusted with making decisions for yourself?", then it moves into being more abstract as you can see.

>> No.8742767

>>8742755
>don't you cede that you are an irrational being and cannot be trusted with making decisions for yourself?
I would like to imagine the world's top scientists trying to synthesize some kind of Stirner/Zen hybrid philosophy which would be both unspooked and nonplused by such rhetorical attacks. Whether it is successful is up to you, of course.

>> No.8742790

What I have decided as a cover/quick summary for the moment:

Kalwid, an avian alien on a distant planet known as Xae-Kup-Raeku, has spent his life protecting and leading others. It has chipped away at him, leaving him aged and bitter as he has traveled across the land. Now, in his darkest hour, and the waning days of an apocalyptic era, fates will be changed. Coincidence and luck will provide him the strength and power not only to change his own destiny, but that of his entire planet by right of conquest.

>> No.8742801

>>8742659
Doesn't sound too bad anon.
>>8742725
>last citizens
So what another civ is stomping on them and they are literally the last ones? Or did the civ just kill itself? Either way it sounds a tad comedic.

>> No.8742805

>>8736813
interesting.

>> No.8742806

>>8742767
I think the essence of what I am getting at is that a person has to be perfect/perfectly efficient to be unaffected by the obelisk. The story probably comes from feelings of incompetence/confusion

>> No.8742807

>>8742801
>Doesn't sound too bad anon.
Thanks! It's actually based on a historical character.
Spoiler: The country is France, and the General is Nap

>> No.8742809

>>8742801
No, they just keep sending larger and larger groups to try and deal with the obelisk. Kind of like an unhealthy obsession, like Moby Dick

>> No.8742814

>>8742807
I fucking knew it. Will Nappy conquer Europe and keep it in your story? As should have happened?

>> No.8742821

Guy realizes he can pass through walls like a ghost. Thinks he's going insane so he goes to see a doctor. Doctor prescribes anti-psychotics but also tells the guy an urban legend about a kind of monster that can cause this kind of ghostliness. Guy develops an obsession for finding this monster. Eventually finds the monster at the end but it's ambiguous whether it's real or the guy is just insane.

>> No.8742828

>>8742814
Sadly, MC dies right around the time Nap is in Egypt, so he never sees the final defeat by the Eternal Anglo.

I considered extending MC's life to allow him to go on the invasion of Russia, and then surviving the long march back to Paris, but it just didn't fit, and it was too outlandish.

I'm going for the Starz Spartacus approach to history. Keeping the known, firm dates, battles and places, and embellishing everything else gratuitously.

I'm contemplating if/how much supernatural elements to include. Some kind of Age of Enlightenment quasi-alchemy/medical tech might be interesting, but it's a slippery slope.

>> No.8742834

>>8742821
you should probably have someone other than a doctor tell him the urban legend, no doctor would ever tell some vague bs to someone with a delusion like that. you could maybe even go as far as to cut out the doctor entirely.

as for walking through walls, you should read dreams in the witch house by h p lovecraft. its a short story just do it

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>>8736906
Now sit down and don't open your mouth again.

>> No.8742865

>>8736813
>Can only sleep in movie theatres
What's the conclusion then anon?!?

>> No.8743046

> tragedy
> receive unexpected boon from said tragedy
> feelsgoodandbadman.jpg
> need to move away because of said tragedy
> cautiouslyhopeful.tar.gz
> arrive at new home
> loose boon.
> ?
> profit.

>> No.8743058

>>8736746
A pedophile finds out his homelss friend was molested at a young age and seeks redemption by hunting down what he thinks is a child pimp who turns out to be a police sting

>> No.8743309

>>8741591
Who's Kira?

>> No.8743404

A schizophrenic and an ex-cultist/virtuoso drug farmer meet at the same part of a train track to kill themselves. Instead of killing themselves they grow massive amounts of psychedelics and get involved in international drug trade. They end up somewhat responsible for the collapse of society in the north of England.

>> No.8743412

>>8736746
sixteen yo boy escapes his home, he meets a pedophile, who, like dante's virgil, takes him to a magical journey and initiates him to intelectual and sexual world

>> No.8743429

Bored teen that has grown tired of the degenerate culture of the 21st century meets his soulmate at a house party. The boy and the girl seclude themselves in a bedroom where they proceed to take different drugs and talk. They discover a lot about themselves, the other person and society in general.

>> No.8743473

It's about a secret wizarding society, where the only legal branch of sorcery is dialectics and the Wizard King is Hegel

>> No.8743503

Three POV
A city Merchant, A Peasant Girl in rural village, and a beggar force into banditry

>City Merchant deals with the court and intrigue of a Maritime republic and the abduction of his younger brother. but he has to find who kidnap his brother and try to hire someone who could get him back without being trace back to him

>Peasant Girl contemplates her lot in life and wondering if she would ever leave her rural village and do something different. Has recurring nightmares of herself in situations she doesn't understand. She meets the Adventurer hired by the City Merchant one day in the lord's forest.

>beggar force into banditry was once a travelling peddler who lost everything due to bandits taking robbing him and was force to beg on the streets living on alms. he was pressured in taking this kidnapping job in the small chance he could become a travelling peddler again.

>> No.8743517

>>8737750
Sausage and melted cheese sandwiches are consumed a lot more by us teaboos, desu xxx Bacon sandwiches are eaten heavily in some areas and not others as Brit Bong bacon taste like linings of a sewer, unscrubbed and left to permeate with itself uhhhhhh yucky!!!

>> No.8743519

>>8743517
Do you put marmalade in your sausage?

>> No.8743548

An anthropologist goes and studies a secluded tribe and slowly falls into their ways. He tries to hold onto modern attitudes and modern life but the primordial call of humanity at its purest is too much to resist.

>> No.8743551

>>8743429
that sounds so gay.

>> No.8744314

A story about a witch called Sarah who's a genius, an immortal sharkman god called dakuwnaga and a man named Satrio Piningit who does many maricles across the land, helping everyone in need. And he,s also a serial killer.

>> No.8744329

>>8742179
wh...what?

>>8742805
thanks m8

>>8742865
I'm not sure about it. My main idea is not original at all but I can't find anything better: he spends all his time in movie theaters because the lack of sleep drives him crazy. He loses his job, his friends, and the movie theater won't let him in because he's fucking weird. His lack of sleep makes him lose his mind. He kills himself.

>> No.8744333

>>8743548
Like Hearts of Darkness meets Jungle Fever?

>> No.8744351

>>8736746
A late-teens girl with PSAS/PGAD and a history of sexual abuse at the hands of her father is just getting into College though is cripplingly anti-social and has a lot of issues. A man towards the end of his College life meets her, manages to find a way to communicate with the girl he had accidentally frightened, and tries to open her up so as to enjoy life. They have some conflicting problems.

>> No.8744578

Victorian era
The King has 3 sons, the older and the middle one die. After the king's death the youngest son, that everyone thought was too weak to rule, reveals himself as a master of politics and strategy.

He takes control of the UK after taking down a prime minister who wished to use him as puppet. Then the new king declares war against europe with the objective to be it's master.

>> No.8744637

>>8744578
>it's
I suggest you to learn English first.

>> No.8744644

>>8744578

>Victorian Era
>King

congratulations, you played yourself

>> No.8744648

>>8744637
I'll just pay some translator

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>>8744578
Impossible to have a king in the Victorian Era

>> No.8745886

>>8744578
>declares war against Europe
Like against thirty or so countries at once?
Or he just invades France and goes from there.

>> No.8745996

>>8736746
Man with a crippling fear of life after death overcomes his phobia but develops an attachement to the real world along the way. He is morally crushed when he discovers he cant kill himself for entirely different reasons such as guilt and peer pressure, and feels as if he's betrayed himself as he fails to stop his metamorphisis into a different and much more mundane person.

>> No.8746083

>>8736813
Does he go crazy, dye his hair red, and shoot up movie theaters? A little art imitating life this time around, huh?

>> No.8746089

>>8736746
more of a short story but...

>set slightly in the future
>have a couple where the husband is very abusive and unhappy with his wife
>he reads about mail-order robot brides that are supposed to be "the perfect wife"
>he orders one and begins assembling it in secret
>when it's finished he kicks his wife out of the house
>continues to be abusive toward the robot wife, but this new robot doesn't care because it's just a machine
>he is still slightly creeped out at the idea of living with a robot, especially since it seems to stare at him as if analyzing him
>one day he notices in the mirror that he has strange markings on the back of his neck
>meanwhile, the robot asks seemingly innocuous questions that make him think about the reasons he wanted to abandon his wife
>realizes that maybe he didn't abandon her because she displeased him, maybe deep down he felt sorry for her, so he wanted a wife without emotions that he could be abusive toward--but he quickly erases any idea of apologizing to his wife or trying to be a better person
>one day moves to strike at the robot wife during these questions and finds that he hesitates at first
>the next day he gets in an argument with the robot but finds he can't bring himself to harm it
>robot wife pulls out a taser-like apparatus and begins to shock him
>he can't fight back
>wife returns and she reveals that she knew about the robot all along and secretly programmed it and modified its hardware so she could remotely control it, had it implant mind control technology in his brain (the markings on his neck are stitches where it surgically placed the implants in his brain) over time
>now the tables have turned and he is essentially her slave, and it is physically impossible for him to ever fight back because of the mind control implants

I was inspired by watching Black Mirror :P.

>> No.8746091

>>8736839
>Here's the twist: he actually died, the temporal wound was God

There, I figured it out for you. Now don't write it

>> No.8746095

>>8743429
This is a joke right?

>> No.8746100

>>8744644
>>8745873
Not him, but what about Alfred? Granted, he died pretty early on, but he WAS King while Queen Victoria was Queen, was he not? It's a thought...

>> No.8746105

>>8737025
Just bread and bacon? No condiments to speak of? What a deranged figure! The townsmen are right to be on their guard! I I cluck my tongue at the thought of vagrant and unreasonable lunacy myself.

>> No.8746111

>>8737034
Sounds like Oscar-bait shit or something good. Execute it well, or else it's gonna be as retarded as it sounds

>> No.8746122

>>8737081
Sounds cool, but the hiding in cities of artistic importance sounds dumb as hell, I think. Too obvious and boring. You shouldn't prefigure these things so easily

>> No.8746123

>>8744329
I think the story needs more complexity, so it's actually interesting.

Although if you were planning on writing a short story, it would work perfectly.

>> No.8746129

Guy somehow gets sent back in time to 1933 with a laptop including the portable version of Wikipedia. He convinces Hitler that he is cool and stuff and gives the nazis all sorts of advanced technologies. Why did he do that? As it turns out aliens come conquering earth in 2020 and a unified earth government is the only way to stop them. It's about moral issues and stuff, and all of that shit. And nazis of course, nazis in space.

>> No.8746131

>>8739121
how do you write a sociopath

>> No.8746135

>>8746129

>What if the nazis won?

Wow...that's fucking groundbreaking man. Nobody has fucking done anything similar, ever before! you're going to be a billionaire bro. Get Matt Damon to star in the movie series!

>> No.8746151

>>8745873
Queen Victoria was a male crossdresser, please read some history books

>> No.8746153

>>8738920
You ever judge someone by the pictures they use to represent themselves in some way? I'm doing that.

>> No.8746154

The worlds most popular conspiracy theorist is only in it for the money. In giving out his daily report of news one day the show cuts off, all power goes out. His crowdfunded studio is raided as the government tries to find out who sent him top secret info... He's intercepted by the guy (Kevin Smith) (400lb hacker) who brings him into an elite world of hackers uncovering the biggest find of their life.... Lizard People are REAL this 2017.

Starring Alex Jones, Jonah Hill, Kevin Smith, Paul Blart Mall Cop, That Fat black guy from hot tub time machine, and Tom Hanks.

>> No.8746158

>>8743429
Swap 21st for 20th century and you got the story of Lennon and Yoko

>> No.8746163

>>8746089
Man he sure got his comeuppance!
Really will make em' think!
And such an amazing, unpredictable twist too!

>> No.8746173

Autist and his autistic girlfriend play video games with Steve Ballmer

>> No.8746175

>>8738956
what's with you and cubes?

>> No.8746180

>>8740398
He hung himself in a graveyard lol

>> No.8746183

>>8740398
Because he was a cunt

>> No.8746187

>>8746131
The easiest way is to be one yourself, but that goes for any other mental condition. Just research it thoroughly and develop your character with the condition in mind.

>> No.8746197

>>8737442
>It's an "other people have feeling too" episode

>> No.8746202

Alternative news reporter loses his position at Vice-esque firm. Decides to write an investigative report about his penetration of the underground pedophilia community. Ends up interviewing pedophiles, CP "stars", and even attends a pedophile convention which rivals in size and money to most mainstream adult entertainment conventions.

>> No.8746258

Five 14 year olds, two dudes three chicks all take a ballet class together and become great friends. As time progresses and they each become more and more involved in ballet, tensions between them increase. Some start taking drugs and others cheat their friends out of auditions. The haze of drugs and cheating finally give one of them to realize that ballet was consuming all of them. He approaches them to quit attacking each other and try to embrace and uphold each other. They assume he is simply trying to get a dance he doesn't want them to be part of, this causes a rift between him and the other ballet people, making him sink into a deep sadness, finally dying because one of their friends gave him laced drugs. This causes a huge break done of the entire social group and makes them truly examine the social dynamics of pressure, competition and happiness. After much soul searching and thinking they all proceed to go back to their lives of drugs and cheating except for one of them.

>> No.8746307

>>8744351
Nothing? I'd post a link to one of the covers, but I don't know if it'd get flagged for NSFW. Both paperback and eReader feature nude women.

>> No.8746338

>>8746307
Dude that is bad.

Sounds like the wet dream book of every feminist everywhere. Especially when you probably add the ending where the dude ends up going to the chicks dad's house and confronting him.

>> No.8746359

>>8746307
Fuck, I meant just posting the pic, rather than 'post a link', but whatever.
>>8746338
Well see, one of the reasons why she's fucked up is because even though her father routinely raped her, he tried to do so 'gently'. So now, she can't really have gentle sex because it reminds her of him, so she needs to get smacked around. If she's not struck, she gets like... I dunno how to describe it, sort of PTSD I guess? Also, she aborted her brother/son when the father got her pregnant. Father is in prison. He is never confronted. Also, for reasons, the guy isn't cool with slapping/hitting women, but also doesn't want her to get all fucked in the head for being reminded of her father, so must take on the role of being rough with her. He has experience with an old ex-girlfriend he had who had a rape fetish, which is similar to what the main female character has, so he's fine with that, but just not the hitting part.

>> No.8746647

>>8746202
sounds cool desu

>> No.8746717

>>8736746
Idealist-liberal protagonist tries to rule with honor. Is taken advantage of geo-politically and scorned as weak by the people. Drifts into machiavellianism, realpolitik, book burning, witch hunts, autocracy

>> No.8746729

>>8746258
really gay and really overdone

>> No.8746751

>>8743412
That reminds me of the concluding speeches in Plato's Symposium.

An unattractive dude attends a Yoga class filled with flexible, attractive girls clad in yoga pants and inspirational T's for a school requirement. Each week, the class gets more and more demeaning and the instructor more and more cruel until a nightmarish class when he's forced to do a pose which hospitalizes him. He reflects on his experiences in the hospital and feels anger and contempt towards the woman in his class, a marked departure from his usual feelings of inadequacy when he watches them in class.

>> No.8746831

>>8737034
I literally read something like this is a Lit Anal class but as a short story

Also plot twist the novella is written by an AI and you have an amazing book would buy

>> No.8746866

>>8739226
What themes is it exploring?

>> No.8746877

>>8743429
This is a meme but I'd read a novel that was literally just the whole stream of consciousness of two people in a room together that just met and want to fuck but talk about shit as well.
If that makes me John Green-tier than Butter my biscuit and dip dicks in my cheerios.

>> No.8746940

An epistolary novel (letters are delivered by ravens or some other bird) where a young, highly devout Tibetian monk must carry his old and recently deceased mentor's corpse to the top of a particular sacred mountain in order to perform sky burial. However, he corresponds with people from back in his village, and hears about the people falling away from religion and into decadence and fighting with each other. Meanwhile, he encounters obstacles on his journey, and time and harsh weather eat away at his master's corpse before he can reach the top of the mountain, just as the MC's faith erodes away as he hears about his beloved home being torn apart.

>> No.8746987

>>8737034
Yooo

>> No.8747139

>>8739118
Yeah this is called 'portnoy's complaint'

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>>8746202
>pedophile convention

>> No.8747232

>>8746359
This is fucking retarded and sounds like your personal fantasy desu

>> No.8747235

>>8746154
Sounds fucking amazing
No joke would be a 10/10 comedy

>> No.8747265

>>8747235
>No joke would be a 10/10 comedy
Pessimistic my man.

>> No.8747294

>>8747232
I think it's a pretty well done story, and reminds me of Year of the Hare in how it sort of involves various places and events with characters that show up every now and then. There's also a part where the protagonist is more or less forced to fuck a middle-aged twink, even though he doesn't want to cheat on the girl he was in a developing relationship with. If it was a personal fantasy of mine, it would have gone differently, though I'd be lying if I said I don't find the concept overall fairly hot, except for the whole 'abortion of her son/brother' bit. That's pretty fucked up, but is one of the reasons why she's so messed up. Also, by the end of the novella, it's still rather unsure if things will work out for them. Oh, shit, I didn't even address the fact that she's only starting College while he's almost finished it. Damn, I wonder what would happen then. Perhaps I'll make a sequel someday.

I love the way they initially communicate though. As mentioned before, he accidentally frightens her (not a difficult thing to accomplish, granted), and she's barely able to speak verbally with people. She can, but it's hardily a conversation, just mutter brief little answers, almost as though someone trying to talk to her is like she's being interrogated by some less-than-reputable cops. So, since they meet at a pub, he writes something down on one of those cardboard coasters. She ends up replying in that manner, and so wordlessly, even without really looking at one another, they have this discrete little conversation. That method shows up once or twice throughout the book, but by the end, they're talking more-or-less normally.

Anyways, your opinion is your own, and that's fine, but I think it's a conflicting, yet touching story. Being from /k/ and having a love for firearms, it was kind of inevitable to end up having at least ONE part of the book involving firearms. It doesn't turn out all that well. I mean, I like how it turns out, as the writer, but the effect it had was rather interesting. Sort of aided in showing how the PSAS (which he playfully calls her 'pizazz' rather than her 'P.S.A.S' or 'piss-ass'). Hah, oh yeah, I forgot, I even added a golden shower scene, but it's in a shower so you know, it's basically on her and then runs right off. I'm not into piss AT ALL, but thought I'd experiment. Neither of them end up particularly liking it, but it certainly accentuates how she's pretty much incapable of being in a normal relationship, because she needs stuff like this to happen, even if she doesn't like it. It's the only way that she can accept him, even though he doesn't want to do it, and neither does he.

I can see why you'd find it quite stranger, or 'retarded', but I truly think it's a well done little novella, and has a lot of things going on.

>> No.8747299

>>8747294
You're giving an utterly insane amount of credit to a non existent thing. The girls entire back story is just a convoluted and contrived mess to justify brutally raping her over and over. Not to mention the base concept is utterly retarded. He rapes her gently so she hates gentle sex but loves getting choked and called a slut? It literally is a retarded idea.

>> No.8747331

>>8747299
Haha, well to each their own. Year of the Hare's backstory for the protagonist was simply that he was in a shitty marriage and had shitty friends. Then while driving with a buddy, they hit a hare, injuring it and breaking its leg. Buddy drives off, and the protagonist more or less goes on an adventure with said hare, going to various different places, meeting various different people, and all-in-all it's just jumping from one situation/scenario to another. A book, a novella in particular, doens't have to have a huge amount of backstory. She's fucked up, he scares her, sympathizes with her, she says a 'friend' tells her to go meet people so she decides to try a pub, and later admits that this 'friend' is her psychologist. Also turns out that she's suicidal and had an attempt within the time they've known each other. Across for attention and long-way for results? She went the long way, but luckily had not gone deeply enough. This all the more makes him want to try and help her to enjoy life.

You can consider it retarded, that's fine, but I'm proud of it. It's certainly far from conventional, but I believe it's far from bad too. Lucky for me, people have different outlooks. 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' and all that. 'One man's trash is another man's treasure'. Well this is trash to you, but I treasure it, and I believe there are others out there who would also enjoy it. So what's your book idea, anon?

>> No.8747344

>>8746359
>I dunno how to describe it, sort of PTSD I guess?
That just sounds so promising. Really well thought out.
>>8747294
>>8747331
Where you keep saying Year of the Hare you probably should be saying Nouveau Roman, although looking at that pos above you likely just mean vignettes.

>> No.8747347

3 brothers and their greedy dad show how not to solve inheritence disputes.

>> No.8747387

>>8747344
Having looked up the definition for both Nouveau Roman and vignettes, it would seem that Nouveau Roman is indeed what I ended up going with. While I was writing, that book Year of the Hare had come to mind eventually, which would seem to be a Nouveau Roman novel (written in the 70s by a Finnish fellow who's name I will probably never successfully memorise). Like Year of the Hare by Arto whatsisname, there are various events that take place, however I think I did well in not leaving too many loose ends. Even the issue with the middle-aged twink fellow is more or less resolved before the end.

As for PTSD, I did not use that term in the novella as I recall. She just gets kind of freaked out, so I made a quick-and-dirty attempt to explain it by simply referencing to it as 'sort of PTSD'. She had been routinely fucked by her father, without protection, while he tried to pass it off as 'loving', and ultimately had to abort an incestuous child while her father (and the father of her aborted child) went to prison. I think 'sort of PTSD' is a fair way to more-or-less describe the state of mind she gets in when reminded of what had happened.

>> No.8747456
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>>8736746
>i have writer's block /lit/
>gimme ideas to steal

How many people saw ideas they posted in 4chan published somewhere?(be it self/publishing house)

>> No.8747480

>>8747456
there a famous example on /a/: Keit-ai, or cellphone love.
It's about a couple communicating with each other through dimensions in an attempt to help the other one to fall in love with their alternate universe counterpart.

My story:
Robots love logic.

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In a world where all women are extinct, the Mid-wife - an agent hired to track down impregnable males - must find and capture an 11 year old boy.

>> No.8747605

>>8747573
I feel like this could be a very strange description of a Plato dialogue desu.

>> No.8747670

>>8747573
I'd like to write a book about where women have been birthing almost only females for DECADES to the point that the large male population is beginning to dwindle. There's barely any males under the age of 70, in fact the government had to get involved to decide where the males can live to space them out as much as possible so that the maximum amount of women have access to them. From there, i dunno. Is their job to impregnate women who wish to have children? Are they allowed to have a normal relationship? I don't really know how the story can go, but I find it to be a very interesting basis, even though it's basically just 'last man on Earth' type of thing. Meh, I'll keep it in the back of my mind and see if I can figure out a way to make it interesting. Perhaps the protagonist gets utterly sick of fucking all the time, even chicks he dislikes, and decides to abandon civilization and go innawoods. Could be interesting.

Maybe there's even a point where there's reference to a boy as young as 12 who is being routinely abused by women who wish to have children, but the Police won't do anything about it because of such-and-such a fucked up law. Though it sounds like a male's paradise, make it into a pretty rotten place to live.

>> No.8747672

Boy falls in love with a whore after losing his virginity to her. He compares his life to the whole
evolution of western civilization and realizes his life is nothing compared to the rest of the world but means everything to him.

>> No.8748127

>>8736746
guy who tries to become /lit/ meet a normie girl who tries to get him published. When she succeeds, he kills himself.

>> No.8748329

>>8748127
This is what I would like my diary to be like desu

>> No.8748341

>>8747672
Shitty self-insert lol

>> No.8748548

>>8746089
Damn. I guess all those racist, sexist, misogynistic pieces of shit are gonna learn a lesson.

#ImWithHer

>> No.8749318

>>8747331
Release the book on /lit/ so we can read it and trash it

>> No.8749348

Anime Dresden Files, set in a college town, with the goal of stopping a Lovecraftian entity from entering their dimension. Yeah, it's genre fiction and I don't give a shit. I'm making it as literary as possible, tho

>> No.8749470

>>8737153
This sounds fucking stupid.

>> No.8749486

>>8737153
This sounds fucking retarded but I'd still spend time and money to read it out of curiosity so you've succeeded.

>> No.8749504

Two superfluous men living and working in Argentina during the economic collapse befriend each other and decide to become international drug smugglers. They then manage to bumble their way to the North of Brazil with a stolen car, horses, buses, boats and two kilos of cocaine, before they get robbed by blacks. With nothing left to show for their efforts, left without any money and facing homelessness, they join a cult. Then they pull one last robbery and steal enough money from the cult's leader to buy plane tickets home, effectively giving up on their dreams of international intrigue and fortune.

>> No.8749516

The Illuminati is a wacky AI council consisting of an off-brand Gameboy, an out-of-control speech system+wheelchair similar to that of Stephen Hawkings, some other dudes, and a smart phone.

The off-brand Gameboy falls in love with a small Taiwanese boy.

>> No.8749521

>>8749318
I think I'll pass. Constructive criticism is great, but I've seen how people like to shit on everything in /lit/. I've not seen much honest criticism of stuff, but a whooooole lot of, to sum it up, 'kys'.

>> No.8749538

a toothless priest get's entangled in a conspiracy within the Lutheran church. also he can see people's auras, but only when he eats dried papaya fruit.

>> No.8749615

>>8739263
Read the Things They Carried. May change your mind.

>> No.8749685

A memoir (read: diary) disguised as a literary criticism of confessional works (poetry, music, memoirs, etc.).

>> No.8749695

>>8747670
A Boy and his Dog

>> No.8749704

>>8749470
>>8749486
It's a very terrible idea. That's exactly why I have to write it. Taking a shitty concept and making it good is my intent.

>> No.8749722

>>8749704
You doing this for fun or to make a profit?

>> No.8749759

>>8749722
For fun. I think maybe an idea like this has some "what the fuck?" marketability but I'd never write anything with that kind of cynicism. One of my favourite feelings when reading is the dislocation you get from an absurd premise fleshed out seriously, and so far this one is proving to be a refreshing way to write about the Cold War, /k/-tier military fetishism and the history of the People's Republic of China, etc.

>> No.8749937

>>8749695
Oh, what's that book about?

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A young woman named Harper with severe mental illness becomes obsessed with a woman from one of her support groups, who happens to be engaged. The downward spiral only becomes steeper when the other woman falls in love with her, too.

>> No.8750053

>>8750040
Has all the right elements to get published: women and love.

>> No.8750108

>>8737095
I didn't realize we could post non-fiction ideas

>> No.8750415

>>8737034
That's pretty good.

>>8737323
Decent.

>>8737371
That's like wanting to make a porn where people don't fuck.

>>8738783
Future lit prices winner.

>>8738992
1 is pretty good if you hit the right tone.

>>8739034
On the more decent side.

>>8739204
Why not.

>>8739634
Not too bad.

>>8739926
Some faggot will turn this into anime.

>>8741462
Easy money.

>>8742109
I almost like this.

>>8743412
Could be interesting.

>>8746154
Maybe as a movie.

>> No.8750613

An African negress accidentally encounters a white Portuguese conquistador while she is hunting a boar. They become infatuated with each other and eventually start having sex. Later on in the story she ends up killing him.

>> No.8750848

>>8743309
Its a reference to Death Note, a pretty fun anime

>> No.8751176

>>8737189
join my slack group and i'll read your shit

>> No.8751183

>>8737744
roughly fate/stay night

>> No.8751196

now-forgotten elizabethan playwright runs off to sea with his mentor (a schoolteacher and oxford historian) after his wife dies in childbirth, generally sees a lot of the c.1600 mediterranean world and explores the divisions between western & eastern culture

in ottoman lands he meets an english pirate who converts to islam to marry a girl that the playwright ends up infatuated with as she reminds him of his dead wife. he then writes a butthurt play about the pirate

all the characters just mentioned (and the play) are real, came across them researching my undergraduate dissertation

>> No.8751201

>>8751183
hopefully it won't turn out that way

>> No.8751292

>>8736746
the dude dies

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>>8740513
I'd read it tbqh

>> No.8752878

Everyone is a faggot but main character, at the end it turns out that main character is also a colossal faggot.

>> No.8752880

>>8752878

my diary desu

>> No.8752882

>>8752878
10/10 would read.

>> No.8753035

>>8736746

It's a word for word copy of Blood Meridian but the characters have wacky names.

>The Judge
>Sir Bottompants

>> No.8753993

>>8737034
EPICAC by Vonnegut

>> No.8754026

>>8753993
And another dream dies.