/lit/ - Literature

>>7560424
>>7560435
I will get it published to Lulu like Hypersphere was.

I will be donating all revenue to what ever charity you guys want.

>>7560392
You'll be credited as Anonymous. Nobody will get their name credited, the only author and contributor will be "Anonymous".

>>7560353
Yeah, those I'll keep, they're pretty good.

>>7560336
Since those short stories were written before the topic was decided, I felt that they were no long relevant, so I've removed them

I don't plan on removed anymore that are currently in the file, although one or two don't have much to do with either DFW or Zizek.

New thread

>>7560292
>>7560292
>>7560292

Alright guys! So we're off a great start! We've chosen the type of text that the project will, we've chosen what the topic will be, and we've chosen who it will be about. Now we can start writing!

So, just to recap everything:

This project will be a short story collection.

The topic is:
"Pick one figure, real or fictional, whom we all admire, and write a collection of short stories some how revolving around that figure, tying it together in a single round of editing at the end.
The stories don't even have to feature that figure as a character per se, just be related to the figure even tangentially.
I'm thinking something like Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, different tales of the same people, strung together in time."

And the figures that we will write about are David Foster Wallace and Slavoj Zizek.

Now, we can also add in a third figure if you guys want, but DFW and Zizek are the main guys.

Here is a link to the current Google Doc that we are working from: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L10Cbgj7CUEAe1-LwwNfYY1BkVaO8x976IkAtcL1Ll4/edit#

And here is a link to the previous thread if you'd like to read through it: >>7546342

So now all we need, but isn't terribly important right now, is a book title.

>>7560173
No problem anon.

And yep, with every new thread I make I'll add a link to the previous one.

>>7560142
Oh, I see, very interesting title.

>>7559908
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>>7559275
Eh? The Quran is pretty poetic.

Alright guys, so for the strawpolls, it seems that DFW is going to win. Although, people have voted that they want two or more figures to talk about in the book, that has 4 votes in the poll whereas the option to talk about one person has three.

People have expressed an interest in Zizek, so I think that we'll most likely discuss DFW and Zizek, as they seem to be good choices.

We will need one more though, and Tao Lin is next on the list of people that have a background in literature, and he's got one vote.

I've decided that the figures of interest will be David Foster Wallace and Zizek. We can add a third person if you guys want, but as of right now those two are the main guys.

Here are a few posts showing the type of project this will be:

>>7547391
>>7555138
>>7559081
>>7556065
>>7556415

So this means that now we can properly start writing this thing! I will be making a new thread very soon dedicated to the Google Doc and I will prove all the information necessary.

The last thing that we need, but isn't terribly important right now, is the title of the book.

Alright guys! So the poll has been up for some time, and David Foster Wallace is winning by one vote, with Anonymous coming second. Now, people have expressed their opinion that we should do Zizek, and others said that we shouldn't have Anonymous in it at all.

I personally agree with the second opinion, but if you guys don't just let me know. I'll create a strawpoll here, and I'll ask you guys whether you want to have the book be about one person, or more than one.

Here's the strawpoll: http://strawpoll.me/6482990

So yeah, there's that, although a lot of the votes are all even, so if we want to talk about, say, DFW, Zizek, and Tao Lin, Lin will need at least one more vote since he's tied with Trump, Bane, and NEETs. Here's the strawpoll for deciding who it will be about: http://strawpoll.me/6476027

>>7558811
I've made it so you can't simply edit anything without needing my "approval". That way, I can stop anyone from deleting everything or adding stupid, irrelevant things.

>>7558819
We already have a google doc open, here's the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L10Cbgj7CUEAe1-LwwNfYY1BkVaO8x976IkAtcL1Ll4/edit

>>7558876
My real name is Ishmael, and I liked him more than Ahab t͏͏b͏͏h.

>>7559081
Yeah, we've had that idea talked about. It could be very interesting and if we do it right, it could end up looking good.

>>7557791
I'll admit, I'm at a loss as to what we could possibly write about Anonymous that won't be full of memes and just look plain terrible.

At least with DFW, if I can maintain a level of seriousness, we can write something worthwhile about him because he's a genuinely good author and something can definitely be written about him, especially by /lit/.

>>7557598
>how Melville was a pauper when he died

I can't help but feel sad for him every time I look at my copy of Moby-Dick. He created such a masterpiece, and the stupid Brits couldn't appreciate it's magnificence and forced this opinion of negativity onto Americans when it reached the American public.

Alright guys! So, this might be the second last or last update in this thread before making a new one, because after deciding what type of text the project will be, and what the topic will be, we are now voting on who the figure will be.

Now, there have been some suggestions to discuss more than one figure, or have multiple and have their stories weaved together by the plot.

Here's one post with the idea: >>7556065
And here's another adding onto the first post >>7556415

As for the current strawpoll, David Foster Wallace and Anonymous are at a tie, with 4 votes each. So, you guys can decide whether you'd want short stories dedicated to one figure, or short stories, each as a chapter, dedicated to a different figure, and of course we can have the same figure in more than one short story/chapter.

Here's a link to the strawpoll: http://strawpoll.me/6476027

>>7557326
Yeah, I hope it won't be too difficult. I want to keep it small, and try to keep the standard of quality above shit.

>>7557318
No need to resort to reddit-posting, anon. I just didn't visit this board until the start of 2015 because I never noticed it.

>>7557302
I wasn't here for Tundra, and I was here half-way through Hypersphere.

I don't know how it worked for other people with Hypersphere, but I simply put my work into the Google Doc and it just stayed there through to release. So I guess it's a collaborative work, and that's how this will one work.

>>7557246
Are you talking about Tundra/Hypersphere?

>>7556203
I don't plan on profiting off of this, just a fun project to work on with you guys.

And if we actually get to the point where I actually publish this and people buy it, I'll gladly donate all the profits to whatever charity you guys want me to.

>>7556130
Very new. Yeah, I didn't mean that 5 anons would write 25 pages each, that definitely wouldn't work.

I also wanted to keep it to about 100 or so pages, something small. Doesn't really matter how many "figures" we talk about if we end up with your idea, but we'll want the sizes for each of their chapters to be evenly split.

>>7556065
This is a good idea, anon. If we write a chapter each for about five or so characters, with each having 25 or so pages, that'd make a good 100 or so pages.

But, it'd have to be 25 pages of good content.

>>7556070
I can't seem to find the link to the pdf file that was on the website for the book.

>>7556048
What we're currently working on, or the Hypersphere/Tundra?

Here's a link to the current google doc of what we're working on:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L10Cbgj7CUEAe1-LwwNfYY1BkVaO8x976IkAtcL1Ll4/edit