/lit/ - Literature

>>20681401
Sadly, the language barrier prevents me from posting any work here since you wouldn't be able to read it.
The basic premise of the book is that an irreligious journalist begins to study a Christian fringe group (a YEC congregation) and over the course of the book he and his primary contact with the group, the manager of their website, begin to question their own views, ultimately almost reversing positions with the journalist experiencing a spiritual awakening and becoming born again while the other person loses his faith and leaves the group to begin living a normal life.
Since before I started writing it I had figured out the trajectories of their beliefs and what would cause the changes, but the book has just been growing as I branch into other people around them, exploring interpersonal relationships. The Christian MC is just entering into a relationship with someone new to the faith and it's through her confusion and questioning that he himself finally begins to reexamine the fidelity of his beliefs, the atheist MC is in a long-lasting relationship where the woman is the breadwinner since his freelance status and lack of connections often leaves him without regular income, which results in a sort of crisis of masculinity and finding a certain comfort in the "man is the head of the household" style of things afforded by Christian conservatism, which leads to him finding it appealing. The eventual religious experience that causes him to make the leap from cultural Christianity to actually becoming born again is also starting to be set up as early as chapter 3.
I'm trying my best to be evenhanded with both sides, so that it doesn't seem like I'm favoring either position. To start with one MC is a Christian and one is an atheist for the wrong reasons, and by the end they're an atheist and a Christian for the right reasons, if that makes sense.
Also there's a scene of a person masturbating to Robert Crumb's Genesis since it's the closest thing to porn they have access to, and another scene of a person following orders God gave in the Book of Ezekiel and cooking his food over a fire of burning human feces. So there is that.
There's also the flashbacks. The Christian MC has very extensive flashbacks to his childhood and adolescence, for a total of 5 chapters (finished 4 so far) that explain how he ended up in the YEC congregation. I also have one flashback chapter for the other MC that's triggered after he accidentally calls his gf by someone else's name during sex, which results in hilarity.
And then there's the Don Quixote parody of the guy who is trying to prevent wind turbines from being set up in the local area due to the harm they do to bats, part of the journalist MC's crisis of masculinity comes from trying to help him with some carpentry and failing miserably and humiliatingly at even hammering in nails. That chapter was one of my favorites.
All in all I'm enjoying this work immensely, I just don't feel like it's worth a damn.

Excellent job on the text, OP.
I couldn't have done it better myself.

>>20477137
Yep...happened last night.
I just get up & write down everything I'm thinking of.
It's the only way I can get my mind to quiet down so I can sleep.

>>20454802
I dunno...have a bunch of Irishmen seething at him during the big hen sale?
Or trying to steal his merchandise?
When confronted, they say stealing from a damn Chinaman doesn't count?

Then you can have a plot development where insects are ruining the Irishpeople's potato crop?
And the solution is to let chickens loose to eat the bugs and fertilize the soil with their poop?

I'm just spitballing here.

>>20451453
I don't do any of these things. I only write about THE ACE OF SPACE
THE ACE OF SPACE
THE ACE OF SPACE