/lit/ - Literature

>>19450498
It's three books. The first is Panther Pride and its riddled with amateur mistakes, but its a story of middle schoolers rioting and taking over their school. They split into two factions, the jocks who just want to have fun and piss off the authorities, and the nerds, who want to draft a list of complaints and demand reform. Conservatives and liberals, with the extremist moderates represented by the school faculty and law enforcement who are laying siege to the school, determined to preserve the status quo at all costs. It took me three years to write this one, and its 120,000 words. It will be 60,000 when I'm done editing, because a lot of the themes were better expressed in my next two novels.

The second was called The Savage Green. Its a story of a paramilitary contractor who is hired to recover a rogue scientist from the Florida Panhandle. It was more or less inspired by bullshit that I posted on /x/, pic related was reposted to reddit, which inspired me to spin it out into a novel. The result is a highly-experimental structure, switching between the protagonist's journey through the swamps of the panhandle, and his coworker's recollections from his youth in Florida, which are told in the form of letters which become increasingly more nostalgic and absurd. It's incredibly complex but if the ending lands then I believe it will go down in history alongside Catch-22 in terms of absurdist/surrealist fiction and social commentary. If you post regularly in /wg/, you might have seen excerpts. I originally thought about tying it into the first one, because they are both set in Florida in the early 2000's, but ultimately decided not to. It is around 68,000 words and I began writing it in January of this year.

The final is my nanowrimo project, which is called Modem Waves. Basically its just nostalgia for my early-20's doomer /pol/tard years, when I was nostalgic for my time serving in the army, mixed with some early 2000's nostalgia I have been experiencing lately. The plot is that an event known as The Dump (a massive infodump containing the personal information of every American citizen, including internet browsing history) triggers a complete breakdown of society. The protagonist spends a few months wandering around with random mobs, smashing technology and foraging for food before he discovers a recruiting poster for the Olympic Scouts, A US-government funded militia which aims to restore order to the Pacific Northwest. There are flashbacks to his basic training and the failed offensive to liberate the capital from the activist groups which are claiming authority in the region, but mostly its about the present, wherein the narrator finds himself the victim of a carjacking at the hands of his old squadmate's younger sister. She hopes to use his vehicle to launch an insurrection to restore the glory of the "uphill 20's," which she believes was a time of unparalleled social cohesion in the face of covid.

Does any of this sound good?