/lit/ - Literature

I have a really REALLY good and unique idea for a setting, but no ideas for characters, a plot, or central conflict.

How do I proceed? Should I just write and see where I end up in 1500 pages?

I tried reading the Iliad and got bored during the second book. The characters are talking too much about every little bullshit there is. I went to wikipedia and read the synopses of the rest of the books. I also day dream while reading and find out I read through multiple lines without noticing so I always have to go back and re read. Am I too much of a brainlet for /lit/erature? I thought about listening to an audiobook while reading the text along.

>finally read it
>don't want to talk about it because people will think I'm a pretentious dickhead

Hi. I'm going to write a story about a guy that's been a depressed robot for a few years who meets a failed normie 17/18 year old girl who's mentally ill and has abusive parents. I kind of want to give the robot an illness that he hides from the girl and he kinda helps her out with getting a Chad that she's liked for a while and living a normal life despite it hurting him because he likes her.

Sounds good? What could make it more dramatic?


DONT CRITICIZE ME
WE ALL START SOMEWHERE
I'm A 19 year old grill and I love YA

>>8710230
>tfw two smart too live

>poetry is deep

poetry is the most shallow fluff art in existence. every single one revolves around a cliche: "i am sad" or "i hate thing" or "christian acceptance" or "winter is pretty"

the only deep part is the extremely complicated and complex nuance in the poem, but even that is better described as "difficult" and not "deep"

>tfw want to enjoy literature but have an 85 IQ and cant understand most of it

ok

>Joseph Conrad masterfully wrote stories-within-stories in his third language
>I can barely write a shopping list