/lit/ - Literature

>>20651739
Live a bit longer and think about your life, it might be more compelling than you think. In the meantime read or listen to more stories, use your imagination.
>>20650788
>dark academica
Chopin's nocturnes are some of my favorites.

I've seen so much writing progress this month in words written and also the degree of intertextuality. Feel like I'm gmi.

>>19485986
His screaming didn't influence my writing, it just annoyed me for a year. He was born deaf and has autism. Goes out walking his dogs and riding his bike. He frequently makes bizarre howling noises that start low and rise to a screech. The first time I heard it, I thought it was a wolf's howl. I've heard some forlorn howls that sound like it, but one day I saw it was just this adult in a ragged hoodie with disheveled hair and unsteady bearing.
You can hear him cry out as early as 5am or as late as 11pm. If he sees you outside, you can't look at him. If you look at him at all, he stops and stares, makes threatening gestures, rolls his head this way and that. He doesn't know he makes noise or how much he annoys the neighbors, I don't think he can comprehend it. His mother, who is also deaf, cannot make him stop, so they are leaving.

Novel's about the influence a super-intelligence guided utopia has on a man and his wife. Augmented reality is a major part of it, but also other GNR revolution tech. Trying to present an insidious evil that fulfills all needs for free except self-actualization. It's post-singularity scifi in a southern gothic setting. Similar themes to Flannery O'Connor if you're familiar with her.

>>19384910
>protag's mom dies before he knows her
>despises his insane, incompetent father and fends for himself somewhere else
>goes from optimistic to humorless and obsessed with securing a place for himself
>murders the colleague who blackmailed him, will always think of himself as a murderer
>his wife isn't who he thought, and she sells her soul
>things break and he can never fix them
>eventually can't provide for his family either, and can't even have a child
>loses grip on reality as his opportunity to sell his soul disappears forever
It doesn't end there. I was really mean to all the characters, but I give them their due respect.

Previous Thread: >>19286828

For Prose:
>The Art of Fiction
>Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
>On Becoming A Novelist
>Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
>How Fiction Works
>The Rhetoric of Fiction
>Steering the Craft
>On Writing, Borges
>Links: https://pastebin.com/i4RLYJEx

For Poetry:
>The Poetry Home Repair Manual
>Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry
>This Craft of Verse, Borges

Related Material:
>What Editors Do
>A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
>Garner's Modern English Usage

Suggested books on storytelling:
>The Weekend Novelist
>Aristotle's Poetics
>Hero With a Thousand Faces
>Romance the Beat

Traditional publishing
> Formatting manuscript
https://blog.reedsy.com/manuscript-format/
> Write a query
https://www.janefriedman.com/query-letters/
> Track your query
https://querytracker.net/

Other Resources
>General grammar/syntax/editing help
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
> When/where/how should I write?
https://jamesclear.com/daily-routines-writers
> What software should I write with?
https://self-publishingschool.com/book-writing-software-best/
> Amazon Publishing to make that KDP monie
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200635650
> Be like Dickens and write serially
https://www.royalroad.com/
> Basic overview of the Screenplay format
https://screenwriting.info/

>>19243194
A super AI designed to kill almost all people instead saves everyone. The protagonist yearns for self after the betrayal in his wholly dystopian life. He cannot believe the promises offered in the new utopia are sincere. Characters around him begin to improve while he struggles to be the man he planned to be. Despite his lack of evidence that the AI is pernicious, he finds a more simple life without it. After the opportunity is gone forever, he is vexed with envy and doubt for the rest of his life.

There's a number of characters that tie into his experience, but the main idea for this is a utopia where people transcend the hallmark weakness of humanity: forgetfulness, envy, and death. The price for this is the deletion of and rebuilding of the ego as it melds with the AI. It is not a future of extreme pluralism or extreme uniformity. It is a future that re-establishes nations, culture, and personal identity. People learn to accept themselves without dramatic transformation. Even the world religion has different flavors in each country. Part of the allure of it is the comforting normalcy (pic related is location for one scene), and I paint it as being a good thing and not a drab uniformity. This really all comes down to an evil that does not threaten your security, but instead threatens your self-actualization. Also yes, it's Revelation.