/lit/ - Literature

Horror with war and psychological undertones.

Whether or not I can get that across to the audience is up in the air at this point.

the kind that i won't finish

>>11520783
Anon that's no way to talk to yourself.

YA Catholic Science Fiction centered on the Logos

>>11520762
i want to write an epic, but its going to take some work. All i have is an idea but still have to work out the details. wbu?

>>11520762
Indulgent genre fiction.

>>11520837
SOunds really neat, have you begun?

>>11520762
Horror fiction. Planning to make it as short a novel as possible. Maybe around 60k words. Only on the first draft right now. First novel I've ever tried to write

>19 yr old girl finds herself increasingly distanced from her friends and their hedonistic lifestyle
>she quits her job, draining her savings to live a pointless NEET life
>meets a Redditor guy and they have long conversations at Waffle House at 3AM
>she friendzones him and she is further alienated from everyone around her
>set in the month of December so I can just shit on consumerist normies in their Christmas craze

So basically just a pathetic facsimile of Book of Disquiet for millennials.

How does it feel to finish a novel? I've never done so, but I have an idea for one and some extracts. I just need motivation.

>>11523129
>I just need motivation

Wrong. You just need discipline.
Have you ever actually completed a project that you set out to finish?

Does a collection of horror stories count?

War, comedy, military strategy, history and alternate history. I've been doing a lot of documenting lately so that I don't fuck up any details.

>>11523141
Yep.

>>11523129
Some people enjoy starting projects, and others enjoy finishing them. You sound like a starter. I have no known solutions to forward productivity, but knowing is half the battle.

>>11523129
A feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction, followed by the realisation that you'll probably never be published and that the whole thing was a profound waste of time

>>11523184
Then a collection of horror stories. I've never published anything so I'm unsure if it would be best to publish them all in publications individually and then collect them into a book, or if I should propose the book to a publisher.

>>11523218
According to what I've seen, I'd put them all in a book, but release a few for free on the Internet to get readers who might be interested in buying an entire tome.

>>11520762
Right now, a apocaliptic dark fantasy of a girl who gradualy learns to hate everything and everyone

>>11523255
Is it autobiographical?

science fiction with magic, superheroes, fancy futuristic tech-shit, and an apocalypse
go ahead, laugh at me

>>11523223
Thanks anon!

>>11523351
You're welcome. But don't take me all too seriously, for I might just be misinformed.

>>11521893
Since 2012 the ideas have been developing

>>11523446
It's radically shifted since it's first conception. Even since last Feb it's so different now

>>11523459
Unsure of a title so far

>>11523464
It's pretty complex

>>11523474
It's very bricoleur

>>11523492
There are plenty of threads to find

>>11523506
And there are plenty of ideas discussed

Picaresque/noir

>>11523514
It all started in 2012.

>>11523557
The book's a bit of an associative trail metanarrative

>An associative trail as conceived by Bush would be a way to create a new linear sequence of microfilm frames across any arbitrary sequence of microfilm frames by creating a chained sequence of links in the way just described, along with personal comments and side trails.
>The bookwheel is a type of rotating bookcase designed to allow one person to read a variety of books in one location with ease
>It has been called one of the earliest "information retrieval" devices
>Modern hypertext systems with word and phrase-level linking offer more sophistication in connecting relevant information
>At the time Bush saw the current ways of indexing information as limiting and instead proposed a way to store information that was analogous to the mental association of the human brain

>>11520762
https://web.archive.org/web/20130925085355/http://interwhistle.com/

So OP thoughts?

>>11520762
>In her junior year of high school, a young woman becomes obsessed with the idea that the best friend she basically ditched in middle school is planning a school shooting, after spotting him with a long rifle.
>While correct in that the young man is planning a shooting, instead of an ill advised and pointless slaughter, he is actually plotting the armed robbery of a mob caravan full of cash.
I'm outlining it, while writing unrelated short stories to keep in practice while I do the former.

>>11523272
Not in the sense of "this happened to me", but in the sense that this is how I somewhat feel while growing up in the fucked up place I live.

>>11524414
good luck

>>11525277
N. dubs

Thoughts on >>11523575

A shit one

>>11520762
OP I hope you don't mind me hijacking this thread to ask some questions. What exactly is everyone's writing process here? And what software do you prefer?

I've been just pre-writing notes on paper and then typing stuff into google docs so I was curious what others do. Also, advice on staying focused would be nice.

>>11525456
I use Ulysses. My writing process is mostly organic, I put down the characters and what they're supposed to do and then for the rest I just write as I think. It works most of the time for me.

>>11525473
Sounds pretentious

I don't pick up a book and fancy myself writer for the same reason I don't pick up a gun and fancy myself a gunsmith or read a post on 4chan and fancy myself an intelligence agency lackey.

>>11526796
Why?