/lit/ - Literature

>>20037780
Same I've got an empty head I think autism gives you an oversized brain when you're a kid but it degenerates faster than usual as you get older so by the time you're 30+ you're fully one with the void. Autistic people come from the state from before birth and after death. They don't have the brains to assimilate to this reality like Normies do. What this means though is that you'll always have this piece of heaven within you that is also the void.

1. Personify a abstract noun. Like "bureaucracy" easily turns into "bureaucrat" so think of the most needlessly autistic pedant you can and then put them in an odd-couple situation, who would they hate spending all their time with? Or "vanity" turns into a gym-bro obsessed with aesthetics, and now odd-couple him with a feminist who doesn't share those aesthetics. Basically the formula for every buddy-cop film.
Alternatively, if you want to write a 'philosophical novel' make two characters in their values and actions each embody a particular philosophical school.
2. Think of a public or semi-public place. Who are the people in there? What are the stories to be told? A restaurant? Is their a rivalry between the FOH and the Kitchen staff? A hotel? Who are the guests? Where are they going tomorrow? Why? Do they order room service? if not, why not? Why did they get in late?
3. PoV of inanimate object. What do they see or from their perspective how do mundane situations feel different?
4. Epic Parody: take a mundane situation and tell it like an a epic la the Batrakhomuomakhia
5. Look around and find a object that seems slightly out of place: a full coffee cup left in a multi-story car-park, a condom in a playground, vomit on a Tesla bonnet etc. Now figure out how it got there?

>>20037792
I am technically diagnosed as autistic but honestly I think I grew up in the generation where doctors in my country were super eager to diagnose any kid who was in any way abnormal as autistic. Mostly I’m just depressed, not autistic IMO

>>20037818
These sound very helpful, thank you. Gonna take a notepad and go for a walk later and look around and brainstorm ideas with these in mind.

>>20037780
Fictionalize things that interest you. Take something you've been thinking about and use it as the seed for a story. If you can't think of something like this within a minute or two, you don't have anything to say and shouldn't write until you do.

>>20037780
You don’t. You wait for divine inspiration. While you do that, if you must occupy yourself, just write down whatever and try to improvise similar to how jazz musicians do. As for the stuff worth publishing you need to wait for god to decide you’re worthy of first telling the story he created

>>20037842