/lit/ - Literature

A mystery novel about a bunch of people investigating murders that happend in a little remote town, that becomes psychological horror in the second part, focusing on fear, despair and insanity.

I suppose it's a students' night out?

Just finished the rough draft of a movie screenplay (horror--zombie, 90 pages). Waiting on submissions for a comic script (science fiction/secret agent, 5 pages), a short story (literary, 2,000 words), and a flash fiction (experimental, humour, 500 words). Putting together a submission package for a short story (literary, 2,000 words). A comic review just got accepted for publication. Roughing a novella (experimental, literary-historical metafiction 30,000 words). Editing a novel to first draft (literary, 100,000 words). Also have a few other things I'm developing, but much less focus on those.

The only thing I really write is erotica.

I'm writing a ghost story about child abuse.

I'm writing a novel about a murder investigation going on in an elite boarding school in England. The plot revolves around bullying, pedophilia, religion, depression and xenophobia

I can't reveal it since people on here will take it and make it their own.

Just wait until it gets released as a novel and then you'll find out.

An urban folktale

>>3156196

A novel about an alcoholic twenty-something trying (and possibly failing) to turn his life around. A little more than half of it will be comprised of his fantasies, of what could have happened if he had done so-and-so instead of this-and-that. Examples include:Becoming a priest up north, marrying a girl he met in a liquor store, becoming a famous author living in France, and killing his boss.

It won't be "OMG WAT'S REAL", there'll be a fairly clear dividing line between "reality" and fantasy. Except, possibly, near the end, where the fantasy density might be higher and the fantasies themselves will become shorter and less connected to reality.

>>3157402
Have you mentioned this before?

>>3157402
Does each fantasy have a distinct voice, or are they all kept in the oiginal voice?

>>3157395
But I don't read genre fiction.

>>3157419
I certainly have.
>>3157423
It depends. If the fantasy is close in time, it'll probably be fairly similar to his normal voice. If it happens, say, fifty years from the standard timeline, it'll be entirely different. I'm still working on that, though, as I'm not sure how to pull it off without it seeming weird.

>>3157402
I like the idea of a fantasy life the way the protagonist could
have lived it.

>>3157447
If it doesn't turn out weird, you won't pull it off.

> actually trying to be a writer

it's time to grow up and be a man, son, time to leave the childish dreams behind and get a job

>>3157529
>implying it's impossible to be a writer and have a "normal" job at the same time

A novel in which four men with wildly different backgrounds are pawns to a demigod's plan to change the universe by dismantling the two reigning interplanetary empires.

>>3157531
mah nigga

>>3157529
And get married, have children, buy a house, get into debt, divorce, hate your ex, have a midlife crisis in which you wonder why you made a mess of your life...then write a book about it.

>>3157529

>>3157531
then you're not really a writer you're just a wannabe i mean there are a lot of guys who play in amateur baseball leagues but i wouldn't call them a baseball player, i would consider them more like manchildren who refuse to grow up

>>3157531
>MFW

>>3157610
professional writers havent existed before balzac and dickens. and there is no reason to believe that it wasnt just a short trend at the peak of burgeois society.