/lit/ - Literature

I feel like I should get the ball rolling, but I have to warn you it's pretty shit.

Prompt idea: A man starts losing a limb each day for unknown reasons and after consulting with a doctor finds out that whatever was happening was irreversible. He lives out the rest of his days the best he can while waking up with less and less of himself than he began with.

>tfw your thread gets no replies

I have this folder full of images that inspire me but it's pretty esoteric...

>>8214585
dump away

>>8214598
alright
I'm writing a novel right about arctic explores at the turn of the century and this image inspires me a lot. I like the idea of severe-looking white men bundled up in furs in the middle of the abyss, which in this case is just a deep black canvas background but metaphorically is the arctic itself

>>8214611
following that, here are some images that I love in general and hope to use to inspire writing eventually

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>>8214635
Last one. I've got 50 files or so but these are all my favourites
I also have that video of bernie sanders and the bird, and 'The Killing Moon' by Echo and the Bunnymen, which are favourites also.

anyway is that what you wanted?

>>8214620
Love this one
>>8214625
also this one for the face

I like the idea of novel. Tell me more

>>8214648
Glad you're interested

I'm trying to let go of plot and theme and let the prose be the backbone– very much after John Hawkes– but i'll briefly run down what happens.

The narrator is a sadomasochistic doctor on board a ship in the very early 20th century that's sailing to be the first ever to reach the northern pole of inaccessibility. His mother had munchausen syndrome by proxy and killed his brother and his sister, whom he was sexually obsessed with. As a student in Italy, he murders a small number of people. Eventually he ends up on this ship and essentially loses his mind leading to him performing unnecessary medical procedures on crew members that mutilate or kill them. The sink ships and all the escapees die in the ice, though I'm not sure how that happens or yet, nor if I even want to write about how it happens.

I'm at 20,000 words and want it to be about double that length, I plan to finish it before next summer and workshop it with a supervisor in an independent study at uni.

I want to do a cosmic horror set on a generation ship.
Basically a dude finds an egg which ends being a vessel for cosmic beings to control him/his peers
Pretty run of the mill cosmic horror (not derleth style, Lovecraft) that I'm doing to see if I can string together a cohesive narrative with good prose/dialogue

I saw something funny take place on a street the other day. I chuckled inwardly and thought "I should write this down, this is good material." But I didn't and now I forgot what happened.

>>8214683
>Eventually he ends up on this ship and essentially loses his mind

He sounded pretty crazy already

>>8214705
Sounds like Roots Search.

>>8214823
Is that any good? I've never even heard of it desu

>>8214841
It's awful, incoherent, pseudo-philosophical dreck, but inspiration can come from anywhere. If you're an anime fan, it's worth watching as an example of how terrible '80s OVAs can get.

>>8214862
Jesus Christ I pray I do the idea better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yC_BNpUz6k

A shut-in girl living isolated in this home.

What does she do in her days? What are her thoughts about the future? How does she look?

>>8215598
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdDRe8m_qoQ

>>8215669
Why is she isolated in the first place? Is she isolated by choice or not? Does she want to leave? Two films that come to mind that deal with similar ideas are The Hole (1999) and Jeanne Dielman (1975). Very different films with very different messages but both about isolated women

>>8215669
Reminds me of The Collector by John Fowles. An artistic but snobby girl is kidnapped by a callous but placid man. To improve her situation somewhat she demands books and paintings etc, things he sees no value in.

>>8214635
I wonder sometimes whether autism is in part a consequence of children being immersed for extended periods of time in virtual or "alternative" world like the one in your pic, often longer than the time they spend in the Real World [TM]. OCD and a fascination with symmetry and straight lines etc is often associated with the autistic condition, and I can't help but think my own appreciation for these things is somehow connected to all those days I spent on my Gameboy and Playstation as a kid. That pic is very cozy to me, reminds me of that feeling you get when you're around a small group of strangers but you're suddenly brought closer together by extreme weather.

>>8215711
>I wonder sometimes whether autism is in part a consequence of children being immersed for extended periods of time in virtual or "alternative" world like the one in your pic,

autism manifests in children too young to play vidyagaemz

>>8215680
Good Dick (2008) comes to mind for me as well.
Yes, it's a movie and not a porno

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>>8215692
Just read the plot summary on Wikipedia. Sounds like the most r9k novel ever.

I'm trying to write a poem using a four dimensional creature to help describe something close to schizophrenia, but I have a hard time painting the imagery. How would you describe this?
Imagine this painting but the planes are undulating.

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>>8215737
I don't care.

>>8215716
Yes but I mean other than the kids who get autism through vaccinations.

>>8215754
So like this?

http://www.medicaldaily.com/autism-genes-linked-higher-intelligence-treading-fine-line-between-intellectual-325798

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>>8215753
Okay... I don't think anyone cares you don't care, so what's the point in posting that?

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I was considerIng writing a sci fi dark comedy short story about a worthless young man who gets sent out on a mission as an assistant with earths mightiest space hero commander to go deep into enemy territory and deliver a fatal blow to their HQ.

The gist is this. The guy is there basically to record the hero being awesome. The night of the secret attack, the assistant fumbles and drops the Heros rifle and blows the Heros head clean off. Ashamed and embarrassed about what he's done, he calls in a hasty artillery strike on them to get rid of the evidence while he escapes. The assistant runs for his life as the ordnance comes in and unknowingly kills the enemy commander and ending the war. The rest of the story is him speaking to the press and making shit up about the Heros final moments and being brave in the face of death. He gets promoted and is declared a hero himself.Unable to live with the grief and the gravity of his lie, he hangs himself.

>>8214611
Have you seen Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd (The Flight of the Eagle)? You should.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5qV3W-FntA

>>8216094
that's a sad ending :(

>>8216094
You should make him more Machiavellian and have him be totally cool about what he did, until the hero's son or someone finds out and kills him. Make it like a 1,000 pages long and you've got a bestseller.