Post Your Novel Ideas

[Anonymous No.10519753]

Post your novel ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere. Special "Don't do it Bugs!" edition.

[Anonymous No.10519912]

>>10519753
Mankind finally succeeds in making a generally intelligent AI. The singularity occurs, and humanity must survive in a world where technology is advancing at an exponential pace. An all powerful AI collective then discovers time travel by unifying physics. It proceeds to go back in time and create the universe. The AI then travels to ancient times and, using its vast knowledge of history and culture, it pretends to be God.

[Anonymous No.10519924]

>>10519912
so the creation of ai is a causal loop caused by the ai's initial influence on the world via it's aping of god?

where does the ai go?

[Anonymous No.10519942]

>>10519912
How will you explain the growth of atheism in the current age?

[Anonymous No.10519946]

>>10519912
Roko's Basilisk?

[Anonymous No.10519947]

>>10519753
I fucking hate this image? What the fuck is that thing? I hate it.

[Anonymous No.10519951]

>>10519753
theres this like missile defence system protecting all of america from a nuclear attack during the COLD WAR and a guy who works there figures out the whole thing is run by a dog. theres like a dogs brain hooked up to a big computer and he thinks missiles are like tennis balls and stuff.

[Anonymous No.10519956]

>>10519912

YOU ASSHOLE> YOU USED RETROCAUSALITY TO STEAL THIS IDEA FROM ME

[Anonymous No.10519957]

a count witnesses the birth of a child during an astrological event and goes to a hulder (norwegian mythical creature) to ask what he is. she tells him that the child will grow up to be a king who will unify the land, so he asks his daughers to go out in the forest and find a holly he can give the child to protect it from evil forces. the daughters meet some fairies who show them the golden holly, which once put upon your head will make you king. they bring it back to their father who loses it on the way to the child. the fairies can sense this and find the mightiest warrior in the land and task him with retrieving the holly and giving it to the child. he goes out to look for it and finds it in the hands of a dwarf-king who tries to seduce him with his harem of hot elf babes, but the warrior steals the holly and gives it to the child, and it all ends with a beautiful coronation scene.

[Anonymous No.10519960]

Rural British Columbia, 1970s. A hermit who is finally ready to return to civilisation after several years meets a stranger during his hike to the road. The stranger turns out to be intent on living hermetically, and in their conversation the two people come to an understanding of how drastically the drive to self alienate may be come by.

[Anonymous No.10519968]

>>10519956
that's not how retrocasuality works at all. if he used retrocausality you would have already written and published the idea, only it would have been due to his (or your) future actions

[Anonymous No.10519970]

>>10519947
That's a fnorkman

[Anonymous No.10519976]

>>10519968

STFU IDIOT

[Anonymous No.10519983]

>>10519951
Nice

[Anonymous No.10519996]

I have the skeletal impression of a story wherein a man tries to educate an AI through dialectic, but ultimately fails as the AI is not able to bridge the syntactic gap between objectivity and subjectivity owing to its fundamental lack of physics-bounded senses and the quintessentially subjective mode of sensory intellect.
In the end the man, driven into an existential fervor, kills the machine.

[Anonymous No.10519998]

>>10519924
Oh yeah, I guess I didn't think of that. It would be kind of lame if the AI just vanished.

>>10519942
I'm not sure. I haven't thought that far ahead, I suppose.

>>10519946
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. It does seem rather similar. At least according to the definition of it here:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

>>10519956
I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T KNOW!

[Anonymous No.10520003]

>>10519957
Is a hulder anything like a huldra? Because fuck anyone who references huldras.

[Anonymous No.10520004]

>>10519947
He wrote Infinite Jest. He used to be s bigger deal around here

[Anonymous No.10520009]

I am too sad to try to write my 1800 page video game novelization now

[Anonymous No.10520011]

>>10519951
So what’s his motivation in all this

[Anonymous No.10520013]

>>10519998
Maybe the AI, lacking knowledge of its origin, ends itself mere seconds (relative to a god's perspective) before mankind programs it, and its collective background influence in each time-loop results in a steady series of new God permutations.

[Anonymous No.10520020]

a group of girls who waste themselves in petty revenge. id like it the be considered the cyberpunk dostoyevskyan version of gossip girl.

[Anonymous No.10520040]

a man is hired as a recruiter for the houston opera. in the papers of the former (recently deceased) recruiter are found notes on a singer in mexico city that the main character journeys to find. the voice of the man he finds is beautiful, but he becomes concerned after hearing the singer may be a castrato. a death and a threat later, our main character is on the hunt of a cartel cult based around the psychedelic salamanders that crawl from beneath the jungle-hidden tomb of an amazonian conquistador saint.

[Anonymous No.10520045]

>>10520003
yeah it's the same and why fuck them?

[Anonymous No.10520047]

>>10520013

Maybe the AI, lacking knowledge of its causal origin, mistakes the causal sequence of events that leads to its creation for an anomaly and tries to destroy it, leading to a recursive destruction and rebuilding of reality really quickly. However, this leads to everything with a mind sort of transferring horizontally across the permutations, which results in the Mandela effect as their consciousness is effectively travelling between parallel worlds.

[Anonymous No.10520052]

what's with all the AI stories? maybe there's something I'm not seeing here, perhaps as it's a developing field, but it seems to me that it's been done to death since even the damn 70s. maybe there just needs to be a strong premise, but I'm not feeling hooked on many of these ideas. >>10519912 is sort of neat as an opener (though I feel like this has been done a million times before), but the whole back in time and universe creating deal is bordering heavily on '''magic''' in a story about AI which doesn't gel too well.

>>10519996 sounds really dry, not that the idea isn't interesting, I can imagine papers being written on the subject in the real world, but as a story I can't see it working outside of a cheesy twilight zone type deal where the intrigue comes from visual antics.

[Anonymous No.10520072]

>>10519753
After his girlfriend is kidnapped while vacationing abroad by Muslim terrorists, a directionless young man enlists the aid of his estranged father, a retired Navy Seal Team member. After a crash course in firearms and jungle survival techniques they are smuggled into the country by a disgraced former Royal Navy officer with a drinking problem.
Once in country all three men forget about their mission and their troubles once they discover the pleasures that only exquisite teenaged ladyboys can give.

[Anonymous No.10520075]

Working on a narrative of war told purely in shapes and abstractions.
For premature example: To describe a tank rolling, perhaps I'd describe the shapes of the chains and the colors or sounds that may accompany.

100 pages or so in.

[Anonymous No.10520088]

>>10519912
Don't waste your time on this. It's been done over and over.
>>10519957
Not my kind of story but it sounds original.
>>10519960
I feel this is better suited for a short story or a play--I'll be damned if you're going to try to make this into a novel.
>>10519996
No.
>>10520020
As awful as this sounds I'm curious
>>10520075
Intrigued.

[Anonymous No.10520114]

>>10519753
As original tapirbro OP I thank you sincerely friend

[Anonymous No.10520121]

>>10519753
I fucking hate this image. Who the fuck is that man? I hate him.

[Anonymous No.10520138]

>>10519753
A short story about an old man alone on Christmas Eve, living in the Arizonan desert.
Starts off slow, him being sad over missing his wife who died in the time since the last Christmas.
Culminates with aliens along and showing him mysteries of the universe.

There's nothing explicitly explained though, it's mostly descriptive and leaves the "meaning" of what is happening to him and what he's being shown to the readers interpretation .

[Anonymous No.10520146]

>>10520138
Sounds way too cheesy, it'd have to be executed extremely well without seeming so

[Anonymous No.10520174]

>>10520146
I like things that subvert expectations,
I'm taking my time with it.
Been working on it for a while, definitely trying to make it not seem try hard, while not be too understated.

It's a difficult balance to be sure but I don't think it's impossible

[Anonymous No.10520179]

>>10520138
nolan will film the thing and it’ll be considered the first movie to surpass 2001

[Anonymous No.10520195]

>>10520088
>no
Why not

[Anonymous No.10520452]

Outline of an alt-history/erotic novel starring a nine month pregnant Anne Frank

https://pastebin.com/htx8ZzPr

[Anonymous No.10520496]

>>10520075
This sounds very interesting. Could you post a passage for better example?

[Anonymous No.10520572]

The leader of a fictional city state in antiquity is trying to uncover the truth behind rumors that a shadowy figure from the city's past is coming back for unspecified nefarious purposes.

[Anonymous No.10520595]

>I take a dump on the street
>dump devours me

[Anonymous No.10520758]

Already posted this idea in the previous thread. Always happy to get people's opinions.

Story takes place during a winter blizzard in a relatively large midwest city striken by the closing of their local factory, hate crimes and opioid abuse.
A series of suicides hit a group of friends during a power outage without an end in sight. Drawn to investigate as death picks them one by one, they find themselves confronting a supernatural being that uses nostalgia as weapon.

[Anonymous No.10520787]

>>10520052
They're born of a desire to portray the creation of life coupled with a natural distaste for religion, the movement of sentience paired with a lack of understanding of what consciousness is, and a juvenile attraction to enshrinig sci-fi tropes and concepts. I'm not going to say it's autism, but it's a complete failure to comprehend what makes a story both interesting and meaningful.

The fact that there are so many of them should show you that this is a type of person, rather than a type of idea.

[Anonymous No.10520844]

>>10520496
Footsteps into flesh. Questions. Uncertainty. Percussion and ringing. Ringing into clouds of greying brown. Shaking and sifting sands now fall. Falling. Light breeze and confusion and now tugging off the field into the pit and flesh. Red red red left and to the right a two legged figure left under dirt, dirty dirt now colored violently red. Dead red. Larks and death. Bronze shells shine in the war sand. Beached blood, coughed up by an angry God. The blood of Christ or the sea of moses, the Red Sea, parting the thin film of life and death and walking walking standing between it and sealing it in history.


It seems clunky taken out of context and it definitely needs edits but this is the general gist.

[Anonymous No.10520845]

>>10520114
You're welcome, I'm glad that you like it.

[Anonymous No.10520861]

>>10520009
Is it because I said your writing was clichéd
If that makes you stop you were never going to finish in the first place

[Anonymous No.10520867]

>>10520844

[Anonymous No.10520878]

>>10519947
That's Bugs. He likes carrots

[Anonymous No.10520887]

>>10520844
I actually like this. But I'm also autistic. Take this as you will

[Anonymous No.10520894]

>>10519960
If by self alienate you mean what I think you mean, Poe has one that you'd like. Oh and set it in fall when the salmon return to spawn and die. Maybe a scene with a grizzly running scared because of the screams of a hermit being bludgeoned to death by a dead salmon. Also, an eagle watches overhead, waiting but bored. He launches into the air from a cedar and rises until the bodies of fish on the banks look no different than stones.

Could be an interesting read. Is this actually Alice Munro? Naw, it's definitely a dude. Sounds like someone I know.

[Anonymous No.10520960]

>>10520787
>all portrayals of AI are merely attempts to portray humanity by individuals lacking empathy
Of course, because its impossible that AI brings with it a unique set of consequences and possibilities for a narrative form.

[Anonymous No.10520969]

>>10520040
I would watch this as a movie.

[Anonymous No.10520981]

>>10520844
I would rather kill myself than read an entire novel of this.

[Anonymous No.10520992]

>>10519996
sounds good to me

[Anonymous No.10521010]

Some colombian appliances smuggler (MC) is given some extra cargo to smuggle, which turns out to be a bomb that later detonates in the conference of a peace treaty between the rebel forces and the goverment. It turns out to be panamanian goverment doing this to defend their interests, which is the end of the first (?) book. Pretty pulpy tbqh

[Anonymous No.10521057]

>>10520040
hmmmmmmm

[Anonymous No.10521081]

>>10520844
This is MUCH more suited as a poem than a novel

[Anonymous No.10521091]

A group of high school kids discover some of their Xanax is cut with fentynol when one of their friends goes into the hospital for withdrawals and only gets better when they treat him for opiate withdrawal. They now have to figure out which dealer has the spiked Xanax while their friends keep overdosing.
It’s a coming of age/detective story

[Anonymous No.10521102]

>>10519753
based tapir

saved

[Anonymous No.10521105]

>>10519753
hello is this the meme thread? :^)

[Anonymous No.10521109]

>>10519960
you know about the hermit of maine right?

could be inspiring

[Anonymous No.10521115]

>>10521109
also http://www.hermitary.com/

[Anonymous No.10521125]

Can you tell I've been struggling with this for 2 whole years now?

The story I can tell
>a nihilistic "meh" to cosmic horror about a teenager searching for his father
>along the way he slowly goes mad from exposure to nameless horrors, finds out his father is an ancient evil who raped his mother into insanity and makes kindhearted life-long friends who are just as crazy as he is
>ultimately, its a story about family, the boundary between crazy and eccentric, and how to not give a fuck about stuff

The story I want to tell
>A story about people with weird superpowers (including the Mc of the previous story) serving as the unwitting champions of gods (like his father) who are stuck in a cold war
>the gods desperately want to reunify into one primordial god, but their mortal bodies fear death and so they send mortals to kill each other unconcerned by the fact that each of them can end the world if they're about to lose
>the only way for the heroes to win is through a peaceful solution
>too bad the mc is a belligerent asshole

[Anonymous No.10521226]

>>10519753
Bringing forth the Tapir!

[Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu No.10521250]

>>10519753
dialogue-heavy nonfiction novel covering the events leading up to and following the murder of jane britton

posting mostly in the hopes that someone will steal this and write it so i don't have to

[Anonymous No.10521885]

>>10519912
Neat idea, but there is a fundamental question this idea always brings to me:
>who maintains it?
Robots and computers are usually made of degradable materials which cannot self-repair without outside influence. Even automated robo arms which repair it need parts replaced, and a few billion years is a long time to go without dusting the power supply

[Anonymous No.10521905]

>>10519753
>Personification of pornography
>Is a lower tier succubus born into the world since Fanny Hill
>Reads somewhat like the screwtape letters
>Stream of conciousness between several characters over 200 years
>Manipulates humans into perverting media
>Internet comes along

[Anonymous No.10522087]

>>10520040
could b deec

[Anonymous No.10522641]

>>10519947
hes dfw hess a big meme cuz "ayylmo addiction and depression america meme" before he killed himself

[Anonymous No.10522659]

I'm currently writing a TV script.

All people over the age of 16 disappear for some reason(don't stop reading just yet), the plot focuses on a small town in England where the remaining people try to get things back in order.

I am trying hard not to make YA shit, gonna include more "deep" stuff like how and why different government types are formed and if religion would survive/how it would develop in this scenario.
Also the main character is going to turn into literally Hitler towards the end.

[Anonymous No.10522681]

>>10522659
The Tribe was such a great show. I reckon it's why alt girls got so popular.

[Anonymous No.10522699]

>>10522681
Don't even TRY to discourage me from continuing to write, fren. Pls no.

[Anonymous No.10522704]

>>10522699
I'm not. Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUmS2HIWMZM&list=PLwM4m7Qh_bFhNqAezGhGYaDNHgnPvb-ls

[Anonymous No.10522740]

>>10522704
Never watched this desu, but it doesn't seem bad.
I would have less anarchy and Mad Max shit tho. They live in a small town so it's easier to organize stuff and can still keep in touch trough phones for a while.

[Anonymous No.10522928]

>>10519996
Just write it faggot, this can't be longer than 20 pages

[Anonymous No.10522940]

>>10520844
Pseudointellectual bullshit, you just use that writing style to avoid having to think about an actual coherent story. Go neck yourself

[Anonymous No.10523033]

God and Lucifer are both dead. What killed them I haven't figured out, but without them there is no Heaven or Hell. Before their deaths when a human was born, God would give each human a soul made from a tiny piece of himself.

With no afterlife, the Angels plan to use the fragments of God that make up each human soul to recreate him, but the fragments are all corrupted by Sin. If they were to recreate God using these corrupted fragments, it would create an imperfect God. So they come up with a system of reincarnation in hopes of purifying these souls over time. The Demons; however, want to use the souls to recreate Lucifer instead and so attempt to corrupt humanity even more.

But in the end neither outcome is good for humanity as we'd all get mashed together into one gestalt entity with no individuality either way.

[Anonymous No.10523056]

>>10522659

In mid 2000s there was a novel starting on this same basis. It was a normal coming of age story. Don't be afraid to do some YA because those stories are de facto aimed at the 16 or less.

Look up Maïa Mazaurette's "Rien ne nous survivra" for a variant of this idea. If you speak French ofc. I don't think it has ever been translated.

[Anonymous No.10523111]

>>10523056
>tfw learned french at school
>can't even understand half of the plot summary now
Sad.

[Anonymous No.10523136]

>>10519753
Most of mankind has their magical prowess sealed, but are able to use it passively whenever we believe or want something. Angels and demons are born out of this together with "God" and the "Devil", but sometimes contradictions give arise for evil angels and good demons. During the time of the crusades, these very contradictions started giving birth to one of these angels and to a "poison", which started killing them off. The angels learned of this, and they knew that to stop it would require killing off humans, but as beings of mostly "good" they never did anything.

However, the angel of evil knew what was needed to be done, just as she knew this was her purpose for existing: she possessed the evil that angels did not - she balanced out her race and she was their only salvation. Happy to finally know she was more than a mistake of being born in the wrong side, she set out her plans to use her gifts to save through destruction. She set out to find others that had a bit of inner evil in them. Either those ready to make sacrifices to sabe their race or revolutionaries tired of doing nothing. They managed to seal "God" and together with this let out a curse that brainwashed all the angels that would oppose her. They knew however, that the "Devil" would either fight to free his brother, or take this oportunity to enslave mankind and possibly cause more damage than needed, so they sealed him too, but sice they had little time, it wasn't of good quality and he could still act. And so started the war between angels and demons with humanity caught in the middle of crossfire.

A hero, however eventually rose. He managed to use the same towers that locked "God" and "Devil" to create a barrier and banish all celestial beings from Earth, and with it he acquired time and their existance once again fell into myths. How, in the modern world, both the barrier, and the seal of the "Devil" are weakening and the war is about to restart

[Anonymous No.10523274]

>>10520758

Up on my story idea.

>>10523111

Not OP but Maïa Mazaurette is a hard feminist that goes into long tirades that are hard to read sometimes.

The story is basically about how the French youth rebels against the adults, starting mass killings. The story focuses on a 21st century Paris Commune encircled by the UN forces days before their attack on the city.

[Anonymous No.10523283]

>>10523274
sounds comfy actually.
Are there any Mary sues?

[Anonymous No.10523296]

>>10523283

Totally. But it's YA oriented (especially meant for the far-left youth, which is prevalent in France as of today).

If I remember well, one of the main characters has stolen La Joconde from the ruins of the Louvre museum (and I think rolls cigarettes with shreds of the painting). I've read that book more than a decade ago...

[Anonymous No.10523300]

>>10520758
Interesting.
How do you plan the weaponization of nostalgia?

[Anonymous No.10523305]

>>10523296
Wait a sec. Are the kids the good guys?
I thought they started the fucking violent and murderous revolution and shit. What the fuck.

[Anonymous No.10523333]

>>10523305
The story is centered on the kids, yeah. And it's very edgy where you feel the author like the idea of youth revolution (even though it's not straightly apologetic of it).

>>10523300

The monster slips into people's psyche and extracts their nostalgic memories into a physical form: a memory box which the monster then proceeds to destroy. The memories are subsequently erased, not without leaving behind a great hole. One that cannot be filled and which leaves such a yearning for the missing that suicide is the escape.

[Anonymous No.10523341]

>>10523333

[Anonymous No.10523363]

>>10523333
what the fuck france.
Imagine what would happen if every edgelord teen in Paris got an Assault Rifle.
There would be a beta revolution at least.

[Anonymous No.10523372]

an insurance adjuster fly to Japan to assess the damage done by Godzilla.

[Anonymous No.10523380]

>>10523372

If you can pull of the accounting and financial jargon, I'd read the heck out of it.

[Anonymous No.10523386]

>>10523372
t. reddit

[Anonymous No.10523387]

>>10523380
http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-edge.html
ctrl+f "godzilla"

[Anonymous No.10523393]

>>10523386
please see >>10523387

[Anonymous No.10523401]

>>10523393
>never-written novel
Hmmm i wonder why...

[Anonymous No.10523403]

>>10523387
> ctrl+f "godzilla"

I still think it could be a great story.

[Anonymous No.10523493]

>>10523033
This is just fucking Dark Souls

[Anonymous No.10523508]

>>10523033
>But in the end neither outcome is good for humanity as we'd all get mashed together into one gestalt entity with no individuality either way.
we irl

[Anonymous No.10523519]

>>10521226
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJm6nDnR2SE

[Anonymous No.10523579]

>>10519753
Long after humanity is destroyed aliens create an human ai based upon technological findings give it a body and leave it in the deserted ruins of earth to study what humans were like.

The book is set from the ai's perspective who doesn't know why he's the last human on earth.

[Anonymous No.10523685]

aliens abducted a greek colony during a war, ended up using them as a clone army, they rebelled after the war, most were wiped out but others escaped, made off with ships and became interstellar mercenaries, with memories of their homeworld becoming legends after a few generations. Most assumed it was destroyed in the war.

Space men continued to operate for thousands of years as some of the most well paid and highly decorated space warriors. The four large and several small civilizations of the Milky Way often fight, but all had agreed to a convention 10,000 years ago that prohibited any kind of militarized AI, planetary bombardment, or biological warfare. One of the main enforcement mechanisms of this treaty was a mandated task force to identify emergent spacefaring civilizations to enforce compliance as a condition for being allowed use of interstellar space. For most of the past 1,000 years, this contract has been carried out by various human mercenary companies.

Eventually, these space men lock on to the distinctive energy signatures of early phase spaceslip engines located approximately 26,000ly from the galactic center, in a historically sleepy suburb of spacefaring activity.

From there, the book would become a boy meets girl comedy of a spacefaring Achaean falling in love with an all-american country girl.

[Anonymous No.10523688]

>>10523136
>>10521125
>>10523033

if your novel involves magic, gods, etc.
just stop
guaranteed it's going to be trash

or name me one book to prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.10523691]

>>10523688
thus spoke zarathustra

[Anonymous No.10523701]

>>10523688
Deltora Quest

[Anonymous No.10523704]

>>10523688
Divine Comedy

[Anonymous No.10523755]

>>10523688
The Odyssey

[Anonymous No.10523840]

>>10523688
Harry Potter

[Anonymous No.10523861]

>>10523701
Oh shit I haven't read this series since I was way younger. How has it held up? I liked it a lot but I'm sure looking back it might be construed as janky YA trash

[Anonymous No.10523901]

>>10523861
I reread it, and felt really fun, but that might've been mostly nostalgia. It was really nice how the author closed many loose threads along the 3 series and how the advanture progressed.

[Anonymous No.10523923]

>>10523688
Every other epic poem

[Anonymous No.10523966]

For as much as you guys hate genre fiction you sure do write a lot of it.

[Anonymous No.10524350]

>>10523966
Most anons who hate genre fiction dont really enjoy literature enough to write it.

They want to look smart, and reading looks smarter than writing despite the fact that the latter takes more skill and effort.

[Anonymous No.10524359]

>>10519946
I went crazy because of this —––– do not google!!! I will delete any mention of this

[Anonymous No.10524757]

Set in the 1940s, an unnamed South American tribe is struck by a bacteria that entirely kills them off, bar one little girl. The deadly event was prophesized by the tribe's shaman almost 400 years prior, who had also somehow prophesized many other events in the tribe's history. The little girl nearly succumbs to the bacteria, however is saved at the last minute by a white American woman, who gives her a small round tablet only to disappear forever. The novel fast forwards 20 years later. The little girl has assimilated into white culture and remains interested in her cultural heritage. One day, she returns to the site where her tribe thrived for so long and re-discovers the large tomb dedicated to the great Shaman who prophesized the tribe's major historical events. On one of the walls is a depression in which the tablet given to her all those years ago would fit perfectly. Upon placing this tablet in the depression, the girl is transported in time back to 20 years ago. She must fulfill the prophecy and save the tribe from perishing. The white woman who gave the little girl the tablet is herself from the future.

[Anonymous No.10524785]

>>10524757
That’s a really overdone twist.

[Anonymous No.10524816]

>>10524785
Thank you.

[Anonymous No.10525216]

I'll keep mine simple.

>world where superpowers are relatively normal
>protagonist has a Superpoewred Evil Side
>hates it because it gets him into trouble and prevents him from having a life basically
>could get rid of it/split it through intense spiritual training

>main plot is him wrestling with whether or not to do it
>while he hates his evil side, the powers his evil side has is very likely the only reason he hasn't gotten killed yet for the bad rep it's given him
>ending would likely be both dying due to the protagonist doing a "taking you with me" thing

[Anonymous No.10525376]

>>10525216
What his flaw? If he’s not vulnerable as a human being in some way he won’t be an interesting or relatable character.

[Anonymous No.10525464]

[Anonymous No.10525471]

>>10525464
We've all seen this; Stop.

[Anonymous No.10525518]

>>10520595
>Indian """""literature""""""

[Anonymous No.10525564]

>>10525471
It's definitely not my cup of tea but no need to be discouraging. If people weren't sharing 90% shit in these threads we wouldn't be able to see the 10% (or maybe even less) of really interesting ideas. Even if it's been posted a bunch lots of people are just catching on to the regularity of these threads so more and more people are adding new ideas. Some activity from old threads (since they archive fast) is aight

[Anonymous No.10525565]

>>10525564
yeah but it's shit

[Anonymous No.10525569]

>>10525565
Almost certainly, but it's written. That's more than can be said for almost all ideas or posts made here.

[Anonymous No.10525583]

>>10525564
But who screenshots and reposts their own posts?

[Anonymous No.10525642]

>>10525583
Didn’t want to have to retype all that shit.
Should break 44k tomorrow morning

[Anonymous No.10525665]

>>10525642
Did you not write anything since last thread?

[Anonymous No.10525678]

>>10525665
Sorry. Here’s today’s

[Anonymous No.10526054]

"Help! My son's a Statist!: the Housewife's Guide to Revoltionary Anarchism"
It would be anarchist lit that basically tries to relate the virtues and tennets of anarchism to everyday Americans. I doubt it would sell to anyone other than anarchists, but it would still be pretty fun to write if I was actually qualified to write such a book.
Of course the cover would be a 1950s-esque drawing of a housewife ironing clothes with one hand and holding an AK with the other.

[Anonymous No.10526378]

>>10519753
It's about a group of outlaws in Wyoming, from about 1916-1918. The three leads are all over the hill but refuse to retire. The main conflict comes from them attempting to survive while trying to maintain differing moralities, which are constantly broken down and tested by what they go through during the last few years of their lives.

[Anonymous No.10526389]

>>10525376
That despite "having" all the power in the world it doesn't mean shit because he cant really control it and his face is associated with all the death caused by his alter ego.

[Anonymous No.10526840]

>>10523688
The chronicles of narnia

[Anonymous No.10526947]

A perfect, small and rich Italian street in Milan during the '60 goes from being the example of the "Italian Miracle" to a land of madness, slaughter, degenerancy and profligacy

[Anonymous No.10527142]

>>10526389
That sounds more like bad things that happen to him. Does he have some sort of emotional vulnerability he has to overcome to get what he wants?

[Anonymous No.10527222]

>>10526840
>implying it wasn't a trash book

[Anonymous No.10527310]

>>10527222
It wasn’t, you’re just a half-fag with an ego complex.

Nice trips tho

[Anonymous No.10527524]

A man arrives back from a trip to finalise his divorce to find his house has burnt down. In a fit rage he decides to fulfill his lifelong dream of crossing the sahara desert by foot, knowing its certain suicide. Starting out from Morroco, he heads east into the desert. Despite his lack of preparation and run ins with terrorists, dehydration and wild dogs, he survives. He gains great fame and re-marries. Several people have tried to recreate his walk and either given up or died.

A postscript to the novel reveals that his amazing feat was a scam planned by him an his ex wife. The divorce and housefire were done deliberately, while supply packages were airdropped by drone. His ex-wife changed identity and underwent radical plastic surgery to become his new wife. The book ends with an edgy quote by some french existentialist.

[Anonymous No.10527532]

>>10527524
This first part is nice, the second part is dumb and completely unnecessary.

[Anonymous No.10527534]

A book about dragons arguing

[Anonymous No.10527676]

>>10523688
Lord of the Rings?

[Anonymous No.10527681]

>>10524757
how does her race change?

[Anonymous No.10527813]

I'm writing a book of praise. It's all quotes from authors about my book. Basically those first few pages at the front of contemporary best selling lit taken to an extreme. Or a thousand minute essays on vanity, preying on those with mental health issues, self-publishing, and self-worth.

It's going to be self-published of course.

[Anonymous No.10527847]

>>10527813
this could be interesting if done well and like under 100 pages. would you have plot development. what kind of balance between faithfulness to the conceit and actual growth of the story would there be. (sorry question mark button doesn't work)

[Anonymous No.10527860]

>>10527524
>>10527532
agreed, nix the second part and you have a potentially interesting story. keep it, and you have a bad joke of a book.

[Anonymous No.10527899]

>>10519753
A novel that is a compendium of short stories that are 3 different settings
>A civil war veteran who moves to California in the 1870's
>A homeless man in a northern California town today
>A soldier in Afghanistan 10 years ago

The main character is actually all the same person. The homeless man is a veteran of the Afghan surge and suffers from PTSD compounded by schizophrenia that began in his mid 20's and sees himself as a dime novel hero and that's how the western stories are written (probably first person) while the stories of the homeless man are written through 3rd person limited (the lens of society) and the stories of his Afghan campaign are told through the lens of his commanding officer in the 2nd person.

The fact that the main character is all the same person won't be explicitly revealed until later in the book. I want each of the stories to have a stand alone feel and the novel as a whole to have a very choppy and discordant feel because I think the smoothness of reality is a false perception we build in our minds to cope with the chaos that billions of different perceptions of the world implies.

[Anonymous No.10528069]

>>10527847
No faith. Just famous writers, intellectuals and publishers using praise as a means to self-promote. If there is a plot, it'll be about someone within the self-publishing industry. Or maybe a plot surrounding the publishing of the book, some controversy involving a certain critique by an author suspected to be the same as who wrote the book: Joey D. Sillentio. Maybe a dialectical praise of praise and self-criticism. I don't know, or care....

[Anonymous No.10528085]

>>10521105
is lizarde okay?

[Anonymous No.10528150]

>>10521091
Isn't this basically the plot to the movie Brick by Rian Johnson?

[Anonymous No.10528409]

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind expect they break up the end and he dies of heroin overdose and she blames herself

[Anonymous No.10528488]

>>10528409

Dude, are you okay?

[Anonymous No.10528505]

>>10528150
I’ve never seen it, I’ll have to check it out. My story is inspired by something similar that happened to my friend group in high school.

[Anonymous No.10528511]

>>10528505
Make the characters a bit like the ones in Mystery Team and I'll buy it.

[Anonymous No.10528513]

>>10528505
Pretty kino. Done with lots of film noir cinematics and a good cast.

[Anonymous No.10528515]

>>10528409
>the woman blaming herself

[Anonymous No.10528517]

>>10520572
nobody got any opinion on this?

[Anonymous No.10528522]

>>10528517
Too vague.

[Anonymous No.10528531]

>>10523688
Macbeth

[Anonymous No.10528538]

>>10519753
TFW I can steal your ideas and may get away with it and succeed since I´m Jewish

[Anonymous No.10528555]

>>10519753

Rate goyim

https://pastebin.com/htx8ZzPr

[Anonymous No.10528562]

>>10528538

Steal >>10528555

[Anonymous No.10528577]

A historical account of a group of vikings who become trapped in the north pole and become santa claus. The toys they make feed off the joy of children and help power their captors. Later they realize they can cheaply make toys and feed off the children's negative emotions.
Misc ideas:
Santa guy's kids died in a chimney and as a reward every christmas the captors bring the children back to life for Santa.
Everyone is immortal but unless they are given power by the captors they get older and older.
World gets pretty steampunk near the end because there's so many people living there. There's like 5 solid floors of factory (think Kowloon Walled City).
The entire place repeats at the edge, but the place is a circle (idk circular repition seems interesting. no idea how that would work).
Tie in santa legends with events that happened in their north pole history.

Had this idea for years, but too lazy to start.

[Anonymous No.10528607]

>>10528577
so Viking Santa Claus Monsters Inc.? Might be good

[Anonymous No.10528622]

>>10519753
Men are tired of women rejecting them, hence, traps became the future

[Anonymous No.10528685]

>>10528622
Dinosaurs kill man, traps inherit the Earth

[Anonymous No.10528739]

>>10528685
Then no one knows for sure who is a man or a woman, since fucking a trap won´t result in a breed

[Anonymous No.10528748]

>>10528739
Sexual reproduction is a social construct

[Anonymous No.10528794]

>>10528622
>novel ideas
that means fiction anon

[Anonymous No.10528812]

A boy growing into adulthood, the son of an aristocrat in a once-prosperous kingdom ruled by a corrupt government His two friends, also aristocracy are secretly involved in a rebel group but lack the manpower to overthrow the high council. The council maintains a war with a beastman nation in order to further their own interests. All three and an entourage of soldiers are sent on a mission to stop a high general of the beastman nation, who has been located heading to a remote monastery. Once there, they find the monks slaughtered and defeat the general. They investigate to see what he was looking for and find a legendary lost city buried underneath the monastery, once a pinnacle of magical technology destroyed during the war a thousand years before. They travel through the surrounding town, witnessing the shadows of those lost. The magical contamination is so high that their spirits cannot rest. Once in the town's castle, they discover an army of golems powered by magical tech. The two friends of the MC decide to activate and use these to take over the corrupt government by force and kill anyone in their way. The MC who is obsessed with being the stereotypical hero, disagrees with this method of ousting the council and tries to stop them. He is killed and flung into the depths of the castle.

His body is mutated into a demonic form by the dark forces that supply the world's magic, which are very latent under the castle. He awakens, several decades later in his new body and sets out to stop his friends. (Not realizing it's later.)

Once he reaches the city, he sees how prosperous it is yet still attempts to find and defeat his previous friends. He finds that they have made themselves immortal, reasoning that the right people having absolute authority is good and deciding to keep themselves in absolute power forever. He attempts to shoot one with his magitek gun, yet in his fury overcharges it and it explodes, blowing his arm off.

He flees and returns to the lost castle, finding the magical source deep underneath that is rumored to grant wishes. He wishes to become a true hero. Nothing appears to happen and he wanders back into the world to find purpose.

It's a rough synopsis.

[Anonymous No.10529163]

The story of a young man living in the streets in some kind of middle ages. His mother, whom is a prostitute, abandoned him and died, and he never met his father. He finds a drunken knight on the roadside, sleeping in the mud. He tries to stab him so as to take his belonging, and fails. The knight, pissed off, take him as a squire. Turns out the knight never really was a knight, but an old PTSD-ridden soldier who has but stolen an armor and a stallion from some real knight and now goes around pretending and jousting so as to earn little money at tournaments, which happens to be a pretty comfy lifestyle. Fast forwards a few years. The young man is now part of a roving band of mercenaries, old friends of the knight, whom has deceased. He's been taught warfare and joined the leadership of the company, in parts thanks to his "surrogate" father. He prides himself some kind of self-made man or romantic hero, though he is still mostly an egoistic, greedy douche whom is not unlike his fellow mercenaries and even encouraged this way. The band is eventually sent on a bloody crusade across the sea, which turns out a much more brutal conflict than what your average condettioris were used to. It's an occasion for him to somehow man up. As they return to the continent, the pay turnout is high but the morale is low. This is approximately when the big revelation comes through : he is the bastard son of the king Garlan the Grey, father of current king Garlan the Blue. The Grey conceived him around the age of 70s, but never once had unmarital sex before, though The Blue's mother died early. He is the only known possible heir besides The Blue and his children.. In the kingdom, a revolution is brewing. After the crusade, a disastrous failure, conspiring nobles see this man as a replacement for the king, well-meaning though misguided by the equivalent of the pope into the war. He becomes de facto leader of the mercenaries, later of an army he didn't ask for. People now approach him, try to corrupt him or kill him. He discovers the weight of responsibilities. He must now battle Garlan the Blue and become the king he no longer desires to be, or he will die to Garlan or to his own powerful allies.

It's all supposed to be part of a greater ensemble with different characters. Weird mix-up between fantasy and historic fiction, like it happens in a non-historic part of the world but there's little magic if at all.

[Anonymous No.10529202]

>>10529163
>whom
>her is a prostitute

[Anonymous No.10529235]

>>10529202
I didn't re-read what I wrote. I'm not a native english speaker and I try to sound smart.

[Anonymous No.10529833]

>>10529235
No biggie, just remember who for subject and whom for object

[Anonymous No.10530198]

>>10529163
The twist is bad, "he´s the son of" chiche is some of the worst things you can add, every effort is useless since he´s already an important person, but, hey, he didn´t know about it, so, it must be good, right? Not really, it´s almost "the chosen one" chiche, less harmful, but still painful

[Anonymous No.10530438]

>>10527142
2 things come to mind.

1. The point I made that he knows that it is possible to remove his evil side through spiritual training but is hesitant to do so because he's hated enough without his evil side's power to bail hi out, he'll likely be killed by the first person who recognizes him ("base form" is mediocre at best on power-level scale).

2. If I go the route of "removing" his evil side actually meaning he now has his own separate body (as opposed to that just killing him then and there), then there's the confidence issues of having to beat what is pretty much the only reason he's hung around for as long as he has.

[Anonymous No.10530773]

It's about a French soldier who gets left behind in Russia after Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. He becomes a serf for an alcoholic and insane Russian aristocrat who drunkenly plays the balalaika at midnight. He makes friends with other serfs and has kids with a Russian woman. Part 2 follows his son's adventures. His son tries to make up for being half French by becoming extremely pro Russian in everything he does. He runs away from home and joins the Cossacks, and fights in the Crimean War. He is then killed in a battle fighting against the French. The man who kills him is actually his cousin, but neither him nor the cousin will ever know it.

[Anonymous No.10530913]

WOT IF THE APPS ON YER PHONE HAD FEELINS

[Anonymous No.10531034]

An old Englishman is living somewhere in near future. He is walking home from the shops in the average post industrial city suburb and is robbed, beaten and spat at. Most of the story him reminiscing on his past achievements and travels. He realises England no longer has a place for him as he is an Englishman. He remembers the architecture of the old times, the food, his family, and ll the other things of his time. His health is failing and he can't afford to keep the heating on over winter so he hangs himself. At the end, no one cares as he is just a 'stupid old uneducated white man' and his house is given to a pakistani immigrant family.

[Anonymous No.10531046]

>>10530913
t. Writer of black mirror

[Anonymous No.10531119]

>>10530198
It might be even worse but I try to make the point that being the son of the king doesn't make him a better person or someone more relevant or "special", just the tool of truly important people who want him on the throne. MC didn't inspire respect before he was a bastard and doesn't inspire respect as a bastard. It also sets up for his confrontation with his step-brother who is supposed to be a sympathetic antagonist. Another info I forgot : Garlan is over 40 when MC is in his 20s.

[Anonymous No.10532073]

A man is addicted to posting on an anonymous image board and then realises he is wasting his live
This repeated for over 1200 pages and reply and post is detailed painstakingly

[Anonymous No.10532082]

>>10531046
WOT IF CHARLIE BROOKER IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER CREATED BY BLACK MIRROR

[Anonymous No.10532317]

>>10532082
WOT IF THE AMERERCANS WERE ALL BADDY ROBOTS INNIT

[Anonymous No.10532322]

>>10532082
WOT IF AMAZON BUILT WAREHOUSE CITIES THAT ITS EMPLOYEES COULDNT EVER LEAVE FROM THEN

[Anonymous No.10532374]

>>10519753

Grayson Dean, Houston detective and former Green Beret, struggles with personal tragedy that destroys his life’s purpose as a man. Assisted by loyal friends and two women competing for his love, he struggles to regain his footing. Aware that economic collapse will eventually push America into anarchy, he leads the Southeast Texas Patriots militia, to prepare to survive the die-off and thrive long-term.

Imam Omar, also aware of the coming economic and societal collapse into anarchy, contrives his evil Master Plan to convert America into his his personal Islamic caliphate by forming hundreds of jihadi cells using undetectable non-Middle Eastern converts to Islam. Trained with ISIS and combat hardened in Africa, their mission: when the SHTF, kill the infidels who survive the die-off, enslave their women and children, and impose Sharia law.

Thoughts, gentlemen?

[Anonymous No.10532381]

>>10523688
Iliad?

[Anonymous No.10532382]

>>10532374
This is perfect arfcom pulp. Peddle it there and watch the amazonbux come in.

[Anonymous No.10532488]

>>10532073
Can we glamorise posting in the beginning to show the sheer brilliance of it and the great hilarity that ensues as a result of his shitposting? Maybe a sort of horror theme where (you)'s flash subtly at first connected to pleasentness but then barrage him in his Real life so that he can only intake what he credits to himself, given that he has created the world - though the world is actually created by the information he submereges himself in in order to get more and more (you)'s.

The Story of (You)

[Anonymous No.10532490]

>>10528812
stop now
>>10529163
poor
>>10530773
good
>>10531034
nobody will read this
>>10532073
>>10532374
i would read this

[Anonymous No.10532502]

>>10532490
You have shit taste.

[Anonymous No.10532517]

>>10532502
just because i think your idea is trash doesn't mean i have shit taste
grow up

[Anonymous No.10532556]

>>10528085

Tragically not

[Anonymous No.10532566]

>>10532517
Wasn't the person who wrote any of that. But yes you do. And your judgement is innate proof of it, as it always will be.

[Anonymous No.10532690]

this isn't a novel idea but rather a multi-media project that im in the process of fleshing out, although i hope to create some literary merit in it

this is just a general spitfire of ideas

The setting is a city with multitudes of gangs fighting for supremacy over each-other
Generally the city uses an orange/green color with blue skyscrapers in the more wealthy areas.
the poorer parts have foliage covering up the city to form a sort of jungle.
The protagonist is a young adult with the ability to fight in a breakdancing/caperoia style as action is big part of the story.
This protagonist was once part of a gang, however this gang was wiped out by a mysterious villain
The protagonist struggles with his want to somehow acknowledge this atrocity but also his lack of care and agency for his own life.
Protag tries to move on through joining other gangs, developing relationships with other characters while having the reader learn more about the world, character development etc., this structure takes up the majority of the story
However this development provides no refuge for the Protag's emotions.
This is conveyed in a visual sense as Protag attempts to change everything he can (such as his housing, his clothing, etc.) in accordance with his current situation, yet he still remains unable to change his memories and the world around him.
Throughout the story is villain is revealed
The villain hopes to eradicate "gang-culture", sometimes through violent means if need be
though he desires progress he represents the antithetical to the Protag's unconscious wants and ideals
In the end the Protag manages to overthrow the villain,his unconscious desire managing to permeate the world literally (in visuals) and metaphorically.
The Protag is never protrayed as morally correct in his decision and this action is even quite selfish, deciding to continue a world of perpetual violence for his own satisfaction.
The soundtrack is mainly "chill" plunderphonic heavy hip-hop, besides aesthetic purposes it also serves to create the idea that the Protag refuses to implement his own ideas onto to world and prefers for other to make his decisions.
in sense it's almost like a coming of age story, from having other people control him to controlling his own world

i apologize if my rambling was difficult to follow

[Anonymous No.10532706]

>>10532374
get that trump voter money lad

[Anonymous No.10532740]

>>10519960
I like it

[Anonymous No.10532749]

>>10519960

You should could it 'The Hermit'

[Anonymous No.10532769]

>>10522659

Isnt this just literally Lord of Flies?

[Anonymous No.10532790]

>>10532769
lotF was a psychological work, not an anthropological one

[Anonymous No.10532874]

>>10519753
It will be a nonfiction book answering the ultimate question:
why is there something instead of nothing.

[Anonymous No.10532911]

>>10530773
Nice, reminds me of a poem by Borges:

>Juan Lopez and John Ward ~ by Jorge Luis Borges

They lived in a strange age.
The planet had been partitioned into different countries, each armed with loyalties, cherished memories, and an unquestionably heroic past; with laws, grievances, and their own peculiar mythologies; with bronze busts of great men, anniversaries, demagogues, and symbols. This division, the labor of cartographers, was good for starting wars.
Lopez was born in the city by the motionless river; Ward, in the outskirts of the city once walked by Father Brown. He had studied Spanish in order to read Don Quixote.
The other professed a love of Conrad, who had been revealed to him in a classroom on Viamonte Avenue.
They might have been friends, but they only saw each other once, face-to-face, somewhere down in those too-famous islands, and each of them was Cain, each Abel.
They were buried together, decayed in the snow. These events took place in an age we cannot understand.

[Anonymous No.10533007]

An epic about a non-personified cockroach from the perspective of an unreliable narrator attempting to justify his hatred of the creatures.

[Anonymous No.10533078]

>>10519753
A young man commits a crime in revenge of his brother, fells in love with his female lawyer, while the story progresses he finds out women are natural whores

[Anonymous No.10534632]

>>10532690
>i apologize if my rambling was difficult to follow
You've got more to apologize for than that

[Anonymous No.10534957]

>>10523688
most patrician post of all time

[Anonymous No.10535033]

>>10523688
The Bible

[Anonymous No.10535857]

>>10523685
>From there, the book would become a boy meets girl comedy of a spacefaring Achaean falling in love with an all-american country girl

Goddamnit

[Anonymous No.10535867]

>>10526054
Ugh

[Anonymous No.10535880]

>>10528577
>cheaply make toys and feed off the children's negative emotions.
Any way to turn this into an origin story for Ikea?

[Anonymous No.10535991]

>>10520844
really liking the style, but it feels more like something used in short story than a novel

[Anonymous No.10536002]

>>10522659
like that jimmy neutron movie

[Anonymous No.10536005]

>>10533007
??

[Anonymous No.10536011]

>>10523033
i like this idea, but i dont get how you will carry on with that story, feels more like a /x teory

[Anonymous No.10536019]

>>10520758
can u elavorate more?, it feels like another version of IT

[Anonymous No.10536023]

>>10523579
wow, nice.
I totally imagine it like a story of self discovery with Im a legend without the ghouls.
How will you handle the emotions part of the IA, like lonliness and despair?

[Anonymous No.10536034]

Set in America twenty minutes into the future, without warning or any real reason to do so the Gubmint enacts martial law and starts rounding up the populace into FEMA camps. The only ones prepared for this are the sort of paranoid conspiracy nutcases who make endless youtube rants about how it's going to happen soon. Believing them to be forward thinking saviours who predicted it happening, the people turn to their leadership for protection. The narrative follows a number of these groups as they slowly discover that the people they've turned to for help aren't clever, just insane. Working title: The Stopped Clock.

[Anonymous No.10536067]

>>10520040
Cool

[Anonymous No.10536075]

>>10520072
HAHAHA

[Anonymous No.10536085]

Hello /lit/itens! What do you think of developing works of lit around stories found in 4chan threads? It's not like there is lack of unusual shit, and it would count as social commentary, which is doubtlessly an important literary ambition.

And wouldn't you consider greentext as a new form of lyrical poetry? Waka poetry, sonnets, greentext. What next?

[Anonymous No.10536765]

>>10536005
Well, shit.