/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10883436]

What's your Novel's Gimmick, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.10883443]

I'm afraid to post it because someone might expose me for being a hack

[Anonymous No.10883447]

>>10883436
Its going to be a diary of my travels on the interwebs.

[Anonymous No.10883453]

>>10883447
>literally my diary desu
Genius

[Anonymous No.10883472]

>>10883436

There isn't a real gimmick. But it takes place in 1960, is written in three parts, each from a different character's perspective (I outright stole that from Faulkner), and involves a real life tragedy that happened.

[Anonymous No.10883530]

>>10883436
uhh, three different parts following a different perspective each time; the first one is a complete worldbuilding tale through the eyes of a Mary Sue, the second is a interquel/parallel-reality drama following a dudebro-turned-misanthrope, the final is a futuristic take on the previous era that relies on the "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" idea and ties back into the first part while building upon the characterization of second.

[Anonymous No.10883589]

It has pictures.

[Anonymous No.10883631]

the main character isn't the central protagonist of the story

[Anonymous No.10883944]

>>10883436
It's about what life would be like if we all lived forever and didn't need to fuel our bodies to stay alive.
The protagonist ends up in the afterlife, and all the other characters are skellingtons, because life without needing to live is a barebones existance.
At some point I'll include a joke about how dooty the afterlife is. And also actually write it.

[Anonymous No.10885397]

>>10883589
so a picture book?

[Anonymous No.10886533]

Twist based on the main character's psyche.

[Anonymous No.10887606]

>>10886533
go on

[Anonymous No.10888367]

>>10886533
Go on

[Anonymous No.10889118]

>>10883436

Boy loves girl.
Boy and girl find out reality is a bubble and an endless abyss on qlipoth insects are trying to pop our bubble.
Girl is an insect and eats boy.

[Anonymous No.10889122]

>>10883436
Big throbbing cowboy cocks

[Anonymous No.10889125]

>>10883436
Dreams and memories

[Anonymous No.10889154]

The twist ending is that the evil twin is really just the guy and he's crazy af.

[Anonymous No.10889158]

chomosome casting

[Anonymous No.10889812]

It was written by a wizard

[Anonymous No.10891320]

>>10889812
go on

[Anonymous No.10891440]

The entire story is an allegory of the Great depression

[Anonymous No.10891455]

It's a Russo-Western Fantasy Murder Mystery

[Anonymous No.10891490]

The gimmick is people on a futuristic spaceship on a mission to colonize another world get killed one by one but it's actually just a a rewritten version of Platos allegory of the cave.

[Anonymous No.10891506]

It's a continuation of The Master and Margarita, written from the viewpoint of Margarita's husband when he returns home, but the laws and customs of 1930s USSR are completely made up, and culturally might as well be 21st century USA deep south.

[Anonymous No.10891538]

It goes on

[Anonymous No.10891546]

It's a short story about Kant's interpretation of entropy but it takes place on a trillion year old world-ship orbiting the last clump of real matter, an enormous black hole with the detritus of dead space stations, brown dwarves and Dyson spheres crumbling into the singularity close to the heat death of the universe.

The guy is a Sherlock Holmes/ Rambo guy from the past, since the scientists at the end of time kept sending people into the past to prolong the end of time, he was one of the only archtypes they retrieved as monument to humanity's history. He awakes up from time hibernation and kills everyone and pilots the ship holding the last of humanity from a conservative orbit directly into the black hole in order to recreate the universe and destroy the elites that manipulate the financial system onboard the space ship.

[Anonymous No.10891747]

why is weed so fucking /lit/?? I've had writer's block for ages, but just now, after getting high, I thought of a million wonderful ideas for my book--and wrote them all down furiously and with little regard for outline structure

[Anonymous No.10891753]

>>10891747
dayum shoulld i try the weed?

[Anonymous No.10891757]

>>10891747
except they are all terrible

[Anonymous No.10891767]

>>10891747
dude who fuckin cares about reading 420 smoke weed everyday!!!!!!!!1

[Anonymous No.10891806]

>>10883436

Racing.
The issue is, I have no idea how to write a race. Unless I can cram it full of theme, I might just try to go around it, since there won't be much to get out of it anyway, and it'll just be part of the context instead of a series of action sequences.

[Anonymous No.10891814]

Time travel, in space, and he's a deepwater nazi

[Anonymous No.10891817]

>>10891806
like The Art of Racing in the Rain?

[Anonymous No.10891826]

>>10891817
Don't know anything about that book.
The protagonist is a racer and the outcomes of the races (and events surrounding the races) direct the plot. I just chose racing because it's a good way to show off the super-flated egos of the characters and other similar ideas.

[Anonymous No.10891829]

>>10891826
Why not pick something you know how to write?

[Anonymous No.10891836]

>>10891829

The same reason I don't read things I already understand.
I'd rather learn how to do it through struggling through it and be better on the other end than stay in my safety bubble and stagnate.

[Anonymous No.10891838]

>>10891836
OK, so why would you write around it, then? You're coming off kind of retarded here.

[Anonymous No.10891853]

>>10891814
so basically the story is how society would be degenerate even after a Nazi victory, cause it's basically all started cause a polack got sent in time.
He keeps getting time traveled to different places, without his own will. He can't control when or how, he just gets sent after some contribution happens

[Anonymous No.10891867]

>>10891853
that sounds interesting--if not shitlib

[Anonymous No.10891872]

>>10891838

That'd be if I fail at writing it, or what I want the book to accomplish doesn't work with it anyway.
Though at that point I'd probably pick something else to use, something more conducive to what I want to say in the book.

Still in planning here, knowing I sound retarded is good, thanks for letting me know.

[Anonymous No.10891886]

>>10891853


I had an idea for a dumb book about a similar story, but it's just one radical dude who timetravels around human history to do whack shit. He's responsible for burning the Hindenburg, Pearl Harbour, etc, because he orchestrated them all to have some over-the-top Just Cause 2 style action in them that he wanted to partake in, and he has to avoid the Time Police to continue his shenannigans.

Obviously I never took it seriously.

[Anonymous No.10891896]

>>10883436
you know that good guy? well he's actually bad :^)
really though, multiple perspectives that intertwine, and each character experiences the same events differently based on how their ideology warps their perception.
some characters will have their perspectives further warped as it progresses.
i'm not sure if i ever want to make the characters see "reality",
because wouldn't that just be my own warped view of everything?
also i'm trying to avoid a good or bad ending, if that makes any sense.
i just sort of want it to end in a believable yet unpredictable way
i always hate stories where you know what's coming 10 minutes ahead.

[Anonymous No.10891907]

>>10883436
groundhog year, except the character is unaware

[Anonymous No.10891920]

>>10883436
I use a lot of predominantly medical phrases/terminology to describe things, I'm hoping it gives the prose a juxtaposition between visceral and clinically detached. I think it's appropriate because throughout the story there are situations which are thematically much the same - a satellite preparing clean room being the site of a messy killing, highly detailed simulated war games that have real world consequences, a mutiny aboard a very nice, new and clean ship etc.

Some of the choice words that I like in particular:
>septated
>transmural
>occluded
>aneurysmal
>brady/tachy- (slower/faster)
>malacia
>haemorrhage (more common but still a very nice word)

[Anonymous No.10891921]

>>10891747
DUDE

[Anonymous No.10891966]

>>10891867
I'm not a shitlib, I'm just saying that the Nazis weren't perfect themselves and would almost certainly falter sooner rather than latter. I think Italy would be one of the best locations due to the tension there, as well as a war between Japan and Germany ala Man in the High Castle though from the opposite point of view
>>10891886
Sounds fun

[happy birthday No.10892000]

>>10883436
by the end you will feel as if you have been raped and murdered for your entire life

[Anonymous No.10892014]

>>10883472
Seems good, the whole thing of telling a tale from different perspectives is nice to read if done properly. Reliable or unreliable narrator?

>>10883530
Ambitious, but depending on the subject matter I'd definitely be willing to read something like that.

>>10883631
Always enjoyed this but hard to find a lot of good books where this is the case. Of course there are some books where people have decided that a side character is actually the 'main' character after the fact, but usually this seems to be an interpretation that the author didn't intend.

>>10883944
A bit undergrad-tier, but I wish you luck.

>>10886533
Interest piqued, go on...

>>10889118
Very strange but that's not necessarily a bad thing, could you elaborate further?

>>10889125
A bit overdone. Could you also explain a little further?

>>10889154
Been done before, better off choosing something a bit more unique unless you're very confident in your ability.

>>10891440
Nice. Simple and nice.

>>10891455
Trying a bit too hard, maybe cut it down to only two descriptors.

>>10891490
I'd read it.

>>10891506
Continuing the works of very good authors is always a bad idea. Great enthusiasm but not a good plan for writing a good book. No matter how well it is received it will always be compared and contrasted with the original and most people won't like it as such.

>>10891546
Very interesting indeed, I'd read the shit out of it.

>>10891806
Cool topic. I saw the movie Senna recently and it was great, might be worth watching for inspiration.

>>10891907
If the character is unaware then how is there a story? I assume there must be someone who is aware, right?

>>10891920
Simple but effective, try not to overuse them though or it will come across as very tryhard.

[Anonymous No.10892032]

>>10883436
It's a 'through a mirror darkly' take on human sexuality.

[Anonymous No.10892070]

>>10883436
it's about a couple idiotic tycoons and their catastrophic failures leading up to Black Tuesday

[Anonymous No.10892086]

>>10883436
The story makes you believe it's the quest of the main character to eliminate humanity once his daughter figure died murdered, but at the end is a about the loss of hope from a secondary charachter (initially super optimist and idealist) that triggers the end.

[Anonymous No.10892106]

>>10892086
so it's neon genesis evangelion?

[Anonymous No.10892121]

>>10892106
Never saw that anime but Jesus Christ are they really similar?

[Anonymous No.10892127]

>>10883436
Human's can't use magic without taking parts of monsters into themselves, primarily by making monster blood into ink to make tattoos, but the more they use the more likely they are to turn into monsters themselves.

Also the protagonist and her traveling companion have a lesbian romance subplot that I've put more effort into pacing well and writing believably than any other portion of the book. I don't want to be accused of pandering when the focus should be on punching dragons in the face.

[Anonymous No.10892131]

>>10892121
Yeah pretty much but your protagonist would be shinjis dad and the daughter figure is his literal wife/daughter/clone

[Anonymous No.10892132]

>>10883436
love

[Anonymous No.10892143]

>>10892127
>don't want to be accused of pandering when the focus should be on punching dragons in the face.
Fuck that go full Korra

[Anonymous No.10892155]

>>10892131
Damn, maybe I should watch some weeb stuff.

[Anonymous No.10892164]

>>10892155
no, don't get tricked by his kike lies

[Anonymous No.10892171]

>>10892164
B-but he said it's similar.

[Anonymous No.10892181]

>>10892171
that is a bad thing, you don't want your writing to be like anime. read a book.

[Anonymous No.10892182]

>>10892143
I mean, there's cuddling. That's about it, in terms of overt displays of affection. I could always write something smutty as a side story, but it doesn't fit into the flow of the rest of the narrative. The culmination of their relationship happens right before they reach the dragon's lair, and it's their fondness for one another developing right at the end that leads to the biggest of their mishaps.

Or do you mean less "make them hold hands and go into the light together" and more "make their romance the center of the story"?

[Anonymous No.10892195]

>>10892182
I was really shitposting.
Now, real talk: Don't you ever take Korra as a good representation on how to build a lesbian relationship, or any relationship whatsoever.

[Anonymous No.10892202]

>>10892181
>you don't want your writing to be like anime
I don't even watch anime, anon. The fuck?

[Anonymous No.10892206]

>>10892202
that means you suck. It's okay, we all suck at some point.
>greeks
>DON'T SKIP MEDIEVAL
And don't watch anime.

[Anonymous No.10892213]

>>10892195
I figured, but didn't want to assume.

I agree with you completely, Korra mishandled most of its...everything, really. Except Tenzin. I liked Tenzin a lot. They did alright with him.

[Anonymous No.10892226]

>>10892213
>Except Tenzin. I liked Tenzin a lot. They did alright with him.
Jesus Christ, this. Sometimes I see Korra related stuff and my blood boils, until I see Tenzin. That guy it's actually the only decent thing there, besides martial arts and the music.

[Anonymous No.10892230]

>>10892206
>that means you suck. It's okay, we all suck at some point
Now anon, maybe it's because I haven't slept very well lately. But does my plot suck or not?
>greeks
>DON'T SKIP MEDIEVAL
Oh sure, time to read.

[Anonymous No.10892255]

>>10892230
anime guy here, yea don't watch it I stopped a year ago felt better since

[Anonymous No.10892260]

>>10892226
The fanart tells a better love story than the series ever did, in my opinion. So much potential wasted... While writing the romance between my characters I went back over it just to remind myself what NOT to do. Everything is spread out, they start off stuck with each other due to circumstance, develop mutual respect and trust, overcome challenges, and perhaps most importantly, they're interesting characters on their own who STAY interesting when together without their relationship needing to crumble for the sake of drama.

I seriously hate stable, healthy relationships in literature needing to be blown to pieces just to stir up trouble because it "raises the stakes" or whatever.

[Anonymous No.10892288]

>>10892255
Ok Mr. Double Dubs. I guess

[Anonymous No.10892297]

>>10892260
>So much potential wasted
That's it. That's Korra in four words.

[Anonymous No.10892303]

>>10892230
if you want to be a good writer you MUST, and i mean MUST be a good reader. For every hour you write that should be how much you're reading tbfh

[Anonymous No.10892307]

>>10892014
holy shit i never knew he took out an ad, is that from his instagram or something?
>>10892032
why does the toilet spin

[Anonymous No.10892319]

>>10892297
We will endeavor to succeed where it failed.

[Anonymous No.10892986]

>>10883436
Bump

[Anonymous No.10893036]

The main character literally cannot stop having intercourse with obese women. It’s an autobiography.

[Anonymous No.10893071]

>>10883436
The protagonist was dead... the whole time!

[Anonymous No.10893260]

>>10893071
To piggyback off that for a sec, because I can't help but want to spice it up a little: What if he's only "dead" sometimes? He died and didn't realize he left his body, which is still in a coma-like state without his spirit. He always feels hungry no matter what he does to sate it, and then one day the hunger just stops and his body finally dies, and that finality changes the nature of his death-like state from a kind of astral projection to full-on spirit of the dead, which in turn changes how other beings perceive him or can interact with him, and how he can interact with them.

[Anonymous No.10893554]

>>10883436
my story has Felini-esque vibe for the main protagonist.

[Anonymous No.10893556]

>>10889812
Don't publish it. Mine is written by a wizard. Theif

[Anonymous No.10893580]

>>10893554
Mine has a Fellini-esque vibe for the main protagonist.

[Anonymous No.10893744]

>>10883436
I want to write a Novel that at the end of the day is slightly different, more nihilistic tone than the rest of the novels that would come after it. And I don't know how people would react to it. Could it be done?

[Anonymous No.10893829]

>>10883436
Literally cliche manga-tier but I don't give a shit.

[Anonymous No.10894126]

>>10883436
I dunno

[Anonymous No.10894262]

Near future hallucinogenic erotic fable set in rural England. Like Dream Story crossed w Heathers.

[Anonymous No.10895621]

>>10894126
Sadly the most realistic scenario.

[Anonymous No.10897182]

>>10894262
why?

[Anonymous No.10897680]

>>10897182
Why what?

[Anonymous No.10897701]

>>10883436
If you read it backwards it turns into a gay smut about the protag and antagonist

[Anonymous No.10897713]

>>10883436
There will be several anachronisms sprinkled in with no context or explanation for why they exist in the world.

And then the reveal is earth as we know it was a beta for the world in the story, and when whatever force made this new world it didn't manage to scrub irl earth's leftovers off of it.

[Anonymous No.10897724]

>>10891747
How do they hold up when you take a look at these ideas while sober though?

[Anonymous No.10897884]

>>10891440
>Grapes of Wrath

[Anonymous No.10897937]

A story with three largely unrelated protagonist in a magical-realism type Earth with vastly different character traits where each of the three's part of the story belongs to a different genre (crime caper, romance, odyssey in particular.) Really heavy on alliteration and linguistic devices since I read Petersburg too many times and it rotted my brain.

[Anonymous No.10897981]

Stories within stories

[Anonymous No.10898054]

It has a tapir in it.

[Anonymous No.10898126]

>>10883436
Story within a story in the same vein as One Thousand and One Nights.

The deepest I go is seven levels of narrative, and the major portion of the novel takes place in the third and fourth levels.

[Anonymous No.10898179]

>>10883436
Trying to find the balance between comfort and limits of human perseverance in a low fantasy setting.

[Anonymous No.10899452]

>>10898179
Go on.

[Anonymous No.10899457]

>>10898054
What a novel idea!

[Anonymous No.10899478]

The author appears as a fictionalised version of himself and claims the novel is actually a memoir

[Anonymous No.10899486]

>>10883436
A tripartite novel, two sections of which are epistolary.
The three sections are divided like this: journal entries from a famous historical figure, e-mails from an academic on an expedition to find those journal entries, and the account of the man that receives those emails.

[Anonymous No.10901022]

>>10899478
So a stand-in?

[Anonymous No.10901216]

There's two physical locations and they represent the dichotomy between childhood and adulthood.

[Anonymous No.10901259]

>>10883436
A-Side and B-Side, like a record. Also time travel somewhere. Maybe.

[Anonymous No.10901285]

>>10883436
It's about a cute anime girl, but nobody knows it but me.

[Anonymous No.10901309]

The story is seen through the eyes of a mentally ill person. It is never explicitly told, but I hope to drop enough clues for people to figure it out. I also hope to make it enjoyable for brainlets who can't.

[Anonymous No.10901319]

>>10883436
I don't do gimmicks because I'm not writing for an audience.

[Anonymous No.10901366]

The protagonist's mother is deathly ill and his journey is on finding a cure which he acquires and then loses at the end of the story. She accepts her death despite her son's failure and dies in peace.

[Anonymous No.10901369]

narrative is a malleable thing for the characters, but not in the fourth wall kind of way

[Anonymous No.10901399]

A generic good vs evil story, where evil ends up winning.

[Anonymous No.10901559]

Vampire story for teens that isn’t a sappy love story. Sex blood rock and roll.

[Anonymous No.10901856]

It seems to be about someone reevaluating their life to make a change for the better but is instead about someone coming to terms with how their life was lived before their soon and inevitable death by monsters.

[Anonymous No.10901868]

It's the story of Codreanu. Episodes from his life told in a non chronological order.

[Anonymous No.10902109]

>>10883436
The prose gradually switches between long, slow, heavily-punctuated late Melville type sentences and quick stream-of-consciousness as the narrator boomerangs between depressive and hypomanic episodes, with regular prose in between. I also like playing with form too, so there's one chapter that's just a bullet point list that zigzags around the page, and another that's a screenplay.
I admit to being a pseud.

[Anonymous No.10902329]

The Master and Margarita in the US where the Master starts with a respectable but small business and Woland/Mephistopheles turns it into a disgusting conglomerate reaching into people's lives and eroding culture into a freakish advertising spectacle

[Anonymous No.10902349]

>>10883589
Hello Sebald.

[Anonymous No.10902355]

>>10892171
Don't listen to him. Even though most anime is garbage there are some gems like the one mentioned.

[Anonymous No.10902363]

>>10892307
i think its supposed to automatically clean the rim

[Anonymous No.10903245]

>>10902329
good.

[Anonymous No.10903321]

>>10883436
The protagonist is a de humanized child soldier who was indoctrinated into fanatically believing he is a blessed champion of humanity in a war against an alien threat. Many others share his fate, as they perish one by one, they spiral into further madness as they try to rationalize why the six-eyed god (deity of life and dead, represented by the cannon and barrel of a revolver seen from the front) has had their divine protection lifted, and what can they do to win back his favor.

Im almost about to break the 300 pages mark.

[Anonymous No.10903332]

>>10903245
You really think so? I just noticed that all of the books I'd been finding most interesting over the past year or so had some kind of Faustian bent.
To be honest I've got almost none of it written. I only really came up with the idea about a week ago and haven't written anything longer than a short story before. I figure you have some humble Faust figure and the Mephistopheles figure skyrockets him into business success that seems amazing but turns sinister and affects the characters surrounding Faust in horrifying ways. In a way it was kind of done with Milo Minderbinder in Catch 22, but in that case it was his own initiative.

[Anonymous No.10903839]

Has anyone taken any concrete steps to be published?

[Anonymous No.10903863]

>>10883436
It is about a prodigal man, who gets a woman pregnant and has a shotgun wedding. he forces her to keep them, because it is post-colonial India, and abortion back then amounts to drinking bleach. He stops drinking, and saves up enough money to buy a cab, she gives birth to twins, and slowly he starts pouring in more and more effort into raising them until one day they catch typhoid and die. He blames her, and says she poisoned them by not administering the meds on time, because secretly she never wanted to have them. He starts drinking again and gives up his cab business forcing her to drive and become more independent ; but it doesn't work out because it is post-colonial India and she is humiliated harassed and derided. The gimmick here is it is funny to me to see a bearded muslim man drinking and cursing god for taking away his Kiran(light) and Umeed(hope).

[Anonymous No.10903902]

>>10903839
Win some writing contest

[Anonymous No.10904465]

Inspired by the lore behind Rimworld, as in, humanity is spread thin throughout the galaxy since FTL travel is impossible so worlds are totally disconnected and often degenerate one way or another

[Anonymous No.10906014]

>>10883436
A modern fairy tale with ass to mouth and face fucking and puke and a happy ending.

[Anonymous No.10906018]

>>10886533
go away

[Anonymous No.10906026]

>>10889118
nice
do they have sex before she eats him?

[Anonymous No.10906031]

>>10889122
excerpt?

[Anonymous No.10906044]

>>10889154
like Fight Club or The Dark Half?

[Anonymous No.10906045]

Very dramatic explanations to describe basic things. No real conflict, just a guy enjoying life. Think of the big Lebowski if he didn’t get in trouble

[Anonymous No.10906059]

>>10891546
fuck yeah
needs sex tho

[Anonymous No.10906092]

>>10892032
>>10892307
>>10902363
no. it's a zen thing
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D

[Anonymous No.10906112]

>>10897680
Why not?

[Anonymous No.10906137]

>>10883436
In one version the wolf leaves out the grandmother's blood and meat for the girl to eat to fuck with her by making her unwittingly eat her beloved grandmother, then ate her after she was full. In another she gets in bed with him and the story ends there, with obvious implications. Sometimes she lives in these earlier versions too, though. In one version she's in bed with him, again with those implications, but she tells the wolf she needs to poop and doesn't want to poop in bed; so the wolf ties a string on her and lets her go outside to poop, and she ties the string to something else and escapes. In another she manages to run away from the house and is helped by some laundresses, who trick the wolf by laying a blanket over a stream and having the girl to go the other side; when the wolf tries to run across, he falls in and drowns.

[Anonymous No.10906164]

I'm pretty much just writing about my experiences spending time with my gf and her roommates. I'm including as many realistic details as possible and that primarily means their obsession with their smartphones. The hope is that the average roastie will really relate to what my novel's characters express and do because I'm just writing about irl roasties. Basically I am writing a John Green book that isn't sopping with teenage melodrama.

[Anonymous No.10906176]

>>10906045
My favorite novel is Suttree, which is pretty much what you described. I like that movie though and I'm interested. Have you got any excerpts online?

[Anonymous No.10906187]

>>10903839
What does it mean to "be published" these days? If your work is of good quality and you know how to shill you can build an online following. Social media is the greatest advertising platform we now have.

[Anonymous No.10906191]

>>10903321
This sounds fucking awesome. Do you have social media that I can follow your work on?

[Anonymous No.10906258]

>>10906164
is it sopping with casual hardcore sex?
it should

[Anonymous No.10906261]

>>10906187
is it?

[Anonymous No.10906265]

The ending is so foul and reprehensible that most people cannot bear to finish it

[Anonymous No.10906268]

>>10906258
Anon, books don't have to always arouse you.
yeah it's a plot point

[Anonymous No.10906430]

>>10883436
sincerity. all the "subversion" people do, Im going to play straight and hope readers find it refreshing. also by play it straight I don't mean I will use old plots, more like if in a usual story MC is a poor boy raised by his single mom/grandpa and "had to fight for everything he has while others were just handed it" mine MC is going to be a moderately wealthy person who has his own issues but no chip on the shoulder

[Anonymous No.10906480]

>>10906430
I love New Sincerity. It only took us a good 20 years to shake off the poison of constant irony.

[Anonymous No.10906647]

>>10897884
Do you know what an allegory is?

[Anonymous No.10906728]

>>10906112
m8 you were the one who asked why. what did you mean by that? why i chose to write about the topic?

[Anonymous No.10906943]

>>10897724
they're decent, actually

[Anonymous No.10907032]

>>10883436
Magic as a normal, open part of society. Was Walt Disney a dragon? He is now! Was WW2 Prophesied? Sure! Are there Elementals based on the periodic table? Why the fuck not?!

[Anonymous No.10907040]

>>10907032
Ehh that's kind of...not good. Seems kooky just to be different but in doing so it's not really different from anything really.

[Anonymous No.10907146]

>>10906176
nah
All i got is an outline of little stuff like characters and little scenarios

[Anonymous No.10908648]

>>10883436
Magical hillbillies

[Anonymous No.10908663]

>>10908648
good

[Anonymous No.10908670]

>>10908663
I'm not sure how sarcastic you're being.

[Anonymous No.10909208]

>>10906187
It means are you a scrub or did someone believe in your words enough to pay you for them?

[Anonymous No.10909373]

>>10883436
It is composed almost entirely of referrences to and reflections upon pieces of literature written between 1962 and 1963.

[Anonymous No.10909412]

>>10883436
every character has a sitcom like catchphrase that he repeats ad absurdum just to annoy the reader which is only me
i´m truly a troubled mind

[Anonymous No.10909428]

Every word is written backwards

[Anonymous No.10910382]

>>10909428
yhW?

[Anonymous No.10910467]

Its a three chapter book with three different story lines, the catch is its actually the same guy and he's crazy in the coconuts

[Anonymous No.10910471]

>>10883589
How you doing, Cocteau?

[Anonymous No.10910596]

He's a big time broker with a hot wife and friends that love him. He might also be a vampire.

[Anonymous No.10910599]

>>10892070
I dig it.

[Anonymous No.10910602]

>>10883436
It has cute anime girls in it.

[Anonymous No.10910617]

It's a hiphopera with a counterrevolutionary backdrop.

[Anonymous No.10911287]

>>10910602
I'd read it.

[Anonymous No.10911562]

>>10883436
Non linear plot

[Anonymous No.10911588]

>>10883436
The text becomes self-aware

[Anonymous No.10912695]

>>10883436

It's a typical hero's journey save the princess type story, but the hero doesn't really care that much and ends up mostly caught up in other shit instead.
Nothing to serious, just something that might be fun to write and fun to read.

[Anonymous No.10913900]

>>10912695
go on

[Anonymous No.10914358]

>>10891747
I BYPASSED THE COMPRESSOR

[Namefagg No.10914877]

>>10913900

That's actually all I have thought out. I like to come into these threads and throw out ideas I haven't actually worked on just to see if the general, one-two sentence premise is interesting enough to warrant expanding on.

I've been thinking of doing a sort of hero's journey parody, something that follows the formula properly, but in the most roundabout way that it can. Something that might try to be a bit goofy in tone.


I also considered starting what seems to be a fairly serious book that divulges into some straight unusual stuff, something like Dante's Inferno (The God of War Clone, not the book), but ending up in hell is coincidental, and instead of killing Satan, Satan flings him into the future (I swear this isn't Samurai Jack), and the protagonist steals some hypergundam and fights god in space (I swear this isn't Gurren Lagann).

[Anonymous No.10915078]

Zacharia Sitchin is the third-coming of Jesus on Easter.

[Anonymous No.10915821]

how autobiographical are your novels?

[Anonymous No.10916969]

>>10915821
autobiographical

[Anonymous No.10917034]

>>10903321
Sounds interesting but what is the actual war, if it isn't against an alien threat?

[Anonymous No.10917179]

>>10883436
Akyuu is akyuute!

[Anonymous No.10918371]

>>10917179
poor taste

[Anonymous No.10918702]

W O R D P L A Y
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[Anonymous No.10919975]

The cbaracters are occasionally dosed with DPH or datura without their knowledge.

[Anonymous No.10921460]

>>10918702
okay