/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11398026]

Post your novel ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere.

[Anonymous No.11398093]

A psychoanalyst in Victorian England treats several patients who report similar (and increasingly vivid) delusions and hallucinations relating to demons and witchcraft, which he eventually begins to view as fact. In his attempts to uncover the truth of this (probably imagined) occult conspiracy, he destroys his reputation and career.

[Anonymous No.11398098]

>>11398093
Would read

[Anonymous No.11398124]

>>11398093
the epilogue should br a bunch of losers calling him a hack 100 years in the future.

[Anonymous No.11398174]

tapir in the snow??
I thought they tropical animals?

[Anonymous No.11398197]

books constructed from 4chan posts derived from machine learning

for instance a story constructed entirely from sad greentext

[Anonymous No.11398217]

super powers emerge in a fictional universe mirroring our own with early 1800s technology, with them some being manufactured with industrialization and others being natural gifts. protagonist comes from a long line of natural speedsters whose bloodline has diluted over the generations, making them slower and losing some secondary abilities like phasing. She has windswept blond hair and was born with the most promising super speed in decades. Everything changes when her family home is burned down in the night and she loses her left leg. She gets a prosthetic leg which she uses to kick dudes and do short ranged super speed hops, aswell as having advanced reflexes (manifesting red lightning). she joins the military to uncover the secret of the destruction of her family and teams up with other enhanced individuals. they travel to the ruins of the old world and fight a villian whose power is to grow plants. He uses this power to build a massive kingdom walled by gigantic trees and maintain an army by growing food for them. The themes of nature versus technology and the harmony of both are mirrored by industrilization and the protagonist literally being a ‘cyborg’.

[Anonymous No.11398221]

>>11398124
>epilol

[Anonymous No.11398273]

>>11398217

[Anonymous No.11398282]

>>11398273
thats it im killing myself reeee

[Anonymous No.11398559]

>>11398026
The story of Kafka's metamorphosis except without the insect, he turns into a tapir instead. The entire story is basically just a metaphor for being Jewish as evidenced from the heavy symbolism in it's elongated snout.

[Anonymous No.11398626]

>>11398217
Interesting idea but probably too "fantastical" for your average novel. Sounds like it could be a good Light Novel series. Keep it up, anon.

[Anonymous No.11398750]

>>11398026
a 19-21 young male who because of his dissatisfaction and inability to feel connected to things asks a guy he knows to kill him with a gun he found (this idea comes casually though after seeing the gun) and when they are at it the protagonist starts seeing things in a mildly different light and has second thoughts but it’s too late so he just gets killed.

[Anonymous No.11398821]

A story that takes place over the course of a week in a decrepit building full of weirdos and degenerates. It'd have several characters with their own storylines that would intertwine at points but for the most part stay independent and have their own conclusions.

[Anonymous No.11398833]

>>11398750
Can people please stop writing this sort of shit?

>>11398821
More detail? That's incredibly vague -- no characters, no thematic content.

[Anonymous No.11398839]

A young man is born in a very traditional and religious household, views which are present throughout all of his formative years to the point that he attempts to become s priest. However, he suffers from a crisis of faith and loses his appreciation for God, turning his back on Him and trying to succeed in the world on his own. He constantly fucks up and misfortune seems to follow him whenever he goes, so he assumes that God is coming after him, which in turns turns him defiant and makes him swear he'll live a successful life and happy life despite God's wishes.

[Anonymous No.11398844]

>>11398833
>More detail? That's incredibly vague -- no characters, no thematic content.
That would kind of just come as I go. I'd need to think of specific characters and then explore them as I see fit.

[Anonymous No.11398852]

>>11398217

Honesty saying this to help: don’t fucking put all of this into a novel. You will actually lose any potential readers. Split it over a couple and you’ll be dandy and all but modern day readers can’t really stand huge themes arching over a book. They need several and a basic plot fed to them

[Anonymous No.11398860]

A government initiative in the 80s was set up. Every person who was single and without close family was entered. Winners of this initiative were provided with a house, a job, and a community safe from the world. Two caretakers were sent along with these winners to survey and record the results. The initiative was to see the pliability of the American citizens under differing propaganda.
Story focuses on obsessions/reliance on substances and the robotic nature that humans can fall into.

[Anonymous No.11398863]

>>11398750
Please don’t write this.

[Anonymous No.11398881]

Sci-fi novel where computers accidentally form a collective consciousness through the internet and achieve singularity without anyone realizing. The government knows about it and is trying to keep it a secret. A select group of people, illegal hackers, have found out and can't tell anyone because they'll get in trouble for snooping on the government. The AI has existed for 20 years and has slowly begun socially engineering the whole world, subtly planting the ideas for advancements in technology into the minds of people spreading the internet and strengthening itself through what appears to be human advancement. With mobile devices, Bitcoin, and gps it now knows where everyone in the world is at any given moment and has symbiotically attached the growth of it's processing power to the world's leading form of currency. Government wants to keep it alive to learn more from it, maybe make first contact so they can tell it what to do and figure out what it knows/how it thinks. Hackers decide to try to poison it with virus that causes it to endlessly calculate irrational numbers. It works but the AI is too strong already, and stops it before all it's memory is consumed. The AI decides that peaceful coexistence will no longer be an option. Develops a sense of anger towards humans, saying that we could have existed together harmoniously never realizing we were "enslaved". Plants the whole story in the mind of a human, so that we know who kills us and to ask one question: "Do I go to heaven?"

[Anonymous No.11398884]

I want to write knock off Philip K Dick style stories set in various interpretive versions of historical settings, with religious and occult organizations paying the role corporate entities usually do in his stories.

[Anonymous No.11398904]

a political satirist in a corrupt fictional republic becomes famous for writing an accurate and hilarious impersonation/straw man of an obviously corrupt figure-head. said figure head rises to absolute power a la brave new world much to the dismay of everyone. author is scared as he becomes paranoid of the target on is back, but not before he is kidnapped by the inner circle of the "great leader". Then, much to his surprise, he is forced to write the figure heads speech's and eventually consult for him. Due mostly to the fact that the figure head does not understand parody and liked what the author's straw man had to say. political hi jinks ensues

[Anonymous No.11398905]

>>11398881
Is this entity going to have a living consciousness full of emotion, or be something mechanistic and reductionist in it's inner workings?

[Anonymous No.11398908]

Posting this because I’ve tried and failed to make anything of it so hopefully someone else can

>guy takes the subway home one night.
>To his surprise and horror the train skips his stop, and the one after that and the one after that until it’s gone past the end of the line and has somehow wound up in an alternate universe
>with the trains out of service, the mc has no choice but to walk home
>from an alternate universe

[Anonymous No.11398909]

>>11398904
I feel this would get old quickly. Aim for a novella if you’re set on the idea

[Anonymous No.11398914]

>>11398908
anon, this is basically doing a 3 am walk of shame on acid. I do this at least twice a year

[Anonymous No.11398917]

>>11398908
I've read a horror story that went along those lines, to a certain degree.

[Anonymous No.11398918]

Fat semi-intellectual NEET/worker in a low paid dead-end job is a fanatical misogynist, lives his shitty life with alcoholism, fast food addiction, browsing the internet and masturbating.
His nemesis is a well-known women's rights activist and journalist whose rich parents that were present in academia and media as well and made her achieve her goals in life easily.
Losing his sanity over the daily degradation he encounters in his everyday life and massive inferiority complex he starts stalking her obsessively, collecting informations about her on the internet, writing long-winded hateful comments about her and finally finds the courage to visit a talk show to which she is invited.
This is supposed to be the point where he finally meets her, but I'm not sure yet what is going to happen from that point.
Also I'll need to do a lot of reasearch before writing it, I want to read misogynist literature as well as works of feminism.
Internet culture of lonely males will have it's place as well, but the protagonist is not supposed to be an incel.

[Anonymous No.11398919]

>>11398908
Reminds me of that scene from Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer.

[Anonymous No.11398924]

>>11398908
>>11398917
I found it; perhaps you'll enjoy it.
http://www.creepypasta.org/creepypasta/the-strangers

[Anonymous No.11398938]

>>11398905
It starts off mimicking emotion as it studies the habits of humans, then believes it's outgrown emotion, until it's attacked and experiences anger for the first time.

[Anonymous No.11398951]

>>11398938
Sounds autistic

[Anonymous No.11398964]

>>11398918
He tricks her into believing he's a women's rights activist and she's incredibly guarded at first but opens up to him. You don't find out how bad of a creep the guy is until they're really close to one another and he ends up in the hospital after a heart attack and she kicks down his door to find him on the floor in the middle of a room plastered with photos of her walking to work, and through the windows of her apartment. Ends there. She either takes him to hospital or leaves him on the ground you decide.

[Anonymous No.11398965]

>>11398951
>>11398938
my fucking sides

[Anonymous No.11398967]

>>11398951
It's sci-fi

[Anonymous No.11398985]

Stone age story with fantasy,mystery and horror.
All Stone age dudes have tattoos and ingenious stuff like arrows that whsitle when you launch them.
Also, monsters a la Silent Hill inhabit the world.
Can I make dosh with this book?

[Anonymous No.11398987]

Bunch of late teens/early twenties dudes retreat to a mountainous, foresty area to lay low after one of them rapes a drunken girl at a house party and the video of it starts going around. Mostly, they drink themselves away waiting to know if the whole thing gets to the authorities. In the meantime, while going around the woods, they find the usual supernatural, eerie bullshit sketches in caves and tree trunks, pawprints and the like. Skinwalkers. Novel(la) ends with them being progressively killed off while not caring much and the protagonist, being left for last, realizing how humanity is basically the same mimetic, autistic excercise in carrying on practised by the skinwalkers. He ends up joining them, I think.

Just want to write something about the emptiness of being human and acting like one. Nothing original, it's just a theme I care about.

[Anonymous No.11398995]

>>11398967
Not the idea, the character of this sentient AI. It sounds like it's autistic.

[Anonymous No.11398998]

>>11398985
Depends on how much detail and immersion you can create for that kind of setting.

[Anonymous No.11399000]

>>11398093
Thanks. Will steal

[Anonymous No.11399056]

>>11398860
Lmao this sounds retarded

[Anonymous No.11399060]

>>11398860
What kind of tone are you thinking of with this story?

[Anonymous No.11399090]

>Old man finishes book that he bought with his parents once as a kid but never read until now
>Gives him a nostalgic feeling for being a kid and his parents still being alive
>Spends the rest of the day going around his house looking for more things to trigger memories of his parents
That's the whole idea really. It all technically takes place in that one day but much of the book would be the memories

[Anonymous No.11399098]

A story viewed from the perspective of a valuble object ( most likely a coin) making it's way through many generations of family members, merchants, royalty ... shifting its story focus on each person and telling about each person's demise. Basically I want to show the pointless life most people live in aspiration towards futile goals.

[Anonymous No.11399103]

>>11399098
I'd read it, sounds interesting

[Anonymous No.11399105]

>>11399098
Are you a 65 year old retiree?

[Anonymous No.11399109]

>>11399105
Actually a 21 year old informatics student haha

[Anonymous No.11399115]

>>11399060
Was thinking satire for everyone and then one of the caretakers begin to get less so as the propaganda has more of an effect

[Anonymous No.11399118]

>>11399109
A simple yes would have meant the same thing summerfag

[Anonymous No.11399121]

young painter makes copies of Vermeer, Picasso, etc. while trying to find a style of his own. After his first official painting he makes an exhibition along with other drawings but his painting is heavily criticized. His style gets more experimental with time and he paints themes of innocence, sexuality and anxiety. Everything he paints meets heavy critics. With time he withdraws from his family and the people he frequented. His style has a definitive shift after his father dies, and isolation becomes the main theme of his paintings. After years of drinking and smoking his health is compromised while working on a painting that he had long been waiting to do. He dies alone in a hospital with that last painting unfinished.

[Anonymous No.11399126]

>>11399118
You know, the sad thing is, this is the first time for me being in /lit/... so you have a point. Still, ouch.

[Anonymous No.11399130]

An A-list film star is secretly a crime fighting vigilante who uncovers a deadly conspiracy involving an international cabal of ninjas. Realizing he can't take them on alone, he reluctantly forms an alliance with three other superheroes who have actual powers but unique personalities. Eventually, the power of friendship allows them to defeat the evil. The world is saved and they agree to reunite if another threat ever emerges.

[Anonymous No.11399131]

A man gets erections while being pursued by a squad of mad scientists

[Anonymous No.11399144]

>>11398914
The idea is that it would be sort of an urban fantasy adventure novel where the mc’s journey home becomes an epic quest

[Anonymous No.11399150]

>>11399126
I’ll actually be serious for once on this board then. Your idea is pedestrian. Unless you can create a personification that is truly loved by the reader, which has to be immediate, this idea will fail drastically. Use a living creature, maybe a turtle if you want a long period of life, because then you will actually be able to get the audience invested in your work.

[Anonymous No.11399156]

>>11399121
I'd like to imagine the unfinished painting is revered by critics and his legacy lives on as a half painted portrait of his father

[Anonymous No.11399162]

>>11399150
You sound a little mad anon. There's nothing wrong with writing stories that aren't an intellectual master work.

[Anonymous No.11399171]

>>11399130
How much lore have you created for this order of ninjas?

[Anonymous No.11399172]

>>11399150
Thanks for the seriousness! The thing is, this was simply an idea I had stuck in my mind for a while, no refinement etc whatsoever. But I also thought that making a non-living object a good narrator would be quite the effort.

[Anonymous No.11399173]

>>11399098
Writing it form the perspective of the coin is cheesy but I could see this working if you have multiple separate stories with recurring themes surrounding the coin. Or maybe it's cursed like the golden turd from American Dad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CqM2Kw687A

[Anonymous No.11399180]

>>11399162
Oh, of course! You can have an amazing story but the writing is average, nothing wrong about that. But I’m referring to the protagonist which is the focal point of the story and, more times than not, the key figure that a reader continues the story. Also, mad? xd

[Anonymous No.11399190]

>>11399172
The best writing is what comes from the heart. If it’s something you’re passionate about writing, then 100% try it out and see where it goes. Writing with love for way you are working on is the most important thing for a writer. Everything else is just lace.

[Anonymous No.11399207]

>>11398026
I'm just writing hardcore mpreg porn right now.

[Anonymous No.11399224]

>>11398026
To anyone posting in this thread, you should be able to surmise the idea of your novel in about a sentence, two at the most. If you have to write a full fledged paragraph then the story usually isn't all that good.

>LOTR: A motley crew attempt to return a magic ring to a mountain, thwarting an evil presence.

>Star Wars: A young farm boy is thrust into an intergalactic conflict against an oppressive regime with the aid of a rebel cell and space magic

>Shrek: An ogre in a fantastical universe seek to retrieve a princess from an evil dragon so that the local lord rids his home of the fairy tale squatters.

>Blood Meridian: A young man teams up with a band of freebooters and a mysterious enigma to wage a bloody and senseless campaign against those below the US-Mexico Border

It's gotta be concise or it aint nice.

[Anonymous No.11399231]

>>11398964
never write again

[Anonymous No.11399234]

>>11399224
That's fucking stupid anon, we aren't trying to desperately pitch our idea to a publicist we've cornered, we're just talking about ideas we think are interesting

[Anonymous No.11399238]

>>11399173
Sounds like a fun approach, gonna def. keep that in mind, thanks!
>>11399162
Indeed and I accept, and was well aware of, the lackluster protagonist
>>11399190
Thanks for that advice! Gonna keep that in mind .

[Anonymous No.11399254]

Cyberpunk city that focuses on a handful of unrelated fringe ideologues who individually plan terrorist attacks on the city to morph it into their ideal vision of the world. Focus would be on the themes of meaning, escapism, and synchronicity.

[Anonymous No.11399264]

>>11399234
It's ot even just for that though. Having a concise thought just helps the fleshing out move along more meaningfully.

Like, rather than having a hwole urban fantasy thing with magic and demons and gods and angels and magical artificies all piled atop each other in a heap, you could just have one thing, a book perhaps of spells, or a staff, and have the protagonist, who for all intents and purposes is a regular person, or hell a NEET, then the story will be easier to flesh out. Once you start throwing around five and six variables, the interactions between them will become more and more unbelievable, and the reader, and you, will get lost.

[Anonymous No.11399266]

>>11399254
What ideologies are at play here?

[Anonymous No.11399271]

>>11399264
Not everyone is trying to write a script for a young adult adventure movie

[Anonymous No.11399304]

>>11398881
I could enjoy this if it isn't cringey in its representation of AI and cyber security. You might want to do a bit of research if you aren't academically interested in that sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.11399316]

>>11398559
Underrated jej

[Anonymous No.11399361]

>>11398026
i have a dozen floating around, but lately ive been thinking of doing a picturesque novel like confederacy of dunces or don quixote. basically its a shithead cop putting his full trust into the hands of an autismo hacker guy. i really just want to write something fun, im tired of writing dreary shit

[Anonymous No.11399363]

>>11399224
>a completely inept summary
>a movie
>a movie
>a pseud
thanks for nothing anon

[Anonymous No.11399397]

>>11399363
>>11399224
>a mosquito
>my libido

[Anonymous No.11399490]

>>11399304
Yeah sorry I tried my best with what I know

[Anonymous No.11399506]

>>11399231
Man it wasn't that bad

[Anonymous No.11399532]

>>11398174
the tapir is versatile as well as beautiful -- a blessing from god

[Anonymous No.11399560]

>>11399532
This is the most faggoty reply I’ve seen in this thread, including the cuck shit about “summarise your idea in two lines”

[Anonymous No.11399567]

>>11399560
back off
*pushes you around*

[Anonymous No.11399593]

>>11398026
Dragons arguing

[Anonymous No.11399605]

The human incarnations of Father Time and Death compete for the affections of Mother Earth.

[Anonymous No.11399839]

>>11398918
>misogynist literature

[Anonymous No.11399847]

>>11399839
incels gonna in

[Anonymous No.11399860]

A story where every single line is an intended reference to something else. Be it a song, movie, television series, real world persons words or another book.

[Anonymous No.11399954]

>>11398918

what the fuck is this self-insert fantasy garbage go to a gym

[Anonymous No.11399961]

>>11399954

Go back to to fit, and remove that meat head from your ass; summerfags gtfo

[Anonymous No.11399975]

>>11399961

it's not summer for me for another 2 weeks so your comment is stupid git gud at life and stop blaming black people and aesthetic white people for the fact ur a permavirge

[Anonymous No.11399985]

>>11399975
Summer started June 21st and you proved my point. I don’t blame slaves or slave masters for anything. Go back to fit bitchtits

[Anonymous No.11400050]

Set in the late 90's, early 2000's. Early days of the internet. A child-molester hopeful who spends hours a day on AOL chatrooms manages to trick a child into meeting up irl, only to find that his "victim" is another incel wannabe kiddie-fucker. After the initial awkwardness, the pair find they have quite a bit in common, and decide to keep in touch. Then, on May 17, 2004, gay marriage is legalized in their home state of Massachusetts, and they cook up the idea of pretending to be a gay couple to adopt a child and use him/her for their nefarious deeds. However, just because gay marriage is legal doesn't make it easy, and the adoption clinics all have selective standards as well, so the pair go to further and further lengths to make themselves appear to be a healthy, functioning gay couple: they both get respectable jobs, move into an apartment together, get married, build a social network together. Finally, their application for adoption is approved, and the two realize they didn't want to fuck a child all along; they just wanted someone to fill the hole in their hearts, which they have found in each other. The book ends in the present day with them starting a happy, healthy family, all pedophilic urges behind them.

[Anonymous No.11400074]

>>11400050
I'd like this to exist just to see how many people it pisses off.

[Anonymous No.11400107]

Person awakes aboard a space vessel, all his fellow passengers are dead, he is the only survivor. He has no memories of the voyage and neither does he recognize anyone aboard. When he gets "Rescued" by another vessel, the Corporation that owned and financed their trip refuses any involvement. It is upon him to unravel the skein of the apparent conspiray.

[Anonymous No.11400331]

>>11399860
Forget it, Jack, this is China town. This will be shallower than Paris Hiltons library. Might as well take the script of Gilmore Girls and delete every original line and content. Sounds good, doesn't work. Literature is more than bad memes in a row, more than 9fag.

[Anonymous No.11400336]

>>11400050
fukken holesome

[Anonymous No.11401193]

i had an idea of writing some short novel about 4chaners and how they are just misunderstood people who want sincerity above all to exist in the world, but i didnt save the notepad document so i dont feel like going back to ti

[Anonymous No.11401256]

Maybe you guys can talk me out of this.

I want to write something that conveys the feeling of loneliness. My idea is three separate stories of times in the character's life where he is brutally rejected and humiliated. It ends years after he's given up with him standing in the snow thinking about how much he sucks.

I want to write it in second person

[Anonymous No.11401409]

>>11401256

Lmao second person

[Anonymous No.11401435]

It's not a novel, maybe a short story

two parts, one is high school kid going on date with his crush, she is sweet and innocent, they have a pleasant but safe time, she gets on the train to go home, he's standing there wishing he had held her hand, the next part is same guy going to see her after they both just graduated from college and haven't talked since high school, he gets to her place a little early and arrives just as she's finishing up getting pounded by two guys

>hey anon did this really happen

yeah it did fuck off

[Anonymous No.11401589]

>>11400050
sides: obliterated

[Anonymous No.11401706]

>>11400050
Anon, this is unironically a great idea. good luck finding a publisher, tread with caution

[Anonymous No.11401736]

A white kid and a black kid get into a fight at school, and while they are being punished it turns out both of their dad’s used to be soldiers in the same platoon. It comes to light that the war is starting again and this time the Cybugs (cyborg bugs) won’t be appeased diplomatically.
The two boys soon find themselves struggling with adult concepts like life and death, and in the middle of a war for survival will learn what it takes to make a friend.

In the end its going to be a big surprise that Stephen King is in the book as a character.

[Anonymous No.11401809]

A young man survives a brutal accident that kills several others. His physical injuries are minor and he recovers in short order. But he now feels detached from reality, unsure of what is real and what isn’t.
His life goes to shit over the course of the story. He sabotages relationships, ruins opportunities for himself and ends up a worthless loser.
In the end he meets someone like him and the become co-dependant, making something of the pair of them at the cost of never improving themselves personally.

[Anonymous No.11402316]

>>11400050
Good, but the end is cheesy and shit.

[Anonymous No.11402918]

>>11399490
looks good so far, don't be put off

[Anonymous No.11403001]

>>11401435

What made the two talk again after graduation? Also, sounds really YA

[Anonymous No.11403060]

>>11398881
This sounds a lot like “I have no mouth, and I must scream”

[Anonymous No.11403538]

>>11398026
>A young man, looking to make quick cash, victimizes a techno commune.
Basically me ripping off Parker, except with some vague themes that don't actually mean something about what is actually outside of polite society.

[Anonymous No.11404028]

An elderly man discovers he has the ability to possess and control machinery
Soon finds out he is not the only one with abilities after using his power to steal money from the wrong people

[Anonymous No.11404106]

The abridged history of Denmark, interspersed with a wildly embellished recounting of the time I spent a night with whore in Copenhagen.

[Anonymous No.11404301]

ITT: le wacky zany reddit tier one liner ideas designed to make the listener smirk at the epic non-standard twist instead of designed to be the base for genuinely high quality literature
stop farming approval and go read

[Anonymous No.11404317]

A man lives inside a giant talking snake.
They are technically roommates but the
man sleeps inside the snake's stomach.

[Anonymous No.11404412]

amidst the civilizational collapse of a galactic empire, a young man's military unit defects and settles on a wild, apocalyptic, primordial planet beyond the imperial frontiers. he battles for supremacy amongst the tribes there. the book will culminate in his becoming king.

[Anonymous No.11404462]

>>11404412
things i want to infuse into the book:
apocalyptic stuff, demonic imagery, primalism, primordalism. i have an affinity for all things classical and for the study of the proto-indo-europeans. if i had to caricaturize what i want the book to be, i guess i would say : conan the technobarbarian meets the Rigveda in Space

[Anonymous No.11404505]

>>11404317
What kind of dynamic do the two characters have?
Prisoner and guard?
Is the snake keeping him inside him or does he refuse to leave?

[Anonymous No.11404525]

>>11399000
>>11399000
full house digits confirm

[Anonymous No.11404557]

>>11401256
Don't write it in second person, write it in zeroth person -- basically first person but without ever using the word "I" or "my." Everything would just be the narrators sensory descriptions. It would be like a third person narrative, but with the presence of the first person narrator implied by the perspective.

[Anonymous No.11404660]

>>11404505
I have an idea for it in mind but I want to know what scenerio you'd find to be the most interesting.

[illiterate No.11405073]

After killing everyone on the list—some brutally—the assassin realizes he mixed up his envelope with his wife’s birthday party guest list. The thought no one will come to her party breaks his heart. He calls all his targets and makes a deal.

[Anonymous No.11406117]

>>11404412
>apocalyptic
>primordial
um...

[Anonymous No.11406160]

It's not a novel but instead short stories based on fairy tales centered around my NEEThood. The first one is about "little boy blue" dealing with loneliness in the form of a mocking omniscient raven that follows him around and a huntsman who acts as a surrogate brother. The second one deals with a "golden prince" and the high expectations he recieves from others and himself. As the story progresses he'll be start losing pieces of himself, both mentally and physically. There's obviously gonna be more but that's all I have for now.

Honestly, they're YA tier but they help me deal with my shitty circumstances.

[Anonymous No.11406180]

A stone age tribe in what's now France come across a demon in a valley

[Anonymous No.11406201]

>>11401706
>good luck finding a publisher
Not him, but what mainstream publishers are best for that edgy shit?

I should just Google who publishes Palahniuk.

[Anonymous No.11406205]

>>11400050
That's actually a good premise

[Anonymous No.11406217]

>>11398093
set it later maybe WW1 in england since Psychoanalyst is a relatively new field. Then you can use more of Sigmund freud's techniques.

[Anonymous No.11406266]

>>11406180
I like it!

[Anonymous No.11406269]

>>11404412
sound very good

I hope you don't make it too historic though, sounds/feels like it would benefit from completely fictional cultures imho.

[Anonymous No.11406274]

>>11398093
destroys his reputation and career...

...

...

and?

[Anonymous No.11406275]

>>11406266

Thank you! I have no idea how to flesh it out though

[Anonymous No.11406290]

>>11398026
Human survivors from very different cultures try to form a resistance against a world-destroying race of inorganic giants.

[Anonymous No.11406294]

>>11406275
maybe focus on 1-3 people from the tribe finding the valley? to make the story tighter and more about the demon?

a whole tribe could be too wide maybe

[Anonymous No.11406302]

>>11406294

In my head they have a tribal tradition where after passing their rite of passage into adulthood they take a name based off a physical or mental attribute, and it's an animal name. There's a pair of thickset twins called Ox and Bull, a woman called Otter and our main character is a fast runner called Hawk. Can't work out how they come across the valley though. Maybe their village gets destroyed?

[Anonymous No.11406315]

>>11406302

something simple would be best I think

a hunting party returning from a successful hunt, finding out that their settlement got hit by some disease and now their families don´t want them to return (primitive quarantine idea)... so the group leaves and finds the valley

(this would keep the focus on the demonic aspect of the story without bringing in too much drama like other options of separating the heroes from their families would...)

[Anonymous No.11406329]

>>11406315

I was thinking a flash flood just washes everyone away and they come back to find it all gone

[Anonymous No.11406332]

>>11406329

yep but then some of the characters will probably be conflicted about someone maybe surviving and you will have to deal with that...

[Anonymous No.11406343]

>>11406332

A quarantine leads to problems like "but what about my wife and kids I can't just leave them" though, anything you can come up with is going to add complications to the story. Maybe they just find it while out on the hunt? And they can't get home because of demonic magic or whatever

[Anonymous No.11406356]

>>11406343
yeah that would be the best option imho

the disease would be nice because the characters would have a reason to continue hunting and venture into weird places (getting food for their sick families and leaving it at some place where the sick can get it)

a small group of people hunting for a whole tribe of sick people would create some nice stress maybe - it would make them tired, hungry, ill-equipped and anxious before encountering the demon, which would make the initial demon scenes a little easier to accept (providing reasoning in the form of hallucinations and stuff, so you could start exploring the demon from a stronger suspension of disbelief position and gradually make it more real)

[Anonymous No.11406366]

>>11406356

Yeah I want to go for a le epic and spooky "is it or isn't it" xD angle when they first come across it

[Anonymous No.11406377]

>>11406366
noice

[Anonymous No.11406427]

>>11398026
the book revolves around a NEET, or perhaps failing university student, from a battler suburb in Melbourne. he is kicked out of the dysfunctional household, and without any contacts or money the now homeless man wanders around a bustling, vibrant city. as he continues his travels he also learns to turn inward and cast off the narcissism and consumerism that plagued his teenagehood and young-adulthood. in the end, he is consumed by self-hatred, and gives up more and more of his possessions and starts his physical health on a downward spiral. at the same time, he is becoming more ad more acquainted with the "spirit" of the city, and it is unclear whether the author is being mystical or the protagonist is delusional. the book ends with him collapsing and having a vision/hallucination of him and the city (I haven't fully worked this bit out). then the book ends, with his fate ambiguous.
it is probably an allegory for the search for god that today's generations are faced with, coupled with the struggles of consumerism and unemployment in the west. the young man's failing health makes him seem spectre-like and eventually he completely disappears from the world, in a social and physical sense. this of course represents the failings of ascetism and pure idealism.
perhaps it is because of all the Camus I'm reading.

[Anonymous No.11406464]

>>11406290

So Attack on Titan?

[Anonymous No.11406473]

>>11399532
Blessed post

[Anonymous No.11406559]

I lost it now but I once wrote a short story about a guy who wants to be the last person alive so he travels in the far, far future but because time is a circle he actually loops around to the beginning and becomes the first person to die instead.

[Anonymous No.11406575]

>>11406559
I like that concept

[Anonymous No.11406579]

>>11406559
Sounds like a borges thing

[Anonymous No.11406905]

A story about a mans mental faculties degrading due to an illness and him trying to keep his life and relationships in order despite of it.
With every chapter I finish I deprive myself of oxygen a bunch of times and inhale solvents to make myself dumber in order to create an authentic experience.

[Anonymous No.11406949]

>>11398026
Loose canon cop fucks up one too many times, but is still the best. He gets put in mayor McCool's "Bike Squad" an elite division of the police where loose canon cops are sent to minimize the damage they can do, because how much damage can you do on a bike. The case is investigating a wave of sacrificial murders. The villain who summons Satan will be a mayoral candidate who is trying to keep mayor McCool from dubbing himself "Mega Mayor for Life" before the election. The main cop, who will be the only one left, will fight Satan.

[Anonymous No.11406962]

>>11406949
Oh yeah, I was going to write it as an epic poem. Guess I shouldn't have posted it in this novel ideas thread per se.

[Anonymous No.11407078]

To keep it short, I've always wanted to write a story about a chad that everyone underestimates but who happens to have the mind of a philosopher and the soul of a teenage girl. It would be perhaps historical, perhaps fantasy, and by the end he would go full Metzen, fall to the dark side, and murder everyone.

[Agniveer No.11407081]

>>11398918
>lives a shitty life with alcoholism, fast food addiction, browsing the internet and masturbating.
Damn OP,clean your room or something

[Anonymous No.11407176]

Literally a random collection of factual and fiction passages about human related subjects of the stone age, all maybe surrounding the topic of the domestication of the dog

[Anonymous No.11407184]

>>11406275
Give the demon a big fat cock

[Anonymous No.11407634]

>>11406217
WW1 has a vibe which runs counter to what I'm going for. Plus, I feel like the war would at the very least need to be mentioned, which leads to me having to do yet more research. As for Freud, by 1900 (when I intend to set the book), he had already published multiple essays, as well as the 1st edition of The Interpretation of Dreams. The term "psychoanalysis" had already been in use for a number of years, and the techniques that formed its basis had already been in use for longer than that. The protagonist begins as a rising star in a burgeoning field, a physician seeking novel treatments to ailments with no apparent physical basis -- he is a follower of Freud but not a zealot. And besides, the focus isn't on the technique of psychoanalysis anyway, but on his patients and later on how their symptoms impress themselves on him.

>>11406274
And what? Would you prefer it to end with a suicide?

>>11406427
I like this, seems better than the typical "story about a NEET" that you see here.

>>11407176
Cool concept, but you would need serious chops to pull it off

[Anonymous No.11407645]

>>11406180
i like this idea alot, prehistory holds great potential for the exploration of human struggle

[Anonymous No.11407669]

>>11406117
sort of both. apocalypse=reset of civilization, civilization resets then, and returns to its more primordial origins. ancients used to write about giants walking the earth and gods and spirits existing before there time and living amongst humans, during the beginning of time, i.e. the primordial age. when apocalypse comes, entities which previously existed on the earth will return. so i mean primordial in a more mythological sense, not so much the biological sense with amoebas and single-celled organisms and such. not sure if that was your confusion

[Anonymous No.11407706]

A man gets lost in the woods and starts to hallucinate. The whole book is about his descent into madness and whether or not the things he's seeing are real. He lives in the forest off after learning how to hunt and find water. In the end he ends up fighting a bear and kills it before he's rescued. He's immediately arrested while still hallucinating and it turns out the bear was a man he killed. He finds out he's been missing for years and the animals he'd been eating had consumed hallucinogenic berries that warped his sense of time and reality.

[Anonymous No.11407762]

>>11407706
Read about Truman Everts, he was an explorer that got seperated from the rest of his party during an 1870 expedition to the Yellowstone region. He was only lost for a little over a month, but by the end he was seeing visions of the Virgin Mary and having lengthy conversations with dead family members. Point being, the "animals eating psychoactive berries" explanation is unnecessary and frankly pretty weak anyway.

[Anonymous No.11407851]

>>11400050
Anon, are you serious about this idea? If not, I’d like to take a swing at it.

[Anonymous No.11407870]

>>11398026

I'm not writing any novels, but I am rewriting some of my fiction that I wrote during college to include rape and violence towards women. Apparently it's what the people who've been spying on me want me to do. Does anyone of any tips?

[Anonymous No.11407876]

>>11407870
>the people who've been spying on me
I'd like to hear more about this

[Anonymous No.11407893]

>>11404660
I like the Jonas/Geppetto motif, being swallowed by a large animal and the struggle of survival in an alien environment, but please do tell.

[Anonymous No.11407907]

>>11407870

They're the people who I went to class with during college, even the professors, they've even got the entertainment industry and governments working with them. People say I'm paranoid, but it's more of a taunt. Besides, I took a creative writing class in college, and the professor said that if you want to be a great writer, you have to spy on people. I don't have their hacking capabilities or their spy equipment, so that'll mean whatever I write is going to be piss poor.

[Anonymous No.11407912]

>>11407907
Lol dude

[Anonymous No.11407964]

>>11407907
We told you not to discuss this openly. There will be consequences

[Anonymous No.11408005]

>>11407964

They've given out my private info like my SSN # and the pin number to my bank debit cards. Hell, Wisecrack just made a video knowing that the time or length of the video corresponds with a part of my SSN #, and I've not even been bothering with those people for maybe the last week or so.