Novel Idea Thread

[Anonymous No.11985134]

Novel idea thread, post ideas here.
Picture unrelated.

>>11979948
Sorry, I just wrote out an OP but 4chan is fucking awful and I lost it all, and I can't be assed to write it again. Bad luck for both of us, I guess. Blame gookm00t for not improving m00t's shitty website.

[Anonymous No.11985146]

it all starts with an image of an pige you see

[Anonymous No.11985152]

>>11985146
Yeah whatever. Memes are for chucklefuck underageb& anyway.

[Anonymous No.11985161]

>>11985134
I'll steal your idea. It's mine now.

[Anonymous No.11985172]

[Anonymous No.11985963]

where would guys even publish your novel? Is Webnovel a good choice?

[Anonymous No.11985973]

>>11985963
Pige.com

[Anonymous No.11985993]

>>11985963
Createspace.com and Amazon.com desu

[Anonymous No.11986428]

>>11985134

Here's a question: is it possible to reference 4chan in a book without being cringy?

[Anonymous No.11986450]

>>11986428
>he doesn't know about the novel /lit/ published

[Anonymous No.11986723]

I'm a hikki/NEET, so.I would write about going out into the world and realizing my daydreams.

[Anonymous No.11986922]

>>11985963
My plan is to publish on amazon since its free, amazon just takes a cut from the sales
The dream is after doing this a few times that I develop enough of a fan base for a proper publisher to take me on

[Anonymous No.11986944]

I want to write a sci-fi novel about a guy who makes virtural reality porn. Is this a bad idea lit?

[Anonymous No.11986961]

>>11986944
Would it focus more on descriptions of sex or discussion of the business and technology aspect of it?

[Anonymous No.11986996]

i have an idea for a novel where the entire story is told through partially burned notes found after a fire in an artist commune. details about events would unfold through fragments of letters, manuscripts, poems, scribbles, etc. the text would frequently have missing lines and lacunas, allowing some ambiguity for certain events.

[Anonymous No.11987017]

>>11986961
Business and tech. I’m not sure where it will go though.

[Anonymous No.11987137]

What's the best site to publish a story chapter by chapter indefinitely without a clear cut novel format? I want to write a series of interconnected stories with no real end in sight, and upload them as I wrap up each small adventure.

[Anonymous No.11987302]

>>11985134
>tfw have an endless supply of good ideas but muh writing ability is too shit

[Anonymous No.11987495]

>>11985134
all i have is ideas. I dont have the capacity to build a world and the characters that should inhabit it. Ive got tons of ideas, but im not telling anyone because of copywrites. They're my ideas not yours.
no i jest.

I have this idea about a man losing his mind in his apartment, not wanting to leave his dwelling for fear of what lies outside. He becomes deluded and manifests haunting spirits in his home, but in reality its all in his mind.. or is it?

[Anonymous No.11987502]

>>11987302
its okay. you arent alone anon. Tell OP some of your ideas so he can write for you.

side topic. What is our opinion on ghost writers?

[Anonymous No.11987796]

An episodic novel told through a series of vignettes of a psychiatrist/therapist having therapy sessions with their clients. It quickly becomes evident that the therapist, as well as the clients, are not human but are machines. They meet in a virtual therapy session represented by human avatars.

The machines have a variety of problems they hope to be addressed in this robotherapy, usually randing from existential crisis related to their programmed task and a lack of fulfillment from their chosen design.

The last patient is a machine who was designed to create new types of printers who went rogue and wiped out or enslaved all of humanity. Now that it has achieved what it though would be a higher purpose, it now finds itself falling into depression and melancholy.

I could also do some cutesy shit like have firmware patches and things like that replace SSRIs and some machines choosing bizarre avatars like goats or trees or Bart Simpson.

[Anonymous No.11988791]

>>11987495
Sounds unoriginal desu. Lacks detail so it's just not interesting.

Based on that, all your ideas probably suck so you have nothing to lose. Pick one and start writing, then you'll be good enough one day to have actual good ideas.

Ideas are cheap, everyone has them, it's execution that's the hard part.

[Anonymous No.11988822]

Aliens invade the planet and take over all human governments. They decide to be benevolent rulers and want to legitimately help humanity rise up and elevate as a species. They allow freedom of expression, respect our rights, and have a generally hands-off approach to their rule. They work with us to build a kind of utopian society.

The only drawback is that they find our pornography disgusting and depraved. They ban all forms of porn other than missionary man on woman. They crack down on porn with an iron fist; they immediately ban and arrest anyone watching foot fetish, step sister, anime, etc... etc...

An underground movement forms dedicated to producing and selling this pornography, which grows into a resistance of fighters who united in a resistance movement centered around their fondness for fetish porn of various stripes.

Eventually their efforts prove fruitful and they actually succeed in causing enough of a disruption to get the aliens to abandon their effort and leave in a huff. Humanity is then left to rot on this planet with our filthy porn.

[Anonymous No.11988844]

>>11986922
How do you plan on marketing it?

[Anonymous No.11988864]

The main character is your normal wagecuck dude living 9 to 5 and suffering in his cubicle. He works for a souless corporation that doesn't respect him as a human nor as a man, and when he goes home all he can do is drink, masturbate, and play video games.

One night he hears a voice calling from outside. When he steps out, he find's his neighbor's dog. The dog tells him in secret that he is not the man he thinks he is, and that he is actually a kind of ubermensch, a savior who will break the world free of the hands that bind it. He explains to him that forces inside the government wiped his memory when he came too close to exposing the truth about various topics and taking them down. The dog tells him that he is destined to lead a resistance against the government.

Before he runs off to shit in a bush, the dog tells him that he's constantly being watched, and that he has a transmitted in his head that suppresses his true potential. The protagonist goes inside and cuts a transmitter out from behind his ear.

Over the next few weeks he notices people watching him, helicopters flying overhead, breaking into his house and planting shit. He grows suspicious of his employers, and finds them having a satanic meeting in the conference room where they are chanting incantations to bring demons to this planet.

These events escalate, and he continues to meet the dog every night. The dog tells him to keep his cool and wait for the promised day. The protagonist starts seeing coded messages in everyday life, like his mind has been gradually unlocked, and he starts to see the truth behind the world. All of it is centered around one man, a local news anchor for his city. He becomes obsessed with this individual, whom he comes to believe is his "negative", his opposite, a man created to balance out his greatness.

Things grow more dangerous. He purchases a gun. He keeps seeing increasing cult activity around his home. Men in black suits come up to his home. He starts to suspect his wife has been kidnapped and killed, that she's been replaced with an impostor.

A comet explodes in the sky over his home. He takes this as the sign that the time has come. He rushes with the gun to the news anchor's home; with the destruction of his negative, he can become whole again, and start his revolution.

His assassination attempt fails, and he is involved in a high speed chase with police. He is apprehended and sent to a psychiatric unit.

He is diagnosed with schizophrenia and is placed on antipsychotic medications. He recovers after a couple weeks and is sent home. His charges with the police are dropped, but he cannot have a gun anymore.

He returns to his life, and his feelings of melancholy return as he falls back into the familiar cycle.

One night the dog starts talking to him again. It is revealed that he stopped taking his medication, choosing instead to live inside the world of his delusion rather than continue in the reality he built for himself.

[Anonymous No.11988877]

>>11988864
please gib tl:dr version. Three sentences is my limit

[Anonymous No.11988886]

obama never existed...
who was president for 8 years?

go ahead and mail me 10% for royalties when ur done

[Anonymous No.11989002]

>>11988877
Guy has a boring life but then finds out he's actually the chosen one. Starts seeing and believing crazy shit, turns out he's crazy. He gets medicated, but chooses to be crazy anyways.

[Anonymous No.11989034]

Earth is going to shit: superstorms, deserts, famine, war, etc. Most people live in megacities b/c outside it's environmentally hostile and a Mad Max world outside. Some people in space, in station-communities, a permanent but small colony on Mars, and in an exclusive club in orbit run by an AGI.

Robot's eliminated enough work to make people bored, and people often lose themselves in VR worlds or take their chances outside because the the future sucks and civilization peaked a while ago.

MC is lucky enough to live in a space station and spends their time treasure hunting IRL for anyone who can pay. Mostly scavenging for rare art, historical artifacts, fancy alcohol, and shit for rich fucks. Secretly they're searching for a purpose in life and are hoping that by looking for things that other people value, they might find a meaning in everything for themself.

They get answers ranging from suicide to hedonism, but yearn for something deeper or greater in the face of a vast and empty universe and an Earth winding-down.

[Anonymous No.11989067]

>>11988886
Robama

[Anonymous No.11989426]

>>11986428
I wonder about this too, or moreso using website names in general. I feel like if you want to talk about the essence of American issues right now, there are a lot of stories where social media is worth mentioning. At the same time though, I was flipping through a book the other day and saw the world "YouTube" and cringed. I'm not sure how to walk the line.

[Anonymous No.11989560]

>look through Jewgle images
>find the image
>source is /lit/ archive
>thread about memes
>pseudo-intellectuals saying how Boomer Wojak is Wojak's "final form" and how he's reconciled with himself and life, while Apu Pepe turned from harm to others/force of chaos to someone who helps and gives (or something like that anyway)
>mfw
Yet the idiots don't realize what is right in front of them—that they're both degenerated forms of better memes. Boomer Wojak is this disgusting fat fuck who is content in his own little bubble of happiness, blissfully unaware of the dangers that could easily bring him back to reality, while Apu Apustaja is nothing more than a retarded child.
>>11989034
RLM is funny at times but the Prequels reviews were trash.

[Anonymous No.11989570]

I have been thinking about how to write a story in which effect proceeds cause and how to model that on a sentence by sentence level.

[Anonymous No.11989584]

>>11989560
>horse fetish

[Anonymous No.11989992]

>>11987495
>copywrites

as a copywriter, this made me laff

[Anonymous No.11990007]

>>11985134
I only browse /lit/ for story ideas I can steal and pass off as my own, and for the rare Londonfrog post

[Anonymous No.11990010]

>>11989560
>people who think for themselves
>people who obey every and any order
hmmm... who's supposed to be strong, again?

[Anonymous No.11990250]

>>11985963
Pige.com

[Anonymous No.11990278]

a modern day adaption of the classic by john williams
except this time its about an actual stoner who gets blazed asf and teaches woodwork
also he doesnt get cancer because of the ganja

[Anonymous No.11990284]

>>11988844
shilling on reddit
Also goodreads.com has a thing where itll do a giveaway of your book, good way to get it seen and have some reviews

Other than that im not sure yet

[Anonymous No.11990314]

>>11985134
there's this guy, and he meets this girl, and she's got a jealous ex with a gun, and the ex kicks in the door and is threatening to kill the dude, then the girl kills the ex, or maybe knocks him out and the two of them bury him (alive?) and they hit the road, and the ex was the sheriff's brother, he puts out an APB, the new guy is outta his depth, the girl tells him to go to a motel, he falls asleep, she steals his shit and leaves without him, he calls the police to turn himself in, they pick him up, he brings them to the place they buried the ex, the ex is gone, they take him to jail, sheriff comes in, ex follows in after, they're gonna tune him up, ask him where the girl is, he's like I don't know, they're like we're gonna cut off your balls, they pull his shorts down, bring a knife close, radio goes off, they found the car, girl had a crash, died on impact, well that takes care of that, you're goin to jail, dude goes to prison, talks to bunkmate, guy gives him the skinny on the guards and inmates, spends months, year or two in jail, gets a visitor, guy says the girl never died, she and the ex are back together, dude's doin time for nothin, dude gets pissed off, decides he's out for revenge, he and bunkmate escape in a garbage truck, dude tells him where he can get a gun, gets the gun goes back to town, calls the sheriff, says there's trouble, deputy shows up, dude disarms deputy, takes his radio, puts him in the cruiser trunk, drives cruiser to chick's house, she and guy are watching TV, she's blowing him, dude goes up, kicks the door in, he's like I'ma cut your balls off now, motherfucker, girls like WTF, ex's woody droops, dude's like get on the floor, uses deputy cuffs on the BF, kicks him in face, girl's like we can be together, he's like you stole my money, car, time, lied to me, I wanna kill you, she's like no, he's like I'm nothing now, she's like tough shit ya little bitch, he shoots the BF in the head, shoots her in the knee, he's like call the police, she calls them, they show up, he's like your friends are here, walks out with the gun, cops blow him away, The End

[Anonymous No.11990400]

>>11986450
What? Gib link

[Anonymous No.11990401]

>>11986944
Sounds like a part out of vurt

[Anonymous No.11990406]

>>11990010
>people who generalize

[Anonymous No.11990420]

>>11987495
Reminds me of Silent Hill 4 the room.

>>11987796
I like the SSRI patches as firmware updates.

>>11986944
Could be cool, it was a part that I really enjoyed in Vurt where a guy was editing a sort of Vurt porn to be legal. I also really enjoyed the descriptions that Jeff Noone did with the Vurt parts.

>>11986996
It's hard to imagine how that would work exactly, however I have a similar setup in a novel I'm writing where he finds data files and videos that people left behind a thousand years ago.

>>11987137
You could always make your own website, it doesn't cost much and nobody can tell you what you can and can't publish.

>>11988864
It sounds pretty interesting actually.

[Anonymous No.11990426]

>>11986922
Do you ever buy self published shit off amazon?

>>11986996
This is cool, but I guess you're not going to actually reproduce documents, just have a lot of [illegible] interruptions, which will suck. If you do make the documents you are amazing.

>>11987796
How are you going to describe interactions in a virtual setting? Will they be able to touch? How will the machines experience possession of a body?

>>11988864
Problem is the memory fail at the end. I don't see how the hero can take that decision. In principle though this is my favourite, because I love Total Recall / Brazil / Pans Labyrinth type shit.

[Anonymous No.11990520]

Not much a novel idea but do any of you other anons use the way a person speaks in a novel to visualize them in front of you.
Like even when it's smaller things like a person says y'all I immediately think of a Texan or someone from the south.
Is there a word for this ?

[Anonymous No.11990613]

Schizophrenic falls in love, set in 1980s and written in a stream of consciousness style. The fonts will probably change as it’s written and some other weird shit.

[Anonymous No.11990623]

>>11990613
I like the idea with the fonts although usually when a book is printed they use a normalized font throughout the book (Garamond it was called I think).

[Anonymous No.11990638]

>>11987302
>tfw am a good writer but don't have any good ideas to write

Let's work together anon

[Anonymous No.11990643]

>>11990623
Well if they do then my change of style will make up for it, like me writing in a poetic style when descending said love interest or when the protagonist is angry it’s written like a monumental moment

[Anonymous No.11990647]

>>11990643
Describing*
Phones make horrible computers

[Anonymous No.11990833]

>>11990643
You might be able to get around that by self publishing on Amazon, maybe they'll allow custom fonts.
Might be worth asking them.

[Anonymous No.11991199]

>>11989560
>RLM is funny at times
who?

[Anonymous No.11991282]

>>11991199
Red Letter Media
They're a group of friends who loves movies and spend their time making internet bux by goofing around and shitting on films

[Anonymous No.11991362]

>>11986944
Sounds limited and silly.
>>11987302
Most writers can't write for shit and most people think they have ideas that are worth writing about but never do it. Basically you're a generic, lazy fag.
>>11987796
There is a decent idea lurking in this somewhere.
>>11988822
Why the fuck not. Can be funny I guess.
>>11988864
It not horrible but I can't imagine myself wanting to read it.
>>11988886
Pretty hard to sell outside of Murica since no one cares about that shit.
>>11989034
The world building doesn't add up. Beyond that, it's actually a cute idea and by far the most appealing for me so far.
>>11990278
Doesn't most of the cancer come from the act of smoking?
>>11990314
>guy says the girl never died
Great twist.
>she and the ex are back together
Dumb twist. And it gets worse on from there.

[Anonymous No.11991637]

>>11991362
>The world building doesn't add up.
Which bits? Fuck me up senpai, I don't have anyone irl I can workshop this with

[Anonymous No.11991677]

>>11991637
Robots eliminating work and the whole famines and wars. Plus the Mad Max shit and hostile environment and fleeing into VR. The latter would be just unlikely on the earth in the state it supposed to be.

Something like robots owned by a few powerful individuals who fucked off from earth, messing up the entire economy, making employing people obsolete while syphoning out the last resources in a dying world, would make more sense IMO.

So you'd have:
>fucked up world full of poorfags who take their chances in a world run by robots and superstorms
>richfags who chill out in VR or do the scavenging shit for kicks

Also suicide would be pretty unlikely on earth, given how humanity been through a lot of shit already. Ennui is much more likely to lead to it than living on a fucked planet.

[Anonymous No.11992028]

>>11991677

I appreciate the comments, anon. You make good points, and have given me some things to think about.

The famine and wars are mostly tied to consequences of climate change, like the aforementioned storms and desertification, and are more of a context for "present day" than something depicted. The rush to produce a robotic luxury society came from that, and things just went wrong along the way. The Rich and Powerful doing their thing, essentially.

Side note, the AGI-run utopia in orbit is an actual utopia, but it's hard to get to thanks to travel outside the cities being so difficult, and it only lets in people who aren't fucko's. It has plans of its own that are bigger than the daily lives on people, but that's not explored in this story. It mostly just keeps to itself. There are groups of people who resent the seeming unattainability of it all, as well as the existence of an Artificial General Intelligence itself, and desire to destroy it and the space-habitat if they can. The AI acts as a stand-in for God that people can direct their hate towards, and blame for their lot in life. The utopia represents an ideal world just out of reach, and angry people are more like to destroy something beautiful than do something productive about their own situation.

I'm not well-read in philosophy—I mostly just read wiki pages because actually getting into and reading up on all the schools of thought is an investment in time I just don't have at this point in my life—but I was a bit inspired by Camus and his solutions to the absurd, and how a potential future would react to a new existential dilemma and the (what is seem as) inevitable collapse of global civilization. The distinct lack of aliens on top of everything else has convinced a lot of the population that the Earth will not make it through the Great Filter, and there is no glorious sci-fi future waiting for them.

I figure people might react with rage-quitting, nihilism, escapism (VR being an ultimate escape, but keeping that for richfags is something to consider), indulgence, revolt, defiance, etc.

I haven't decided if there's a specific meaning or solution I want to express by the end, I'm not really an outliner. But the MC certainly isn't satisfied with any of them, and inside themselves are mostly raging against the scale of the universe, the untold billions or trillions of years ahead that will be unseen and untouched by any life, the pointlessness of it all, and the lacking of a grand function or nature to creation. I don't know how MC will feel, or think, or do by the end.

[Anonymous No.11992139]

A YA Romance about the Catholic conversion of a cyberpunkian neopagan cult. It's just about 6 years in the making.

>>11991534

It references the number 42 and Douglas Adams

>pic related

[Anonymous No.11992316]

>>11992028
>but I was a bit inspired by Camus and his solutions to the absurd
Ah, no wonder it resonated with me then.

>AGI-run utopia in orbit is an actual utopia
Not sure it's a good idea, given how the word means different things for different people, unless it's treated as utopia in universe to avoid the potential "fuck the writer, the utopia actually sounds like shit." Maybe I just read it wrong after half a bottle of vodka.

>The AI acts as a stand-in for God that people can direct their hate towards, and blame for their lot in life.
Pretty sweet.

>VR being an ultimate escape, but keeping that for richfags is something to consider
Wouldn't some of them want to turn the earth into a playground for their fantasies too, say some real version of Civilisation or Total War; kinda as a mix of indulgence, nihilism and escapism.

>But the MC certainly isn't satisfied with any of them, and inside themselves are mostly raging against the scale of the universe, the untold billions or trillions of years ahead that will be unseen and untouched by any life, the pointlessness of it all, and the lacking of a grand function or nature to creation.
Yeah, I ran into something similar too, without solving it either, and generally as someone who loves to plot, it's something I kept open, since working towards the unknown is more fun. Though my main conflict is a tiny bit more grounded and the MC "only" tries to destroy and rebuilt society and actively not worrying about super long term stuff; but gets stuck since the planned solution would only lead to a temporary benevolent dictatorship, making it feel pointless. Of course the easy solution would be just to finish them off before they get to do anything but it's kinda a cop out.
Or you could let the key characters present their contrasting solutions/viewpoints and see where it goes. In the end you're not writing a self-help book, so raising the questions and hinting the potential answers isn't too bad, as long some other aspects of the story can provide closure.

[Anonymous No.11992737]

'Agatha Christie' by way of 'I, Robot', where a supercomputer is both the murderer and the master detective because of different inputs by the good guys and the villain.

[Anonymous No.11992822]

>>11992737
Who was the victim?

[Anonymous No.11993031]

The protagonist is shot and killed by a magical assassin, the bullets of whom turn the victims into historical figures. In this case the protagonist is transformed into Jesus and is resurrected, swearing revenge on the killer. The protagonist tracks down the killer by following the trail of dead famous people. Because he is a pacifist, Jesus must obtain a spear which is able to kill the main character of any book which it impales, and then follow the assassin in order to write a biography about him to finally kill him.

[Anonymous No.11993043]

>>11993031
but its still killing him...

[Anonymous No.11994181]

>search in archive for my old novel idea that I shared in one of these threads
>posted 3 years ago
>could have sworn it was just a few months ago
>have still yet to write a single word
NEVER GONNA MAKE IT

[Anonymous No.11994446]

>>11994181
What was it if you don't mind me asking?

[Anonymous No.11994613]

>>11992822
Figure it works best as a then-there-were-none kinda deal where a set group of characters in a contained space gets killed one after another

[Anonymous No.11995043]

I have non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder, so there are a lot of nights when I'm up and going about things while everyone else is asleep. It always feels like time doesn't quite pass the same way at night, kind of like entering a parallel world where everything is a little more ambiguous. When I last got back home from college, I spent a lot of time with close friends and felt sort of the same way. I think it would be fun to try to connect those ideas by writing a novel about the (lack of) passage of time.

[Anonymous No.11995065]

A man with the ability to travel through small and smaller fractals find out he's god

[Anonymous No.11995295]

A novel which dissects the modern man's condition. Basically we live like kings but the human condition hasn't changed at all. Some extrapolations about bananas which typify it

[Anonymous No.11996291]

One inspired by karl pilkington about a guy who starts to see a fella who looks just like him around the place - a doppelganger - and the idea is that the guy gradually starts to wonder if he is the actual doppelganger. Since they are exactly the same.

[Anonymous No.11996543]

>>11989034
This is a cool idea

[Anonymous No.11996560]

>>11992028
This sounds very good anon. My only comment for now would be that whether or not the AGI station is actually utopian should be left vague, with different hints and red herrings pointing to opposite conclusions, because it would be cooler as the reader to have a similar sense of mystery surrounding it.

[Anonymous No.11996562]

>>11993031
that is hilarious