/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12569781]

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

[Anonymous No.12569792]

>>12569781
It's basically my diary, but I have a gf

[Anonymous No.12569809]

>>12569781
Pige

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>>12569809
No. Zeba

[Anonymous No.12569942]

Pige

[Anonymous No.12569948]

>>12569792
Why? Is it a horror novel?

[Anonymous No.12570340]

>>12569781
An immortal man that seeks to die. He joins modern washington politics for the sole reason to eventually air so much dirty laundry that somebody else finally finds a method that works.

[Anonymous No.12570415]

>>12570340
>An immortal man that seeks to die.
End specialist

[Anonymous No.12570465]

A very lonely schizophrenic homosexual neet on the verge of suicide tries to adopt a dog to have at least some company but people think he's gonna fuck it/starve it to death so they don't allow him to have it, so because no one wants to hang out with him because he's a creepy weirdo he starts kidnapping cute twinks to have them as his pets and when they eventually die because he can't even take care of himself he lays the corpses laying around as if they were dolls. He goes insane; has a chat with a random bloke that entered into his house because he thought it was abandoned, and eventually goes postal.

[Anonymous No.12570468]

pigey pigey give me fuzzy cuddly

[Anonymous No.12570627]

>>12569781
A Muslim Middle-Eastern thief in Iraq during the 1800s. It's a story about faith. Will explore some political issues, but I don't want to deal with all the modern crap. Mainly inspired by Crime and Punishment.

[Anonymous No.12570675]

A Jewish man in his 30s sets out to recreate his deceased father's journey through Europe .

[Anonymous No.12570738]

I once wanted to make a book about a man, a bucket of milk and a goat who has a cheese instead of a head, who went on a journey to stop an evil nazi-vampire from devaluating the earth using bad puns.

I stopped when I realised my jokes weren't funny.

[Anonymous No.12570746]

>>12570738
Unironically finish it and share it on reddit, you're almost sure to get some kind of following for something like that.

[Anonymous No.12570762]

Last night in the life of a hooker based on asexuality and the struggle between loneliness and social dependence through mediums like social media

[Anonymous No.12570775]

A coming of age story about a young HVAC technicians descent into the world of swingers around the rich suburbs of DC.

[Anonymous No.12570793]

>>12570775
would read

[Anonymous No.12570855]

>>12570465
Sounds good.

[Anonymous No.12571397]

>>12569781
morning little pige

[Anonymous No.12571514]

>>12569781
man grows up emasculated, forced to take pills for a mental illness he never had by his abusive alcoholic mother, gets molested, is anorexic and bulimic, is emasculated by everyone, people beat him and call him a fag
then he gets falsely accused of rape by a girl and everyone attacks him - he goes from being a fag to being a rapist
so, since he's a rapist, he cuts off his penis and goes on a killing spree, murdering evil women and homosexuals
the story is told through from the viewpoint of a homicide forensic's detective (who is also low-key a pedophile) working on solving the case
it's got it all. going to be a best-seller

[Anonymous No.12571518]

PIGE... EASY ON THE NOSE

[Anonymous No.12571591]

>>12570675
He then finds out that the man he thought was his father was actually his stepfather.

His real father had died in one of Hitler's concentration camps. And his mother (being a typical jewish slut) preserved her & her child's future by blowing a quasi-sympathetic guard.

Her BJ skills were so amazing that the guard protected her till the war ended & the jews were free to leave. The guard was saved from prosecution because 1) The jewish slut like his big aryan cock & didn't want to go back to tiny jewish dicks & 2) He had inherited a decent amount of gold which kinda sealed the deal for the jew-slut

So the guard pretended to be jewish for the remainder of his life & took care of the protagonist as his own son. He never had kids of his own because the jew-slut sucked his dick 2-3 times a day, everday, making sex wholly unnecessary.

Finding out these crazy facts the protagonist decided to complete his real father's journey and gas himself to death, but not before completing his stepfather's journey by mouth-raping his own (now dead) jew-slut mother.

The poignant last scene of the novel (which will be the one quoted by the Pulitzer committee) involves the protagonist in a poisonous gas mask trying to get an erection hard enough to mouth rape his mother's corpse before he inhales enough gas to die.

[Anonymous No.12571602]

>>12570340
>He joins modern washington politics for the sole reason to eventually air so much dirty laundry that somebody else finally finds a method that works.

Bad idea, they would just lock him away in a basement in Guantanamo and throw away the key.

[Anonymous No.12571603]

>>12571514
Reminds me of "The 3" from adaptation

[Anonymous No.12571608]

>>12569781
The arrival of an Artist in a rich suburban street in the year 1968 leads the entire neighborhood into a spiral of violence and suspicion

[Anonymous No.12571630]

>>12571608
Is the artist black?

[Anonymous No.12571632]

>>12569781
Employers of a company go to a shooting range for a team building event. Only one makes it out alive, all others are found dead with bullets in them. The sole survivor won't talk. The story follows a detective trying to reconstruct who started shooting, who shot shot who and why.

[Anonymous No.12571639]

>>12569781
After a robbery gone wrong in the center of the city and with the mafia and the police on their tracks, three professional robbers are forced the split and met outside the town

The story takes place trought a single night where the prologue and the epilogue are narrated in third person, while the rest of the book is split in 3 parts narrated in first person from the point of view of the robbers

[Anonymous No.12571648]

>>12569781
THAT IS THE CUTEST LITTLE THING I HAVE EVER SEEN OMG. I JUST WANT TO HOLD HIM AND KISS HIS LITTLE NOSEY-TRUNK :333333

[Anonymous No.12571654]

>>12571630
Nah, it's set in Italy during the final years of the economical boom
The fading of the economical miracle plays an important role for some characters

[Anonymous No.12571657]

>>12571603
thanks
i used to get compared to the protagonist

[Anonymous No.12571683]

>>12571608
Keep going, this is a good idea

[Anonymous No.12571691]

>>12571591
I'm not reading all that shit. Condense your plot into one sentence god dammit

[Anonymous No.12571695]

>>12571648
Piggy-chan is so CUTE

[Anonymous No.12571715]

>>12571691
Eat shit nigger.

[Anonymous No.12571736]

>>12571715
a scene like that might better your novel

[Anonymous No.12571747]

>>12571608
sounds like teorema

[Anonymous No.12571776]

A group of bartenders who routinely break into the bar they work in on Sunday when it happens to be closed. I need to work on it because I have a lot of character work done but the story isn't there.

[Anonymous No.12571799]

>>12571776
Could be a good concept, keep working on it. Focus on themes and the story will come naturally once you figure out what you want to say through this story

[Anonymous No.12571800]

>>12571691
>the protagonist in a poisonous gas mask trying to get an erection hard enough to mouth rape his mother's corpse before he inhales enough gas to die.

[Anonymous No.12571819]

>>12571632
sounds like a cool short story, seems like a kinda small event for a novel unless there's some wider conspiracy.

[Anonymous No.12571831]

>>12571654
Italian economic boom stopped well before '68.

[Anonymous No.12571855]

>>12571799
I'm mostly running off inspiration from Catch-22. So I was thinking lots of minor characters with quirks etc. Definitely one of the characters will die of cancer, two of the characters are having affairs. Currently my favourite plot point that I've come up with is one of the staff, an overly macho dude who always comments on women in super inappropriate ways comments on a drag queen and pursues them without knowing. Just dumb shit like that. Idk if it has legs but I'm gonna try and flesh it out.

[Anonymous No.12571862]

Bible - Bi + Able

That which at its core is able to be bisexual.

Father, Son & the Holy ghost.

The Holy ghost in Mary and the Father a part of the Holy ghost.

Mary getting DPed by Father & the ghost.

Father & ghost indulging in their own consummation.

Bisexuality is at the core of the biblical theology.....

[Anonymous No.12571898]

>>12571831
I thought about set it during the fall of the first republic in Italy during 1993-1994 but 1968 felt more like an year of changes from a social and political point of view

[Anonymous No.12571946]

>>12571591

9/11 would read

[Anonymous No.12571955]

I'm not saying what I'm writing right now because I'll actually finish it and I don't want any plagiarism but when I was in highschool I wanted to write a story which followed the course of a guy who was best friends with someone who were depressed and suicidal, his attempted love interest but later friend and a new kid at school. The book delved into their misfortunes as the girl was hit by a truck and died while her sister was trying to drive themselves away from an abusive household, the suicidal kid going on anti-depressants and no longer hanging out around his best friend and the new kid eventually leaving town since his parents traveled a lot, leaving the most normal kid the one who was so laden with their problems, depressions, and issues that he became the isolated quiet kid and then eventually pretending he's mute because he didn't want to spread his depression to others.

Now that I'm an adult, I might revamp the plot and rewrite it but I doubt it because I'm not depressed.

[Anonymous No.12571965]

>>12571695
That's a tapir you dumb euro nigger

[Anonymous No.12571970]

>>12571955
Wow...this is terrible. I hope you have a day job to go along with your "writing career"

[Anonymous No.12571977]

>>12571862
I wouldn't understand. I'm asexual, you see.

[Anonymous No.12571980]

>>12571970
Jealous?

[Anonymous No.12571987]

>>12571602
The idea is that he works himself up into a position of power using his literal millenia of experience and education and starts his plan only when he's one of the big names.

Imagine Nancy Pelosi holding a speech and revealing a pedophile collegue or something like that.

[Anonymous No.12571988]

>>12571980
Nope, just honest.

[Anonymous No.12571995]

something something something guy ends up committing suicide

honestly, I think these LGBT go anti-depressants schmucks will eat it up

[Anonymous No.12572000]

>>12571988
Yeah do you expect every 14 year old's writing to be a masterpiece?

[Anonymous No.12572006]

>>12571970
>>12571955

everyone thinks they can write, and everyone thinks they are a good critic of literature.

the truth lies nowhere in between. commercial publishing is a joke. good luck to both

[Anonymous No.12572009]

First person novel about college women. My character nit picks everything in a comedic fashion. I'm enjoying writing it and have around 30 pages. My workshop said I wrote a woman well so I have that going for me.

[Anonymous No.12572013]

>>12572000
I don't.

But I do expect the lack of basic talent to be pointed out, if only to prevent a life, wasted.

[Anonymous No.12572026]

>>12572013
I'll waste your life. Meet me outside and let's put up some dukes.

[Anonymous No.12572037]

>>12572026
Dumb brutes to /pol please

[Anonymous No.12572058]

>>12572037
ok

[Anonymous No.12572146]

>>12569781
OP, you must be such a terrific person for posting such a sweet image. It tells me that your heart is pure.

[Anonymous No.12573723]

little stripey pig runs across a whole field! (then back to mummy before bed-time). yee-haw

[Anonymous No.12573785]

>>12571608
Sounds like a J.G Ballard

[Anonymous No.12574300]

>>12572146
Thanks, friend. I am just here to spread creative inspiration and the glory of tapir buddies :)

[Anonymous No.12574388]

>>12574300
Yeah, you are a great person alright. Some here only post silly images for the sake of starting threads, but you are yourself a sweet soul, and I appreciate your presence here on this board. There are few pure souls left here, anymore. Any I myself am to leave soon, if I stay true to the vows I have made for myself. But you, friend, are a wonderful person, and I'm glad we've spoken today. I love you my friend, and the lovely tapirs you've posted. I wish your thread the best of success for the rest of it, and any future ones you make too.

(don't think any of this is sarcasm, I genuinely and deeply appreciate the few pure souls I find on this site, otherwise overrun by absolute savages and rogues of terrible inward constitutions)

[Anonymous No.12574442]

>>12569781
Takes place in a high school. It's kind of like a short story collection, with many different characters. Ends with a school shooting.

[Anonymous No.12574449]

>>12574442
I'd unironically read it.

[Anonymous No.12574465]

>>12574388
Thank you kindly. If you do leave soon, I hope you have blessed journeys ahead of you.

[Anonymous No.12574667]

>>12574388
wholesome hitler dubs man

[Anonymous No.12574705]

>>12569781
Pretty much a diary about a high school kid who slowly is falling in love with his aunt. He's also simultaneously dealing with internal issues(substance abuse etc.), he just becomes obsessed with his aunt or more so writing about it.

[Anonymous No.12574800]

>>12569781
Can I post ideas that are novel in the sense that they are new?

[Anonymous No.12574823]

>>12569781
>tfw no little tapir friend to frolic around with

[Anonymous No.12574833]

>>12574800
please do, i haven't seen one in years

[Anonymous No.12574915]

>>12574833
The rationalist aesthetic when used towards traditionally non-rational ends (eg. shamanism & sorcery) simply ceases to produce results (see samzdat's witch doctor article). One is left with something worse than nothing, rather a wrong approach to an already difficult subject. It is the reinvention of the wheel, but it is a square.

[Anonymous No.12574932]

>>12574465
Thank you, tapir-anon. I wish exactly the same for you.

>>12574667
Do not mention such names here, friend.

>>12574823
>>12573723
>>12571695
>>12571648
Ah, my friends. It seems you have congregated here. Absolutely based. I love you guys, and our little-tapir pals too of course.

[Anonymous No.12575276]

A virologist gets a job working for a multinational organization which is trying to research and cure a new and highly mutagenic virus that has infected seemingly everyone on Earth but produces no symptoms. The organization is part of an effort between the US, France, England, and Japan to research the virus. Russia and China have parallel efforts but are competing against Western researchers.

The virologist also has to deal with difficulties outside his work for the organization, such as dealing with his divorce and custody battle over his children, as well as with keeping his academic career above water.

He quickly finds that his work is completely futile and meaningless. Whatever is learned about the virus is immediately undone, since the virus changes so rapidly into new forms. It has no symptoms, but even if it did it won't matter since every man woman and child on earth is already infected, so the emergence of symptoms could not be meaningfully combated.

Instead of research, he spends most of his time contending with bureaucrats and academics waging ego wars within the organization. There are continual shifts in scope and goals for the project as administrators come and go. Others in the organization are obsessive about other matters, such as the risk of Chinese or Russian pilfering of data or public discovery of the infection. There is also a kind of new wave, semi-buddhist religion making its way around the organization. The virologist has a pet theory that the virus may be altering the cognition of those who study it in an effort to evade detection, but has no means to prove this theory.

The story is basically just going to be the virologist coming to terms with the absurdity of his existence and choosing what he wants to put his efforts towards.

[Anonymous No.12575408]

>>12569781
snicker bear

[Anonymous No.12575428]

PTSD stricken combat veteran finds a homeless young girl who takes her in and befriends her and they go on a hint of tiny adventures around the country and they discover each other's past over the course of years.

[Anonymous No.12575452]

>>12569781
"Trials and Stridulations" A courtroom drama, about an evil corporation's chemical plant affecting births in a region, leading to deformities and stillborns. But every character is a giant cicada.

"The Bardbarian", the Hero is the chosen one meant to slay the eldritch queen. But all he wants to do is to be a bard, which he is terrible at. He dual wields two lutes as his weapon of choice. Also the only person who likes his music and doesn't think it's a crime against humanity winds up being the eldritch queen. Then they elope and try to escape from both the forces of good and evil.

[Anonymous No.12575453]

>>12575276
Hopefully it has some point beyond just “lol the world is absurd” because if so, it’s been done to death.

[Anonymous No.12575472]

>>12575276
First one I like. Has the potential to be very dryly comic.

[Anonymous No.12575733]

>>12571514
>he goes from being a fag to being a rapist
Is this a metaphor for changes in how failed males are shamed

[Anonymous No.12576478]

>All of humanity lives in a giant box
>Escape from the box is impossible
>Everyday the box gets a little smaller and tighter, could be a centimetre, it could be a metre or a mile
>After years of debate about why the box is getting smaller, thinking everyone's going to be crushed eventually
>One day the box stops tightening

[Anonymous No.12576483]

Wizard cowboys that ride flying horses. I'll probably make it into a screenplay and film it myself since a.) the fiction literature market is DEAD b.) film adaptations are cringe anyways.

[Anonymous No.12576496]

>>12569781
It's a murder-suspense novel set in London in 1893, about the competition between two singers who try to upstage each other, but their also sort of gay in love secretly, the one who is the narrator is named Tazio, he's nineteen and ends up killing his lover.

[Anonymous No.12576550]

I'm writing a dumbass kids book about space pirates. Its not good, but its fun.

>>12570340
Reminds me of the episode of Twilight Zone about a guy who becomes immortal and immediately starts trying to kill himself in every possible way, then gets bored in like a day and kills his wife because he wants to know what the electric chair feels like but his lawyer gets him commuted to a life sentence.
>>12570746
This, sounds like the Kung Fury of books.
>>12571639
Sounds Noir-y as fuck. I'd read it.
>>12571955
>>12574442
I think you'd have good odds at getting put on middle school reading lists and making bank off that, regardless of whether your writing is good.
>>12576483
I'm curious how you're going to film that if it's not animated. Flying horses don't seem like something you can just cobble together.

[Anonymous No.12576567]

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>>12575408
Based

[Anonymous No.12576628]

Two men meet by accident and become friends. One has partial autism and an unsuccessful scholarly career in the humanities. The other friend is a fit Mechanical engineer with a hot gf. The gf is the understudy of an eccentric VC. The autistic guy is terrible at communication, unless he is able to totally dominate the conversation, kind of like Hitler. He is also a compulsive liar.
Basically the two guys partner up and create a company that is based totally on lies. The autist is CEO.
I had the original idea of a friendship that represented a binary of the modern male. Then I was inspired by Fyre Fest and Theranos. I'm fairly confident this will go somewhere.

[Anonymous No.12576828]

>>12576478
Sounds genuinely interesting

[Anonymous No.12576905]

A man who takes up a job as an explorer on distant planets at the edge of colonized space. Its considered hard, underclass work where you're away from your family for years at a time and completely alone.

Its about his solo journey on this distant planet and how he occupies himself with his thoughts.

[Anonymous No.12576909]

Someone with a light superiority complex developed by the hundreds of excuses he made over his life is actually god, without his knowledge.

[Anonymous No.12576960]

>>12576909
Shut up nigger

[Anonymous No.12577270]

>>12569781
Scientists find a way to prove the existence of God and to directly talk to Him. God confirms that the Bible and Christian dogma is true, heaven and hell exist, Christian (let's stay Catholics to be exact) are correct in who gets which afterlife etc.
There is of course a huge wave of conversion and in a short time the existence of God becomes an everyday fact of life like the existence of the sun or the moon. However, soon people start to bring up points like "if there is an onmipotent God why doesn't he just give food to all the starving etc., it would cost Him nothing?" and especially "is an infinite hell a just punishment for finite crimes?" Discussions begin on how to try to influence God, while officially the Church says that this is impossible.
Eventually someone comes up with an idea: the Bible clearly states that God loves humanity on some level, which is a trait that can be exploited. So he proposes that most of humanity should go on a strike of sorts: everyone should start sinning without repenting, meaning that they will all go to hell. God, because he loves people, couldn't stand this and will start negotiations.
In the final chapters the strike happens. The Vatican (now God's official representation on Earth) fails to stop this and the Pope steps down when some strikers die unrepentent and persumably go to hell. In the end a new Pope agrees to bring God to the table and they negotiate some new rules, most having to do with the afterlife: strikers get immunity from punishment in hell, other souls get the option to appeal to get out from hell if they can prove they learned their lesson, homosexuals get unbanned from heaven etc.
Throughout the story characters discuss about the nature of happiness, justice, freedom of choice and such.

[Anonymous No.12577281]

>>12569781
Scientists find a way to prove the existence of God and to directly talk to Him. God confirms that the Bible and Christian dogma is true, heaven and hell exist, Christian (let's stay Catholics to be exact) are correct in who gets which afterlife etc.

There is of course a huge wave of conversion and in a short time the existence of God becomes an everyday fact of life like the existence of the sun or the moon. However, soon people start to bring up points like "if there is an onmipotent God why doesn't he just give food to all the starving etc., it would cost Him nothing?" and especially "is an infinite hell a just punishment for finite crimes?" Discussions begin on how to try to influence God, while officially the Church says that this is impossible.

Eventually someone comes up with an idea: the Bible clearly states that God loves humanity on some level, which is a trait that can be exploited. So he proposes that most of humanity should go on a strike of sorts: everyone should start sinning without repenting, meaning that they will all go to hell. God, because he loves people, couldn't stand this and will start negotiations.

In the final chapters the strike happens. The Vatican (now God's official representation on Earth) fails to stop this and the Pope steps down when some strikers die unrepentent and persumably go to hell. In the end a new Pope agrees to bring God to the table and they negotiate some new rules, most having to do with the afterlife: strikers get immunity from punishment in hell, other souls get the option to appeal to get out from hell if they can prove they learned their lesson, homosexuals get unbanned from heaven etc.

Throughout the story characters discuss about the nature of happiness, justice, freedom of choice and such.

[Anonymous No.12577329]

The legend of the Golden Hind, only sexier.

[Anonymous No.12577332]

>>12569781
A novel where a popular, studious and fairly shallow main character slowly realises all his opinions are signalling as he meanwhile achieves greater success in politics or media and is exposed to the outrage factories and real motivations and incentives of the media. He is a conservative, which would make it sell better because at face value it is an open mocking of the right, but later on he meets another, left wing, character, who is a mirror image of all his defects, which could trick readers into open mindedness.

Just thought of this then plz no bulli. Obviously it would need more depth and other themes and subplots

[Anonymous No.12577474]

>>12576628
Goddamit... I was gonna represent the binary of the modern male.
Except they would briefly be gay lovers and then it would show how their lives develop in opposite directions after after a short, abusive love affair...
Good luck with your story anyway

[Anonymous No.12577479]

>>12571855
A large cast is always awesome if you're good on plot

[Anonymous No.12577495]

>>12569781
The incel revolution succeeds, all men are now entitled to either sex robots or for visits to prostitutes once a week.

Many former incels however soon find that they are still unhappy. They realize that they weren't so much after sex but intimacy and validation from women, none of which they can get from prostitutes who are just doing what they must when they have sex with them, but don't actually desire them.

A new subculture devlops with men who are still bitter with chads who are really desired by women, and are now disgusted about this availability of meaningless sex. Weirdly though, a lot of men who have never been incels are ok with this - normies and slobs who could have had partners just because there is social pressure to do so, but are actually too alienated to really desire intimate relationships and are happy to just get free sex regularly.

The neo-incels find themselves in an allience with a resurgent feminist movement and the book ends with the incel protagonist hooking up with one of the feminist chicks and running off to live together on remote island.

[Anonymous No.12578591]

>>12577281
>homosexuals get unbanned from heaven
Was based until this part

[Anonymous No.12578608]

A cat is granted sentience and he uses it to protect the son of his owner from ghosts and ghouls.

[Anonymous No.12578642]

>>12577495
Sounds like a Houellebecq

[Anonymous No.12578645]

>>12569781
>all of my story ideas involve some edgy manipulator guy that seemingly knows everything except how to love

[Anonymous No.12578717]

>>12569781
A dog that is separated from it's a mother (a breeder) and bought into a family as a christmas gift for the child,the child pulls it's tail and the dog bites him in self defense.
The parents throw the dog out, and suffers in the streets until he's picke dup by some cool dude and taken to his home.
The dog meets other animals that the dude has rescued.
It's supposed to end is a super dark and sad note, but I guess I'll keep that to myself.

[Anonymous No.12578754]

I am thinking on writing a novel but I am not very adapted to this form. So far I have only written plays and poetry (I have always got a lot of good reviews from Anons here, far more kind and loving than I deserve).

So, in broad terms, I am thinking on writing a novel were the main character makes a pact with an angel-like creature and ends up becoming immortal. The angel wants to give up his immortally and become human, and his disease ends up infecting the protagonist. This is point A.

After this beginning the protagonist keeps being reborn on the same city where he made the pact. I was thinking on following him for seven lives (like Tiresias, blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, who have participated fully in seven generations in Thebes). This is point B.

The novel would end when the protagonist – who ends up thinking on his condition as a curse and wants to be able to die again – finally accepts that he is not going to die until the human race itself has disappeared, that he will always be among humans, witnessing their lives and struggles as a conscience that has finally learned to accept with perfect tolerance all the flaws and virtues of our race. This is point C.*

My main problems are:

>How do I make a motivation for my character who serves as a main plotline during the long middle of the novel, the point B? I can imagine several different things happening, different lives and existences mixing and altering, but I don’t know how to spurn the main character. He wants to be able to die? Ok, but now what?

>How do I deal with time? Seven lives are a very long period, so I would need to fast-forward some years (a lot of years) and concentrate the focus on other periods. I have never seen any novel do this with such a long time period – seven lives – and I don’t know how to fix that. I don’t even know if there is a way out of this.

I don’t know if this novel is possible. For now is just a tenuous idea and it would take a lot of research to actually get fleshed. However I don’t think on wasting time on research if I don’t have a main skeleton and if the thing isn’t even possible.

[Anonymous No.12578761]

>>12578754

*I conceived this ending of a human being accepting his fate and dissolving his conscience into a new realm of existence while watching the ending speech from The Incredible Shrinking Man, when the movie protagonist finally realizes that he will keep getting smaller and smaller until infinity:

>I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close — the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet — like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!

[Anonymous No.12579521]

>>12578754
I have never seen any novel do this with such a long time period – seven lives – and I don’t know how to fix that. I don’t even know if there is a way out of this.
There's One Hundred Years of Solitude, I think that works through 5 or 6 generations of the same family so its not quite the same as having the viewpoint tied to one character but its something to consider. Also great taste >>12578761 , I also found that ending weirdly inspiring and emotional for a Corman movie.

[Anonymous No.12579894]

>>12569781
he cute OwO

[Anonymous No.12581046]

How do I know /lit/ wont steal my idea if it's really god-tier?

[Anonymous No.12581070]

>>12581046
My pet theory is that pigeposter is compiling all the best ideas from these threads into one massive epic of /lit/

[Anonymous No.12581129]

>>12575733
no it's my autobiography basically
am neither gay nor a rapist btw

[Anonymous No.12581153]

>>12571995
Make it a lesbian and enjoy your critical acclaim, millions of dollars, and multiple literary awards (potentially even a Nobel)

[Anonymous No.12581199]

I might write a fantasy novel about a failed military campaign. The main character will be a newly raised soldier trying to get back home with his fellow villagers.

[Anonymous No.12581228]

A novel about a highschool shooting where the main character is determined to go after the "Highscore" of shooting deaths.
Delves into what it means to be an adolense in the current generation, school shooting culture, the media, and of course depression.
Probably wont write it because i'm currently in college and dont want to get expelled, put on a watch list and i plan to go into teaching.

[Anonymous No.12581233]

>>12570340
that man's name?
BRONHOLD BLUMPF

[Anonymous No.12581235]

>>12581228
not to mention no platform would ever publish your story

[Anonymous No.12581256]

>>12581235
I dunno, I mean Lolita got published albeit with difficulties. A publisher might go for it hoping it would get a lot of free controversy publicity.
the chances seem relatively slim but maybe i'm just being a tad optimistic.

[Anonymous No.12581266]

>>12581256
that guy wrote/published Lolita when he was 60 years old. He already had a long writing career, he didn't give a fuck what anyone thought anymore

[Anonymous No.12581445]

>>12581046
even if a premise is god-tier, only the end product will matter. write your idea, and if you're not a hack, your writing will be god-tier, too.

[Anonymous No.12581454]

>>12581445
Exactly! look at Harry Potter! It's premise is shit-tier, and it's execution is....also shit tier...
okay, bad example

[Anonymous No.12581473]

An existentialist novel about a man with the head of a fish (which is rarely noticed by other characters, only the implications of such) and the decline of his mental health. He tries desperately to become fully human, but the urge to be of the sea and to be fully fish also is too much, and he inevitably is found dead from drowning in the sea. But yeah i was thinking of tying in some murder or something. Some sort of gruesome act and manipulation of the mind to show how little sympathy he possesses and how little he is internally like his peers, whom he simply wants to seduce and/or murder.

[Anonymous No.12581734]

2015, prostitute, depressed, insomniac. Story follows a night of her having a mental break, and eventual suicide. Themes: paranoia, asexuality, and narcissism.

[Anonymous No.12581786]

>>12581228
Do it but I'd recommend getting a psyche check and being declared sane by a couple psychologists to help. Book could be good but the premise of "going after a highscore" is kinda dumb. It creates a sci fi element when it should be grounded in reality. If you wanted a sci fi element then you could create a formula similar to sucker punch or any other generic "crazy person" fantasy which parallels an irl story

[Anonymous No.12581810]

>>12569781
story of a man whos sexually attracted to tiles

[Anonymous No.12581811]

>>12578761
1. How long is each life?
2. When are the lives?
3. At what age do we follow? Is it there entire life or simply parts?

Your premise, while ok, seems pretentious. The 7 lives especially. If this is 7 short stories, I'd understand, but if this is a fully fledged novel, then your writing will overlap and create similarities between situations which, even if you show character progression, will drag. Also, it seems like a pretentious version of doctor who without the high fantastical element.

[Anonymous No.12581851]

>>12576550
>I'm curious how you're going to film that if it's not animated
Literally just put horses on cables like fucking Mary Poppins. The wings might be animated, at least partially. I would honestly prefer practical effects if at all feasible.
Can we have a screenplay thread instead desu?

[Anonymous No.12582558]

>>12581811

1-Some quite short, some long (some of the firstending in suicide)
2-They will go on during some 300 years of my country history
3-The conscience of the chracter only emerges after a period in infancy, sometimes earlier,sometimes latter in life: it's like the whole memories from the past suddenly erupting into the conscience.

I think that, if I am to do this, I will need to fast-foward some perios while focus with more detail in others

What I would like to be able to do is to cross-link families and destinations of different lives into a web of relationships. For example, in one of the lives the protagonist has a brother who loves him. In another life this same loving and tender brother has becomr a military authority who pursues people like his former brother (who now is another entity, so that the military guy has no way of knowing this "enemy of the people" is his brother), which creates a strange case of affection and love of the pursued for the pursuer.

>>12581811
>then your writing will overlap and create similarities between situations which, even if you show character progression, will drag.

The trick would be to constantly change the time period and the kind of place where the protgonist comes into bing again.

I am slowly starting to solve the time problem. This one, however:

>>12578754
>>How do I make a motivation for my character who serves as a main plotline during the long middle of the novel, the point B? I can imagine several different things happening, different lives and existences mixing and altering, but I don’t know how to spurn the main character. He wants to be able to die? Ok, but now what?

Is proving itself a difficult knot to untangle

[Anonymous No.12582592]

>>12581046
Don't worry, it isn't

[Anonymous No.12582611]

Novel follows the story of Eneduanna, tall 2 meter + high-priestess of inanna the queen of heaven. She is worshipped as a living godess in her patron city Uruk, and seeks to expand her idolatry to the rest of the river Kingdoms. Her idol must stand in every temple, the other gods crushed. Upon massacring the army of a competing city, she allows a northern mercenary to survive, whom she develops feelings for. She sees men as a resource so the man is tormented, imprisoned, raped (by the 2meter+ gigantess) and eventually drowned in a ritual. In parallel, eneduanna's sister in exile, semiramis, binds and enslaves the desert tribes and makes design on her sister's throne of a fast growing empire. Themes: female supremacy, logical (limited) magic, war, idolatry

[Anonymous No.12582662]

>>12569781
In an alternative history, communications technology and many other key industries happened faster than in real life. In the early 1930's, it stands at the same level as in the present.

The novel follows how differently Nazism and ww2 would unfold in such an environment.
>Joseph Goebbls is the founder of the leading social media site Gesichtbuch
>everyone knows about the holocaust immediately but it would still go on because stopping would stend in the way of immediate war goals and civilians wouldn't do anything more than hashtag activism
>German companies that profit from the holocaust run hypocritical tolerance campaigns
>secret planning impossible, Barbarossa, and Overlord are leaked almost immediately
>much more effective propaganda and whataboutism which makes de-nazification basically impossible because opposing narratives are so far apart and even after the war there is no single narrative

[Anonymous No.12582734]

>>12582662

Alternate history where the holocaust happened?
Neat!

[Anonymous No.12582780]

>>12569884
Imagine if that were a realistic color combination, men and women looked the same and there were no STDs.

[Anonymous No.12582785]

>>12582662
>DAE LIBS ARE JUST AS BAD AS THE ALT-RIGHT?!?!?!

[Anonymous No.12582803]

>>12582785
>Goebbels
>Alt-right

[Anonymous No.12582818]

>>12581454
Harry Potter has an excellent premise for a children's/YA book

[Anonymous No.12582820]

>>12582803
Nice reading comprehension.

[Anonymous No.12582881]

>>12582820
His point had nothing to do with Alt-Right. It was about current mechanisms legitimizing everything.

[Anonymous No.12583178]

I know this is more of a short summary than an idea, but please hear me out.

The setting is a classic DND-esque fantasy world. MC is a human male(still haven't completely set in stone his backstory but he's a disillusioned stoic because of a tragic event that broke him). In said tragic adventure his adventurer party is betrayed and wiped with him being the sole exception after being hired to destroy a cult which was killing people to create an artifact for a dark god.After seeing what had transpired, said god was amused and decided to give the artifact to MC, mostly for the hell of it. Said artifact is a crystal that when put in a liquid will make all who drink it obey it's owner. The God basically wants to see what mc who used to be a stoic would do with such a thing. Some things happen, MC decides that he can't take over a country or something similar in scope because his powerlevel is low, so he decides to look for an isolated village where he could mind control everyone, and no one from outside will find out.If it succeeds he would be set for life, so he decides that's the best he can make of his situation. He chooses as his target a remote elven village he hears about from an elven expatriate. Said village is so isolated that he doesn't even find it on maps so he decides to choose it as his target, and pays said expatriate to take him there under some pretense(like gathering rare herbs or something, still work in progress).

Once there he begins his work, but finds this weird elf girl that had silver hair and amethyst eyes. Thing is, no elf in this world looked like that and he is quite intrigued. What he doesn't find out until later is that she's a very rare specimen of a "Fallen elf", which are the result of a physical relationship between a high elf(superior elf species) and a powerful demon. Fallen elves are considered walking catastrophes and are usually hunted down immediately by all authorities, but because one didn't appear for millennia no one was on guard for a Fallen, with most people including MC not knowing a thing about them, and because villagers hid her, as she was the daughter of a local hero. Her power level is stupidly high, almost Melkor-tier, where the entire world would immediately have to come together to stand a chance against her(which realistically won't happen) if she wished to take it over.

1/2

[Anonymous No.12583186]

She had been completely starved of contact with other people as the villagers merely tolerated but abhorred her, so she almost immediately falls in love with MC when he takes an interest in her. He doesn't care anymore about his initial plan, but the crystal and the villagers will be put to use when he decides to help her, but more on that later. Their relationship is very unhealthy at the beginning because of her excessively submissive personality caused by her finally finding someone who loves her and fearing him going away, but eventually it becomes almost normal. Because she is "whole" now, her natural instincts begin to take over and she has a crushing desire to take over/end the world, and MC decides to tag along and help her because the only person he really cared about at that point is her, and he realizes he doesn't really mind everyone else just dying if their love would continue. I haven't yet decided on an ending, but they will almost certainly be able to achieve her goal. There would be christian and babylonian creation myth symbolism and Sedis(the girl) could be likened to both the Antichrist and Tiamat. Opinions?
2/2

[Anonymous No.12583218]

>>12581734
Eh seems limited but I'd probs give it a read, would be interesting nonetheless

>>12581228
I agree, write it but publish under pseudonym

[Anonymous No.12583393]

>>12569781
I just made a character relationship map. I'll only post it if someone wants me to.

[Anonymous No.12583420]

>>12583393
post

[Anonymous No.12583423]

>>12583420
lol no

[Anonymous No.12583467]

how is kafka so good?

[Anonymous No.12583481]

>>12574705
based?

[Anonymous No.12583528]

man who works as a vice manager at a sub branch of abanana company who desires love let cannot love, who desires freedom let does not know what it is and..

[Anonymous No.12583724]

Set one hundred years in the future, ten years after America comes to its senses about giving prepubescent boys hormone blockers. This practice was outlawed.
Now a nihlistic, angry, dickless tranny adult is furious at society for allowing him to be manipulated and mutilated during his youth. He's been poisoning the water supply for years with manufactured estrogen, but he starts to serially castrate people on the side and this gets the law after him.

[Anonymous No.12583825]

>>12569781
I want to kiss that sweetheart little piggy on his nosey and forehead so badly.

[Anonymous No.12583864]

>>12569792
Fantasy then?

[Anonymous No.12583902]

>>12581734
anyone else got any feedback for this limited premise, don't wanna give too much away

[Anonymous No.12583915]

stephen king pastiche that is a commentary on obesity.
Whole world is infected with a virus that makes people get thinner and thinner until they die.
Specific types of fat people have a gene that makes them immune.

[Anonymous No.12583942]

>>12582662
I have had a similar idea to this, but it was more of a day dream or thought experiment. Also instead of bringing future tech to the past. In my idea technology fails to evolve past the 19th century.
So the 20th century is still agrarian farmers and cowboys tier.
Except also with hitler, stalin, FDR, and others.

So basically, what if there were no tanks, radios, tvs, cars, and other things that exploded into reality in the 20th century

[Anonymous No.12584023]

>>12583902

Let me tell you my experience with prostitutes life stories. Most of them, I would say 90% (and I spend a lot of money with girls, but not on the US) have a similar life story:

>They come from religious homes where their parents are mostly ignorant: going to church is what matters, and praying, but when it comes to follow the rigorous discipline of the commandments things get more complicated. Generally the father is always going to bars to drink or absent from house chasing skirts.

>Since their fathers are ignorant and sometimes violent, and since their houses are mostly small and crowded, those girls cant wait to get an opportunity to get out.

>The opportunity comes when they meet their first boyfriend. They end up having unprotected sex and get pregnant, even at early ages as 13-14 (remember that the parents are ignorant and religious, so they never mention anything about how babies are conceived: the girls have some ideas about sex, but mostly nebulous things).

>The young couple move to a house to live as a family.

>The guy turns out to be an asswhole – whores around, drinks, sometimes beats his young wife - and the marriage falls apart. The guy moves out but needs to pay a pension to sustain the child. A lot of those guys don’t pay the pension, and so the mother doesn’t have enough money to sustain herself and the child.

>They work on factories and other jobs, but the wages are to low. Meanwhile the Law takes time to hunt the father down and force the guy to pay the pension.

>The answer that many women in that situation find to be able to sustain themselves and earn more money in order to start having dreams and plan a future is to turn to prostitution.

>The most beautiful of them sometimes become so successful that they even pay for houses to their parents.

>Since whorehouses are also places that sell drugs it’s typical from the owners to try to get the girls addicted to cocaine and make they spend their work money on drugs, thus using them in two different ways.

[Anonymous No.12584066]

>>12584023
are you saying keep away from that or embrace it? Because my story is quite dissimilar to the one you described

[Anonymous No.12584103]

>>12584066

That’s the main patter I witnessed, but there are all sorts of things.

Some stories are quite unique. This girl, for example, with an extremely high IQ that became a prostitute (she even recited equations during the sexual act):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3636101/Sufiah-Yusof-child-genius-revealed-as-prostitute.html

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150413-the-downsides-of-being-clever

Another pattern that happened a lot was that of girls who had a good middle class upbringing but wanted to go to an expensive University and buy nice clothes and apartments and etc. Those were those kinds of girls who were extremely beautiful, or that possesses a charismatic aura, so they knew that they could always get costumers that would pay a lot of money for a few hours with them,

[Anonymous No.12584233]

>>12570340
Believe it or not I had the exact same idea for years... (But in a SF setting)
That personally I took from the Planescape Torment scenario
Guess I've got to find another plot/hero

[Anonymous No.12584248]

>>12584233
Basically Gilgamesh reversed

[Anonymous No.12584465]

>>12581473
Literally punpun minus the wanting to become full animal.

[Anonymous No.12585116]

>>12575452
These work better as paragraphs than novels

[Anonymous No.12585245]

>>12583178
>>12583186
Is my idea for a light novel that bad? I know everything dnd and tolkien-esque fantasy has been done to death at this point but depending on how it's done it still has potential

[Anonymous No.12585259]

>>12583178
>>12583186
Is my idea for a light novel that bad? I know everything dnd and tolkien-esque fantasy has been done to death at this point but depending on how it's done it still has potential.

[Anonymous No.12585382]

>>12585259
I like it but it hits all the right notes for me as a person who frequents /tg/. You could try /ssfg/ or even /tg/ for reviews with critical input or world building discussions.

[Anonymous No.12585693]

Has his already been done if so please recommend the book/short story/manga whatever

[Anonymous No.12586252]

>>12585693
Why sodomizing ?

[Anonymous No.12586295]

Wild pack of 4 armed maniacs try stealing the Power Orb to defeat the evil dire rat Gazamax The Wicked.

[Anonymous No.12586336]

>>12586252
to emphasize the extremity of jealousy and how it causes twisted fantasies

[Anonymous No.12586598]

>>12585693
>>12586336
sounds retarded but hot

[Anonymous No.12586945]

>>12585693
bad idea. If you are setting this up to be some kind of serial killer book then it may work but otherwise no

[Anonymous No.12587366]

>>12586945
How can you imagine every possible way that this vague concept could be executed? Clearly you've done so in saying it is a "bad idea". A serial killer book? Like a mystery/detective novel to appeal to know it all retards such as yourself? Bite me

[Anonymous No.12587552]

Asexual reproduction is perfected. Faggots now rule and women have no place in society. So the women, straight couples are outcasts.
It will contain chapters from pov of one person in each of the three sections of society.

[Anonymous No.12587592]

>>12587366
uh because the premise is actually dogshit. Killing themselves at the end is a cop out for any writer and if he had gotten to the point of murdering someone, and the fantasies would cause him to question the point of it, the entirety of his psyche would have been twisted by the single idea of doing the act. By performing the act, the protag would, most likely want to do it again in the search to create art, be inspired or what have you.
This all comes down to his narcissism. If he is jealous, that is foremost about his insecurities about not being good enough and most artists are narcissistic anyway so therefore his jealousy would amply this feeling of wanting to be the best.
The concept of the serial killer wouldnt be a mystery novel you fucking bum. There are many types of ways to write about a serial killer and it doesnt have to be about catching or killing or chasing him. You could write from the perspective of his psyche replicated into every being with only fragments of the world to show him becoming more disillusioned.

[Anonymous No.12588402]

A collection of short stories exploring different aspects and interpretations of "sacrifice". Tone is gray and bittersweet.

[Anonymous No.12588411]

>>12578754
Orlando from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. His/her life ultimately ends up just being fighting in wars, having sex, and thinking of past events that are similar to whatever's going on currently

[Anonymous No.12588585]

>>12586336
If the prodigy is a cute girl and you go into detail with that stuff I'd read it.

[Anonymous No.12588898]

>>12588411

Created by Alan Moore, isn't it?

Certainly he based the Orlando character on Virginia Woolf's novel.

I was reading the biography of the character- from the comic book series - , and the curious thing is that he made the same association I had made with Tiresias (in my eyes one of the most extraordinary figures in Greek mythology): he and I thought the same thing independently.

Thanks for the recommendation.

[Anonymous No.12588984]

>>12577281
Very interesting.

[Anonymous No.12589022]

>>12569781
Not really a novel idea, just idea for a story element.

In every fantasy ever the undead make no sense. They always live in in spooky fortresses, rasing the dead as mindless zombies and skeletons and try to take over the world. Their end goal seems to be to turn everyone into mindless zombies and skeletons and live in decaying necropolises where they are the only sentient living person. But... why? Who would want to live like that forever? I get that people want to make themselves immortal so they turn to necromancy but why would you want to prolong your life if you actually want to destroy everything that makes living enjoyable?

So my idea for the undead is this: people, as always, are afraid to die and want to prolong their lives and there is a kind of magic that can do it - you can continue living as sentient beings, although you lose some of your humanity. Some people start to offer this magic to people, which many others see as blasphemy. This eventually leads to a split in society and some part of the land get taken over by the undead/necromancers.

Their settlements grow quickly because people seldom die but there are always new people coming in. The average citizen moves in, lives life as normal human for some decades, has kids etc. and when they start to age they request the undead treatment and get turned immortal. This also means that they have to expand to be able to sustain this growing population. Also their societies would be very life affirming and somewhat materialistic/hedonistic while normal humans would be more inclined to religion.

[Anonymous No.12589078]

>>12569781

A heap of gun-lovers from around the world wake up inside an underground complex with all the weapons they could ever want one morning. After some confusion and firefights, they decided to call for a truce and search the building and the outside area, only to discover they have been whisked away to another world, full of strange and (sometimes) magical things. They go power crazy and pick fights with the locals, only to find that they too were from another world entirely.

I planned on a comedic action story with lots of dumb moments, stereotypical fantasy races and some underlying gun-cult mania.

Plenty of ideas, no time to put into words.

[Anonymous No.12589118]

>>12578608
Can you shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.12589965]

>>12570738
I'll steal this idea and make a game for tumblr furries out of it

[Anonymous No.12590016]

A person unable to contribute much to society because of his dissociative disorder helps in the only way he knows-killing people who want to die or are a blight on society. He is eventually caught and accepts the death pemalty as a fair consequence of his actions.

[Anonymous No.12590220]

>>12588898
It isn't Shakespeare of course, but maybe it can get the ol' crank turning

[Anonymous No.12590304]

>>12569781
A wannabe knight in shining armor, His less
-than-upstanding overprotective brother, a military pencil pusher tuned mercenary, and a drug addicted alchemist become hero’s with varying levels of enthusiasm

>inb4 genre fiction
I know and I don’t care, I just want to tell a fun story

[Anonymous No.12590678]

>>12569781
I recently had a dream about a group of minor Greek gods who went on an oddysey but angered Zeus, and were subsequently made mortal and cast down from Olympus upon their return. They're dropped in late 20th century America and decide to journey to back to Mount Olympus, in order to somehow appease Zeus and get their immortality back. All the while they have to come to terms with their new frail, weak and vulnerable bodies.
I want to eventually make a Homeric style epic of it.

[Anonymous No.12592378]

bump

[Anonymous No.12592509]

>>12570762

[Anonymous No.12592598]

>>12578645
>all mine involve you and a edgy manipulator guy
But seriously, I have been studying gratitude and it has had tremendous effects on my focus.

[Anonymous No.12592980]

>>12577281
This is a lulzy idea, but instead of negotiating the strikers should just die and go to hell. God doesn't negotiate with spiritual terrorists.

[Anonymous No.12593209]

A gold digging thot looks for an old, feeble rich man to marry before he dies and leaves her his fortune. She married the perfect one but finds out he is a vampire and can't die when she tries to kill him early. He reveals he just wanted a source of young blood to use up and didn't really care about her either. They both think this is funny and become genuine friends and have spooky adventures together.

[Anonymous No.12594224]

My book is about a weirdo German teacher who lusts after his students and narrates his vacation travels. (He never has sex)

>>12581228
>writing a book that ends with a school shooting
>mfw also planning on becoming a teacher

[Anonymous No.12594557]

Its important for characters to have a motivation right? I'm trying to write a long dark fantasy adventure, is it acceptable for one of the main characters to not really have a purpose until later on?