/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13100203]

>tfw i'm finally a good writer and the completion of my first novel is in sight

we're all gonna make it bros

[Anonymous No.13100211]

>>13100203
How old are you, how many books/short stories/material have you written?

[Anonymous No.13100226]

>>13100203
Good luck anon. Hope you get published and I hope your judgement of yourself is accurate so that I can be happy to browse this board.

[Anonymous No.13100897]

gibs me a sample

[Anonymous No.13101505]

>>13100897
It happened during a road rage incident nearly 70 years ago. At that point I was already well into my late 600’s. A teenage girl, texting while driving, veered into my lane which, in turn, pushed me into another vehicle resulting in a mild fender bender between the three of us.

Once over in the shoulder, things became heated between the three of us. I’ll admit that I lost my temper and, under normal circumstances, a slammed fist on the hood of a car by someone seemingly in their mid-30’s wouldn’t amount to much. That momentary lapse in judgement, however, left the girl’s car nearly severed in half. It was during the chaos immediately following the destruction that I made my escape. For so long, I believed that I could maintain appearances, but that day, the denial of my situation had been destroyed and I knew it was no longer safe to around others.

I heard on the news sometime later that there was a nationwide manhunt for me. Traffic cams and cell phone camera-wielding pedestrians captured the entire thing and shortly thereafter I went viral online. I imagine that after 70 years though that the world has entirely forgotten about me. That’s all I can do, is imagine, because since then I’ve been living off the grid in a remote cabin deep in the mountains surrounded by nothing and no one.

Yesterday, I went out to check a few of the traps I had set a few days back. I have walked these woods for nearly a century now. I know where every tree, every branch, every rock rests and yet...I tripped. In a feeble attempt to find my footing, I reached out and braced myself against a tree. This tree, which over the course of many years managed to grow four stories tall and ten feet wide, snapped apart with the speed and force of a lightning strike.

Picking myself up from among the splintered debris, I saw what I had tripped on. It was an electrical cable. I grabbed it end over end until I traced it back to a small conduit box at the base of an adjacent tree. The box was a battery pack with another cable leading up the tree. I followed the cord up to see it was attached to a camera, which itself was connected to a wireless relay. Despite the delicate flick of my wrist, the cable I was holding ripped the camera mount off the tree with violent determination. One side of the device was labeled “National Parks Conservation Survey”. The other side displayed only one feature, a small red LED light.

As I packed up my things back at the cabin, I couldn’t help but laugh at the fact that I yet again had to start over all because somebody was worried about a decline in bird migrations. My smile abruptly melted at the distance sound of an approaching helicopter.

[Anonymous No.13101570]

>>13101505
>At that point I was already well into my late 600’s.
600s, not 600's.

[Anonymous No.13101606]

>>13101570
I'm sorry? Do you have a publisher!

[Anonymous No.13101609]

>>13101606

I'm sorry! Do you have a publisher?*

[Anonymous No.13101616]

>>13101606
I don't need to in order to point out a minor grammatical error that you may have glossed over. Apostrophes are used for defining a literal or otherwise metaphorical or non-literal possession of something, not for defining multiples of something. Also, "six hundreds" would probably work even better, now that I think about it.

>>13101609
based

[Anonymous No.13101618]

>>13101505
Cool

[Anonymous No.13101695]

>>13101616
Thanks for the advice pal. Will be sure to remind me of it when I'm fucking groupies and my book is a successful Disney+ show

[Anonymous No.13101735]

>>13101695
remind myself**

[Anonymous No.13101758]

>>13101505
So what's it about?

[Anonymous No.13101820]

>>13101758
It's about the herculean task of an immortal and their struggle to keep their power level hidden in a world that's increasingly becoming strong and envious of the haves

[Anonymous No.13101855]

>>13100203
ebin thread