ITT: Novel Ideas

[Anonymous No.17666926]

It's not like they're going anywhere.
>A married Japanese woman ignored by her husband starts a sordid affair with the white foreigner renting the apartment next doors to hers and gets pregnant is plans on keeping the child and raising it.

Planning on writing it in epistolary

[Anonymous No.17667606]

>>17666926
OP are these your personal fantasies?

[Anonymous No.17667629]

I have one really good idea which I actually don’t want to write but nonetheless don’t want to share because I think it’s a really good idea.

[Anonymous No.17667753]

>>17667629
No one is stealing your shitty idea, anon.

[Anonymous No.17667909]

>>17667753
Obviously, they’re not. I haven’t told anyone about it yet.

[Anonymous No.17668128]

>>17666926

A lonely professor (M) meets up with his highschool sweetheart (J). Having spent nearly two decades apart the two rekindle their relationship, and during a brief holiday together, they decide to elope. Not long after, however, J begins to exhibit strange behavior and bouts of fatigue and M begins to have doubts about their marriage. J's mental and physical health both deteriorate quickly due to an un-diagnosable illness which - on bad days - leaves J too feeble to walk. M struggles to manage his work load and his stricken wife's faltering health, slipping slowly in a depression fueled by conflicting thoughts of regret and duty. M's inner turmoil compounds when one of his young male students offers to buy him a drink, and a burgeoning relationship throws even his own sexuality into question.
Basically examining themes of duty and commitment by torturing this poor lonely professor with twink ass. And the inner conflict explored would be whether or not M is actually a repressed gay man, or if his marriage is just so desperate that he would try anything and think anything about himself just to save himself from the moral scrutiny of divorcing his sick wife.

[Anonymous No.17668171]

>>17667909
based
>>17667753
cringe

[Anonymous No.17668187]

>>17668171

are you stupid

Health, romance, duty and commitment with some homo vibes on there

new york times best seller list and normie loser soys would eat this shit up

[Anonymous No.17668731]

I had an idea for a fantasy setting where the sky is a purple swirling thing, what looks like an eye is the sun, and the civilized world exists inside the open maw of a giant wormlike beast. The various inhabitants of this world live in cities carved in the worms teeth, under it's tongue, etc, and outsiders travel into the mouth from other parts of the worm the "city" dwellers don't know about. The people in the cities, since each tooth is basically a separate city state and there are vast tracts of "land" between the teeth, aren't sure what the sun/eye thing is exactly. Some think it's the eye of a god looking into their world, others think it's just some kind of inanimate magical object like a sun, without feeling or will. The most radical sects believe it is a portal that leads to another world. The worm's life cycle is so slow and long that nobody for the entire history of their world can remember a time when the worm moved or ate or breathed. Essentially the worm is so massive as to be near infinite to the population that inhabits it. I hadn't decided what kind of beings live there, or even exactly what their cultures might be like. I just had a vision one day of a giant worm in this hellish dimension with its mouth wide open and a society in the worms mouth and I think the phrase and faith no more song title "as the worm turns" stuck in my head even though it has nothing to do with the concept.

[Anonymous No.17669889]

It follows the protagonist going about her everyday life normally, however, she slowly starts to become aware of the reader. She thinks you are a stalker at first and confides in her friends and family but they think she is crazy as they are not aware of you. Eventually, she is shunned by them. As the story progresses it becomes an unrequited love story between the reader and the protag and you are all she has left. After some time she can feel the end of the book approaching and tells you that although she will forget you, she hopes you will always remember her. She asks that you one day read her story one more time so that she can fall in love with you all over again.

[Anonymous No.17669909]

A boy falls in love with a girl.
Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.
But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.
Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.

[Anonymous No.17669981]

>>17669909
Wasn't this turned into an anime movie?

[Anonymous No.17670625]

>>17668187
>new york times best seller list
Such a meme.

[Anonymous No.17671824]

>>17669909
I would unironically read that. At first, I thought it was a Your Name/that one webtoon with the ghost boy and girl ripoff, but the unique twist makes it better.

>>17669889
Seems familiar, I wouldn't be surprised if this exact plot was already done somewhere.

>>17668128
based faggot

[Anonymous No.17671919]

>>17666926
A girl goes to a party somewhen in the 1920s with her fiance. As story progresses weird things start to happen and reality gradually loses coherence, until the place looks like some nightmarish backrooms. It is revealed that she's in fact a memory of a dying person. A man appears. He tells her it's time to go. They leave the building and walk into the darkness.

[Anonymous No.17671980]

>>17666926
Do it anon. Looks like some shit Mori Ōgai would write.

[Anonymous No.17672015]

>>17666926
I like it. I hope you're able to write people well; otherwise it would just be fapbait and that's no fun.

[Anonymous No.17672019]

>>17671824
>I would unironically read that. At first, I thought it was a Your Name/that one webtoon with the ghost boy and girl ripoff, but the unique twist makes it better.
Anon, I...

[Anonymous No.17672036]

>>17672019
Don't start with that. Everyone's got guilty pleasures.

[Anonymous No.17672088]

>>17672036
>he doesn't know...

[Anonymous No.17672422]

>>17669889
First half of this is The Comforters by Spark

[Anonymous No.17672686]

>>17672088
... w-what is it that I don't know?

[Anonymous No.17672880]

>>17672422
I don’t know what that is nor do I want to know.

[Anonymous No.17672911]

>>17666926
I'm working on a story where a small village protagonist goes on an adventure to find a cure for his little brother after a vodnik told him he would find it in a faraway mountain. The village has a lot of people who were impacted by a war that happened years ago and just as the adventure begins so too does another war start between kingdoms. Over the course of the story, the village maestros get together to build a DIY aircraft to go and bring the protagonist back.

The protagonist takes obedience and discipline after his father (died from last war) and resolves to find a cure at all costs.
His mother is a wild beast that tries stopping him from leaving and even fights off officials as they come to conscript him. She ends up flying the aircraft to save him.
The old officer was his father's best friend and promised his wife he would never leave but this time flies the aircraft with the protagonist's mother to make up for not having come back with his best friend in the last war. (he never returns)
There are a lot of other characters whose stories are part of a greater conflict but i'm still working on it.

[Anonymous No.17673360]

>>17666926

Main character is immortal and is constantly going on talk shows because his immortality is well known and a huge tourism draw for whatever country he is staying in because people want to catch a glimpse of him. He's also pumping out new biographies every month due to having lived so long that are constantly changing or rewriting history or religion which makes him not favourable in certain people's eyes. His story ends with him discovering he has graying hair and is slowly aging, growing concerned over his future.

[Anonymous No.17673436]

A Spanish loony and early follower of Freud's ideas visits Trabzon during the last years of the ottoman empire in order to inspect its psychoanalytic significance in Don Quixote (yes Freudian analysis of literature came later but fuck you) and its residents who were still distant from Western influence
His misadventures with the people there are the gist of the story

[Anonymous No.17674534]

>>17672686
It's an anime.

[Anonymous No.17674866]

>>17672686

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17674906]

>>17674866
What’s this meme implying? AI is reproducing?

[Anonymous No.17674992]

>>17666926
A body horror in which a man believes he is inside the wrong body and is in fact a rat. He begins adopting the rat lifestyle walking on all fours, digging in dumpsters, rolling around in his own piss and shit, wearing a fake tail and ears, and becoming extremely obese by stealing all of his girlfriends food. He makes his gf, friends, and family only refer to as being a rat. Anyone that appears disgusted by this lifestyle is first shown as being ratophobic in the media, and then shunned by mainstream society. The protagonist undergoes a dangerous surgery wherein he has real rat fur grafted onto his skin, he acquires whiskers from his ass hair being grafted onto his cheeks, has his ears clipped to look like a rat, and acquires a tale from various skin and bones from cadavers being grafted and attached to his backside. The novel ends with the protagonist happily remarking that everyone in society is more and more is transforming into a rat and all of those who try to resist are cast out of mainstream society and portrayed as villains, declaring that love and acceptance will win out.

[Anonymous No.17675077]

>>17674992
Very kafkaesque

[Endymion No.17675163]

I've been working on this one for a few years anons
Basically a parody of college greek life set in Ancient Greece
Has plenty of references to greek myth and philosophy
Deals with person vs. persona, youthful dissonance, nihilism and self-destruction, the constant feeling that your "youth" is the only thing that matters
Ultimate answer is of course honest love in the face of "putting on a mask and pretending you love something"

Its stupid I know but I thought I should start my writing career with the Greeks since that is how I started my reading one as a child.

[Anonymous No.17675294]

>>17668731
Cool idea Anon.

[Anonymous No.17675388]

In the near future, a giant asteroid is on a collision course with the Earth. Most of humanity focuses on trying to stop it, but there are other, small plans.
One involves sending a ship with lots of frozen embroys to a distant exoplanet that has a human-friendly atmoshpere. The ship is operated by the friendliest AI that existed on Earth.
Two decades before arriving, it unfreezes eight embryos so they could make help with with colonising the planet and raising the rest.
Growing up while having virtual access to all of human culture, they realize that this unique situation made them completely different from the rest of humanity. One half (including the girl protagonist) accepts it, while the other (with her boyfriend) considers it a failure.
Tensions rise and finally the second half temporatily cuts off AI from a part of the ship and destroys a machine keeping the embryos frozen. A fight ensues. AI recovers control and releases a sleeping gas, but it's too late.
Our protagonist falls asleep with her dead boyfriend in her arms, her last thoughts being that she and the AI are the last two alive and that her boyfriend was right.

[Anonymous No.17675666]

>>17674906
Jesus do I really need to spell it out for you knuckleheads, a quick google search of the copypasta will answer.

[ΔΛΔ No.17675687]

>>17675163
sounds cute g

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17675741]

>>17675666
>a quick google search
Nice try, satan

[Anonymous No.17675917]

>>17670625
A money making meme. i'm not writing for my heath

[Anonymous No.17676057]

>>17666926
Nevada's drainage system is occupied by not only the dregs of society but is also used in the transportation of illegal immigrants out of Mexico.

Once or twice a year, massive storms come and clear out everything that one existed within the drainage system.

It's called 'Th e Wash' and apparently only people from Nevada know about it.

[Anonymous No.17676076]

>>17675741
Do you use the same trip on [s4s]?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17676090]

>>17676076
Haven’t been there since before the chan/nel split... but The yellow boards wipe the name off even before.
It used to be cute, but it’s trash now

[Anonymous No.17677427]

>>17676057
Seems cool.

[Anonymous No.17677436]

>>17668731
some c0da sounding shit

[Anonymous No.17677506]

A collection of essays centered around "The Times". The essays detail a multitude of subjects from organization, jews, learning a language, and lifestyle.

[Anonymous No.17678840]

>>17677506
Sounds boring

[Anonymous No.17679156]

>>17678840
not everything has to be interesting

[Anonymous No.17679363]

>>17679156
Does if it wants to be not boring

[Anonymous No.17679606]

>>17679363
boring is good.

[Anonymous No.17679917]

>>17666926
I just came up with this now and I'm unsure which way to go. Years back lobotomies were seen as miracle cures for certain mental illnesses:
>reference to Rosemary Kennedy's lobotomy
>woman keeping journal who suffers from seizures
>historical setting
>her father hears about how lobotomies can cure seizures
>story follows her leading up to her surgery
>final entry is gibberish
or
>story about an insane asylums patient in the same time period
>one of his few privilege is being allowed to have a journal and a pencil
>story just follows his life there and the happens of the asylum and his afflicted thoughts
>his mental illness gets worse and they schedule a lobotomy
>final chapter is gibberish
I think the former would work better as a short story where as the latter would work better as a novel. I think an asylum setting would be interesting and I having the last entry be gibberish or clearly display the cognitive decline would be fun.

[Anonymous No.17679927]

>>17669981
it's a copypasta

[Anonymous No.17680032]

>>17679606
Sneed

[Anonymous No.17680473]

Young detective begins hunting a serial arsonist who specifically burns down endangered plant life. The detective is good at figuring shit out but awful in the field, and his superiors do not believe him so he gets his ass kicked for a long time. This is because the serial arsonist is the son of a serial killer who is a massively successful politician who has already been the president of the United States for two terms. Detective man has to decide if this is even worth trying to get involved in and whether he even cares about the serial arsonist son in the face of a serial killer.

[Anonymous No.17680672]

>>17669909
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[Anonymous No.17682014]

>>17679917
Try writing both.