/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21016200]

Has /lit/ produced any writers? Are any of you writing a book right now? If so, what is it about?

[Anonymous No.21016210]

>>21016200
>Are any of you writing a book right now
yes
>what is it about?
a man who falls in love with a vampire

[Anonymous No.21016247]

>>21016200
I'm writing about my experience working for the worst shared house in Japan: drug dealers, murder attempts, car accidents, people chocking to death on their breakfast and the worst, craziest, dirtiest, weirdest boss. I had to give vent to the frustration and anger that I piled up within me, my boss was my bane and dealing with the worst people in Japan almost fucked me up.

[Anonymous No.21016257]

>>21016200
Non fiction book, kind of short book about metaphysical political stuff

[Anonymous No.21016262]

The rest of everything I've written is mostly articles and essays

[Anonymous No.21016265]

>>21016200
I'm writing a novel with a lot of dialogue. It's philosophical and deep. Any publishers still publishing that kind of work?

[Anonymous No.21016284]

>>21016200
I do, it's shity western with slavic flavor.

[Anonymous No.21016285]

>>21016265
whats it about

[Anonymous No.21016288]

>>21016247
howd you end up in that situation? are you a jap?

[Anonymous No.21016331]

>>21016285
Can't give it away, it's really good.

[Anonymous No.21016334]

>>21016288
I'm from Argentina. Back in January of 2017 I met my now former boss, I spent a month in one of her shared houses and she asked me if I wanted to work for her. Well, long story short, I accepted, my vacations ended, a few months later I went back to Japan, same story, and I did it a third time. By the time I moved to Japan, I was officially hired. I got used to her excentric personally, but being a couple of hours a day, for a few weeks a year with her didn't prepare me to be from 9 to 5, six days a week, with someone so self-centered, childish and unpredictable. I also had to start to deal with our guests, and we were housing the worst of the worst. A drug dealer from Kyushu, we had no idea he was on the run until ten cops showed up and dragged him out of his room. A travesty. Several mentally unstable people. The worst old japanese men I've met, one of them tried to stab an american in Nakaitabashi and another chocked an argentinian woman in Nippori. A couple of foreigners that we're selling drugs. The weirdest muslims, one was doing so kind of muslim witchcraft with salt and another was a shady money lender. Anyhow, it's a very long and bizarre story.

[Anonymous No.21016348]

>>21016334
>travesty
Sorry, that's a local idiom, I was thinking in spanish when I typed it. What would you call a man who dresses as a woman? Crossdresser?

[Anonymous No.21016773]

>>21016348
Travestite, trans, tranny if you dont like them.
How far have you gotten with the manuscript?

[Anonymous No.21016781]

>>21016348
>What would you call a man who dresses as a woman? Crossdresser?
New Bruce.

Are you new here cunt?

[Anonymous No.21016805]

>>21016200
Writing magical fantasy drama. It's basically my love letter to fantasy and fairytales.

[Anonymous No.21016808]

>>21016200
I've written two books that didn't get published and now I'm writing a third one.
It starts in the year 1992 as a hippie girl receives a radio signal claiming to be from the future and in need of assitance from someone in the past to avert a massive disaster that will destroy human society.
My goal is to write one novel every year until I turn 37 and then if none of them have been published I'll commit suicide.

[Anonymous No.21016832]

>Has /lit/ produced any writers?
Yes, including some decent ones (not me).
>Are any of you writing a book right now?
Personally? Kind of, I write short stories and novellas in my free time.
>If so, what is it about?
Latest is a period piece mystery set in the Indiana-Jones era of rugged anthropology.

[Anonymous No.21016837]

>>21016348
In English the modern transgender movement has forced us to change our language. If they want to identify as the other gender, it's transgender (transsexual is no longer kosher). If they don't and just dress that way, it is transvestite or cross-dresser, second is probably less likely to hurt you socially.

[Anonymous No.21016914]

>>21016773
>How far have you gotten with the manuscript?
Almost 15000 words.

[Anonymous No.21017040]

>>21016832

>Yes, including some decent ones (not me).

Who?

[Anonymous No.21017045]

>>21017040
Kolsti was decent for a hapa retard.

[Anonymous No.21017059]

>>21016331
I doubt that.

[Anonymous No.21017066]

>>21016808
How many years out is that? Sounds PKDesque, both that synopsis and your suicidal plan. Have you thought about writing something semiautobiographical about a writer in your situation, who is planning to kill themselves if they don't get published in x number of years?

[Anonymous No.21017068]

>>21017045
who?

[Anonymous No.21017072]

>>21017066
>How many years out is that?
8 years, so that's 8 more books.
>Have you thought about writing something semiautobiographical about a writer in your situation, who is planning to kill themselves if they don't get published in x number of years?
My first book was autobiographical and done really as an exercise to see if I could finish a novel-length text, not really interested in that level of navel-gazing again though. My circumstances are not that interesting.

[Anonymous No.21017078]

Yes, I'm wrote one (non-fiction), currently finalizing it and in a month I will publish it.

The description I wrote for it:

On its pages, you will find about witch trials, psychedelics and their surrounding taboos, secret government programmes like the MKUltra, meditative techniques and reality perceptions as well as an examination of our current state of being.

What the monetary system and work culture of today holds for the human soul, how we got to this point and what cryptography and the power of free thinking can do for us.

Ultimately, we will look at concepts such as time and marvel at the beuty of reality with all its separate, yet connected features and stare into the swriling fractal just a bit too long.

[Anonymous No.21017082]

>>21016331
Don’t listen to that other guy anon, keep up the good work

[Anonymous No.21017088]

>>21017082
I don't doubt it to disparage or discourage him, I doubt that a twenty word synopsis is so good that he can't share it with us.

[Anonymous No.21017089]

>>21016808
>one novel per year
hardly any writer had such a pace. I'd be happy if with a good novel every three years or so.

[Anonymous No.21017092]

>>21017089
Books don't need to be good. Stephen King churns out multiple turds every year.

[Anonymous No.21017098]

>>21016247
>>21016334
Doesn't surprise me at all that such a mint condition society on the surface has an underbelly of pure hell.

[Anonymous No.21017103]

Not really a writer, but I made some ebooks.
I'm writing a novella about a unemployed college dropout who lives with his successful girlfriend and starts to investigate without clues or skills the vanishing of a relative in the hinterland of my shithole country.
Its suppose to be a mix of Walser and Saer. I write to myself, it won't be published.

[Anonymous No.21017136]

>>21017098
highest suicide rate and rapidly aging population

[Anonymous No.21017139]

>>21017092
Hey, he writes something good on occasion.

[Anonymous No.21017143]

>>21017139
I liked Needful Things

[Anonymous No.21017146]

>>21017103
Sounds like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle without squinty eyes, but enjoyable nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.21017160]

>>21016257
>Political
NGMI

[Anonymous No.21017328]

>>21017098
The foreigners were weird, but the japanese were genuine assholes. One of them was going to move out of his room, and when my coworker saw the room she couldn't believe it, she even took some pictures, it was overflowing with trash, you couldn't even see the floor. She told him to clean it or he was not going to get his deposit back. Instead of cleaning the room by himself, he hired someone, this person left a gazillion trash balls in the kitchen, and when my coworker told him that he wasn't getting his money back, he cornered her, threatened her and said he was going to call the police. She simply said "go ahead".
Another guy, from some godforsaken prefecture, wanted to see one of our shared houses, and when my coworker, who can speak japanese fluently, told him she didn't quite understand what he was saying because he was speaking in a very different dialect, he made fun of her and criticized her for not understanding his obscure dialect.
Many didn't tolerate foreigners, ironically they were living among them.
Countless japs would simply run away without paying their debs and leave all their belongings behind. It was a very common practice, they don't pay the rent, they banish and leave all their shit in our hands.
And the fucking landsharks! Real, genuine companies would resort to yakuza tier methods to kick my boss out of some of her houses because they wanted to buy the land. I've seen guys walking around the properties, taking pictures of us, of our things.

[Anonymous No.21017345]

[Anonymous No.21017356]

>>21016348
>What would you call a man who dresses as a woman?
Transvestite

[Anonymous No.21017369]

>>21017328
The landsharks are yakuza. White collar crime and black companies are their bread and butter these days.

[Anonymous No.21017610]

I've written two novels in the last two years and posted them online. Not the type of literature this board talks about though.

[Anonymous No.21017707]

>>21016334
I'd read it

[Anonymous No.21017851]

>>21016334
Basadisimo. I'd read it, whether you write your book in English or Spanish.

[Anonymous No.21017863]

>>21016200
Eggplant anon

[Anonymous No.21017995]

>>21016334
>>21017328
This sounds incredible, godspeed with that book anon.

[Anonymous No.21018009]

>>21016200
>Has /lit/ produced any writers?
You should already know the answer is no

[Anonymous No.21018015]

I'm trying to but I'm awful at thinking of ideas. Does anybody here have any short story ideas?

[Anonymous No.21018035]

>>21018015
Short story writer can't think of any ideas for a short story.

[Anonymous No.21018044]

>>21016200
Im writing a book about my degenerate friends in north Alabama. It centers around four of them and their drug use and relationship with their parents. The main character gets saved and gets sober. The second ends up in prison. The third becomes a junkie and overdoses. The fourth travels to Portland and causes a smelting accident that triggers mount saint helen to explode. It’s also based in 2014 (needless to say is almost ten years ago)

[Anonymous No.21018045]

>>21018015
>>/lit/?task=search2&ghost=yes&search_text=short+story+going+anywhere&search_op=op

[Anonymous No.21018047]

>>21018044
Wish you luck. Of the many ideas here this did at least seem interesting.

[Anonymous No.21018070]

>>21016200
A post-Singularity story. It is about being in the mind of a self improving being. I wrote a few stories on the same subject in 2014, but compared to then, I figured out the AI safety problem thought it kind of involves sacrificing ordinary humans.

I messed up a few things. I didn't think that the difference between the third and the first person writing would be so pronounced. I also messed up the setting, it turns out the only game that scales with powers is fighting. In the next arc I'll keep the betting aspects of the game, but get rid of public spaces which should fix it.

I had a bunch of good scenes in mind and they are all wrecked. They would have worked had I been writing in the same style as 2014, but not the one I am using now.

[Anonymous No.21018086]

>>21017089
Some novels are very short and don’t have much there. I could imagine turning those out easily enough

[Anonymous No.21018107]

>>21018035
This meta shit is fucking gay and awful. You're not the first person to recommend this to me on this board.
>>21018045
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.21018353]

>>21018107
>This meta shit is fucking gay and awful
Not as gay or awful as not writing my guy, if it gets you started it might spin into something interesting, then you can strip away the gay and awful and see what's left.

[Anonymous No.21018667]

>>21016200
I'm writing a meso-american and pre-colombian inspired epic fantasy. The plot is based around the sixth world reformed by the gods after a calamity, and the fate of the new sun.
I'm pretty confident about its appeal and overall potential, the only thing that might be an issue is the fact that I am not mexican; Is that a deal-breaker?

>>21016805
I wish you great luck!

[Anonymous No.21019080]

>>21016200
I'm an actively publishing writer. Haven't cracked into The Paris Review, Ploughshares, etc. tier, but my stories and stuff have been in credible lit mags just south of those peaks.

[Anonymous No.21019100]

>>21018667
Some south american dude already wrote three books about that shit. You are way late bro.

[Anonymous No.21019140]

>>21016200
The published king of /lit/

[Anonymous No.21019257]

>>21018015
I'll give you some words, make a story out of it. Man, woman, child, bird, earth.
Happy to help.

[Anonymous No.21019265]

I'm writing a historical novel.
Sometimes I feel I'm writing gold, then later read it and cringe. It's hard.

[Anonymous No.21019278]

>>21019265
If you feel cringe, then have a peer read it. They will let you know. Or, just publish the cringe anyway like Harold Potter was.

[Voluntary Fool No.21019442]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

[Anonymous No.21019468]

>>21016200

[Anonymous No.21019514]

>>21019100
Name of the series?

[Anonymous No.21019562]

>>21019140
I remember the first time that guy posted his books. Is he any good?

[Anonymous No.21019973]

>>21017082
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.21020297]

>>21016805
would you be willing to share any details?

[Anonymous No.21020299]

>>21016334
Sounds great, write it

[Anonymous No.21020300]

I know for a fact that Pynchon is a /lit/ user

[Anonymous No.21020623]

>>21020297
Family about to break apart is put through the magical fantasy grinder until they come to love each other again. Pretty basic stuff. I'm pouring my soul and ideas I love into it to make it fresh and new.

[Anonymous No.21020713]

I just self-published my latest novel about a soldier who uses lucid dreaming to alter reality. Still haven't gotten any reviews yet other than one five-star rating on Goodreads so far. I feel that it's my best work. Used to make money pretty easily with sci-fi in the early days of Kindle, but the e-book market is so saturated now it's harder to get noticed by readers.

[Anonymous No.21020725]

>>21016200
I started writing a book about a listless 30-year-old and his struggles in modern society, and stopped because it was just kind of depressing and not going anywhere.

[Anonymous No.21020856]

>>21016200
Currently editing the second draft, the blurb is on the back of the cover here. It's a very long novel, after trimming is done it's going to be around 250k words.

While the blurb gets into the gist of the plot and conflict, there's a litany of things that couldn't be summarized on the cover.

The tone is serious yet whimsical, and while it's set in a fantasy world, it reads more like historical fiction. I put up the first two chapters as a preview here https://www.dylandevinewriter.com/book-preview, but the rest of the book won't be ready until sometime next summer.

Turns out it takes a long time to edit 900 pages, but I'll get through it eventually.

[Anonymous No.21020860]

>>21019562
Pretty sure that's him posting it himself, no?

[Anonymous No.21020862]

>>21020856
Had to refresh the page and forgot to attach the cover like a moron

[Anonymous No.21020868]

>>21020725
lost in the sauce

[Anonymous No.21020869]

>>21018107
Sure meta stories are pretty cringe, but no one is going to want to help you when you're lashing out at people for giving recommendations you don't like.

[Anonymous No.21020876]

>>21020623
I like that prompt, how is your progress going? Do you have a blurb yet?

[Anonymous No.21020982]

>>21016200
>Has /lit/ produced any writers?
no

[Anonymous No.21021004]

>>21016200
I have written four or five or a few more books (it really depends on what counts as 'book'), and fully intend to keep going at it until I'm dead.
Nothing published, however. I don't want to be published before I'm 30 (I'm 26).
At the moment I'm writing very little, as I'm learning to code. I have come to the conclusion that web developing is the best job for a writer these days. You work at home, no need to waste time commuting, and the work is nice and creative. Plus, if you're from the third world like me, there's always the chance of being hired by an European or American company and getting paid in euros/dollars.

[Anonymous No.21021570]

>>21020876
Written on it for 1 month now. Will take me 2 more at this rate to get 1st draft completed. Blurb rests safely at the top of my draft document.