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I want to evoke feelings of crushing loneliness born of societal alienation in my readers. As in, a foreigner dropped into culture they have no business being a part of, or maybe even just as simple as what it would feel like to be the sole charitable soul in a self-interested society.

What are some techniques I might be able to use to accomplish this, or for that matter authors/writers and their associated works I could study?

tl;dr how does I make readers depressed?

>> No.2337863

>please write my book for me
No.
Try it on your own. You'll become a better writer that way.

>> No.2337864

Write about how unfair your parents were when you were a teen and post it on DA.

>> No.2337885

redirect the reader to /lit/

also, read "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. Very depressing (not very good/entertaining, but you don't seem to care about such trifles).

>> No.2337897

Time to clarify, I guess.

The basic approach I'm taking is creating a bleak outlook to make any small positives that much greater in significance. Something along the lines of say, a soldier finding a puppy in the battlefield and nursing it to health or some such thing.

I know it isn't original, but I'd like to be able to do it well if nothing else.

>> No.2337898

Betrayal.
Good betrayal though.
Like friendship betrayed, and have a character who is seemingly hardy react in a tangible manner.

>> No.2337904

>>2337897
you just told a story about hitler.
the archetypes of archetypes!!!!

>> No.2337905

>>2337898
yeah, if you're gunna do it with characters, make sure it's philia

a lot less cliche than other love

>> No.2337918

didn't read the OP but damn that's a pretty girl

>> No.2338309

Nietzsche is the loner par excellence, and it is reflected in all of his writing.

>> No.2338312

"We were once on a time so near one another in the course of our lives, that nothing more seemed to hinder our friendship and fraternity, and there was merely a small plank between us. While you were just about to step on it, I asked you: "Do you want to come across the footbridge to me?" But then you did not want to come any longer; and when I again entreated, you were silent. Since then mountains and torrents, and whatever separates and alienates, have interposed between us, and even if we wanted to come to one another, we could no longer do so! When, however, you now remember that small bridge you have no longer words, but merely sobs and amazement. "

>> No.2338320

>>2337857
lonely people in life tend to not care or emanate say a feeling of invincibility so you could give this character the feel that he is untouchable and then shatter it by some means therefore revealing said loneliness?

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2338326

Do people actually want to read a book about loneliness?

>> No.2338340

>>2338326
Of course.

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2338348

Yes