/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6049488]

Be honest /lit/
How big is your .txt of stolen anon's ideas?
Almost 800kb here.

[Anonymous No.6049492]

That's not nice, man. You do that?
People aren't gonna think /lit/'s a safe place and they won't share if it's known anons do this kinda shit. I'm disappointed in you.

[Anonymous No.6049503]

None I have a million great ideas I'm just to lazy to write them. Hard to muster up that will power working 6 days a week

[Anonymous No.6049504]

>>6049503
Yeah you're such a special snowflake.

[Anonymous No.6049542]

>>6049488
Goddamnit, I knew there was a reason why there was so many story ideas thread. Unless this is bait

[Anonymous No.6049578]

>>6049488
41 pages in the document and counting.
>>6049492
>>6049542
>post poorly written three line summation posted in one of those 'idea' threads
>someone steals my idea and writes a 70k - 100k word novel.
>damn it! I was totally going to write that EXACTLY THE SAME WAY eventually one day maybe probably.
>sue and whinge about plagiarism.

[Anonymous No.6049628]

>>6049578
zuckerberg pls go.

[Anonymous No.6049635]

>>6049578
>Whinge

For all the memes, europeans on this website are such petty idiots

[Anonymous No.6049637]

If your books hinges on a few lines of greentext not being leaked to other losers on 4chan then I won't be that excellent anyway. What could possibly be spilled in one single post? I must be some vain irrelevant fantasy shit about how your world is toroid, or everyone rides one winged lions or something.

[Anonymous No.6049642]

>>6049488
my own .txts (plural) are going strong, thank you, but none of them include anons' ideas (aside from perhaps, indirectly, a couple derivative lines)
because these ideas are pretty much always shit

(sorry fellow anons)

[Anonymous No.6049646]

>>6049578
Now you insult the rudimentary concepts from which your writing stems? You are a vile and your actions unjustifiable.

This is very immature of you, anon

[Anonymous No.6049649]

share it pussy

[Anonymous No.6049652]

>>6049649
I don't want you to steal my stolen ideas, thank you very much.
Steal your own faggot.

[Anonymous No.6049659]

the hard part isn't the idea but the writing

[Anonymous No.6049671]

>>6049652
I stole the idea behind this post

[Anonymous No.6049681]

>>6049628
I'll just pick something at random from my file of stolen ideas:

>A Kafkaesque story about a series of archers guarding the walls of a city Attack of Titans style from unspeakable monstrosities. Obviously they never find out the source of what they're fighting against and maintain a constant status quo.

Oh man, startlingly original. The value of this file (and the excerpts within) isn't that each one is a roadmap of literary success, but rather that as a whole they're good writing prompts for when you're stuck for something to write about.

Give this excerpt Stephanie Myers and Cormac McCarthy and each would write a pair of startlingly different novels which would bear little to no resemblance to the other. Were I to write something based on this prompt, I wouldn't for a second feel bad for the original poster, nor would I ever fear any accusation of plagiarism, because three lines of text isn't a finished novel.

[Anonymous No.6049717]

>>6049646
Not the concepts, just the whinging cucks who think their precious little excerpt has any value as intellectual property. It must be some kind of transference, the poster thought and strained and worked so hard just to come up with a barebones idea that it has the value of completed work in his mind.

[Anonymous No.6049735]

All is already yours. YOU MERELy HAVE TO ATTAIN CONTROL OVER IT

[Anonymous No.6049761]

>>6049717
I'm sorry you just don't get it.
Not even trolling you here and I've never shared my ideas on /lit/, but you should get some help. If you think this is justifiable or decent behavior to your neighbor-to your brothers and sisters-you should get help. It's not a healthy way of thinking or being.

[Anonymous No.6049809]

>>6049761
'You just don't get it' isn't a valid response. Justify your position, or admit that your only problem with keeping a folder of writing prompts generated by other people is some finicky: "He might steal my idea and make something better than me!" insecure gut reaction.

Or don't. I assume that image means you've fled rather than engage in discourse.

[Anonymous No.6049916]

>>6049681
Post your file I want to steal it.

[Anonymous No.6049984]

jews

[Anonymous No.6049999]

You can steal my ideas OP, but you can't steal my quads.

[Anonymous No.6050000]

>>6049916
>it's a google word document

[Anonymous No.6050017]

>>6049999
>but you can't steal my quads
>>6050000
>>>

[Anonymous No.6050032]

>>6050017
Damn.

[Anonymous No.6050050]

See, this is why I don't post anything in those "what are you writing" threads unless it's obviously horrible.

[Anonymous No.6050056]

>>6050032
For what it's worth - you still have your quads, he just propped himself up on them to get more polished ones...
o...

[Anonymous No.6050060]

>>6049999
noice

[Anonymous No.6050089]

>>6050000
wtf is that gif from?

[Anonymous No.6050108]

>>6049999
Top kek! Ebbin Quads!

[Anonymous No.6050138]

>>6049488
share pls

[Anonymous No.6050142]

Good luck on being the next literary great OP! I'm sure McCarthy and Dostoyevsky and Proust all had similar .txt files

[Anonymous No.6050227]

Im a well-known writer and i steal from 17th and 18th century books. I go for books that nobody reads.

[Anonymous No.6050377]

>>6050227
Aren't all stories and ideas sort of intrinsic to humanity anyway? They stem from religion, philosophy and politics... Hence why all great reading lists start with the Bible, Plato, Homer, Aristotle, etc.

[Anonymous No.6050384]

>>6050227
Hi again stealbro
but you're exaggerating a bit about "well-known"

[Anonymous No.6050396]

>>6050384

I am well-known in my own country. I am an ever present name on the best seller lists.

[Anonymous No.6050413]

>>6049999
LOL

[Anonymous No.6050414]

I don't really have any ideas stolen
I have like 1,2 mb of quotes from /lit/ that i found interesting/profound/incredibly stupid or simply funny

[Anonymous No.6050450]

>>6050414
That's kind of cool, would you share a few?

I'm wondering if any of mine are in there

[Anonymous No.6050506]

http://a.pomf.se/wtfyho.rar
Here's a bit of assorted stuff, mostly /lit/-related, from the folder "Inspiration and rubbish", if anyone's interested. I've "stolen" a bit of it, but I change enough of it for it to be completely unrecognisable, which I suppose means it hardly counts as stealing.

[Anonymous No.6050523]

>>6050414
I do this but I write them down in my notebook. Actually got pointed to Heidegger by sharing one of these posts with people I know, and got a few chuckles out of a nietzschean acquaintance by using the word "uberwench" (stolen from here).

/lit/ is underrared.

[Anonymous No.6050733]

>>6049488
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[Anonymous No.6051192]

That's a great idea, OP. I think I'll steal it and make my own.

[Anonymous No.6051210]

I would steal more if any of you ever had any good ideas. Your incompetence as a writer is now responsible for both of us starving.