Likely to succeed?

[Anonymous No.6830482]

Upcoming artists from /lit/, let's do the following: We describe what are our projects, some influences, how are we working on them (gear, software and shit), what we plan on releasing and if you feel like it talk a bit about the scene for your genre where you live. Then, let others tell you how likely they think you are to succeed.

This is not a doc or txt thread where people just post theirs and bail out, we don't even need to know your name or anything (but if it's necessary, give it). Example:

>I'm making a [enter genre], I've been using [enter gear and such] and I plan on releasing a book/essay/etc and my writing has some influence of [enter artist] and yadda yadda.

or

>I make [enter genre], I use [enter gear] to produce it and I want to play it live as an actor or something, and I want to release a play and yadda...

As we wait for people to talk about ours, we talk about each others, okay? Okay.

>btw this is a rip-off from /mu/, I wanted to see if this could fit in here

[Anonymous No.6830499]

>>6830482
Maybe narrative style or form and book organization would fit better than gear. Writing is not something that is heavily affected by production method, most people will type it out somewhere or if they're crazy like me they'll write with pen and paper.

Interested in this thread, though, it has potential. Hope it sticks.

[Anonymous No.6830508]

>>6830482
I read about 60 pages a day.

365 x 60 = 21900 pages

21900 / 300 = 73 books a year.

I read about 73 books a year.

[Anonymous No.6830529]

>genre

[Anonymous No.6830539]

>>6830482
I'm writing a science fiction shortstory, I've been using word and a notebook and I don't plan on releasing it until I have more shortstories. My writing has some influence of various science fiction writers such as Clarke, Asimov and GRRM and yadda yadda. In the meantime I am reading various books.

If I finish my shortstory, I will make another shortstory, and another shortstory, and another. Untill I find my writing to be decent and I got a good understanding of plotlines and writing styles. Then I will try to write a novel. If that succeeds, I will write another novel. Maybe another one. Then I will try and create a series.

I plan on releasing my frstbooks for free of charge.

[Anonymous No.6830545]

What do you mean by gear?

I want to write something Kerouac-esqe, though I've never actually read him and before I read American Psycho I've been writing some combination of the two. I'm trying to step away from coming off like a sociopath and I think at this point I'm in an uncanny valley with my writing. The main form of working on my work is living my life, which I think I'm also in a kind of uncanny valley in
>fight
>woke up at a girl's house after a night at bars
>she has surprise surprise On The Road but I forget it in her car when I meant to borrow it
>smoke speed and drink with a friend
>get picked up by a girl I had groped on transit weeks earlier
>she buys beer, talk in her car, fuck her and lose my hard on because she's being over dramatic
I'm not living what I want to write about yet

[Anonymous No.6830549]

>>6830482
I'm trying to start a mixed book(poetry mixed with narrative), I had an scheme about the theme and how it was to be constructed, but my HD gon guffed and I didn't had a physical one. So I'm trying to start it again. I use a notebook and a pen and I check for errors in my laptop. My writing is influenced by bukowski, jaime bayly and cortazar.

[Anonymous No.6830745]

Did you make this same thread on /mu/?
>>>57331637

[Anonymous No.6830756]

>>57331637

[Anonymous No.6830806]

I'm working on editing my sci fantasy series. 11 volumes, 4400 pages.

I killed three laptops (dell toshiba and sony) with Word alone.

Seeking representation as we speak and posting my work on a new website called authors.me

Pic related.. It's what happens when you stop talking about wanting to write and start working.

[Anonymous No.6831218]

>>6830539
> GRRM
> science fiction
>>6830545
> Kerouac-esqe
> American Psycho
>>6830549
> poetry and narrative
> bukowsky

this thread is full of bait

[Anonymous No.6832532]

>>6830806
Well done. Care to tell us what it is you're writing?

[Anonymous No.6832549]

I've just been writing and editing short genre fiction pieces and submitting them places over the summer.
I've been using freelancewriting.com to find open submissions for online publications, and am just trying to get 1 story published just so I can feel like I am making progress. I don't know if this is even the right way to go about the whole thing though.

Currently I am working on a very fragmented and scattered ghost story set in various regions within Ontario.

[Anonymous No.6832588]

>>6831218

You have no fucking clue what you're even saying. You realise GRRM has a science fiction series right?

[Anonymous No.6832594]

>>6830806
need to see more of this on /lit/

[Anonymous No.6832608]

>let others tell you how likely they think you are to succeed.

this is impossible unless you post an excerpt of writing you think accurately reflects your ability

plans and influences and all that doesn't mean shit lol

[Anonymous No.6832614]

>>6830806

>keeps posting about his writing
>keeps shilling for that site
>never actually posts an excerpt

kekekek

[Anonymous No.6832615]

>>6830482
I self published my only serious book so far because I tried getting it represented and it felt like it was too weird for anyone to go for it.

I'm currently only known for really stupid shit that I slapped together in an hour or two but this book isn't anything like those.

[Anonymous No.6832634]

>>6830482
A new sincerity novel about how much I hate both irony and new sincerity.

Influences: DFW, Joyce

[Anonymous No.6832670]

>>6832634
A new neoromanticist epic about how much I hate irony, new sincerity, romanticism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, zizekianism, scientism, /lit/ism, meme-ism and burgeois mode of pepe capital accumulation

Influences: >>6832634 , Tao Lin, Hitler, Hamsun, Richard Wagner, Abelard, Heraclitus and Hartmann von Aue

[Anonymous No.6832710]

>>6832670
>influences
>me
>tfw already influencing authors
>never written more than one sentence

[Anonymous No.6832719]

>>6832710
>We literary circle now

:3

[Anonymous No.6832724]

>>6832670
>/lit/ism, meme-ism and burgeois mode of pepe capital accumulation


this is pretty good b8

at least, I hope it's b8

[Anonymous No.6832743]

I'm writing a novel about a journalist named Duke Topanga who discovers a massive conspiracy while looking for a story. It's influenced by Pynchon, mainly Inherent Vice and Lot 49. I want it to be around 40,000 words or under 150 pages so someone might actually read the whole thing. I'm writing it on Google Docs so I can edit the same file from my phone, laptop, and computer. It's been going well, response on /lit/ has been largely positive. My prose has improved a lot over the course of writing it.

[Anonymous No.6832749]

a series of essays on the struggle for meaning and vocation in a world that thru industrialization and automation has removed or trivialized traditional occupations and thru mass consumption and specialized production has reduced recreation to a consumable commodity

Kierkegaard
Unamuno
Augustine
Adorno
Milton (particularly about Eden)

[Anonymous No.6832750]

>>6832743
No one publishes things that short anymore though. Unless you're self-publishing. Though even then people tend to trust shorter things less unless they're porn.

[Anonymous No.6832755]

>>6832750

I don't really know the first thing about getting a book published, i'm mostly just concerned with finishing it. I could always make it longer once I get to that point.

[Anonymous No.6832762]

>>6832743
>It's been going well, response on /lit/ has been largely positive


I find that hard to believe

[Anonymous No.6832771]

>>6832762

people like my prose and characters. Whenever I post excerpts they ask for more.

[Anonymous No.6832781]

>>6832771

post an excerpt? or link to your last critiqued post?

[Anonymous No.6832791]

>>6832781

Come midmorning the Beach was cool and quiet, the sun out, but the streets mostly empty, everyone still lazing in their beds, lulled by the quiet respiration of the waves and the general stupor of a Sunday morning. Down long sloping streets, by the shore, groups of tourists mingled in the surf, pleased with the restful expanse of uncrowded beach. The T-shirt shops, burger joints, fried banana stands turned out a steady business, clerks leaning forward onto their elbows, listening to the radio. They eyed the tourists with stoned bemusement. As it stretches North, the sand tapers away and is replaced by tall, wave-blunted cliffs. On a quiet street here, overlooking the crystalline sea, a psychic’s parlor sits mute, windows matte with velvet drapery, carved sign swinging gently in its cast iron loops.


Opening paragraph of my book. Keep in mind, I'm not saying my writing is beyond criticism, but the response to it has been largely positive.

[Anonymous No.6832825]

>>6830482
I'm writing a literary novel in Word and have no concrete plans for releasing it, as I think I should have the thing finished and ready before worrying about that sort of shit.
My influences include Joyce, Kafka, Adventure Time, Pond, Marquez, Faulkner, Hemingway (don't kill me you bitches), DFW, a Dutch writer none of you guys have probably heard of named Armando, who wrote novels cut up into vignettes with no clear connection that still managed to be deeply gripping somehow, DeLillo and Pinecone -- although tbh most of these guys serve primarily to make me feel inadequate and thus work harder.

It's meant to end up being sort of a psychedelic screwball comedy, very fragmented, slightly surreal, slipping back and forth between minimal realism and fantastical weirdness.

[Anonymous No.6832831]

>>6832791
your prose is good man, paints a picture. I think you could do with a couple fewer words to convey the same vision though, and I wanna ask you whether you want the reader to be getting a certain vibe by this point, and if so, which one and why

[Anonymous No.6832835]

>>6832825
O, PS, I have no idea how likely I am to succeed, and I don't want to give a shit right now. Thinking about it gives me the shits and that's counterproductive.

[Anonymous No.6832838]

>>6832831

I want my prose to flow well above all, and to show the reader things from an unusual perspective. The mood of the book is laid back, paranoid, and sort of psychedelic. What words stand out the most to you in the excerpt I posted?

[Anonymous No.6832847]

>>6832549
You probably know but you should check out Southern Ontario Gothic fiction to write your story within or against. I don't know of any that features ghost stories but Munro and Atwood capture non-metropolitan historical Ontario regions pretty well.

[Anonymous No.6832857]

>>6832825
>>6832835
You should worry more about your plans for getting it out. I wrote a 260 page book without giving that kind of stuff much thought and it's basically unpublishable because there's nothing marketable about it.

[Anonymous No.6832868]

>>6832838
the fact that the windows are matte with velvet struck me as a fine detail, as did the stoned bemusement and the tapering of sand into cliffs.
That said I thought
>They eyed the tourists with stoned bemusement
cut the rhythm in an amelodic way and could be improved; further it seemed slightly unrealistic that *all* the vendors would be stoned -- but perhaps this is me being pedantic.

What did you have in mind w/r/t unusual perspective? Once again, I like the excerpt, but apart from the introduction of the psychic it all seems fairly every-day so far. Are you thinking of Marquez/Murakami-style surreal details?

[Anonymous No.6832875]

>>6832857
Meh? What can I do but write the best I can? I thought for a long time about what sort of artistic statement I want to make and how, and by the end of it I figured this is me and what else can I do. Plus, many great writers had trouble finding publishing, and I have time to experiment with regards to what sells later on if I really have to.
Also, I can always market it as a psychedelic screwball comedy and publish it myself if I really have to. Probably never make much of a dime, but you gotta start somewhere, no?

[Anonymous No.6832885]

>>6832875
If you're ok with that then it's fine. I'm just warning you based on my own experience in case you were thinking of traditional publishing.

[Anonymous No.6832886]

>>6832868

The psychedelic/unusual perspective thing will emerge more later in the book when the plot gets more complicated/unusual. The beginning is more restful, showing how Duke lives a pretty monotonous life before all this stuff happens. I'm really interested in coincidences and fate and things like that, so the book will be full of surreal moments where characters run into each other in unlikely ways, situations that start normal but degenerate into absurdity, etc .

As for the prose I think I'd probably benefit from reading it all out loud, cause I can see how the "stoned bemusement" line does break up the flow of it.

[Anonymous No.6832888]

>>6830482
Just published a literary short story.
I'm working on a novel set in the modern American Southeast and intend to get it traditionally published.

also
>genre
is why I called it literary. I'm not that kind of pretentious.

[Anonymous No.6832897]

>>6832885
Honestly, I appreciate it anon. It's mostly that the thought scares me shitless and I'm worried it will sap my motivation for actually finishing the thing.
I should probably explain that I'm very young (20) and still busy trying to grow as a writer, and even though I've already put about a thousand hours into this bitch I would be OK with having to start over once or twice before I get anything that hits the shelves anywhere.

[Anonymous No.6832900]

Just some competitions for the moment, if I start to win hopefully that will help me get more involved in making a career of it

if not, oh well. Atleast after a while I can say I'm a failed writer - better than nothing i suppose

[Anonymous No.6832904]

>>6832886
I guess the fortune teller serves as a good first hint of that, though maybe you could give us one more spicy detail to intrigue us in the first paragraph(s).

Also, this is like the ultimate protip in my opinion, read the stuff out loud, read it to your friends or family if you can. Usually when I read it to someone (and am thus forced to consider how it comes across) I find all sorts of flaws that I couldn't see before.
On a sidenote, dunno if you guys like his work (i think it's ups n downs), but Tarantino does this with all his scripts

[Anonymous No.6832913]

>>6832904

his dialogue is definitely some of the best around, I'd trust his insight.

[Anonymous No.6832948]

>>6832913

right? plus, realistically he's overall a better and more experienced writer than most of us here anyway

[Anonymous No.6833362]

>>6830545
Can I get some feedback? It's just that I haven't really talked about this out loud

I just read something from a few years ago where I wrote about getting fired from McDonald's for fighting a rude customer, getting blacked out and apparently beaten up by an old man that night (I don't remember it being that night, but I don't typically lie) and talking about how I was often getting blacked out and beat up around that time

I'm nowhere near living what I'd like to write about, which is necessarily a time I'm having fun (I'm not now) and preferably when I'm doing something genuinely interesting as opposed to interestingly degenerate

[Anonymous No.6833368]

>>6832913
He has way too much dialogue and it usually comes across as more tongue in cheek than realistic

[Anonymous No.6833394]

>>6833368

the tongue in cheek part is deliberate i think

[Anonymous No.6833436]

>>6830482
I'm writing a novel about hedonistic, drug-addled suburban kids who's story is intertwined with that of a family of wealthy, murderous and derange libertines. I guess that would make it transgressive fiction. The narrative is presented as related but fragmented short stories.

I'm using an HP Laptop now, but I write almost anywhere I can if i don't have it at the moment.

I was influenced by Dennis Cooper, William Burroughs, Marque de Sade and Ozamu Dazai.

I'm writing in spanish, in a country that has virtually no literary scene (if it does, its formed purely by academics who replicate Garcia Marquez and Cortazar ad nauseum), and that is very conservative and catholic. I do plan to publish eventually, maybe in another country. I'm my third draft after 2 years, and I don't know when exactly I'll be finished.

[Anonymous No.6833448]

>>6833436
>hedonistic, drug-addled suburban kids

Feels overdone, but I'd read it.

[Anonymous No.6833457]

>>6833448
It is my first novel, so I hope I'm somewhat excused for the cliché. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.6833464]

I'm currently editing my first poetry book.

It's a two-part book; The first part is your average modern poetry and the second is much more narrative in style.

The thing is that where I live poetry is just melodramatic dribble with neither substance nor form, and so far that's pretty much the only thing I've seen young poets do. So I think this could be fall like a breath of fresh air for those who, like myself, are tired of drooling voices crying for a past fuck.

[Anonymous No.6833525]

>>6833464
Also, my laptop is a clunky 7-year-old Hp one note, but I could literally be writing on a 2gb Hd, 256 Mb Ram with windows 95.

Normally write first drafting Word and make edits in Scrivener. That piece of software is incredible to get the big picture of the mess that can happen with multiple texts.

Influences? None, really. A long while after finishing my first draft I discovered Rimbaud said pretty much what I was trying to write about. But what for him was a throwaway line, for me is the core of the second half.

I am trying to avoid Bukowski, Rimbaud, Ruben Dario and any kind of big names. I'm just trying to do my own thing. If I happen to step on someone else's toes, we'll, bad luck.

[Anonymous No.6833825]

>>6833457
Well it also really depends on the themes you include. It just sounds like it could easily become a JohnGreenesque 'teenagers are great' type story.

[Anonymous No.6833837]

>>6830482
Working on a short story which I feel good about. Posted the opening paragraph in a thread the other day and the people that responded liked it. I think I've finally nailed how to write well.

[Anonymous No.6833840]

>>6833837
Pls post opening

[Anonymous No.6833902]

I have an idea for a novel I want to write, but I want to do a couple of short stories first to flesh it out and get some practice.
/lit/ seems to write a lot of short stories because we're lazy faggots, maybe we should collect them and self-publish them. Like tundra legacy, but even more eclectic.

[Anonymous No.6833909]

>>6830806
Incredible. How long have you been writing?

[Anonymous No.6833948]

I'm working on my second poetry book.
I've been writing on paper, then saving finished work on notepad, for as long as I remember.

My poetry tries capturing the human experience using metaphors taken from the "wild", or "natural", if you want. I try getting to the animalistic core of the human - exploring the powerful lust and passion we are driven by through comparasions where they show more clearly.

My last book recieved good critique, so I hope to show my publisher a finished book by the end of the year.

[Anonymous No.6834020]

I've started working on a book about a NEET who hates the world and who end up meeting an old recluse leftist writer who pushes him to start a revolution.

I've bought a few notebooks but it's hard for me to motivate myself to write.

[Anonymous No.6834058]

>>6830806
That series plus another stand alone book took me 8 years and 51 weeks to finish. It's a space opera built on Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey but I changed the format to elongate the cycle's beginning and end and add elements I thought would be necessary to make a good story.

In Harry Potter terms it would mean more time seeing life under he stairs and Harry being unable to finish off voldemort in his lifetime and needing his kids to finish the job without making the kids involvement look like an afterthought.

Time stamp: the utility room where I write

[Anonymous No.6834065]

>>6834058
>David Bowie poster
noice

[Anonymous No.6834071]

>>6834058
Post an excerpt?

[Anonymous No.6834085]

>>6834071
Possibly after work. Busy now

[Anonymous No.6834228]

>>6834065
Thnx

[Anonymous No.6834250]

>>6834058
jesus christ you're such an attention whoring faggot, I'm surprised you didn't sign your posts like you usually do

You're never going to get published

[Anonymous No.6834301]

>>6834250
Would you like me to sign them?

It's rather likely I could get published.

Sincerely yours,
Attention whoring faggot

[Anonymous No.6834324]

>>6834301
No it's not

[Anonymous No.6834443]

>>6834301

>constantly talking about his writing
>never posts any excerpt

please stop or use a tripcode so we can at least filter you

at least the flashbird guy shares his work

[Anonymous No.6834612]

>>6833948
What is the title of the first one?

I know that you might be reluctlant to share your actual published work on the chanz, but I am interested in it just by the description of your second piece of work. At least you are not writing to appeal to chicks, as many of the poets of my generations are clearly doing.

What's your first language? I am this guy, btw. >>6833525 >>6833464

[Anonymous No.6834622]

>>6834301
I think that if the publisher/editor reads the first part of that tower and they don't like it, it's pretty unlikely that you could change anything without having to rewrite everything again.

[Anonymous No.6835067]

>>6834622
There's jetpacks, space pirates, magic, and mecha. What's not to like?

[Anonymous No.6835070]

>>6834443
There's no need to be upset
I've shared my work with other anons.

[Anonymous No.6835080]

>>6834443
Btw, I created an ebook for Amazon that's nothing but greentext stories. It's still selling copies last I checked.

Anonymously yours,
By Ann Hiro
99cents and its yours, captain butthurt

[Anonymous No.6835121]

I'm not sure what genre I write, if any. Surreal magical realism stuff. Sometimes funny, sometimes depressing, always a bit off the wall. I've had a little over half a dozen short pieces published in zines, right now I'm wondering if I should submit my new pieces to competitions instead to get my name out there more than for the prize money. I'm getting some very positive feedback on my more recent work.
I have most of a novella planned out but I want to keep improving my authorial voice, and preferably have a little reputation, before I start on the MS and subbing it to agents.
The most obvious influences would be Borges, Ligotti and Self. Gear? What do you mean, "gear"? Other than notebooks and pens I mostly use openoffice but it's just a word processing program; word, notepad++ or whatever the mac equivalent is would work just as well. I don't see how this is important.

[Anonymous No.6835184]

Right now I'm working on a contemporary low-fantasy novel following an agent of a religious order that's been combating a cult for several years. Recent revisions have made a few plot holes I'm trying to fix but may have to rewrite.
Primary influences are Dan Abnett and Sergei Lukyanenko, because I'm a fucking pleb.

I just use Word because there's nothing wrong with it as far as I can tell. I also make frequent notes on paper because I just like the way it feels. Somehow, seeing everything written down on paper feels more satisfying.

[Anonymous No.6835187]

>>6830482
I write short stories, poems, and essays about ideas that I have

I just wrote one about someone selling gold to a guy in a casino, before that I wrote a poem about how I hate tao lin,

I want to submit the body of my work to as many lit mags as possible in hopes of being published, and I'm studying medicine in the western united states.

[Anonymous No.6835192]

>>6833436
nice, you sound good.

[Anonymous No.6835197]

im planning to write the novel that will change the face of the 21st century literary and artistic scene forever

[Anonymous No.6835200]

>>6835187
Interesting as fuck.

[Anonymous No.6835217]

>>6835200
hurr imma go troll /lit/ commenting interesting as fuck on ever thread

[Anonymous No.6835234]

>>6835217
Interesting as fuck

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6835244]

>>6835234
Ironic, you don't seem interested in lit today.

[Anonymous No.6835260]

I plan to write as a hobby, not for a living. In this way I will have control over my legacy, for better or for worse.

[Anonymous No.6835272]

>>6830482
A piece of Bildungsroman trash while I figure out what plots are, how to write (structurally, and also just get used to writing every day).

Influenced by Franny and Zooey, DFW, George Saunders, Brett Easton Ellis. Story is thematically to do with (i) perfectionism, and (ii) tending to observe the world / understand it via things like theory, culture, rather than living in it.

Writing every day to get better, submitting to funded MFAs at the end of the year, if I get in will emigrate to the USA, marry a /lit/ cutie 3.4 or whatever, settle in a small town in California, take it from there.

Working with a freelance editor once a month to get feedback on how to develop it. It's coming along. First quarter done, and I definitely understand a ton of stuff about story, style, and 'craft' that I didn't at the start of this year.

Only downside is I don't know any other writers. I see other people socially about once a fortnight, and it sucks. Meeting other writers in the UK feels basically impossible. Attending workshops but they're full of 50+ year old women working on stuff mostly about their husbands.

[Anonymous No.6835274]

>>6835260
Interesting as fuck

[Anonymous No.6835277]

>>6835274
Stop this meme, please.

[Anonymous No.6835289]

>>6835272
I'm doing something similar and I like your sound. Influences for my juvenalia are Bellow, McEwan, Kundera, etc. If you want to trial-exchange a draft sometime, I'm at onlierous @ gmail.com

[Anonymous No.6835300]

>>6835289
Interesting as fuck

[Anonymous No.6835301]

I'm writing a story about an atheist priest who burns churches. I've been using LibreOffice and Dropbox and I plan to finish it this year. My writing has some influence of Tolstoy, Dostoievski, some Brazilian authors and yadda yadda.

[Anonymous No.6835618]

>>6834612
I don't write in english, a free-translation will be "Kind of a heavenhell", I guess. - "Min Ganedenom" in my language. I write in hebrew, as it's my first language.

>>6833464
You sound like a serious creator yourself, I wish you the best of luck with your book.

I did translate some of my poems to english, if you'd like to discuss more and maybe share some texts - here's my email.
[e-mail].

[Anonymous No.6835625]

>>6835618
Interesting as fuck

[Anonymous No.6835661]

I am currently finishing up some fanfiction. I am doing my best on it, but I am eager to be done with it.

After that, I have several directions I could go, because I actually have several 'worlds' I'm working in at the moment. I tend to hate writing one-off stories, because in the process of writing them I become very invested in the characters and find a desire to revisit them in subsequent stories.

So I'm working on two different historical fantasy settings, one science fantasy setting, one sort of surrealist young adult setting, and one magical realism setting. I dip in and out of them as it strikes my fancy. I'm hoping to start up another novel in one of the historical fantasy settings this coming September, while I'd also like to write more short stories in the YA setting, since short stories have been my primary means of exploring it.

I just work in Open Office. Just the word processor, nothing special. I use GoogleDocs to store things online, though I prefer not to keep stuff there.

[Anonymous No.6835671]

>>6835661
Interesting as fuck

[Anonymous No.6835912]

>>6833825
I kinda wanted to take that premise and flip it upside down. The kids are just as vicious and cruel as the men, only towards themselves. The violence is emotional, mirroring the physical violence of the men. A lot of the plot has to do with regret about the pain one causes on others.

Theres a scene in which two lovers having sex on LSD turns into rape, and subsequently, suicide.

[Anonymous No.6837164]

>>6834443
>at least the flashbird guy shares his work
Will he ever publish? I mean come on.

[Anonymous No.6837204]

>>6830806

Why the FUCK would you write 11 books? Perfect a SINGLE book that's 200-300 pages long. Shit, man.

[Anonymous No.6837317]

Writing a hardboiled detective novel in Alaska that's more about an introspective look into alcoholism and small town culture shock than it is about detective work. Only 3k words into it so far after two months because I keep going over it to edit it and make it not shit. Influenced by Saramago's approach to dialogue. Hope it's good when I'm done, although I think people will dismiss it saying "it's cliche" instead of giving it a chance.

[Anonymous No.6837357]

>>6837164
Get hype.

[Anonymous No.6837385]

I wanted to write a collection of short stories about people right before historic moments, e.g. a short story about Churchill during his travel to the Yalta conference, one about Lance Armstrong climbing a mountain in his first Tour de France win etc. In general stories with very little plot and with a focus on the thoughts of one person with a kind of stream of consciousness/inner monologue style, each like 10 pages maybe. More flash fiction than short story probably but w/e

[Anonymous No.6838540]

I'm writing a...maybe a novel, I don't really know how long it's going to turn out to be, but I just had this sudden uncontrollable impulse to write this very particular story that's essentially about how being a good person will only make you miserable. It involves a fairly innocent teenage girl who gets pregnant and her family. The plots a bit cliche and masturbatorily tragic, so I'm hoping as I write, I find it going somewhere more creative and thoughtful, but I'm not really sure what direction to take it.

[Anonymous No.6838850]

>>6832549
>Currently I am working on a very fragmented and scattered ghost story set in various regions within Ontario.

Could you talk about this? I am also trying to write a modern ghost story

What are some of your favorite books with ghost stories?

[Anonymous No.6839298]

>>6830482
I'm writing a book. Inspiration; Legend of Korra

[Anonymous No.6839349]

>>6839298
not likely to succeed

[Anonymous No.6839353]

>>6839298
I spit on you

[Anonymous No.6839371]

>>6839349
>>6839353
The atmosphere of the story specifically.
Not the instant lesbians, more of the spirit world and the real world.

[Anonymous No.6839373]

>>6839371
But it's still awful ?
Anyway that's more like fanfiction.
Worldbuilding is already useless, if you don't even make your own, what is left ?

[Anonymous No.6839384]

>>6839373
The equalist movement was very interesting I wanted them to explore more of it.
I'm only picking up only the spirit world and real world concepts also the Era where korra was set in.

[Anonymous No.6839386]

>>6839384
Is your mom aware that you are using the computer ?

[Anonymous No.6840214]

>>6839371
I'm just shitposting tbh
Your story might be good

[Anonymous No.6840238]

>>6830482
Think GR meets IJ meets Ulysses.

I'm building a neural network that will bend and burn their words and plots together which I'll then lock all that into a structure of human universals.

And then type it up.

[Anonymous No.6840325]

Working on a shabby novel which deals with technological advancements, high level corruption and overpopulation. Story is set in a futuristic European Union.

The main hook is the declining meaning of democracy towards modern feudalism mixed with meaningless freedom of speech.

Also thinking of giving the three main characters one of the seven sins and letting them overcome those after the "all is lost moment", but I'm still working that out.

>inb4 I rewrite blade runner

[Anonymous No.6842537]

>>6840325
8/10 would read

[Anonymous No.6843875]

>>6830482
I'm writing a mix of high seas adventure and WW2 naval fiction with some pulp thrown in. Im using office on Mac so nothing technically impressive. I would say the influence of it comes from history itself then anything. Always been fascinated with merchant raiders and the sheer isolation of such missions. I don't think I will release it. It is more of an exercise to keep writing. Before I started this project, I was in a slump, and I heard a way to get out of it, is to write in someone else's universe. So far that's been productive, but it is because of the universe that I am using, that I don't think I will let others see this work. Well until it's finished and edited of course perhaps.

[Anonymous No.6844918]

>>6832886
>psychedelic
like a turd tainted by food coloring?

[Anonymous No.6844923]

>>6832886
also:
>unusual
>unusual
>unusual
>unusual

what are you? the pinguin of doom?