/lit/ - Literature

>>1356639

Thank. You. Every link there is getting saved.

>>1356630

Great start, but I was hoping for something a little more... Public domain...

Thank you all the same, this is a good place for me to start.

Howdy, /lit/. I'm currently working on a personal project that requires lots of horror stories. Preferably short, much like children's bedtime stories, folk tales, or fairy tales, with a cosmopolitan, around-the-world sort of feel preferable to boot.

Lots to ask for, but I really don't mind what I get. If anyone can recommend a source of short horror stories, for children or adults, I'd be greatly appreciative.

>>1285039

It's also a bit too short for them too, I think. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

>>1285024

So are you

>>1284952

Good stuff. Thanks for the suggestion.

>>1284993

I was actually looking her up a few days ago. Fascinating stuff. Her chicken leg house is a favourite bit of mine.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Damnit, /lit/ is helpful...

>>1284933

I said TV, not video games...

>>1284938

Awesome, I'll take a look into this. My search is turning up the tale of a Nigerian tribal king, is that the right one?

Hey, /lit/. I'm working on a little project of my own at the moment and I need spooky folk tales to draw from, preferably from international sources. They need to be brief, I'm writing for TV here, and I'm looking more for old folk tales than anything.

Think Brothers Grimm, basically.

Anyone got any recommendations?

>>1025422

Fair enough. However, I did mention that this was irrational.

>>1025429

Have to take your word for the grammer structure. I am afraid I don't speak Latin. However, Sol is a proper noun, like Luna or Mars. It should be capitalized. I've also never seen it spelled with an e, but that could be ignorance on my part.

>>1025402

Of course, but it still helps me feel at least a little safer. The odds that someone would just read my concept off /lit/ and turn it into a best seller before I even finish my story are near zero, but it still helps that irrational part of my mind that demands it.

>>1025408

Nihil novi sub Sol. Sol is a proper name.

>>1025401

Do that too. It helps.

I guess I'm just going to have to separate myself from my distractions to write.

>>1025398

Actually, no. I've had it recommended to me numerous times, though. I suppose I should give it a try.

This might sound hokey, but there's a bit of abandoned parking lot near me that's overgrown in some places. It was raining so I went for a walk, and noticed the "islands" the plants formed against the rising water. I'm tempted to take pictures of this to use as the base for my world map. It's clearly random but organic, and it looks quite cool.

>>1025353

Vampires were corpses uncovered, bloated by decay and flushed pink. People believed the dead rose and went to feed on the blood of the living, which caused sickness or other problems. They dug up the corpse and staked them in place to keep them from being able to rise and haunt their relatives.

I do agree that vampires in fiction are a tad annoying, though. They're predators, at the end of the night, and they are hungry for one thing and one alone: Blood. Representing them as anything but monsters degrades them. Having vampires be sparkly playboys is like having Typhon worry over a prom date instead of shaking the pillars of creation.

>>1025373

>As for the story...

Whoops! Heh, kinda repeated myself there. As you can tell, went back and edited that a bit. Don't want to give away all my secrets, right?

>>1025349

I do that already, I'm afraid. The story's got a steampunk setting and the protagonist's home country is a little behind in its technical development even by those standards (favouring magitech over the mundane variety). Leads to me researching a lot of Victorian era technology.

As for the story, to sum it up in one sentence...

As for the story, without giving away too much detail... In a nation where magic is ubiquitous, a magic-blind engineer is caught up in a war between the haves and have-nots of arcane secrets, and must go on a quest to prevent anti-magical genocide.

Sorry it took so long to reply.

S'up, /lit/? I'm 16,000 words into writing my first novel and feeling alright, but I get frequently distracted. Managed to get 2000 words in today but even that was done after I forcibly disconnected myself from the internet.

Anyone here got any book-writing tips to help me stay focused? Or just book-writing tips in general?

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>>927323

Keep 'em comin'

Was there a witch or a lion involved somewhere or am I thinking of a different book?

>>927137

It shows that the baby is learning, and remembering, before birth. That's a consciousness, however limited it might be.

Still, if you want to go as far to say that consciousness as defined by self-awareness is the necessity for personhood, doesn't that mean there is nothing immoral about abandoning babies to die of exposure?

>>927149

Yep.

>>927106

Babies cry in their native language. Your argument is invalid.

http://www.livescience.com/culture/091105-baby-language.html

>>927091

Yeah, rotten Looters, am I right?

>>927060

Well, in the case of what I have done so far, the villain just killed a dictator and is trying to prevent new dictators from arising. He's just going about it in an immensely evil way.

>>927006

>IIRC, the brain develops near the end of the 3rd month.

You do not. Brain development begins by week 4-5, around the time of the first missed period. By week 7, basic elements of the brain have already developed, and, by week 9, the fetus already responds to external stimuli.

In short, by the 2nd month or so, the earliest time an abortion can be performed, the fetus already has basic brain activity. It's minor, certainly, but it's still there.