/lit/ - Literature

Post your book ideas, they aren't going anywhere.

im gunna do it. write a bestseller
>>16569052
i stole my idea from lit but i think it was one of those idea pool threads so its ok

>>16569052
Detective in space. There's no FTL travel, so people use cryogenics to travel to other star systems. Leaving your planet means leaving everyone behind, since on average the closest system is like 20 years travel in one direction.
I want to write it like an anthology. planets totally isolated from each other means they're all in different stages of development, some post apocalyptic, etc. Themes of loneliness and having memories of people you're unable to ever contact again, or have died hundreds of years ago.

>>16569052
I keep telling myself I want to write sci fi but I keep coming up with plans for people larping Arthurian legends and failing, hmm

>>16569052
it's the simple story of a german film student during his erasmus exchange year in barcelona,
his experiences with the other foreign students and teachers,
about his artistic ambitions versus the death of film as a medium,
and the degeneracy of it all

>>16569052
is gon b a short story but is about a nigga nad he lives in ancap hellscape and he always goin around makin deals doin em dirty killin people partyin and he alright at it but it jus aint him and there b a pastor who got a little strip mall church cuz capitalism pushem to the curb and the guy likes this pastor guy and he sees him as a lil beacon o' hope in the madness and he thinkin maybe I fin jesus or sumn maybe but then the church get shot up or robbed or sumn and pastor dies and main character loses le hope and faith in humanity that was always hanging by a mere thread.

NaNoWriMo is a liberal institution and promotes homosexuality. Also no good novel was written in a month.

>>16569052
Paranormal romance between a human monster hunter and a monstergirl bounty hunter

>>16570198
>Fahrenheit 451
>On The Road
Retroactively refuted

>>16568142
Burgerpunk Clockwork Orange about a roving gang of ultraviolent outcasts. Themes will include the death of the American Dream, the lack of opportunities for millennial and Gen Z youth, and the longing for a home that no longer exists.

I shit 50,000 words.

>>16572497
I've seen you post that stack for years now, bro. When are you ever going to do anything with it?

I failed last year and haven't figured out my idea yet for this year, but it was a nice experiment so I'll be trying again. I've been tempted to just pick back up my project last year, which I got around 1/4 through, but I feel it best to come up with some new self-contained thing to try to tear through.

>>16573055
Nothing because they’re either blank or shit

This kid finished NaNoWriMo and so can you!

Nya Wilcox can write, and she’s a published book to prove it.

The 11-year-old daughter of Mark and AmberLynn Wilcox recently had her fantasy novel come out in print. Phoenix Feathers is available on Amazon in paperback and can also be found on Amazon Kindle as an e-book. A simple search for “Nya Wilcox Phoenix Feathers” will bring you to it.

The story takes place in India. Having never been to that country, Nya did research to learn more about it and locations of cities.

“I didn’t know much about India, but I placed it there because a boy and his twin sisters find a Ruby Phoenix that can transport them places,” Nya explained. “I thought that it would be more likely for them to find that in India because of the culture and mystique there.”

The description for the book describes the story as: “A boy, his twin sisters and a wolf pup unknowingly embark on a quest to save a magical world. Facing fire, water, ice and armies, they must return stolen feathers to a trapped phoenix, who is their only chance of getting home. But an evil sorcerer and a Blizzard Queen will do all they can to stop them.”

The 125-page book took her a month to write. She wrote it last November as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). There was some extra motivation.

“I knew she wanted to write books,” Mark said. “She had been trying. On Oct. 25, I got this great idea. I’m going to challenge them for NaNoWriMo — her and her older brother. You write a novel by the end of November and a you get a Lego set worth $20. Nya refers to it as The Bribe, all caps, italics, underlined. It was just a simple motivation to give them something to shoot for, a goal. Nya really took hold of it and ended up writing three-and-a-half hours a day to get it done.”

Nya would wake up early, work through lunch and stay up late.

“We weren’t pushing for publishing at that point,” AmberLynn said. “It was just to reach a goal and see what she could accomplish.”

https://www.hjnews.com/news/local/young-smithfield-author-publishes-1st-book/article_9da16813-cfd7-5027-88bf-32b5447460de.html

>>16572293
IM JUST A BURGERPUNK
MAKIN THE MOST OF MY LAST SUMMER

>>16573548
Her parents are convinced it began with reading. Nya learned to speed read at a very young age. AmberLynn said reading is the first thing they work on in their home school.

“She has read the Lord of the Rings trilogy in 24 hours,” Mark said. “That gives you an idea. ... She has a gift for ready and comprehension. That has translated pretty well to knowing how to write a story and convey realistic characters. She has picked up a lot from her massive amounts of reading and it’s translated into very readable novels that still has innocence and the fun of youth. There are a lot of laugh out loud funny stuff.”

“We ask ‘are you getting this?’” AmberLynn said. “We ask questions and she is able to answer all of them.

When they decided to try and get Phoenix Feathers published, Nya, with the help of her father, spent three months “polishing” it. Mark designed the cover.

“We used KDP — Kindle Direct Publishing,” Nya said. “It was super helpful. ... It checked it for any flaws and then sent it back saying it was good.”

Nya gets influences from what she has read. For example, the Blizzard Queen in her book reminds you a little of Narnia’s White Witch, but is not the same character.

“Those are much better than mine, so I won’t compare,” Nya said of books she reads.

Before moving to Smithfield with her family, Nya lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. There are young authors contests in Wyoming. She took first in Teton County out of all the schools and tied for second at state in her age group. Nya accomplished that twice when she was six and seven years old.

Right now she is interested in fantasy and listed the earlier books of Jessica Day George — not the later ones — as her favorite. As already mentioned, the Lord of the Rings trilogy is a favorite.

“The Hobbit was always getting checked out,” AmberLynn said.

“I’ve paid enough library fines on that book (The Hobbit) that I could have bought it three times,” Mark said.

>>16573554
A boy, his twin sisters, and a wolf pup unknowingly embark on a quest to save a magical world.

Facing fire, water, ice, and armies, they must return stolen feathers to a trapped phoenix, who is their only chance of getting home.

But an evil sorcerer and a Blizzard Queen will do all they can to stop them…

https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Feathers-Nya-Wilcox-ebook/dp/B086P29RPM

>>16568142
Saved the link, I'll join when the time is right.

>>16568142
Has anything good ever been produced through NaNoWri? I feel like most people would be better off writing at their own pace, instead of crapping out a novel in a month that no one will read

>>16573648
The only """famous"""" novel from this contest that I know about is that little girl's book, but it only got attention because of the novelty of a young author, not because of any literary merit

>>16569052
Asteroid miner falls in love with the experimental AI his employer implanted in his head, so he runs off. Employer hires a space Pinkterton to track him down and get their intellectual property back.

>>16569052
pige seeks validation between the legs of free love, finds joy as an unattractive pige only in a one-way correspondence of letters addressed to his childhood home - status of property unknown - and imagining the readers' response as he travels the us in a bangbus with other passengers.

>>16573648
A writer with the necessary work ethic to be good could manage something equivalent to NaNoWriMo any time as needed. Struggling amateurs need the novelty and containment of a month to guide a short burst of actual consistent effort. You won't produce anything exceptionally good in a month, but you can force yourself to work on good habits, and you might end up with some gems you can polish for later use.

>>16569052
I'm going to write six long winded rants (meditations) about my feelings per day on /lit/, and I'm going to write them to the post character limit.
When they are compiled they will be the length of a 50,000 word novella.

>>16573055
It takes time to sell work. My efforts have been delayed for close to a year now because the company I worked for got bought out and they eliminated my job. Trying to avoid self publishing

>>16574833
What is the stack of? Printouts of what you've written in Microsoft Word? Why not just keep it in the cloud

>>16569212
Based

>>16574833
>Trying to avoid self publishing

There are plenty of self published writers that are worth reading. What makes you think you're so special that you're somehow better than that? Work with what's available to you.

>>16572497

>>16575095
It’s personal. Every time I finish the first draft of a novel I print a copy. It like watching a child being born. Newer drafts are saved in the cloud and in emails and thumb drives but you really feel the gravity of your accomplishment when you hold a thick stack of papers in your hands and feel the weight. This is a pic of all 11 books in my space opera. You can actually sit on it like a stool. Bigger doesn’t mean better but having a visual representation is a better way of conveying the scope of the project

>>16575264
Not scope, scale.

>>16575251
I’m not special, just imaginative and tenacious

>>16575279
>just imaginative and tenacious

Sounds to me like you're just arrogant and prideful. But considering you've been posting those boxes here for years I imagine languishing in obscurity of the Genius Unpublished Author has become part of your personality.

>>16575264
wow anon, if you aren't larping than that's pretty neat and impressive

>>16575336
You know, I’m tempted to agree with you. It’s a very real fear I’m trying to overcome. I’ve been sending queries but receiving no responses. The delusional mindset of “I’m just an undiscovered/ misunderstood genius and everyone else is shit” is an incredibly cozy blanket that’s hard to shake off. I think I’m ready to face the music and be held accountable for the quality of my work regardless of the reception. I’m trying very hard not to be that terrible stereotype. It’s a daunting realization that everything you’ve worked so hard for fifteen years could be for nothing. I guess we’ll find out, eh?

A journey about recovering one's muse through the lens of several female protagonists, inspired by various failed ERP character ideas. A metacommentary on social isolation, parasocial relationships, internet culture, and porn addiction.

I'm gonna write a story about a retard because everyone keeps telling me to write what you know.

>>16575412
Then put on your good helmet and get to typing, Corky!

>>16575391
How much is written?

>>16575788
Nothing yet. Unless the narrator acquires a gf and is confronted with interpersonal vs intrapsychic conflict, it wouldn't make a good story.

>>16573784
Agreed