/lit/ - Literature

Don't you know that the problem with this board is that no one actually writes anything?

If we did this and didn't end up with 15 chapters of PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS, I would be very disappointed.

>>1829173

That is not true. And we could do it.

well since most people here want to write some fantasy scifi horseshit you can count me out

Now all I can think about is Rollercoaster Tycoon.

>no wooden coasters

PLEBEIAN.

>>1829184

Hey man, read the park rating, shut your face.

>>1829193
Your park is still pretty ugly.

>>1829203
>>1829193

If /lit/ could rid itself of this silliness I think we could do wonderful things.

Well what could we write?

>>1829207
We couldn't. Get with reality; we're all lost pseudo-intellectuals.

>>1829207
I think silliness is the reason why I come to /lit/. Serious posting is for non-anonymous posters.

Keep on fighting the good fight, though, Strad.

>>1829209

Maybe a collection of short stories on a particular topic from different vantage points. And then meld them together into a super tale.

>>1829212

Oh alright.

>>1829209
how about the tale of an office workers slow dissent into despair having to deal with his mundane meaningless and utterly solitude existence culminating in his depression in the final chapter

I'm just going to trip it up for this thread. It seems like at least some people here are interested. I guess we can try to get something to write about now.

>>1829215
What would be a good topic that can hold enough vantage points without seeming like some sort of action/thriller movie?

>>1829217
I meant to say suicide, end in his suicide but for some reason was rereading my post and type depression again

Give me 5 minutes to finish my fap and I'll be in on this too. This is actually a good idea.

>>1829224

How about we choose something that is not dark and dreary?

Neat idea, OP. The only way to get that to work, though, is to come up with something that would explain the style shifts. Or not, maybe we could just run with it.

How about a cop explains a case he worked on, but he's schizophrenic so the style shifts seem plausible. Or maybe one central event described by several onlookers.

>>1829221

Perhaps our impressions on some important birth. Or marriage? Or vantages from onlookers on a scene of chivalry.

It would be challenging to make it interesting.

how about a dwarf blacksmith that has fallen in love with the elven Fletcher from the next village over but since they're both different species a with cast a spell that makes them alternated races at random just so no one will ever accept them

Well my idea might be a bit western/anglo-centric, but I think it might be interesting in this situation.

If we follow the path of a family line for 400 years, from 1610 until the present day, each chapter being the story of one of the line, we could tell a bunch of different, relatively short stories in the timeframe of the early renaissance, the american and french revolutions, the civil war, the formation of Canada, and the entry of all these worlds into modern times, with a common thread.

A swindler comes stops at some ranch/small town to promote his product: a fluid that is supposed to heal all ailments. Different people can give different accounts believing that the product is bullshit or not.

A bit boring, but the whole idea of differing vantage points can be worked in very easily.

>>1829237
Maybe a bunch of people at someone's house/a bar are watching the news and then the death of Osama Bin Laden is reported on television? It gives different points of view and it's pretty relevant so it can be easily worked with.

how about in the future a new technology is developed(I'm thinking FTL or teleporters) and we see how it effects a bunch of different family across the world(think of all the jobs lost)

>>1829251

Well I will say that the potentially more mundane topics can produce some of the most imaginative writing.

>>1829250

I could live with this as long as I can write a chapter around 1900.

>>1829258

This idea is quite splendid. It would make for easy inspiration.

>>1829250

You will have to explain this a bit further.

>>1829261
Even though I sound like a self-promoting whore saying this, I think it could work pretty well, with not only the original reaction, but with what people do about it when they go home and hop on their laptop. You can have people going on Facebook, Twitter, 4chan, etc. It helps work in the theme of a growing infrastructure in America and it can help reveal some character.

>>1829265

It's not really a story in itself as much as it is a framework. You can write about the old world, and the customs of the time. You can write about the age of exploration, and the settlement of North America. You can write about the English Civil War, and the sacking of Ireland. Or the effects of manifest destiny, or the American Civil War, or either of the World Wars, or the culture of Canada and it's relationship with Quebec. There's really a million things you can write about, and they can all be connected by lineage.

>>1829282

This might require a little bit of research but it holds merit.

>>1829282

If we are actually doing this I have an awesome story in my head. It's about a pair of brothers who split up while crossing the ocean.

Ideas pitched so far:

- Multiple perspectives, both in person and online, on the death of Bin Laden
- Schizophrenic cop tries to piece together a case
- History of the last 400 years as seen by a family line

Anything else?

how about a polish family are all spread out around a town near the german border, the story consist of the family members attempts to get across town and back to their home whilst the German enter the city

I'd like to try my hand at this guys. I write a little here and there and would like to try contributing. If it's shit, say so, and I'll gladly sit back and stfu while watching. Let's work out a plot!

>>1829299
I have a few more, but they're not as good as the ones you mentioned.

20 biased newspaper articles give a different perspective of the same event, but piecing them together lets the reader discover what actually happened, and proves all of the articles wrong.

Admittedly this could be hard to do.

>>1829317
Seems a bit Rashomon-y.

>>1829328

What is Rashomon?

So we've got:

- Multiple perspectives, both in person and online, on the death of Bin Laden
- Schizophrenic cop tries to piece together a case
- History of the last 400 years as seen by a family line
- Polish family races to get home before the Germans reach them over the border
- Newspaper subjectivity story

Shall we put this to a vote?

>>1829334

I vote with Championofthelegion

>>1829332
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect

A short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa that was made into a film by Akira Kurosawa. Though the film relies more on the short story "In a Grove." Your idea didn't sound exactly like that, just reminded me of it.

>>1829336

But all the ideas are great and I will still contribute.

I vote for the history one because I have two stories kicking around already in my head.

let me suggest a fragmented postmodern meta-narrative on 4chan society

in other words, the only way /lit/ could possibly string together a incoherent stack of the crudest writing imaginable and still be able to call itself classy

>>1829334
400 years of history one

I'll contribute to anything, though.

I'll find all the idea interesting but I'm gonna vote for the Operation Fall Weiss one, but if I think I can write about the topic selected I'll do my best to contribute

>>1829345
have each perspective be from a different board to keep it interesting

I've already posted my idea with regards to the history one so I am voting with that story. If we are going AV, my 2nd place vote goes with the Poland story.

>>1829346

I still like the idea of different perspectives of Bin Ladin's death.

>>1829356
I do too, but I have a feeling that I'd be better off writing the generational 400 years of history thing.

I guess most of us are okay with the 400 years idea then?

If we are doing that, I think we should look at a couple of stages for locking down stories and timelines, and then working around that. So we should pitch our stories first, then build a timeline around that, then additional stories from others will have to follow that timeline.

>>1829359

I can handle a section dealing with new settlements in Canada or the United States. I can write from the perspective of a missionary.

>>1829359
I was just thinking about it, do you think we have enough people to cover 400 years of history?

>>1829359
I'd love to talking the first world war, I was thinking the first born just returned and try to tell his little sister the horrors he saw and try to get his farm up and running again since his father past away while he was over seas

>>1829359

I am going to write about a pair of brothers that leave the West Country of England, in Cornwall in 1665 for North America, hoping to get away from the religious and political strife in their home country. After a long and arduous journey, as they reach landfall, one stays in Newfoundland, while the other decides to make his way further down the Atlantic coast, to a place equally populated, and just claimed from the Dutch: New York City.

>>1829359
I was thinking about covering the early Baby Boomer Generation and WWII through the son of a WWII vet's point of view.

>>1829362

Well this isn't going to be a record of every single thing that has happened over the past 400 years, it is more of a record of the important events, or those that symbolize the life of those involved. If we can get twenty people to cover 20 years, we are already done.

>>1829362
well there should be generational gaps to explain how families beliefs/perspectives/ economic opportunities change

What's driving this story? What's the reason we are using this family as the basis and point of view? The problem?

>>1829367

Our stories would fit together quite nicely. My missionary fellow could be the son of one of these men.

can we et a family name, make it a lot easier to work with

>>1829377

It is just a framework more than anything else. In a way it could be a study as to the richness of the bloodlines of everybody, as by nature of being here, our ancestors have survived and seen all of these things that seem foreign to us throughout history.

>>1829384

Yeah, we have quite a few stories, we should probably hammer out a family name and the location of this family at the very beginning of this story.

My suggestion is the surname Knyght (becoming Knight in the 1700s, as early modern english peters out) and a first setting of Bristol, England in 1611, as the first copies of the King James Bible are brought into town.

>>1829407

Knyght just evokes such simple metaphor on the surface. I am for a simple generic name.

"Knyght walked across the brightly lit cathedral floor and stared over at Bishop Fredrichs."

If we're doing the family thing, I'd like to write something about the guilded age. I don't see how that would fit in with the aforementioned ideas, but I don't see how any of them would fit together in the first place.

>>1829417

Well it is a surname, so I would figure in most stories, apart from the establishing paragraphs, it would not be paid much attention. Plus, I can't really think of another surname that I know for a fact is exclusively of English origin. A lot of the common western names today are actually of Irish origin.

>>1829424

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Surnames_originating_in_England

>>1829424

How about "More"

Simple enough name from a splendid fellow, "Thomas More"

It can be Moore later I suppose.

>>1829430

Moore is actually a Gaelic name. Irish/Scots

Well then keep it as More. It has a certain air about it, I feel.

>>1829444

How about Riggs?

>>1829446

Riggs has a rougher commonality. But I shall agree to it if it is decided.

>>1829459

Honestly I think you are the only one left in this thread. So there isn't much of a discussion here I don't think. We can bilaterally move on with More as the surname. Are you okay with starting in Bristol in 1611? I want to keep the majority of this family based in the West Country, and Bristol is as far east as you can stretch the term "West Country"

>>1829468

Alright. Possibly post the remainder of the project during the peak hours of /lit/. more participants should be fourthcoming.

>>1829471

Well I'm going to repost what we've done so far tomorrow anyway, but I only had the idea after watching the hockey game tonight, so I couldn't hit the peak time tonight.

It might not be a bad thing that some of this important stuff is only done by a few people or it might become very chaotic very fast.

Well I'm writing a story that starts in 1665 and goes on for twenty or thirty years, so you can mark that off.

>>1829475

Oh gosh was the game good tonight. I swear I heard the entire city stop and cheer when they scored.

And that sounds like a plan.

>>1829478

What is the plot of yours?

>>1829485

I'm the guy you got the West Country idea off of presumably >>1829367.

>>1829485

I shall fit in wherever needed with the story of a missionary who wanders in search of god and in his name.

>>1829489

You mentioned earlier about linking your story with mine. I was going to have the two brothers in my story leave because they wanted to escape the religious pressure and just live their lives, and it might be interesting if you make a missionary out of one of their sons and the sort of reversal of the normal conflict of that time, where a parent is forcing religion on their kid, it is the child finding religion and wanting to educate as many people as possible.

>>1829488

Oh ok right.

Perfect.

I guess now until I repost or rebump this thread tomorrow at probably 7 pm EST, we can just focus on whatever story/chapter we want to write, and the conflicts which will inevitably result from that we can hammer out then.

So the only parameters we have at this point are that the surname is More/Moore, the original starting point is Bristol, England, and that we want to base at least some of the family out of the West Country counties: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

>>1829509

Forgot my trip, posting in /sp/ as well.

>>1829509

Somerset.

Since I am a Maugham fanboy apparently.

Bumping.

Okay, so about how many people do we have working on this?

>>1829159
Holy shit I played RCT1 last night too on that same map and only got my park rating to 931.

>>1830201
Where can I download that game for free/incredibly cheap?

I find this idea interesting. But I have no real will to contribute. I hope you guys can write at least a few stories together though.

>>1830205
>>1830205
>>>/rs/rollercoaster+tycoon&from=ALL

>>1830252
You're a good guy, Brownbear.

Bumping for tonight. Will not be on myself.