Currently writing a futurist post-Apocalyptic book any tips and advice?

[Faggot writer No.18244634]

Currently writing a futurist post-Apocalyptic book any tips and advice?

[Faggot writer No.18244644]

Currently writing a futurist post-Apocalyptic book any tips and advice?

[Anonymous No.18244654]

>>18244634
first, visit /wg/,
secondly, radiations don't turn animals into bloodthirsty mutants, all a high exposure can do is literally only kill them or fuck with their physiology, so abstain from that meme trope please
read authors' guides on these themes, you'll find inspiration from examples, also don't give up if your story turns out to be cringe, there's nothing a good editing can't fix

[Anonymous No.18244664]

>>18244634
Create a futuristic and demonic-sounding drug

[Friter Waggot No.18245099]

Currently Apocalypsing a post-future tips book any advice and writer?

[Anonymous No.18245105]

>>18244634
post examples of your prose here for evaluation.

[Anonymous No.18245119]

Checkout Call of the Arcade. It’s by someone from this board and is like a blueprint for post Apocalyptic books. Good luck!

[Anonymous No.18245501]

>>18244634
>writing a book
>seeking general advice
Yeah, it's gonna be shit.

[Anonymous No.18245508]

>>18245105
>Jason woke up naked, face down in the grass. That was not how he expected to wake up, having gone to sleep in his own bed and his own Darth Vader boxer shorts. From the feel of cool grass on his unmentionables, he had been removed from his bed and shorts both. The last thing he recalled was doing what he did most nights; playing video games until he got tired and fumbling his way into bed

>The grass he woke up on was weirdly comfortable; a dense bed of lush green softness. It wasn’t like any grass he had encountered before, which was a little unusual. His father was a landscape architect, and Jason had grown up learning more about grass than he ever wanted. Mostly because it was the only escape from his mother’s Japanese lessons

>Jason rolled himself over and sat up. He was feeling very odd, beyond just the circumstances. It wasn’t a bad sensation, more like waking up after a really long sleep. There was the lingering sopor, but also a feeling of refreshed energy. He ran a hand over his head, only to be startled to realise his hair was missing

>“Uh…”

>He felt about his head with both hands, but his head was balloon smooth. He made a quick check with his eyes and hands, realising there was no hair at all. No eyebrows, nothing on his chest, or arms, or… other places

>“I thought it was meant to look bigger when you trimmed”

>He pushed himself to his feet and started assessing his environment. Casting his gaze to the sky, the sun was high and the air was warm. It was unbroken blue, the blazing orb burning away so much as the merest hint of cloud. Sunburn, more than cold, was likely to threaten his exposed extremities.

>Looking around, he was boxed in between two long, tall hedges. Looking up and down the dead-straight lane, it seemed to turn at sharp right angles in either direction. The lane itself was wide and grassy, with plenty of room for unconscious sprawling. The hedge walls were meticulously trimmed

>After an unhappy glance down at his bald, naked body, he set off at random to explore. He quickly discovered he was in a hedge maze, the living walls having been cultivated to almost twice Jason’s height. Jason’s first thought was to climb one to get a better sense of his location, but a closer examination of the hedges changed his mind. Instead of the usual boxwood, the hedges were something very prickly, and he was very naked. He looked up and down the path he was on, with neither way looking any better than the other.

>“What the bloody hell is going on?”

>As if in response to his question, something appeared in front of him. It looked like a touch screen, floating in the air, disembodied. He reached out to touch it with an experimental finger, the screen shimmering as his finger passed straight through

>“Hologram?”

>He looked at the ground and the nearby hedges for some kind of projector, but as he started moving, the screen followed. There was text on the screen, which he started reading

[Anonymous No.18247245]

>>18245508
bumping this to be read in more reasonable hours of the day. I'm a /lit/let so not super qualified to judge this.

[Anonymous No.18247551]

>>18245508
Too much information conveyed in too many words. This is exposition dump is a classic beginner's mistake.

That said, the last three lines are a great hook and just need a little tweaking to flow more naturally.

[Faggot writer No.18247835]

Aight I'm back here's the story

>Prologue: Underneath the endless road of the wasteland lies the tunnels that were once part of a larger urban area in the ruins of an ancient city called “Los Angeles”. An engineer by the name of Natraleus recognizes the valuable technology that lies within the tunnels that are infested with the Almost unbearable stench of mutants and, degenerates that plague many of the tunnels. For severable years he had led lead an organization known as Project Enlightenment to find the technology such as Cars, mowers, et cetera to help with the Muran Republic with Agriculture, industry, and of course war.

>Chapter one: January 13th 2522 is the date of the most infamous day of Project Enlightenment’s history. The Organization sent in three teams, all three having exactly 10 guards and 15 researchers and engineers to look for some reported blueprints for an incredibly advanced printing machine in a tunnel library. The first team led by Natraleus search through the upper entrances where the manager’s office is but they could not find the blueprints so the second led by Natraleus’s closest friend Mithryll looked on the lower levels of the library but they could not find the blueprints; however they did found an entrance to the basement of the library. The third, second; and first teams combined to search through the basement. The basement was quite large and had typical stuff like boxes full of books and paper but there was something that caught the group’s attention; a shining orb, purplish-pink and brightly glowing. The excavation team had also found the blueprints to the printing machine. However minutes in the doors shut and lights go out; there was screaming and gunshots where the group only can see from the gun’s fire; seconds later it was completely silent with the exception of the sound of bone crunching and flesh tearing; it seems that everyone was killed off but Natraleus who had barely escaped the library. Now terrified of what would happen next. The engineer heard footsteps and immediately hid himself behind a garbage pile.

[Anonymous No.18247900]

"futurist post-apocalyptic" sounds like a contradiction in terms. Unless this apocalypse happened a long time ago but was cataclysmic enough to remain present in cultural memory the way The Great Flood was. Or you're writing it in the style of the Italian Futurists, which would be fun to read even though it's entirely antithetical to their whole movement.

[Anonymous No.18247935]

>>18244634
>homestuck
Fucking disgusting

[Anonymous No.18247945]

>>18245508
There is absolutely zero artistry to this.

[Anonymous No.18247949]

>>18247945
Get with the times old man.

[Anonymous No.18248171]

>>18244634
>futurist post-Apocalyptic book
Pick another theme. post-apocalyptic has been done to death and we are currently in an apocalypse.

[Anonymous No.18248214]

>>18244634
>Currently writing a futurist post-Apocalyptic book any tips and advice?

make libtards, hooknoses and porch monkeys the bad guys

[Anonymous No.18248415]

>>18248214

>mom i posted it again

[Anonymous No.18248435]

Checkout Call of the Arcade. It’s by someone from this board and is like a blueprint for post Apocalyptic books. Good luck!

[Anonymous No.18248514]

>>18248415
ok boomer

[Faggot writer No.18249531]

>>18247935
>Fucking disgusting

[Anonymous No.18250075]

>>18244634
Well start by writing a futurist post-Apocalyptic book, then ask for tips and advice.

[Anonymous No.18251512]

>>18245508
Would buy and read.

[Anonymous No.18251536]

>>18244634
Don't turn all the protagonists gay in the final bit.

[Anonymous No.18251616]

>>18247835
>>18245508
Rework your writing and pick better names jfc

[Anonymous No.18251686]

>>18245508
It's too straightforward with the exposition. The reader should feel like they're looking through the eyes of Jason: groggy, disoriented, then slowly trapped as he takes in his alien surroundings. Also something about having characters talk to themselves out loud feels amateur
>>18247835
Is there any point to the story other than showing off cool sci-fi concepts?