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Someone already beat you to it /lit/, now what are you going to write?

>> No.3126718

>>3126710
Second Novel

How the bohemian alter-ego of the author gets really drunk at a bar every night because the manic pixie girl cheated on her with a musician

>> No.3126719

>>3126710
I'm european.
My novel has nothing quirky and is about coke, sex with prostitues and reading bataille.

>> No.3126720

Young depressed drug-abusing white male author
A lone misunderstood genius wanders around a bleak and uncaring city while pondering the nature of life and death while reading books like Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Finnegans Wake

>> No.3126724

I didn't know Dmitri Martin wrote a book.

Does it have drawings?

>> No.3126734

While I am a white male, this has absolutely nothing in common with my book.

>> No.3126756

I did something like the opposite of this awhile ago before scrapping it, the main character was a manic pixie man who acted out as a mechanism for coping with his issues and gets tamed by a well-adjusted younger girl.

>> No.3126766
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3126766

First novel by a young, white, male author?

>> No.3126795

>>3126719
Careful you don't slip on all that edge, pal.

>> No.3126800

My first novel was about a 14 year old me who decided to actually help that girl in my class who was bullied rather than simply ignore the fuck out of her

>> No.3126830

>>3126800
Shoulda done it man. Sexist or not, helping bitches out is good for the soul.

>> No.3126899

Probably something sci fi related. Maybe a first contact scenario, maybe interstellar conflict. Maybe an ancient evil.

>> No.3126906

>>3126800
>My first novel was about a 14 year old me who decided to actually help that girl in my class who was bullied rather than simply ignore the fuck out of her

Does the guy have sex with her and then dump her?

>> No.3126909

>>3126795
>Careful you don't slip on all that edge, pal.

It's a carefully designed, committee-approved euroedge, certified by ISO 9000 and Brussels. You can't slip.

>> No.3126913

An older failed version of the author escapes from suburbia through a series of road-trips and miscellaneous adventures, culminating in him leaving for South America after meeting two people that represent everything he both loves and hates about modern culture.

>> No.3126929

A story of a good but somewhat naive king who wishes good for his people, yet his advisors manage to make the worst out of his laws. Basically bargaining with daemons, if anyone's familiar with that.