/lit/ - Literature

>>13243898
>sneakers
ie what 90% of people that guy's age wear most of the time.
Observational comedy brought to you buy people who don't observe things.

>>13241358
it fits.

ITT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3nZx2ZxzSc

>>13240382
Yeah look at his channel. Its not serious

>>13236918
I hear Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, and Ulysses are all very good

>>13236308
The only people who would accuse you of ripping off fallout have are people with for whom fallout is the only known reference point for post apocalyptic fiction.

I'm also working on something in a shattered post apocalyptic US.

>>13236025
Disregard people pretending to be me.
Anyway, where is this set?
I assume somewhere in the united states, but where exactly. What's going on in the world that polarizes the friends and makes their ideologies relevant?

>>13235991
Do they fuck?

>>13233348
Give an overview of your plot

>>13199161
I'm working on a novel about a small band of pan American socialists with revolutionary pretensions travelling across the shattered continent in search of a place to realize their vision.
I'm trying to focus more on the people than on the politics.
I'm about 30k words in which is probably around 10 percent completed.

Ive also been working on a smaller project about a cheating ring in a high school chemistry class told in 5 sections of varying format that form a coherent story in any order, but the order would define how one experiences large sections of it. It sounds pretty dumb, and I'll concede that it probably is but Im writing it to get into the habit of writing a lot more without butchering my other thing as well as to just enjoy the experiment. That has 19k words rn . I'm hoping to finish the rough draft in the next ten days whereupon i'll evaluate its potential and go from there.

This probably means I'll end up deleting the document and either starting over, or just quitting

>>13169425
Update. So this is day 5 of actual writing because im not counting days where im off in a different city or doing a bunch of shit and my smaller projcect now has 15k words.

>>13164182
I'm working on a novel about a small band of pan American socialists with revolutionary pretensions travelling across the shattered continent in search of a place to realize their vision.
I'm trying to focus more on the people than on the politics.
I'm about 30k words in which is probably around 10 percent completed.

Ive also been working on a smaller project about a cheating ring in a high school chemistry class told in 5 sections of varying format that form a coherent story in any order, but the order would define how one experiences large sections of it. It sounds pretty dumb, and I'll concede that it probably is but If Im writing it to get into the habit of writing a lot more without butchering my other thing as well as to just enjoy the experiment. That has 10k words as of this . I kind of had to pause that project as well due to IRL shit, but I can probably get back to it next week.

>>13156189
Why do you ask?

One really good peice of writing advice that i've heard is to avoid "be" and all of its conjugations whenever possible. You can't always avoid it, but consiously trying to generally leads to much more thought being put in to whatever you write.

>>13151072
I got 10k words in, but some IRL stuff came up on friday and I've been busy for the past few days. I think next week I'll have time to get back to it.
I'm not going to work on my main project until I've either finished the first draft of the chemistry class project or scrapped it.

I planned out all of the events before I started, so I never find myself pacing around thinking "what should happen here?" instead of telling the god damn story
>>13149535
I have different ideas. I actually have this problem where I'll be working on something and I'll keep daydreaming about how awesome something else will be. Part of the reason for the chemistry class story was to try to correct that, but if I finish the draft and it ends up being worth editing instead of just tossing, I think that might have the opposite effect.

>>13143791
Its very difficult to see improvement when you're doing that, but the more you have the more potential for feeback there is.
It can't be that bad. Post a sample.

>>13131855
The protracted civil war is not the war between the states that occured in the middle of the 19th century. It was a much grander more multisided conflict that took place around today, and the book is set some decades after.

By focus less on politics and more on people, I recognize that they are connected a lot of the time, but they aren't always. There is a lot of life beyond that and part of what im exploring is the tension between the demands of personal life and the identification with their ideology as well as it's associated actions. And Im trying to not make readers feel lectured at, so you are right about them not sitting around and talking politics much because at the start of the story, they have a pretty established ideology and goal which is shown through things other than direct intra group chatter.

They are seeking a place in which they see both potential to upset the existing order, and a high payoff for doing so which is what makes them "revolutionary"

>>13131617
The short answer is a protracted civil war with causes events and implications that vary by region and ideology. The break up of the union, the fall of the old world, the collapse was enough of a clusterfuck to breed myths around which identities further crystalized.
The political order varies by region. In the area where the story starts, it's a bunch of towns that dont really have the means to fight eachother and are generally cooperative, but arent interconnected enough to mount a common defense. A large section of the deep south falls under the control of a nominal federation that in practice is very reminiscent of the holy Roman empire. The areas within this patchwork range from city states to more proper nations that exercise central contr over large chunks of former US states. The mid Atlantic region where they end up is a series of those more proper nations locked in a balance of power atleast until some internal crisis in modern day maryland changes that.

>>13127119
I did make an outline of it, and If I feel im forcing things out I'll work on a different section. That said, I don't know if the project even really has any potential.

>>13107087
I have 9k words now. I'm speeding along, but I'm not sure if what I'm making is any good. I am enjoying the experiment though.

>>13107087
Update. I made an outline and wrote 3 thousand words of the small project yesterday. To avoid spreading myself too thin, I'm not going back to the main one until I've either finished or deleted the smaller project.

>>13109286
what is reddit feeback?

>>13109286
I dont consider myself knowledgable enough to give meaningful feedback, and i wouldnt want to post my stuff without giving any. Not to mention me being an insecure autist

I'm working on a novel about a small band of pan American socialists with revolutionary pretensions travelling across the shattered continent in search of a place to realize their vision.
I'm trying to focus more on the people than on the politics.
I'm about 30k words in which is probably around 10 percent completed.

I also have this idea for a much smaller project about a cheating ring in a high school chemistry class told in 5 sections of varying format that form a coherent story in any order, but the order would define how one experiences large sections of it. It sounds pretty dumb, and I'll concede that it probably is but If I did write it I'd write it to get into the habit of writing a lot more without butchering my other thing as well as to just enjoy the experience.