Sell us on your idea for a novel/novella/short story

A construction manager working in a Dyson sphere, and the stress of being so far away from his family and the time dilation that's occurring that he will never see his children grow up. They will be the same age as him when/if they meet.

Also, his wife fucks the neibour

A trip up the dimensions and out of reality

Short story about a journeyman boxer in the 50s and the general shadiness of boxing at the time. Will be my first try at writing so starting with a simple enough plot and a subject i know plenty about

What's the point?
Sounds eery familiar.
Pretty boring last part, solid enough before.
Alright.
Lacks conflict otherwise alright.
If you hurry up, you might get on the PR aftermath from the Mayweather-McGregor meme.

Starts with a kid just turned 21 ordering 2 shots drinking 1 and leaving the other for his deceased father, and travelling through sketchy motels and lonely desert towns on his way through the loneliest road in america too visit his grandfather in a ghost town tucked in some hole in nevada too learn about his dad and his life through his dads dad.

A satire/tragedy/Bildungsroman set in a college campus somewhere in the NY metropolitan area. The protagonist is Jim, a pretentious shut-in with delusions of grandeur who's scraped by by making friends with his professors and namedropping thinkers he doesn't really understand. Side characters include Christian, a Satanist Traditionalist concerned with the future of the white race, Marc, a pretentious art student who's obsessed with becoming the next Oscar Wilde (to the point of "adopting" bisexuality), but is held back by horrible art and worse ideology, and Thissideup, a Colombian illegal immigrant whose parents don't speak English. He's a fascist who claims to be left-wing and gets all his ideology off of YouTube. There's also his professors, which range from a senile old man who shows up either in tweed or women's clothing, and an alcoholic mother of three.

The plot itself follows Jim as he tries to actually succeed and fails every step of the way. It ends with him having a nervous breakdown and the professors passing him in his classes, despise the fact that his nervous breakdown was brought on by the fact that he'd done none of the work for the courses. He then graduates, as does everyone else, and the novel ends.

These are all based on real people.

The story is about two lesbians who are thieves and after a bunch of robberies, one of them disappears and then the main character (the one who didn't disappear) moves to another country and after integrating there, she commits suicide. The reader then discovers that it wasn't suicide, but that someone killed her (possibly the disappeared lesbian).
The fact that they are lesbians absolutely isn't supposed to be the main point of the story.

Now that's a bestseller, kids.

If you can write it in a way that isn't too patronising towards the idiots and hold it together with humour, and have some external plot adding structure.

At least it is a good idea then. Thinking about making it short

A person falls into a super resilient cryobed in an accident, wakes up trillions of years later on a super advanced planet made out of crystalline and metallic materials. They're the last conscious being alive, and is being communicated with by the Universe (god).
The person reflects on life, explores the planet and witnesses the big crunch happening in the sky. There are no stars left, the only lightsources in the sky are from artificial super structures.
The person slowly comes to realize that they are to become the next God and let the old one retire back into simplicity.
The Old God says that the person's consciousness is going to be the new foundation on which the next universe will form on, the person can't kill themself as the Old God is now all powerful, because all other conscious beings are dead.
The Old God explains the situation and the rules to the upcoming God.
I could go on, but don't want to create a wall of text.

Dude write that book

Reminds me a bit of “Chicamauga.” Different enough, though. I wouldn’t say derivative.

Basically I'm trying to rewrite Lucky Jim or Decline and Fall, but based on the fuckers I actually see in my daily life. I've gone through a few drafts now, and I'm hoping that the one I'm working on now is the last one. Of course, since all these people are just exaggerated versions of real people, I'll have to publish under a pseudonym, but still

>sounds eery familiar

A similar scene happens in the 1960s Italian novel The Leopard. An Italian soldier gets shot in the gut and wanders into the garden of an aristocratic family’s estate where he dies under a lemon tree. Idk if it would be too similar.

this is a Twilight Zone episode

Automated art.

Young, lonely, lethargic, borderline-alcoholic, straight, white male wanders aimlessly around the city and is sad a lot.

Hello there Hamsun.

I go to college in NYC, these characters honestly sound like people I know kek

Hunger? I might pick that up this week, is it good?

I do think so, yes. Loved it.

This sounds fucking unreal. Get it done.

A goth quits his job as a gas station attendant to become a street preacher, inciting others to incite others to live virtuously. He meets an occultist trying to make sin into a pyramid scheme (he gets other people to get other people to get other people to get other people to sin and on and on) and who ultimately wants to convince Satan to adopt the strategy. The two embroil themselves in grungy wacky violence as they do their thing until the main character learns to hate virtue just like his occultist "friend" is revealed to hate sin.

The idea isn't terribly well fleshed-out because I just started, it'll git gudder once I'm in the thick of it.

fake memoir about the writing and recording of "you get what you give" by the new radicals.

Told from the perspective of the community college student James, he joins socialist club at his community college by his friend's friend (female) invites him, thinking he can use this as an opportunity to get laid. Instead this leads into a spiral of cocaine, copulation, communism, and all other sorts of delinquency as James tries to make the world what he genuinely believes to be a better place, while only further degrading himself.

Damn. What episode? Are you sure? I don’t remember anything like that.

In the future where anti-gravity racing has become an international icon, one of the greatest racers of his time tests and succeeds in a training regiment on himself which manages to remove concepts such as stress, anxiety, and improves his mental endurance in the process, turning him not just into a perfect racer but a man who could almost anything flawlessly once having learned it. He retreats into the shadows and allows for upcoming icons in the sport to try and beat his times, seeing if they could follow the same path he did, trying to use it to prove the power of the human mind and the evolutionary process in an age dominated by interest in robotics and artificial intelligence in the social and scientific spectrum.

A satire on the modern, wealthy household in an Indian metropolitan city. The book has three protagonists: older brother, the younger adopted one, and their cousin. All are adolescents who have just enrolled in university. The satire extends beyond the household and takes on issues like class, caste, and other things. Hope to introduce Western audiences to an unseen side of India.

Genre - realistic philosophy // utopia-politics / sci-fi
A person becomes increasingly conscious of how interlinked biology & life are and how they work. He twists his limits to make the impossible happen and favor his life into an utopia. He's still sad by the fact conscious is a lie and subconscious dominates everything and commits suicide, believing that death and birth go hand in hand.

Make of that what you will.

light novel
A shut-in drops out of college when his distant rich Uncle drops dead and gives him the inheritance provided he stays in the family apartment building longer than the other heirs. As a shut-in he's content on winning until he discovers the apartment is full of paranormal dangers. He allies himself with an overpowered demon with very simple interests, a paranormal blogger who can't catch anything on camera and a slavic native who constantly brings aliens into the conversation, despite the rest of the apartment is in agreement that they're not real.
Think Kono Suba with a Goosebumps paintjob.

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