Post your novel ideas

But a video game isn't a novel. They're two different mediums.

Ever heard of visual novels?

They are neither video games, nor novels.

A group of rap battling robots on post-apocalypse earth triangulate the location of a pirate radio station because they're tired of it playing bad music.

It turns out that the personalities and interests of the robots' AI are driven by the context of their environment (To better fit in with their now long dead human creators), and the hip-hop music playing from previously mentioned pirate radio station is the only thing giving them character and autonomy.

Travelling further from the source of the music during their triangulation process makes them dull and apathetic to their goal. This causes the main strife of the story along with the usual robot shit in the vein of philip k dick. There is no happy ending.

Thats pretty cool, would read. You made the drawing as well?.

I remember the last time you posted this, still a great idea

>A tyrannical king dies leaving his young, attractive, socially progressive son in charge. The people are hopeful.
>Early in the young leader's reign the court is scandalized when the king prematurely adjourns an important diplomatic meeting so he can poo.
>Advisers tell the young monarch that the king must exude an air of infallibility, he must never make it known that he poos.
>Time passes. The king is now gassy, bloated, ugly and irritable.
>The king empties the treasury to purchase fine robes and expensive perfumes in a vain effort to look attractive and imposing again.
>Executions are common, the people are starving, eventually they successfully rebel.
>When the king is brought to the chopping block he's practically spherical, clearly he wants to die.
>The headsman brings his ax down, a thunderous brap deafens the crowd, everyone is enveloped in a thick brown cloud.
>In a distant land a shepard finds a beautiful headless corpse in an impact crater.

Originally intended as an entry in a collection of children's stories with a revolutionary theme, I can't think of any other stories. Anyone who wants it is welcome to it.

An alcoholic, masturbation-addicted, BBS-surfing, In-Training Brain Eraser™, John Footloose, goes on a cyberpunk-biopunk adventure in the last city on earth, Big Money City; a place in tenuous civil strife between a cantankerous rebel group (Slipheed), the gay mafia (the Money City Maniacs), a Hollywood establishment attempting to seize a monopoly on all media (Epstein Entertainment Enterprises), and the local government attempting to keep their footing.
Outside its boundaries, the countryside is slowly being engulfed by Zdzislaw-esque chitinous humanoids, bizarre black obelisks that suck the very life from the soil and destroy technology, and all sorts of nightmarish megafauna, slowly expanding their realty from their stronghold in the Adirondacks, to Big Money City (Boston), with the only thing holding them back are the crazed bounty hunters, and a gameshow host who enslaves criminals to fend them off the creatures on a reality TV show, Ivan the Bearable's Kin Hunters.

John Footloose's has the works:
Treasure hunting for a fabled hard drive of golden age pornography.
A close encounters with mind-bending monster.
Playing cards with a superhuman mobster, 100% Heterosexual Huey, before being pursued after being accused of reading minds.
Getting a double-lubed hand job from an amputee with a bionic implant.
Ghosting his ex.
Being pursued by a Lovecraft-crazed seemingly magical serial killer named Strigoi Man who invades people through the power of dreams.

Great idea, i hope you go through with it.

Is this a meme from penny arcade or homestuck or something?

>two separate planets exist in an orbit around each other
>both have advanced life, with one around the tech level of rome and the other in a tribal warfare state
>tribal war planet is where the protagonist is born
>because of the planet orbit, day and night are correlated with level of gravity, so on one planet there is low gravity at night and high gravity during the day
>on the tribal planet, this means that warfare at night is all about raiding and high flying action, while during the day it is based on defense and raw strength
>meanwhile on the rome planet, the second protag is a girl scholar learning that a high ranking politician has found a way to communicate with the tribal planet and has established himself as a god. he's planning to bring the warriors from that planet to his to stage a coup

and thats about it. mostly just trying to build a story around the two planet world, which is really the only good idea in the mix

this reads like the premise to a terrible fapfic

'fraid not, it's fanart of homestuck

thanks, I've omitted some details that are still in flux, really the only things that've stayed constant are the hip-hop inspired robots and radio station, the actual drive and world context for the story have changed a lot in the process, probably still will.

I've actually read mspa shit pre-homestuck, andrew's previous work on the comic And it Don't Stop probably planted the seed along with a few other works that I'll refrain from mentioning before my plagiarism unravels. that being said, the robots in homestuck are only incidental fuel for the fire.

Slice of life on a mining colony

horror, or metaphysical analysis on the reality of existence?

Could it be marketed to children though? Would it have to be toned down?

not at all. I see the general idea you're going for, but it's nested in so much gross and unnecessary shit that it's practically unsalvagable

Sounds interesting if it's a satire and it doesn't take itself too seriously.

Agree to disagree. Grimm's became increasingly bawdy with each new edition because kids enjoy violence and scatological humor.

Random siren monsters that appear and kill people with their screams.

only a few people are immune to this, and people call them saviors and governments get them to fight.

eventually they realize that the source of the sirens was the saviors, and that they wanted humanity to have false hope.

secret agency is formed to hunt down the "saviors" who have magic superpowers, but the problem is that they've infiltrated everything.

Sirenhunters have to low-key kill them and have no one defending them

>increasingly bawdy
pffft. Grimm was dark as shit senpai. there's a reason people stray off the path of his direct explaination

It's just a bunch of shit, from satire, to cyberpunk, dystopian, to an eldritch thriller, etc. It's going off the rails, but that's part of the fun.

What if I've already written a couple but I know they still won't be going anywhere?

that one goes into the stolen ideas bag

This sounds like you have a lot of legwork and planning in this. Could be good if it's rediculous enough.

> Could be good if it's rediculous enough.
> rediculous

Please leave this thread, turn off your computer, throw it away, set yourself on fire and jump off a bridge

You know what you are, user? You're a fucking grammarian. Real linguists, especially those who study English, despise grammarians. Why? Because English is a vibrant, EVER EVOLVING language. Fuck you, user. Until English is truly dead, until the only ones who speak it are pompous little beige boys at the University of Mohammad (Boston branch) I AM LITERALLY INFALLIBLE!

Main charecters gender is never defined.
Watch people with agendas panic because they cant tell if its a story about a chad thundercock fucking several women and see it as a male power fantasy, or a progressive story about a lesbians sexual liberation through polygamy.

>Spacing between greentext arrows.
I think we found the person that really needs to commit sudoku. Jesus, pull yourself together.

I'm not trying to be rude but you have to summarize it first to get people interested, as much as I love reading random shit from people online there is no pull for me to read these huge as blocks of text. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Bit of both. I really enjoyed It, will probably have this third dude something similar. Maybe aliens. I've had a few things happen in my life that have made reality seem a bit unstable so hopefully I won't start seeing these characters in my own dreams/life.

The Emperor commissions the best painter of homoerotic nudes to paint a nude portrait of his 16 year old son, the heir apparent.

While the young prince poses for him, the painter learns that he has never been to bed with a man and becomes determined to seduce him despite the Emperor’s clear interest in his son’s body.
Meanwhile the Emperor sends boys from his own personal harem to the painter to keep the painter company in his bed.

Cute little tsundere sister has always loved you. But you aren't really close to each other and she becomes sour due to your uninterest on her. Things happen, you become together, but incest is a taboo. How could you date your little sister and make love to her? So there's drama involved, your parents find out and you two end up running away to the countryside.

Please post some of this

Wow, that's fucking gay!

Have an idea for a short story about the end of a Gladiators life, and his reflections regarding his life before he is killed in the arena.

I also have a story idea about a village getting wiped out by a disease, and the only survivor becomes a carrier. As he wanders around lost he unknowingly spreads the disease to other villages destroying their lives as his was taken. After this he commits suicide via the guards searching for the source of the destruction.

cool. i was going to compare the idea favorably to the dark half (one of my favorite king books), but didn't want to trigger Veeky Forums and get in a flame war over it, hence the vagueness of "horror".

> A handful of politically engaged college students in Paris go down the XVth arrondissement catacombs to have a good time and do drugs
> They meet two skins that went there to indulge in their homoerotic taboo, and proceed to beat them up
> The group discover how deshumanizing they can be sixty feet under the civilisation
> The police, who does sweeps in the catas, find them at random. The MC escapes

This may be partly autobiographic.

I'll have to give it a read. I've been wanting to get more into King, the only books of his that I've read are It and Cujo. I had nightmares for weeks after reading It.

>This may be partly autobiographic
lol. fag. you deserved to have the shit kicked out of you.

>autobiographic
You mean how you got beaten up while blowing a homeless?

i like just about everything from 1991 and earlier. he has a pretty big stylistic shift between 91 and 92. i think that might have been when he got off the coke. post-91 exceptions are nightmares & dreamscapes and desperation. i also liked full dark, no stars, but that was a pretty non-kingy collection, if that makes sense.

A surreal cyberpunk story, in which a schizophrenic is connected to cyberspace. It is told in first person. There's a lot of time dilation.

megazone 23

A 12 year old trans girl and a 66 year old comedian named Al Franken embark on a 30 day road trip exploring the United States and each other’s bodies. Zeta Catrel members come after them, but are thwarted by ninja vampires on motorcycles who desperately need the blood of a transpenis to live.

It’s called Dickgirl.

will it end up in ss13-tier destruction?

She's gone boys. My Veeky Forums waifu has been archived. Anyway...

A 6/10 qt discovers that an old photo of herself circulating online has developed a small but devoted following. Disgusted and confused, but at the same time somewhat flattered, she infiltrates the cult of "her". The temptation to manipulate her admirers becomes too much and she starts instigating fights among her fans. Things escalate, she starts (unwittingly at first) encouraging violence among her fans, soon these "waifu wars" spill over to the real world with deadly consequences. One day everyone just moves on without explanation, no one seems to care about her anymore. Her confidence is shattered. The story ends with the qt failing to muster the courage to ask a hunky Chad out on a date.

A single second of a lunch scene drawn out for 30 pages. It's metaphysical horror

Metaphysical horror isn't synonymous to boring

not a novelist but sometimes I think of stories I would write if I could. Here's one that comes to mind

A young woman is obsessed with finding her 'soul mate', but having no success. During a bout of fever dreams she sees visions of a chicken laying an egg. She is convinced there is meaning behind the dreams; specifically, an epiphany in her mind that two souls meant for each other may only reunite if the soul is split in the first place. She believes the only way to do so is to impregnate herself and depart the egg inside her. She finds a mate to help her do it, but when her egg delivers a daughter some months later, she is faced with casting away her bizarre philosophy and becoming a loving mother

>inb4 'no wonder you're not a novelist'
i know

stay off the shrooms yeah?

It went to the trash so you're wrong about that faggot

An odyssey story of a living mummy, his page (The narrator), and a large stone guardian with the world experience of a child. The mummy will travel the world with his expendable retinue that grows and wanes throughout the journey until the end when he reaches apotheosis. I kinda want it to be like Siddartha.

If I were really to do this, it would be a short story with illustrations. It's just a good excuse to be a draw-fag.

mummies are patrician, do you have any art of the design you have in mind for the retinue members?

Nah, not yet. I'm too busy creating fan art for Malazan.

I'm pulling from a lot of sources though. I'm really into the Japanese designs of the Dogu, and they also have very interesting stories of Buddhist mummification, where the monks mummified themselves. I love that idea so much. The retinue members will largely be dirt peoples of different regions.

caught my eye. mind elaborating a little?

Or she could... ya know, pursue/ groom her own daughter. Just sayin' is all.

interesting. what era does it take place?

Post them user, it's not like it's going anywhere.

ok. Here is a link to what I've written on them so far:

docs.google.com/document/d/1YxoMMIA81XLFDqgB-ZW1YnBcWBnAHEhNOTsl2sCCOL8/edit?usp=sharing

Anything I try to write just ends up being shitty Dark Souls fan fiction with my OC waifu as the main character.

It won’t be ;)
Time is just really scary

Show me your Malazan fan art user.

A manic-depressive college dropout gets a vision of the future, of his body lying unvisited at his wake, while in a laundromat and decides to make himself universally unlikable so as to make his premonition of dying alone and unloved come true.
He does this by abandoning his life as a gas station attendant to become an itinerant priest, preaching great things while believing absolutely none of it.
The bulk of the story is him disgusting and alienating everyone he meets as he stumbles through society with his sidekick, who he just follows around, a fat wannabe vampire who's trying to convince Satan to turn sin into a pyramid scheme.

A priest is assigned to a new parish. Having been raised a devout Catholic his whole life, he begins to abandon his faith after interacting with the mostly secular populace around his parish. His repressed homosexuality also comes to the forefront when a college student who goes by the nickname of Hyacinth comes home and begins going to services to see him, tempting him into abandoning the faith. But if he were to abandon the faith, he would have nowhere else to turn to. He resolves to keep his newfound atheism and his homosexuality hidden while still performing the offices of priest as an act of charity towards those in the parish who need it the most.

This is an idea that's been brewing in my head for a while, so apologies if it seems a bit half-baked. What do you all think? Any suggestions?

Here is a W.I.P for you user, extra points if you can tell me what characters they are.

I guess aiming for around 600 B.C., around when the Buddah was born and Hinduism was big.

>late 19th century
>a gate to hell opens in transylvania
>legions of hell start invading europe
>european powers temporarily ignore their rivalries to fight off the demon hordes
>gates start popping up all over europe

i thought of a specific segment where there was one particularly devastating gate in ireland. irish soldiers win a battle against a few demons, and the demon prince curses them and so they wake up the next day to find all their daughters and/or sisters dead. this is supposed to be a very sad moment and it enrages them to the point where the entire troops sacrifices their lives in a berserk successful battle that destroys that particular gate.

>war starts before nikola tesla left for america
>he invents crazy ass weapons for europe to use against the demons
>the technology has something to do with heaven and the divine idk
>intel reveals that to defeat the legions of hell the european allies have to recover a weapon hidden somewhere along the rhine
>a special team is selected to maneuver their way through war torn europe along the rhine to find the weapon
>the weapon is a person in some tomb
>he leads a victorious army that annihilates all demons in western europe
>one gate left, the transylvanian one
>it leads to the innermost part of hell, the residence of satan himself
>some stuff happens and then some dude with an intense faith in humanity goes in there and kills satan with a sword forged of gold from the rhine
>overarching theme of human excellence and persisting in the face of adversity
i'd call it Kyrie Eleison

the main character is a god and doesn't know it, his life is a cryptogram that allows him to attain parinibbana at its final unfolding in the last scene

Dude, your shit fucking sucks.

Brian Aldiss, Non-Stop, its a scifi classic

before you decide that AI is an interesting idea, try write two pages about it that aren't in the Spielberg or Ex Machina movies

its spelling

Make the main character female and you could make money

Anyone got any opinions on these?

that's fair, and actually why I've teetered on that point more than any other. I feel like the guilty pleasure that is rhyme spitting robots has to have some context beyond 'this is just how the world is', and through bouncing ideas off of anons here for around a year now I'm pretty set on the dynamic AI.

I don't want it to be some ever present question running throughout the narrative, that's not the drive. I don't want it to be about the nature of AI. It's the answer to a question and not really the focus. A good way to frame it would be to say the realization that the bots' AI is being railroaded by outside stimuli, (primarily being the pirate radio station in this case) is an extremely slow burn from the characters' perspective, if they realize at all. The realization, if it does come, culminates in whether or not turning off the station is a good idea or not, and what that means for the bots' future.

I'm hoping the general levity of the setup and also the mannerisms of the characters will deflect any "meaningful" commentary or philosophical quandaries that may be expected to pop up in a story with AI. it's not important to the characters, because they're fuckin' rap battling robots, and it doesn't matter to me because that's not a story I want to tell.

This is a good. Weirdly, I have a character in a game that looks almost exactly like the katana dude except she's a grill.

The AI is an actual ex machina:)

unless you really have something to 'say' about AI, I'd try think of a different plot device. Its a topic thats like a magnet for autistics who post movie reviews about the 343 'plot-holes' in the last Marvel movie

This. Be sure to keep the part about seducing the king's wife though.

i thought your idea was dumb when i saw it in the previous thread, but with this expansion i like it a lot more
you're a retard

you're an obese anime fan

as I said I've flip flopped a lot with many aspects, anything can change and I'll definitely keep that point in mind. I think you're right in a way that in my head I'm taking to mean as 'Having something that major without a desire to extrapolate on it could hurt the story overall'.

maybe a cheesy one sentence summary really doesn't do my idea justice, but I hope it acts as a hook.

a) i'm not, and b) even if i were it wouldn't change the fact that you're retarded for suggesting he scrap basically the foundation for the premise because some hypothetical spergs might hypothetically get twisted out of shape because user might not say enough about the effects and implications of ai for them. that's like telling benchley to lose the shark because he might offend marine biologists.

i'm suppose to call you a pleb pseud but i like it

>I hope it acts as a hook.
i think in a vacuum it would, but Veeky Forums has so many tryhards who take themselves and their ideas too seriously that it's becomr my default assumption about posters in these threads. it's difficult to know when someone is actually just having some fun with an idea, like you appear to be.

Think Ghost In the Shell but the human protagonist is the fugitive, not the AI, and the core theme is quite a bit different—the consequences of people becoming more than human, rather than the question of what it means to be human.

I'm writing an ethical theory that describes:
>Anything that promotes the most utility (e.g. happiness) as ethical
>Anything that does not promote the most utility as unethical

I call it utilitarianism. It's a work in progress. I think I'm getting somewhere, though.

>boy is sent back in time after his brother offs himself
>slowly learns his brother was a rat and kills him himself
>plot twist that's what happened in the first place
>whoa.jpg

the causal loop is the most played out time travel trope of all time. if you're gonna' do it go primer levels of insanity on the loops, or handle it another way.

that being said I would probably still read it

If I actually did it I would focus more on the boy's gradual realization of all the negative memories of his brother he suppressed and the development of his character as he mans up and makes a stand