Green text the plot of your book

>Alienated Jew Memes City Dead

>Young homeless man strives to find his own identity and fails, instead deciding to drive himself insane with a huge amount of hallucinogenic drugs, in order to forever inhabit what he calls "the real," an abstract space outside of reality where his thoughts create everything. The Real also serves as a blank slate for his imaginings, and he can be anything he wants to be. What he wants to be, namely, is a conqueror. So somewhere along the way we'll see him re-enacting history, or creating his own, perhaps fighting against people he despises or who make him insecure.

>astronauts go to space
>discover an extraterrestrial biped insect race living underground on a planet
>insects are friendly to astronauts
>the insects emit oxygen
>insects live underground
>insects breed and reproduce
>insects consume their own larva to survive
>astronauts are starving and ran out of food
>insects bring astronauts their larva so they won't starve
>astronauts don't ever want to leave
>the insects emit a pheromone that changes patterns in the humans brains so that it makes them believe they're a part of the insect hive mind
>NASA sends more astronauts to find out what happened
>everyone just stays on the planet and lives happily with the hive mind and peace keeping mentality
>insects keep reproducing and so do the humans
>they run out of room on the planet
>start invading earth
>earth gets taken over and slowly subjects to the hive mind mentality because of the pheromones of the insects
>Chuck Norris sees what's happening and puts an end to it all

Cool idea, friend.

It was the oldest of memes, it was the dankest of memes

>handsome cool guy looks like Jodie Foster living in small town
>crazy John Hinckley Jr type guy stalks JF and is secretely gay for him
>JHJ is a bitch so no kill
>queue crazy harassment campaign to rival Scientology
>small town turns against Handsome Jodie Foster because slander and gossiping hicks
>HJF debates and demoralises enemies until all hicks becomes culturally depressed and disenfranchised
>HJF learns life lessons about using words not violence and not taking status seriously or some bullshit
Really the whole book is about teaching people to shut the fuck up and keep their hands to themselves.
It's like social commentary?

>set during the French wars of religion
>young impoverished member of the lower nobility joins the army in order to find fame and wealth
>he's a total fuck up
>finds a loveable Jacques esque sidekick
>the go on some wacky adventures and accidentally end up having a large impact on history through their loveable cock ups

>she
time to kill yourself

influenced by greg egan, like 'a kidnapping', 'permutation city' etc? :3

a tour de france no less

So basically Don Quixotte x The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared x Jacques le Fataliste?
would read/10

>Europe three decades from now. Northern Ireland, Germany and England.
>Yadda yadda
>Brutality, war, rape,
>Mainly centred on Germany
>Kid living in the safety of the countryside gets his home destroyed by a radical Islamic death squad, joins a band of ten other travellers fleeing the unrest which include an older fella who saw the collapse from the start, a young and ready kid ready tpo fight, an ex mercenary and a young Muslim girl carrying an infidels child from mixed marriage.
>Happenings in the European Parliament too

I'm only writing it because I dreamt it all recently while sleeping off a fever. Might self publish it on line for free, see what happens.

HINT: there wasn't exactly a happy ending.

>musician does a lot of drugs
>records a hella good album
>makes mad dosh
>wanting to replicate this, does more drugs
>while recording the new album, accidentally discovers a jewish cult that holds a deep secret.
R8

So you're basically writing Matt Pike's biography

>Kid gets arrested
>Story flips back and forth between detective and kid
>Cat and mouse until they realize there was no murder
>The killer was hedonism and consumerism and it's enveloped them both without their realizing it
>One dies the other runs away from the modern world

If this is real it's fucking terrible

>boy falls in love with girl
>he asks her out
>she says yes
>their date goes well
>they become gf bf
>after 4 months they have a mutual break up
>they bith go on with their lives

so, you're writing eyes wide shut but from the pianist perspective? coolio

It's a screenplay but whatever...
>Young Parisian, who used to live with his mother near the French Riviera, lives now with his father, a guy from the high Bourgeoisie.
>The young Parisian is totally alienated in this huge city, he's stuck in an apathetic state.
>He tries to escape his existential ennui with a friend. They party and fuck drunk whores. Well, the main character doesn't because he's disgusted when a drunk whore he was about to fuck starts masturbating. The emotional connection he was seeking is lost because of her narcissistic act.
>He ends up meeting a girl in the metro. He sleeps with her and she steals his money before leaving him asleep in a hotel room.
>Our main character doesn't care. His father is rich anyway.
>Lost in a nightclub, he meets a drug dealer who defended him during a fight, a really charismatic guy who wants to make a deal with him : the main character will bring him to parties filled with bourgeois and let him sell drugs, they will then share the profits. The main character accepts but he doesn't really seem to care.
>The drug dealer introduces his girlfriend who happens to be the girl who stole the main character's money.
>The main character acts as if he didn't know her.
>The drug dealer and her are in an "open relationship". He produces cheap porn films for the internet and she stars in them.
>The hero does a bunch of shit with the drug dealer and the girl. They all have fun.
>Meanwhile, the hero falls in love with the girl after becoming her secret fuckbuddy. He starts to see meaning in life.
>They start to make their own plans behind the drug dealer's back. The hero sends her to seduce rich married guys and once they end up in hotel room, he breaks in, beats the rich guys up and takes their money.
>The drug dealer eventually understands what's going on. His girlfriend provokes him and he beats her up. He then sends a friend of his to get the main character.
>The main character escapes the beating.
>The girl calls the main character and plays the victim.
>The main character becomes furious. He calls the drug dealer and asks to settle this in a meeting.
>They meet up, get into a fight and the main character stabs the drug dealer.
>The hero asks the girl to leave toward the south of France. He tells her that he can't follow her because it will be too dangerous for her.
>The manipulative bitch asks for more money.
>She leaves.
>The last shot is a wide shot portraying the hero alone in the train station as the train leaves. He's doomed. He'll probably end up being killed or caught by the police.

Any feedback?
It can be improved, I know, I'm working on it.

>first part is a dream-like free-flowing stream-of-consciousness where pronouns, time and space inexplicably shift
>details a romance that is failed (but laughably conceited) but the lover shift
>supposed to be the remains of consciousness removed of their sense of purpose or context
>mourns the passing of feelings unfulfilled, i.e. historical lovers that couldn't be
>second part
>dry account of a struggling author that's oh so witty and cunning and misunderstood
>the first part is actually a romanticized account of the narrator's infatuation with a vain art student
>the tragic aspect is that his poetry fails to be moving as his laughable, sardonic trials and tribulations unfold
>third part
>editor's note
>basically mocking the whole of the book that came before it, telling the author it's utter shite
>satire of the stuck-up elitist art circles
>broken up by some bit where genuine personal beauty creeps in
>deconstruction of the author's ideals and notions of beauty, meditation on the purpose on art in general

10/10 would read

this, l think it would be better if the protagonist was a male

Dude, green texts are supposed to be something short, a summary, not the fucking bible

Why is he using her to beat up rich guys for their money? You already established that he doesn't really care about money and it seems odd that he would use the girl for this when she has helped him "start to see meaning in life." It's one thing for him to team up with the drug dealer and let him into parties, because it's something to do, but that other part doesn't make any sense.

This just seems like an even more jumbled up My Own Private Idaho, in terms of a rich guy associating himself with people of a "lesser" stature and their degenerate lifestyle.

Why?

>aging butler going on a trip

grandpa-grandson relationship > grandpa-granddaughter relationship

Who is this ejaculation enchantress?

Because she wants to earn more since the drug dealer uses her and takes everything. I should have mentioned it. I didn't see My Own Private Idaho though.

Sue Lyon, she played Lolita in Kubrick's film. She gets me all kinds of hard.

Don't talk about a little girl that way.

Pic related

huh

This is fallout right

>A group of people from around the world comes together be basically vigilantes/terrorists coz of muh justice
>President and VP trying to stop le evil mastermind
>President dies
>VP forced to bring some dumbass along with his escape
>Two timelines from now
>Timeline A is in the past. President and VP coming together with the idea for the organization and recruiting one person in a city for each chapter
>Timeline B is in the future. dumbass and VP finding the same people in the same chapter to kill mastermind
Timeline B is portrayed forward while A is reversed

>Guy is depressed
>while trying to off himself, a chimpanzee stops him
>they become bestests of friends
>later is revealed the chimpanzee has terminal cancer
>at the funeral guy gives his eulogy about how the chimp taught him to live life at his fullest

There will e a bit of Sharpe too!

10/10

> guys cock predicts where next bombings happen

>a boy sits quietly in his room, waiting for the daily rainstorm to arrive
>the rainstorm begins
>he sits at his desk, methodically ripping pages one-by-one out of a collection books in order to add to his oragami-flowers-made-from-pages-ripped-from-stolen-library-books project
>he simultaneously listens to the rain's heavy patter, reaching a state one with himself and his oragami-made-from-book-pages and the world outside of his room
>he's very used to making these oragami at this point, so he closes his eyes to focus entirely on aural transmissions
>he can sense himself falling with the raindrops, and can no longer 'feel' his bodily senses
>this goes on
>eventually, he opens his eyes, walks to his closet and pulls out a tome of unknown origin
>flips to p. 326
>there is unrecognizable writings in green cluttering this page in particular, reason unknown
>the boy neatly rips this page out, and begins making it into an oragami flower
>he is called to dinner before its completion
>the daily rain has not yet ended
>the boy leaves his room & eats with his mother
>pork & green beans alone on his plate

>futuristic man finds cache of lost books including the bible
>lost man tries to find the last plausible physical location of god, inside a black hole
>does he die, does he reunite with a physical god?
he dies

you included a spoiler as if we actually give a shit

:'{ why do you have to do this to me??!

This desu senpai. If you have a plot that can be green texted easily you're writing a shit

>Man goes around the city and finds a substitute for his lost son
>Another man goes around the same city and finds first man as a substitute for his lost father/intellecual mentor
>the first man's wife cheats on him and he cheats on her
Wow I guess ulysses is shit now

>I'm in this thread to shit on people and too insecure to give my own story ideas so I say that a complex plot can't be greentext even though I probably think plot is irrelevant anyway

I'll share it once I finish my first draft.

if you can't explain the gist of your plot in a sentence or two then how the fuck will any publisher take you seriously ?

It's a book divided in 4 parts. I may make an experimental film some time after finishing.

>18 or 19 year old pseudo-artist/pseudo-intellectual guy runs from home after a fight with his parents
>le no one understands me meme
>goes to live with careless alcoholic uncle
>he has no money for university so he plans to spend the next 6 months getting a job, working and in his free time to develop his intellect and art
>meets a girl and his brother, both literally aesthetically beautiful
>become good friends with them
>has to deal with the struggle of his ex girlfriend and beloved woman cucking him and using him as a sex toy
>starts looking for true love
>depression starts to develop
>deals with all his friends starting a new phase in their lives without him
>after some months, he's got a decent amount of money through working and selling drugs
>starts selling his artwork too
>shitty abstract pseudo-art, but it pays in modern society
>realizes all this struggle has made him much more mature
>also realizes his art is shit
=all his plans would fail in the future even if they seemed good in the start, life is harder than expected.

.cont?

>20 Million years ago, Asteroid belt was another planet (lets call k) that was destroyed in a failed experiment
>Secret society on mars develops advanced weapon that destroys all biological life on the planet, male council develops tech to suppress the weapon, too late. All life ends on the planet.
>*eons go by*
>Earth evolves as it has, on its current path, ends in nuclear war, secret society emerges to continue life after a major disaster.
>They quickly advance technologically, much of the earths surface isn't livable, began to colonize the moon.
>200 or so years pass, population reaches capacity, colonize mars, Humanity has risen to multi-planetary race.
>Hierarchy emerges, earthlings think of themselves as the original planet, martians as lesser people.
>Earth has famine, requests help from both colonies; both send supplies to earth, advanced weapon located in the food moves out of suppression field and activates, kills biological life it comes in contact with, ruining the supplies.
>Earth blames Mars, tensions rise, war erupts.
>Reader finds out about the weapon invented eons ago

Rate? Thoughts?
I know it's long, I tried to make it as short as possible.

Can't a grand daughter grand father relationship be just as good if not more so than a grandfather grand son relationship

>life story of a guy
>goes to Oxford
>argues with his brother
>teaches at Oxford
>his father dies
>the family comes back together
>brother kills himself at Oxford
>main character gets cancer
>dies
>his diaries are discovered
>he becomes famous and hailed as a prophet after his death

This is something that came to me in a semi-dream. It's not very original. It's not even a story, but it's a location for a potential story I guess. I don't know.

>human beings living in large and complex underground tunnels in a bronze era-like existence. Devoid of almost all technology we have today. Situated underneath unimaginably massive cities, all abandoned.

>Clans of strange, religious, cloaked creatures that talk in a foreign tongue live in the abandoned cities above. Monk-like, they only keep slight trade contact with the underground civilization. Nobody knows what they look like.

>The above world is full of myth and no knowledge of the previous civilizations or situations in the world. Forestation has taken back most of the world besides the skyrise portions of the city.

I mean, you --can-- explain any story in a sentence or two, but not in any sort of nuanced way and you really shouldn't online in any way that gives well-defined details away before you've finished it, assuming you actually have any faith in your abilities and want it to be published.

People expecting me to write the book out to them in total are fucking stupid and I hope you aren't implying it.

You can easily condense the most complex of books into something quick and easy, nuance isn't necessary because the book is supposed to have naunce not the description

When a book is your book, you will be the one to write it. Plagiarism is the least of my worries when half the faggots here say plot don't matter and the other half are pretending to like books anyway. The small amount of folks who could steal the idea usually care more about thier own shitty idea where they fantasize about thier lives in a different setting.

>the story of Rhodesia
>a land both fair and great
>on the 11th of November it became an independent state
>this was much against the wishes of certain governments
>whos leaders tried to break them down and make them all repent
>but they were all Rhodesians, and they fought through thick and thin
>they kept that land a free land, stopped the enemy coming in
>kept them north of the Zambezi until that river ran dry
>and that mighty land prospered, because Rhodesians never die
Its fiction.

>story of an Algerian guy who moves to Canada when he was 9, goes back to his country, feels very attached to his family who stayed there, but has to face an existential crisis as his two identities conflict within him

No one will want to read this shit.

make sure to visualize his struggle with a moose wearing a suicide vest. better yet, have him throw syrup in his daughter's face when she resists marrying her uncle.

>she sprung from my dreams and put me to sleep
>and those dreams began to bleed through

>"witch, lover, specter, why do you haunt me?"
>"because we are really just you"

Smart user...

Next time tho.

This is the plot to hello....o? Or some indie game like that

>Girl finds out she has Dissociative Identity Disorder
>she isn't the "true" personality
>Murder mystery maybe?
(none of the alters commit the murder, one of them is just an investigator)

A short story I'm writing
>guy and wife live a normal suburban life with a daughter
>they love buying stuff because it distracts them from the emptiness in their life.
>one night at dinner the man is upset over what his wife had cooked, unaware that they had talked about it, this being the capstone of how they don't communicate.
>the next day both meet up with their mistress and talk about what's wrong.
>that night they begin talking about it, but find it difficult. Decide to buy something instead.
>story ends with man buying anew expensive luxury not solving the problem.

Might sound a bit pretensious, but I'm writing it after seeing my friend get swept up in consumer culture.

This reminded me of a book that I read when I was younger (that's only vaguely to your idea), The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau.
Damn... I haven't thought about that series since the shitty? in 2008...

* shitty? movie, sorry

>retards fuck up
>2 years later
>pic

This is like 70% the plot of The Stranger

>worst nightmare I ever had
>somehow sprang into my mind with all the hallmarks of a good horror story fully formed
>had fucking foreshadowing and one of those plots where all the disjointed elements click into place at the end
>was also fucking terrifying, like so much that I dont think Im a good enough writer to accurately convey just how awful it was
I've had dreams before that could be adapted into the base of a good story, but never before one that's a fully story only needing to be set onto paper. The sheer length and content can probably be ascribed to the 14 hour slumber after a brush with a cold death, but I've never even heard of a dream being "generated" out of order but seen in the proper one. Maybe my memory revised itself as it went along, but it sure didn't feel like that.

Really? I read it and I don't remember it to be like that at all.

Nice
But how did he find out she was from a different universe ?

Finds a way even on Veeky Forums

>plot

Ever read Identical? It's YA and it poetry verse but it was a nice plot twist.

>be a dog
>master drives down a path into a clearing in the woods
>master leaves the car
>huh, master sure is taking a long time
>I'm sure he'll be back soon
>any second now
>oh god, he's not coming back
>have to drink rain water from out of the cracked car window
>getting really hungry
>oh shit, a fucking bird just flew into the crack in the window and broke it's fucking neck
>dinner.png
>why is the world keeping my alive?
>I must be meant to live, I'm going to survive this
>fucking die

Basically it follows the emotions of an abandoned dog as it slowly starves to death and his mood as he goes from feeling betrayed to feeling absolute helplessness, hope, etc. It's only a short story.

I'm not going to tell you the plot of my book, but I will ask for your help.

I have no idea what direction to go in with my story, characters, or setting.
I just have the idea and don't know how to execute it. So what do I do? How do I make myself interested again?

I usually just think a lot about them. I spend all of my free time thinking about how the characters would act in different situations and how the setting built the character. And just sort of toy around mentally like that for the entire writing process, then I work on outlines, I build out a long description of the character, their every attribute, their physical properties, thought processes, and all of that. I do this on paper until I basically write an entire book just about this one character. Most of the stuff I don't intend on putting in the story, but it's good to flesh out the character. Then I work on the setting. I draw a map of everywhere the character goes in the story (the plot should be outlined as well by this point) and I get into really specific details, I draw the places near the setting of the story, places that the character may never interact with or may never even be mentioned, but it's good to flesh it out. Knowing these characters and setting as deeply as this makes writing the story mostly about the right words at this point, which can admittedly be pretty difficult.
As for being inspired to stick with an idea. This might not work for everyone, but I also paint, so I paint out different partd from the story and seeing it in visual a visual medium, particularly one as beautiful as paint is to me, breaths new life into my passion without fail for me. I don't know how this could be used for those of you who can't paint, but I'm sure their is something this can be translated to.

>I build out a long description of the character, their every attribute, their physical properties, thought processes, and all of that.
But how do you decide what they're like? How do you decide what they look like?
How do you decide what stuff makes it into the story or not?
I have background information for my character (maybe), and I don't want to force it into the story, but it's kind of important.
It's all the more difficult because I don't know people like my characters, I don't even have any friends.
I just know characters like the characters.

>Oh no its satan!

Well, I may not be the best person to ask because even though I do all that planning and outlining there is a madness to my method. It just comes to me at random moments of inspiration. I literally get all of my ideas at random. So I think you just kind of have to be like naturally creative or smart or something to do it because I have no idea where any of my ideas come from.

Or you could study phycology and use that to write characters. That would probably help.

>It just comes to me at random moments of inspiration. I literally get all of my ideas at random. So I think you just kind of have to be like naturally creative or smart or something to do it because I have no idea where any of my ideas come from.

sounds like total shit! nice!

>implying

Your book isn't going to be very good

No

>The hero sends her to seduce rich married guys and once they end up in hotel room, he breaks in, beats the rich guys up and takes their money.
This part doesn't really work. I don't think any scheme like that could work more than a few times. Exclusively, repeatedly targeting rich people is bound to go wrong very quickly. It's weird, its implausible, and it isnt important to the plot

I guess the big problem is, why does the hero care about her? What does he see in her?

The relationship is the heart of the story, and right now it seems dead. It's not clear what he sees in her, and she doesn't care about him at all, so it's going to be hard for the reader to get emotionally involved. The main character is sort of pitiful, but based on your outline he doesn't sound especially interesting or sympathetic

All that being said, its interesting and it could be a good story

GOAT

This sounds like a story that its going to be hard to get emotionally involved with. Idk. Don't stop trying, but the story needs to be more than just that

tell us the rest of it, you attention whore
also, so far that looks like /r9k/ the book

If its really good, people might want to read it
If you summed up the plot of Ulysses in a single sentence it looks like shit, but its still interesting

That sounds miserable and frustrating to read, but thats probably what youre going for

>Nothing
>"Nothing"
>Something
>Some action
>Some creature
>Some suffering
>Some collective
>Some creation
>All death.

Sounds like the perfect plot for a YA novel.

>It's all the more difficult because I don't know people like my characters, I don't even have any friends. I just know characters like the characters.

I'm right there with you on all points. My main character is a mash-up of the Canal+ Cesare Borgia, my more manic drug-use days, Ser Jorah Mormont, and something entirely his own. My deuteragonist is basically Harry Crane from Mad Men. I really need to draw them out, I think.

My sister and I brainstormed this: Think of traits you like for your character and write them down on paper. Abstracted like this, the image you have of them will sort of fade. Then, you can take those traits and draw them yourself, creating (hopefully) a brand new character.

As for all of your other questions, for myself personally I find that personality and story details both come from character motivation. My story is really a landscape made from the relationship of the two main characters and their quest. Like, these places exist for them, and so do the events of the story. But then again, what I'm writing is extremely psychological.

Find "rechargers" like brewing coffee, watching the news, going for a walk or run, driving around, reading, starting or continuing to work on other projects, things of that nature.

God, that sounds really painful to read. Did master kill himself?

That was a very idiotic thing to say.

I'm not even sure which one is my deuteragonist and which one is my protagonist anymore.
>Think of traits you like for your character and write them down on paper.
As in what I would want them to be like? Doing that sounds wrong.
I'm a stickler for accuracy and both my characters are former gang members.
I'm also extremely indecisive.
Since I'm writing a sci-fi about systematic racism I suppose my characters come more from their world than the other way around.
But I'm having trouble with the setting too. It switches in my mind between LA, NYC, and Chicago.
>personality and story details both come from character motivation
I was so set on trying to figure out what my set proagonist's motivation is that the set deuteragonist doesn't have one, at all. Fuck.