Writers Need Not Apply

Summarize your book/project into a short thesis.

>In no other period of history have the conscious living been so fully aware of their mortality, impact, strength and existence, yet so ready to abandon themselves for the seemingly limitless wonder and eternity of the archive that is the digital world. If we are to ever be brought to our knees and subdued like beasts and livestock, the cause will certainly be our ability to say so little with so much. Vanity and our ability to balance it with curiosity and knowledge, will carry us deep into the universe, so long as we remember to look both up and down.

It is the nature of intelligent civilizations to destroy themselves, that is the answer to the Fermi Paradox. Our solar system is oddly structured, with a garden world between two post-catastrophe worlds, in a sense: Venus demonstrating the devastating effects of unregulated C02 emissions and other harmful atmospheric agents, while Mars demonstrates the world with virtually no atmosphere or magnetosphere to speak of, which happens to be a likely result of nuclear fallout.

That's actually a fun way to look at our Solar System. Besides grimdark, are there any books that deal with the last/final species? Glad you're writing, user.

I couldn't let your thesis go unanswered.

There was an illegal search and seizure and the cops fucked up, so judge guy you should toats dismiss the case.

>The book is separated into three parts. There's this depressed guy character, and this pleasant guy, and this bitch. Anyway, lots of puns and references to other stuff.

I sorta have an outline

>Guy is in jail writing to his former lover who has died while giving birth. It's a big long love letter to his first love to his meeting with the one who would die, very sad and disturbing but funny and beautiful. Also the guy is a pedophile

Light-based aliens are the biggest threat to our civilization. After gaining access to the internet of an interstellar humanity and downloading into the population's brains, they will quickly go mad as they experience human senses. The only hope we have are two brothers, separated by class and culture, who must fight against each other across the worlds to save us all.

>The primordial demons being kept confined under the mountain are catastrophically unbound and roam the forest, terrorising a group of innocent hikers into gibbering madness. One of the hikers is only play-acting at being a person. Great fun ensues as one of the demons and the hiker that isn't a hiker make repeated attempts at consuming each other.

>A taxi driver wishing to become a writer and a prostitute wishing to become anything else travel together across a city in the dark hours of the morning. Together they learn that the American Dream isn't dead, if only because it was never alive in the first place.

>also the guy is a pedophile

Ruined it

Would read user. As long as you keep it as far away fron Taxi Driver as possible, it sounds like it could be a fun story.

You can't get a story about a pedophile published. Lolita is SO well written that it's the exception. Take out this element and you have a good idea. You could make some legitimate statements about rehibilitation and love.

Not even close but hey you're trying at least

thanks for all the ideas lads

Dream Children got published didn't it?
Shit, fucking Peter Sotos got published and those books are just Sotos' sadistic pedophile wank pieces.

The United States is a monstrous land of opportunity and change whose culture and societal velocity alienates the children of immigrants from their parents. The soul of those children who arrived in the U.S. when they were old enough to remember and to have been shaped by their first country but not old enough to not be changed again by life in the U.S., is a double layered creature that is never fully at home either in the U.S. nor in its first country. The multi-generational saga of immigration that results in the absorption of a family line into the U.S. and the sublimation of its original ways into a space-age society is the subject of this novel.

ah man, maybe keep class out of it unless you really think you're onto something new here. Science fiction as class polemic is getting really tiresome and tends to distract from the anti-human horror potential of science fiction. And light-based aliens downloading into our brains and driving themselves insane sounds like a great premise for true scifi horror.

Have you seen 'Arrival' or read the original short story, 'Story of Your Life'? might be good inspiration for truly alien encounters.

I have noticed that celebrities invariably use felt tip pens for autographing.

That would be a great opening line for a novel desu

would read

A woman disguises herself as a man to attend a prestigious academy for magic, but while running an errand she encounters a wandering warrior whose life she changes with an improperly cast spell. Now she must follow this mysterious warrior to prevent her spell from causing further harm to those around them, while also trying to protect the secret of her identity and reconcile with the notion that magic does not, in fact, solve everything.

>The galactic union of humanity has been all but exterminated by an extra-dimensional foe. In a final bid for survival they must concentrate the last of their resources and energy reserves to send two humans back through the millennia to prepare us.

Two different types of self absorbed idiot encounter a wise man and both go off on a foolish adventure seeking something they don't need based on bad interpretations of his advice.

Got one

>people repeatedly call a guy a pedo because they just don't like him and its the only thing they can do that will make him look bad without them having to provide any substantiating proof of the disgusting slander, guy gets fed up and crashes the people's careers who were responsible with no survivors

did I get that about right?

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That's a good point, to be clear I mean class as in "from different backgrounds", not as a dig on stratification. The character piece is something that I'll probably be completely revamping along with a lot of the narrative (because of that potential for sci-fi horror yo!)

>sotos
lmao what a legend

Sotos is actually respected for his criticism of the media. I have not read Dream Children but damn, you're right, he got Norton to publish it.

So... nothing at all?