Literary Fiction

Hey everybody,
This is the first time i'm writing a novel. My novel is about a crazy dad and his three children. It has got suspense, comedy(I think) and even a flashback. All Iwant is a writing buddy.

I saw someone wondering whether Vonnegut was very LitFic-ey, and most people said he was. This one's probably a bit tougher. Is Fight Club a LitFic book? It has themes, it has philosophy, it has edge and post-modernist prose... But I'm not sure what other people think.

I was wondering if there are any novels out there that are partly written in one language and partly in another language.Would you know of any such novels?

My novel is contemporary but an important subplot takes place at the turn of the twentieth century.

The subplot is loosely based on historic incidents but I have changed the name of most of my main characters, except the really famous ones like John Muir and Abraham Lincoln, who are mentioned briefly.

So here is the question, if a (previously) minor character who was a famous Berkeley professor is key to this subplot should I change his name? Just change it a bit? It will likely be pretty clear who this is based on if anyone did a little digging. Should I mix up my character description so it does not resemble said professor?

This is likely a very rudimentary question, but given how popular "historical fiction" is these days, I hope you will share your thoughts.

Again, I am not going for historical fiction so is it just cleaner to re-name my characters except for the above two examples?

Plus I must be having a mini meltdown, I just at a whole bunch of cheese and crackers chased down by tecquila and orange juice. I have been off dairy for a month so this I must be getting really excited or tomorrow night's candy fest. ;)

Appreciate help and feedback...

karendor

One of my characters wants to murder her mother, despite that fact that her mother is deceased

After writing a chapter of stuff that leads to the police investigating, I've found that I still don't know why

Any help?

Anybody done it?

I checked several chapters at Added Bytes and got an average of grade 7. I am not surprised since I do try to avoid using too many Latin words. However, I was wondering what the litfic average is. Am I writing for simpletons?

Hi,

I'd be interested to hear from anyone else out there who's writing about a character who suffers from clinical depression. Any thoughts on how best to handle it and avoid cliche?

Thanks!

My novel is set in current day, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, at a beach town. But it's no summer beach read - the topics involved in this book, whether main or minor, are not your typical girl-and-boy melodrama.

I have a racist, homophobic superior complex girl in my story. She's country-obsessed, outspoken, loud, and rather controlling, which comes off as leadership-like. She says several direct and indirect racist things around another character, Kiana, who's part Hawaiian, part black.

What I need are some racist slurs/jokes/ anything awful. Give me your worst, besides just illiterate words (like the N word). This girl is intelligent and thinks she's witty, when she's really just a terrible person. I'm going to use some I've heard in real life, because I know someone who's really like this, but I'd appreciate a few more.

Feel free to incorporate all the races - Asians, blacks, Hispanics, Indians, even native Americans. i can find ways to work it in. Even a few homophobic insults would be nice.

I like my main characters so much, yet i know to be interesting, I have to introduce something like death, and I don't want them t o die, or sickness, and I don't want them to get sick. so introduced an ex lover to the story. He was controlling, meanand evil, jealous and controlling. After I had written 2500 word about the dude, I felt a bit of depression. Anyone else have that experience? Maybe I should off him. (In the novel that is.)

First time NANO entrant, and it is so much fun.

I'd like some writing buddis Maybe from Minnesota or Arizona
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JB

Looking back on what I've written so far, all I can think of is "oh my gaaawd, why would anyone want to read this. It is ONE BIG CLICHEE. everything is so predictable and even when I try to make it more interesting, it's still a pile of boring, non-surprising shit."

So the story is told from MMCs POV who is depressive, working in a psychiatric hospital, steals valium there and finally decides to kill himself. In the hospital he meets FMC a very cheerful, optimistic girl who had a mental breakdown after she has been diagnosed with a disease, she has only 6 months left before she'll die. The night MMC wants to take the pills, FMC calls him and asks him to help her find her father, she eventually finds out what he originally planned for that night and they make a deal, he stays alive long enough so she won't have to grieve his death and if he still wants to die after that, he'll at least know he tried. (I've written until here so I'm a bit confused as to what comes next)

They now go on their quest to find FMCs father who lives in a small town near San Francisco, it's a hippie town to be specific, they still live the summer of love spirit and all that jazz. Her father is some kind of hippie guru and FMC & MMC get to know their unconventional lifestyle.

They spend a few months there trying to experience as much funny things as possible (FMC has a list of stuff she wants to get to know before it's too late) at some point MMC can't take it anymore he is afraid he'll grow too attached to FMC and as he's depressed it's getting too much for him. (WHERE DOES HE GO??? no idea). But as the time of FMCs death draws near, he realizes his mistake.
She doesn't want to die in the hospital, so they make one last trip.

I thought about writing another story line from the father's point of view, his life, his thoughts about his unknown daughter and the lifestyle he chose over her etc.

Gosh this is so long and my English is so bad, I hope anyone can help me.