I'm in the process of writing a long poem about Moby-Dick. It describes an alternate ending to the novel where the Pequod (the poem's title will simply be "The Pequod") encounters the white whale at dawn in icy waters off the coast of Japan. I plan for each of the major crewmembers to have their own soliloquy, in order from Ishmael, to Queequeg, Bullkington, Flask, Stubb, Starbuck, Fedallah, and finally Captain Ahab. I may insert more crew members into the poem later. I'm not sure if I will actually describe the action of the encounter with Moby-Dick, right now it is just about what the characters do when they realize the time has finally come to face the white whale, when he has finally been sighted, and I may cut off just as the first harpoon is thrown. For inspiration I've been rereading and making notes in a notebook about each character so that I can get to know their manner of speaking and personalities well enough to embody them in verse, and I've been reading Whitman, Milton, Shakespeare (the tragedies, King Lear especially), the Bible, and a lot of the romantic poets (Shelley and Coleridge). Any other things I could read to give me inspiration? I'm not the best poet but I just think it's a cool idea so I've been trying to catch up on my knowledge in poetry. I'm writing it in a loose blank verse at the moment a la Paradise Lost and Shakespeare, but I keep wanting to rhyme things, so I'm unsure if the format will stay the same.
What is your work in progress?
I am not much of a writer myself, but I draw inspiration mainly from fiction and literature in general. I just started to read Tolkien's "Unfinished Tales" and "Silmarillion" after almost 5 years of not reading anything.
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I do not like my "creative" periods because I have this extreme urge to take notes, make music etc. 24/7 and then go on for few weeks until I crash and feel absolutely disgusted by any music, literature or any artistic endeavor in general and do not touch them for a month or two only to resume my activities.
Nice idea. Hope you can pull it off
Cool story OP. My novel that I'm working on is going to have a Moby Dick inspired dream sequence
you should go whaling for a couple of years
That sounds really interesting can you tell me more about it?
It's about the founding of a quasi-monastic Backpacker's Hostel in the middle of a desert. The dream sequence features the hostel's founder as a type of Cpt. Ahab. Haven't decided what the dream's white whale will be. There will be bedouins armed with scimitars circling the hostel like sharks. It will be funny, and completely bonkers.
My novel is loosely bound together by the idea that this guy, Lysander, has written an incredible novel and then disappeared. It's going to follow a man who reads Lysander in his youth and makes his life-work the study of Lysander. He becomes a leading scholar in the field and then gradually begins to subsume the identity of Lysander, to the point where he begins to write the sequel to the first novel. It eventually will end with him moving off into the wild á la Timmon of Athens and becoming an equally as anonymous figure as Lysander. It's going to end with the implication that his novel will then be picked up by another young man, and the process will repeat again.
Here is the beginning, though it's at a very early stage. I don't expect anybody to read all of it, but obviously, feedback would be much appreciated.
>My novel is loosely bound together by the idea that this guy, Lysander, has written an incredible novel and then disappeared. It's going to follow a man who reads Lysander in his youth and makes his life-work the study of Lysander.
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Yeah, it is a big influence, but the actual story is completely different beyond that very basic premise.
I think it would anger many anons, but it brings me joy to think of it. I suppose it’s a utopian science fiction, but it’s not a perfect world, merely an improvement, a place you’d like to live in. Such is most fantasy.
It could appeal to some anons for its other facets. It is a social science fiction and could be called socialist romanticism. Though the genre cliches embarrass, it is beautiful and simple travelogue through an imaginary future culture.
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that's actually hilarious and I really like it, good luck to you, Moby-Dick is maybe my favorite work of literature and I love seeing it incorporated into other books and stories
Cool, I thought you only read. Any previous creations?
Painting source?
Really short paragraph stories.
I thought I’d try a simple short story for practice first, a little love story told by way of a journal, but now that got out of hand and is actually connecting itself marginally to the larger story
A series of video games called the Liber series.
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Makes really nice water and light
A series of porn short stories with recurring characters. I m doing this to work out my own kinks, masturbate more creatively and practice writing on English (not my first langage). Hopefully it ll be hot.
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Novel, historical romantic tragedy. First draft is done, taking a break to read and study stuff, then gonna do a second draft. Had a headache all day, read a few essays and short stories and a novel over the past 3 days though and some chapters on a relevant historical text. I feel pretty awful. I want to write again either tomorrow or this weekend. Whenever I'm not working on stuff I get too anxious and miserable. Probably why the past year and a half was lousy, I was taking a break from writing. I think I would die if I didn't write. The only happy periods of my life have been when I was working on something.
>Lysander
That's a qt name.
That's funny, I'm working on a modern version of Moby Dick called Dicky Mobe, It's about a jewish midget who stalks and kills a white woman.
Good man, thanks user
I'm rewriting Moby Dick from the perspective of the boat.
I have an idea! What if the ship gets dragged to the bottom of the ocean by Moby Dick and ends up in Atlantis.