Is it worth it to try and create a "Moby Dick" of astronauts? A book that will be remembered in centuries to come as a kinda mythological basis for space travel. Or is that just a giant waste of time and it will end up like every other sci-fi slop.
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You'll never know until you try.
>just try it bro!
>completely ruin your reputation and can never get any serious published again
>same guy who told you to do it pipes up again
>well at least you tried bro! thats what really matters!
>feels zero guilt for fricking your life up and continues to give shit advice to everybody in his life with zero introspection
is there anything more annoying than fake "positive" advice towards your own detriment. I feel like it was never this bad historically.
You can always publish under an ''alias''. Allot of untested authors do that.
if you're going to be such a histrionic baby, why even ask?
Holy cope. Why the frick would you get blacklisted for writing a shitty book? I daresay most authors in history wrote at least one shitty book. The defeatist mentality on this board borders on genuine insanity
I had a cool idea for a space war romance book but apparently the exact plot already existed.
>I had a cool idea for a space war romance book but apparently the exact plot already existed.
share please.
Write it anyway please. Digimon is a perfectly profitable IP, that seems like a rip off of Pokemon.
Vampire Diaries actually predates Twilight, but since the latter had a movie before the former got a show, people don't know that. The show still was profitable.
The original Battlestar Gallactica was a blatant ripoff of Star Wars, but had enough original ideas to hold it's own.
If you're actually saying you had the idea BEFORE someone else, you're voice is probably sufficiently different from there's to be worth writing.
write it. the best writers can steal from anyone and anything bla bla bla
Moby Dick was written by a man who actually hunted whales, and new a lot about whales and whaling.
I find it hard to write a “space Moby Dick” since you’ve never been to space nor hunted aliens
Well Ishmael is clearly culturally Black, and most US space fantasies other than fascism are of multiethnical transethnic liberalism means that Ishamael's blackness would be obliterated by the text's white dominance.
>Moby Dick was written by a man who actually hunted whales
And fricked black men.
The Outward Urge by John Wyndham (writing as Lucas Parkes)
>le onions face
Moby Dick isn't remembered for being a whaling guide because it's severely outdated in the scientific department.
It's been done.
>Is it worth it to try and create a "Moby Dick" of astronauts? A book that will be remembered in centuries to come as a kinda mythological basis for space travel. Or is that just a giant waste of time and it will end up like every other sci-fi slop.
The only art worth making is art which is made to perfectly satisfy an audience of one. ie, the writer.
You're a 14 year old with pretentions of being remembered thousands of years after your dead, when in a decade or so, the names of far more recent creatives such as Kubrick and Hitchwiener will be entirely forgotten and in a few decades more, the names of Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, and James Cameron will likewise be forgotten to an obscure almanac that only retronerds will give a frick about.
Walk the streets and ask how many people can name Hesiod? You can laugh at it, but the truth is, society is crumbling. No one cares to preserve our history. It's written in paperbooks that will be burnt or trashed if no one in the bookstore/library checks them out in a long enough time. It's written in digital archives that will either be deliberately purged to make for a new and innovative history that is more politically useful, or assuming the best of intentions, will simply be wiped from all databases when the earth experiences a sufficient solar flare or EMP-based phenomon. The stone tablets detailing the Epic of Gilgamesh, will likewise be left to rot, if not outright vandalized, like some of the artifacts found in Sweden and Norway which were trashed.
You have to understand that the memory of Shakespeare is NOT going to be remembered in 2100, as anything other than a compliment or epithet applied to multi-page tweets. ie
>It's not Shakespeare, (ie, it's okay.)
>Shakespearean (ie it's good but has nothing in common with Shakespeare)
>Too Shakespearean for me. (ie still has nothing in common with Shakespeare, but the speaker is indicating that you talk like a gay and your shit's all moronic.
If practicality and posterity are inhibiting your ability to express yourself in the here and now, I hope that's only because you're redoubling your effort to learn a marketable job skill, but given that you're wasting time on IQfy, I'm guessing not.
blackpilled moron
Why doesn't he show the title of the book in the thumbnail?
I think the title is "Iliad in Space."
That doesn't really answer my question
If you have enough astronaut experience so that literally half of the chapters in your book will be straight-up nonfiction and will have little to no relation to the narrative, then go for it.
Have you ever been to space? How can you hope to write the Great Space Novel if you've never been to space? Melville spent years at sea.
Lots of great writers wrote about stuff they never did
So write erotica
Sea travel and fishing are older than history and relatable to the masses. Space travel is relegated to science fiction for the next few centuries
Space Travel is Moby Dick.
Everything we know says its impossible, but the majority of people have been raised to believe that this will be the future.