hey guys, this is my first post tin the literature forum and i want to present to you the novel that i am currently writing on. i am going to release the entire novel on my blog, starting RIGHT NOW read the first tease here: http://brottoschreibt.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/tullpa-a-first-tease/ now the novel's name is going to be tulpa and is going to be about, well... a tulpa for those of you unfamiliar with this feel free to have a look at this: http://tulpa.info/ or you can just rely on me to describe the phenomenon to the best of my abilities in the book, i am going to give it my best, i promise no you must know that i am from germany, so i am not a native english speaker. but still i am going to release this in english to be able to appeal to a bigger audience. so i'd appreciate if you could let inappropriate use of vocabulary or punctuation slip by as long as it doesn't get to bad. so well... i think that's all for now! aslways feel free to give feedback, feel free to give me some suggestions, as the story is still in the making and yeah... the next update is going to be roughly in about 3 days. i am trying to release new content 2 times a week. thanks for reading, i love all of you
I've never heard of this phenomenon before. Fascinating. Even more interesting to realize that I've apparently written a story about a form of tulpa before! I wasn't sure whether to call it a thought-form, psychic-ghost, etc. Now I have a word for it! Your story seems interesting. Why do I have the feeling that the tulpa this guy creates is going to go all Tyler Durden on him? A few comments: the narration is a bit speedy for a novel. Frankly, it is reading like a short story so far. You might want to flesh out your narration more once you've finished putting the skeleton of this story together (you don't want to get very long-winded until you finish the bulk of the story, after all). Also, I notice you aren't capitalizing "I" sometimes. You'll want to fix that, unless it is a deliberate thing on your part (it seems too random to be purposeful, though). Really, you got the core mechanics of writing down pat from what I've read, so really all you need to do is run it through a good spell-checker. If you do, though, be cautious about what it tries to change. I think of a joke without a punchline that occurred to me: Imagine James Joyce trying to write Finnigans Wake in Microsoft Word. Also, "rediculous" should be "ridiculous." Your English is excellent, actually, considering it isn't your first language.
thanks for the feedback man, really appreciate it! it's true i really seem to have a problem wit introductions. quite the number of stories i've written just never seem to get going. i can just never get to the actual plot i'll definetly put more thaught into detail as the story progresses, i have the next two chapters already written down and i assure you things are going to settle down a bit. considering the writing stye that is i'll get down to fixing the errors you mentioned asap and will be able to upload the next part around wednesday
Oh, your story's going alright. If anything, my point was the opposite of what you just said: it is progressing very quickly. In a few hundred words, you introduced your character, his backstory, the plot concept, and his introduction to the plot concept. Want my advice? If this breathless style of writing is what works for you, compose the whole first draft of your novel like this. When you're composing the first draft, the point is to work in such a way that you can get into a 'flow' with your words. You want to get it down on the page. Once you finish the first draft of all your chapters, that's when you go back and say: "Hmmm, I should probably add more detail to this or that." So my advice is only focus on the important details for now as you're composing your novel. Good novels are rewritten, not written. First drafts almost universally are unsatisfactory. This could be a very interesting story. I'd love it if you'd keep us updated on it. Remember, my friend, the hardest part about writing is actually having the discipline to sit down and do it for any length of time. Revising and editing are much easier, and I'm sure many people, myself included, would have no problem helping you with those steps later on. I tip my hat to you. PS: BTW, what are your personal beliefs regarding tulpas? Do you think they're a real psychological/metaphysical phenomenon or merely people letting their overactive imaginations run wild, so to speak? The key element I find interesting is that the tulpa is supposed to develop sentience.
