I’m thinking of writing a story set in Ancient Rome during the time of Nero. It starts as a conversation between two people with one of them saying that symbols started off simple and then developed into massive man made structures (such as language, fiction, and art) that create and rely on other structures and infrastructure, and this will continue until they overtake reality itself and become more important. People mistake the symbols for what they are representing. because while the IMAGE projects realism by looking real, the MEANING projects something far different. and since all MEANING in our art is slowly becoming meaningless and irrelevant in our visually-based society, our generations perception of REALITY is becoming skewed and twisted into something that is VIRTUAL REALITY. i fear that soon we wont be able to distinguish between REALITY and VIRTUAL REALITY. i fear that IMAGE will not only become more important than MEANING, but IMAGE WILL BECOME THE ONLY MEANING. The story then jumps into the year 1997 in New York City at the UN building, where two other people are having a conversation where they say they believed that life was just being bridged between two existences, early primitive life and….something else. They say that it has been less than a century since we have seen advanced technology, less than a century window after billions of years of primitive and primordial existence.The story then jumps to Herat, Afghanistan on November 9th, 2001 and centers on a female us soldier and a cia agent in a black site.Is this a good story idea? Or should I just give upAsking random retards on the internet
sound retardedgo for it
my boy has been reading the jean baudrillard wikipedia again
>>23819561Never heard of him
>>23819435Write a few normal stories before you try this kind of shit
>>23819435Jumping between characters makes it hard for people to become invested.
>>23819435>>23819597thisthe ancient roman stuff sounds like it wants to be life of brian but no jokes. Immersion is non-existent.
>>23819597yeah. i have no grounds to speak on myself but common sense tells me that this is something for a seasoned author in the prime years of his life to tackle, after exhausting himself on the more mundane questions that need to be answered. i have many abstract ideas that i will save for the day i have perfected my craft and can give them the necessary literary framework they need to be digestible by an audience.
>>23819911U look lik a boogerrrrr
don't listen to these retards telling you not to write it and to focus on your craft. what "smaller ideas" do you have to tackle? how to take a shit? write the story.
>>23819435She raped millions.
>>23820836it's crazy to me that erol morris made a doc about abu ghraib and treated it as an apology tour for that cunt
>>23819911When Borges had this problem of being more interested in exploring the concepts than the story itself, he would compress his whole novel into a few short pages, and give a sort of running summary. If your idea seems to ambitious for your current skillset, maybe you could try that. I think instead of actually having to write scenes in Rome, Borges would've avoided a lot of complications by turning that conversation into a recently unearthed philosophical dialogue from an archaeological dig in Pompeii.
>thinking of writing a story>describes story instead of just writing it.NGMI
>>23820459nigger ! ! ! >>23820859i appreciate your reply friend
>>23819587Your idea isn't original but a watered down version of baudrillard
