Is anyone else into literary nonsense?

[Madkins]

Like I asked above, is anyone into Literary Nonsense?

A quick rundown if you are unsure what it is:
Literary nonsense is a broad category of writing that mixes elements that make sense with deliberate absurdity, subverting language and logic for humor, surprise, or philosophical play. It can appear in poetry, prose, and even visual art, often through invented words, illogical sequences, or surreal imagery. The genre draws from two main sources:

• Oral folk traditions like nursery rhymes, riddles, and folk plays, which use playful, nonsensical language to entertain and teach.
• Intellectual absurdities from court poets, scholars, and satirists, who create elaborate nonsense forms—such as Latin parodies or political travesties—that exaggerate the illogical for effect

Recently I came to the realization I'm a discovery writer and apparently way into literary nonsense, which gives my story a weird flavor. Kind of like eating chicken and tasting a circle. Just wondering if anyone else is there as well, and what are your thoughts?

 

[RiceCooker717]

I write nonsense plots and I like it. I don't really care if it doesn't make sense as long as I'm having fun. I'm a kind of writer who writes anything i want then put some sense into it later.

 

[Madkins]

I write nonsense plots and I like it. I don't really care if it doesn't make sense as long as I'm having fun. I'm a kind of writer who writes anything i want then put some sense into it later.

I like creating weird titles for chapters or stories and then making as many different details to fit it as possible. It's a weird process of playing with language.

 

[RiceCooker717]

I like creating weird titles for chapters or stories and then making as many different details to fit it as possible. It's a weird process of playing with language.

There are story ideas in created while in was half-asleep. I make stories in my mind to make myself asleep and those stories doesn't make sense but fun to write. I also creates weird powers that fun to read.

 

[Eldoria]

I love how the absurd/nonsense is inserted into scenes. For example:

How a warrior complains about wanting steak as the apocalypse approaches; how a yandere villainess becomes delusional about something that never happened; how a little girl views her mother as the center of her world without knowing her past.

It's so refreshing, isn't it? Often, absurd things bring a story to life... and provide organic plot twists.

 

[Madkins]

I love how the absurd/nonsense is inserted into scenes. For example:

How a warrior complains about wanting steak as the apocalypse approaches; how a yandere villainess becomes delusional about something that never happened; how a little girl views her mother as the center of her world without knowing her past.

It's so refreshing, isn't it? Often, absurd things bring a story to life... and provide organic plot twists.

As a little kid i was way into the absurdism in Alice in Wonderland. The way it still makes a great story and has incredibly insane twists. I also love the way people continue to argue over the hidden meanings for decades, especially when sometimes there's no deep meaning other than it was just a fun idea.

 

[Rolanov]

Then perhaps I'm a literally nonsense person! Since I'm absurd and weird, most of the time.

 

[Madkins]

Then perhaps I'm a literally nonsense person! Since I'm absurd and weird, most of the time.

Absurdism is the key component to it. Perhaps we need to all form a club?

 

[Rolanov]

Absurdism is the key component to it. Perhaps we need to all form a club?

Perhaps we can make a "Bosh club"?

 

[Madkins]

Perhaps we can make a "Bosh club"?

Absurdist's Bosch Club, that way the abbreviation is ABC. It gives us street cred with a younger generation...

 

[Rolanov]

Absurdist's Bosch Club, that way the abbreviation is ABC. It gives us street cred with a younger generation...

*Walking around the street with a vest on and swanking the ABC. +street cred

 

[Madkins]

*Walking around the street with a vest on and swanking the ABC. +street cred

*Walks up to random group of little kids practicing their ABC's* "Ah, I see you all have heard of us... Wanna hear a weird story?" *The kids look at me and ask for an adult* My response, "I am an adult..."

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Sounds like you'd love Soramimi Hanarejima!

 

[Madkins]

Sounds like you'd love Soramimi Hanarejima!

I'm always intrigued by things I've never heard of. This isn't going to be like the last few times somebody in an ice-cream truck told me to get in the back because they had something I'd like, is it?

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I'm always intrigued by things I've never heard of. This isn't going to be like the last few times somebody in an ice-cream truck told me to get in the back because they had something I'd like, is it?

Only if you're too broke to buy books.
Here's a free sample:

Soramimi Hanarejima — Does It Have Pockets

Second Chances for First Times

www.doesithavepockets.com

 

[Madkins]

Only if you're too broke to buy books.
Here's a free sample:

Soramimi Hanarejima — Does It Have Pockets

Second Chances for First Times

www.doesithavepockets.com

I'll admit it was incredibly clever. I'm intrigued enough to look into it further. Seriously, good looking out on this one.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

As a little kid i was way into the absurdism in Alice in Wonderland. The way it still makes a great story and has incredibly insane twists. I also love the way people continue to argue over the hidden meanings for decades, especially when sometimes there's no deep meaning other than it was just a fun idea.

Dodson (Lewis Carrol's real name) included a lot of hidden stuff, mostly mathematics and chess related, in his works. Now, exactly what they mean and how he included them... that is up for debate/discussion.

The Jabberwocky was the first poem I ever memorized and the only one I can usually recall completely, even now, over five decades later. I am a big fan of the Discworld and Hitchhiker's Guide novels, and most of the other works by their authors.
So, yeah, for the snark was a boojum, you see.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

I am the nonsense.
And I write it in my own way, on a smaller scale.

 

[Madkins]

Dodson (Lewis Carrol's real name) included a lot of hidden stuff, mostly mathematics and chess related, in his works. Now, exactly what they mean and how he included them... that is up for debate/discussion.

The Jabberwocky was the first poem I ever memorized and the only one I can usually recall completely, even now, over five decades later. I am a big fan of the Discworld and Hitchhiker's Guide novels, and most of the other works by their authors.
So, yeah, for the snark was a boojum, you see.

Yeah, I love all of it. Never did Hitchhikers guide though, perhaps I should give that a read. If it's Wack, I'm down.

I am the nonsense.
And I write it in my own way, on a smaller scale.

That I've learned very well as of page 30 where I'm at currently in your story. You and I should write a story together. It would be pretty dark obviously. probably get an award for most people inspired to go insane and commit.. um.. we'll just say crimes...

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Yeah, I love all of it. Never did Hitchhikers guide though, perhaps I should give that a read. If it's Wack, I'm down.


That I've learned very well as of page 30 where I'm at currently in your story. You and I should write a story together. It would be pretty dark obviously. probably get an award for most people inspired to go insane and commit.. um.. we'll just say crimes...

Douglas Adams was brilliant - even if he often pirated his own work (the radio plays for the Hitchhiker's Guide are significantly different from the TV show and from the books, and the Infocom text adventure and the movie - which he only co-wrote but still... Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency directly rips off his own story for Doctor Who, "City of Death."). One of his most bizarrely warped stories was "The Pirate Planet" from the "Key to Time" mega-arc of the television series Doctor Who.