Is there anyone out there that has written surreal stories/plots?

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Surrealism isn't a genre. It's a literary style. It can utilized for any story, any plot, any genre.

I've clicked your link, and I've gone through your chapters. You have six or seven chapters, but you don't seem to have actually written anything. Frankly, I don't know what you're doing. It looks like some sort of multimedia collage. I don't think you know what surrealism is. Maybe you're confusing it with surrealistic visual art?

Anyway, for those forum readers who do know what literary surrealism is, I'll posit that surrealism isn't popular here. I'll state that unequivocally. Have some experience in it.
 
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Yes it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_humour

These are examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Hug_Me_I%27m_Scared, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Showzen, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ren_%26_Stimpy_Show
Surrealism isn't a genre. It's a literary style. It can utilized for any story, any plot, any genre.

I've clicked your link, and I've gone through your chapters. You have six or seven chapters, but you don't seem to have actually written anything. Frankly, I don't know what you're doing. It looks like some sort of multimedia collage. I don't think you know what surrealism is. Maybe you're confusing it with surrealistic visual art?

Anyway, for those forum readers who do know what literary surrealism is, I'll posit that surrealism isn't popular here. I'll state that unequivocally. Have some experience in it.
You look stupid right now. ?
Surrealism isn't a genre. It's a literary style. It can utilized for any story, any plot, any genre.

I've clicked your link, and I've gone through your chapters. You have six or seven chapters, but you don't seem to have actually written anything. Frankly, I don't know what you're doing. It looks like some sort of multimedia collage. I don't think you know what surrealism is. Maybe you're confusing it with surrealistic visual art?

Anyway, for those forum readers who do know what literary surrealism is, I'll posit that surrealism isn't popular here. I'll state that unequivocally. Have some experience in it.
Also, you haven't written anything either, hypocrite. What would you know about 'experience'? https://www.scribblehub.com/series/2106343/our-infinite-sadness/
 
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L1aei?​

It might be up to us, to try to save this shitsta!n of a thread.

I don't know about surrealism, or calling it that. Sounds... pretentious.
But I know "weird".
in my one novel, the MC "wins the big fight", which accomplishes... very little. (no answers from dead men!)
MC and crew is stranded by the weather, MC is at risk of dying from a bad infection.
As he gets worse and better then worse yet trying to manage his own emergency medical care...
he has fever hallucinations. When he's nearing collapse from septic shock?
I called that chapter "the Other World".

Its a ramping up of the "weird" fever hallucinations he experiences.
in first person, and the person is out of it and in and out hallucinating...

L1aei. Does that chapter qualify as "surrealistic" writing?
I mean, if it does... do I get to be all pretentious. cause that? Would be cool.
I can see it now. In the blurb.
"Tina Migarlo, a surprisingly surrealistic take on things, a fresh re-imagined genre you once thought you knew..."
yeah. that's decent inside jacket cover bullsh!t.

I would post a link to that chapter, or excerpt the hallucinations out... if there was any interest in reading it.
I mean, this being a writing thread and all.
 

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Given with how much web novel readers often put emphasis on making sense on what they are reading, I don't think it'll be popular.

It may gain some readers though, but any case, try it and see.
 

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Well then... that's one way to kill any further discussion.

LOL. I know, right. I look stupid right now. Trash on Wikipedia has given me a strict dressing down. LMAO. I weep for the future.

The lexicon is increasingly mangled by brats and bots. We're doomed.

Surrealism. In literature.

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Audumn of the Patriarch and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Isabel Allende, The Infinite Plan, Of Love and Shadows, and The Island Beneath the Sea.

Get your snout and grimy whiskers out of Wikipedia, OP, and read a few of these books. Or try.

Then come back and please explain exactly what you're trying to do with that graphical mess that you've been posting.
 

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I’m working on a couple right now, but it is super interesting that an entire genre (and its cousins) seems unrepresented by these platforms. Definitely need some new tags for the more trippy works.
 

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I know in art the surrealist movement fed and was fed by the absurdist movement, which dominated drama for a while (especially in France for some reason) and is still present to some degree (The Simpsons at its best is pure absurdist).
Have never tried to do more than single scenes that would fit either definition, and suspect it is very difficult to keep up in a novel. A collection of short stories, sure, or even a collection of unrelated adventures with a single character weaving through them could work but not sure a regular novel could succeed, especially in the web novel space.
 

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The person's actually right about that, but okay, whine excessively.

Trash on Wikipedia or just the way I disproved you with ease, I guess you can't tell the difference. Also, you posting books doesn't actually disprove what I posted; if you don't want to count those because they didn't start as books, here are two surreal comedy television series that literally started as books and not television series.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oblongs/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepy_Susie_and_13_Other_Tragic_Tales_for_Troubled_Children, 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_M....wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask:_Animated_Series

So yeah, now you look even more stupid.
LOL. I know, right. I look stupid right now. Trash on Wikipedia has given me a strict dressing down. LMAO. I weep for the future.

The lexicon is increasingly mangled by brats and bots. We're doomed.

Surrealism. In literature.

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Audumn of the Patriarch and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Isabel Allende, The Infinite Plan, Of Love and Shadows, and The Island Beneath the Sea.

Get your snout and grimy whiskers out of Wikipedia, OP, and read a few of these books. Or try.

Then come back and please explain exactly what you're trying to do with that graphical mess that you've been posting.'I look stupid right now.'
'I look stupid right now.' Yes, yes, you do.
 
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I know in art the surrealist movement fed and was fed by the absurdist movement, which dominated drama for a while (especially in France for some reason) and is still present to some degree (The Simpsons at its best is pure absurdist).
Have never tried to do more than single scenes that would fit either definition, and suspect it is very difficult to keep up in a novel. A collection of short stories, sure, or even a collection of unrelated adventures with a single character weaving through them could work but not sure a regular novel could succeed, especially in the web novel space.
Yes Charles, by far the most difficult novel form to sustain. That's why it has won several Nobel prizes.

The OP has gone from absurd to nasty and delightfully puerile, but he did make one cogent point: he accused me of not posting my books here. He's technically correct about that. I took my book down recently. I may put it back. Probably not. My stuff isn't a good fit. It's easy enough to find elsewhere. I've cleaned the links out of my sig.
 

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Speaking of awards. Click on these links so I make you look stupid again: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0110475/awards/-https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0219446/awards/
Yes Charles, by far the most difficult novel form to sustain. That's why it has won several Nobel prizes.

The OP has gone from absurd to nasty and delightfully puerile, but he did make one cogent point: he accused me of not posting my books here. He's technically correct about that. I took my book down recently. I may put it back. Probably not. My stuff isn't a good fit. It's easy enough to find elsewhere. I've cleaned the links out of my sig.
I didn't accuse you of not posting your books at all; I called you a hypocrite because you're talking about what hasn't been written on here at the same time that you haven't either, but okay. Nice straw man there, buddy.
Yes, the Insomnia Experiment in my signature.
Looks cool.
Yes Charles, by far the most difficult novel form to sustain. That's why it has won several Nobel prizes.

The OP has gone from absurd to nasty and delightfully puerile, but he did make one cogent point: he accused me of not posting my books here. He's technically correct about that. I took my book down recently. I may put it back. Probably not. My stuff isn't a good fit. It's easy enough to find elsewhere. I've cleaned the links out of my sig.
Hey, look what I found.

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"The Mask", 1889 short story by French author Guy de Maupassant
"The Mask", 1892 short story by Richard Marsh
The Mask (French: Le Masque), 1894 novel by Gilbert Augustin-Thierry
"The Mask" (Chambers short story), 1895 short story by American author Robert W. Chambers, part of the book The King in Yellow
The Mask, 1905 novel by William Le Queux
The Mask, 1912 poetry book by J. Redwood Anderson
"The Mask", 1912 short story by F. Tennyson Jesse
The Mask, 1913 novel by Arthur Hornblow Sr. (1865–1942), father of Arthur Hornblow Jr., basis for the 1921 film
"The Mask", 1915 short story by Bernard Capes, featured in the 1989 book The Black Reaper
The Mask, 1919 novel by John Cournos
"The Mask", 1925 short story by Vernon Knowles, featured in the book The Street of Queer Houses and Other Stories
"The Mask", 1934 short story by Henry de Vere Stacpoole, featured in the book My Grimmest Nightmare
The Mask, 1957 novel by Stuart Cloete
"The Mask", 1974 short story by Sydney James Bounds
The Mask (Lem short story), 1974 short story by Polish science fiction author Stanisław Lem
The Mask, 1978 novel by Eve Bunting
The Mask (Koontz novel), 1981 novel written by Dean Koontz under the pseudonym Owen West
"The Mask", 1985 short story by Joan Clark
"The Mask", 1988 narrative poem by Leslie Halliwell, part of the collection A Demon on the Stair
The Mask, 1990 novel by Richard Gordon
The Mask, 1993 novelette by Richard Laymon
The Mask, 1993 novel by Scott Ciencin, writing as Nick Baron
The Mask, novelization of the 1994 film by Steve Perry
"The Mask", 1994 short story by Michael Swanwick, featured in the 2000 book Tales of Old Earth
"The Mask", 1998 short story by Gary Myers
The Mask (Stevens novel), 2015 novel by Taylor Stevens

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The Mask, a comics character based on Black Bat appearing in Exciting Comics, published by Standard Comics

The Mask (comics), a comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics

Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children is a 1999 collection of illustrated short stories written by Angus Oblong. The stories mostly feature children and adolescents, although one story is about a dog. Several of the characters were eventually adapted for use in the animated television series The Oblongs. Contrary to the title, children are not the book's target audience, as the book contains sexual situations, cannibalism and murder.

Also, I'm guessing you haven't read The Mask, which was made by Dark Horse Comics (unlike me); this doesn't mean I'll pseudo-intellectually straw-man you into not knowing what a comic book with a movie is (I'm pretty sure you know what the movie Spider-Man is; please don't tell me you don't; otherwise, I'll permanently fail to acknowledge the existence of an irrelevant opinion on any literary topic from a guy who thinks I just posted 'trash on Wikipedia'), like you straw-manned me earlier with books I've never read. If you've never read The Mask, then there's no assertive superiority placed on either of us, other than, well, who's more wrong, you, I guess.

I can't believe I had to put 'book' in bold text for another person I don't even know. ? Here are some logistics because I have to be THIS cautiously educational: "The Mask (1994), a movie that started as a comic book; the movie Spider-Man (2002) also started as a comic book."
I’m working on a couple right now, but it is super interesting that an entire genre (and its cousins) seems unrepresented by these platforms. Definitely need some new tags for the more trippy works.
Also looks cool.
 
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Working on it, I'm sure there's a possibility of people wishing there were more genres on Scribble Hub because of the original type of works it was meant to target; the freedom of imagination is bittersweet.
LOL. I know, right. I look stupid right now. Trash on Wikipedia has given me a strict dressing down. LMAO. I weep for the future.

The lexicon is increasingly mangled by brats and bots. We're doomed.

Surrealism. In literature.

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Audumn of the Patriarch and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Isabel Allende, The Infinite Plan, Of Love and Shadows, and The Island Beneath the Sea.

Get your snout and grimy whiskers out of Wikipedia, OP, and read a few of these books. Or try.

Then come back and please explain exactly what you're trying to do with that graphical mess that you've been posting.
Also, speaking of trying to read books, here's a way you can yourself: https://archive.org/details/creepysusie00angu (if you only see it halfway, sign in and make an account) https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Mask/Issue-1?id=49872 The comic on this site doesn't need you to sign in; I'd rather make graphical messes than intellectual messes.

Dark Horse Comics was founded on February 4, 1986, and Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001. Therefore, Dark Horse Comics was founded approximately 14 years and 11 months before Wikipedia. Also, Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children was released in 1999, approximately two years before Wikipedia, so there, I got my 'whiskers' out of Wikipedia for you; any literature released before Wikipedia counts, I guess. Lastly, in the pages of The Mask, it says 1991, approximately ten years. Now, read it or don't.
LOL. I know, right. I look stupid right now. Trash on Wikipedia has given me a strict dressing down. LMAO. I weep for the future.

The lexicon is increasingly mangled by brats and bots. We're doomed.

Surrealism. In literature.

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Audumn of the Patriarch and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Isabel Allende, The Infinite Plan, Of Love and Shadows, and The Island Beneath the Sea.

Get your snout and grimy whiskers out of Wikipedia, OP, and read a few of these books. Or try.

Then come back and please explain exactly what you're trying to do with that graphical mess that you've been posting.
I think I've explained how wrong you are more than my story, don't you think? You're worried about something way less important, and frankly, I don't have to explain anything to someone who deleted his work and had the courage to call out others for not working on theirs. Like you admitted, if you didn't delete yours when mine was always up, maybe I would've told you.
 
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LOL. I know, right. I look stupid right now. Trash on Wikipedia has given me a strict dressing down. LMAO. I weep for the future.

The lexicon is increasingly mangled by brats and bots. We're doomed.

Surrealism. In literature.

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Audumn of the Patriarch and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Isabel Allende, The Infinite Plan, Of Love and Shadows, and The Island Beneath the Sea.

Get your snout and grimy whiskers out of Wikipedia, OP, and read a few of these books. Or try.

Then come back and please explain exactly what you're trying to do with that graphical mess that you've been posting.
You spelled 'Autumn' wrong, but you did a lot of things wrong, so whatever, but yeah, my 'lexicon' is 'mangled.'
 
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If you are going to write something surreal it has to be grounded in some sort of in book logic or else it's just random weird stuff happening for no reason.
 

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If you are going to write something surreal it has to be grounded in some sort of in book logic or else it's just random weird stuff happening for no reason.
I tried my best balancing the chaoticness with more explanations; by following the life of one character instead of everyone, I'll take your constructive criticism because it's going to be tougher trying to navigate the chaos easier than what's left of the normal lives of the characters.

Though if I balance both I think I can still make people enjoy the story for how surreal it is.
 
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Not really a novel, but the narration you can follow from 1989 film Heathers is totally a surreal-satire. Also, that film was way ahead of what will become realty in the late 90s. J.D. is totally cut from the same cloth as Tyler Durden too.
 

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Not really a novel, but the narration you can follow from 1989 film Heathers is totally a surreal-satire. Also, that film was way ahead of what will become realty in the late 90s. J.D. is totally cut from the same cloth as Tyler Durden too.
I vaguely remember watching that movie at my buddy's house. I remember seeing parts that were really cool. Like, they sit around shooting holes in the walls. But, as a movie? It lacked choerence. It was like, I don'tknow. A bunch of scenes strung together and they just *called* it a movie.

next thing you know, there was a movie called "Twister". NOT, the famous tornado movie. This, was some weirdo flick. It made *no* sense, and it starred among others? Crispin Hellion Glover. It was just... the movie *ends*, and you were still waiting for a plot.

Adam Sandler made a weirdo movie, "Punchdrunk Love". Watched it starft to finish, never did see a point or a plot.

if that's all surreal? Whatever.

LovellSu:​

dude. You were *so* cool. You, just, like, p:owned everyone. Is, there, like, some blog I can learn how to be as edgy as you are? I, like, so wanna be like that.
(sarcasm, verbal irony)
people might be somewhat less inclined to provide you answers with snark smug attitude.
Humility. Self deprecation. Its a thing.
 
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