The reason I am creating a new thread is because the other one got really long and it seems more people are interested and I don't want them to feel like they have to read through 173 comments to know about the anthology. Here we go.....
PSYCHOSIS Anthology--working title--still open to submissions
It's based on mental disorders told from a medically accurate perspective so it needs to be researched. Your story can be about anything as long as the main character is the one with the mental illness. I have a master list of who is writing which disorder, I may open a new thread inviting more people to write for it because it seems like more new people are joining the site. I would like a rough draft by January 10th but if you need longer, let me know. I am making the final deadline February 15th. It's unpaid for now but we are going to shop it around and if it sells well, everyone will get royalties, everyone who gets published in it is guaranteed a copy of the book and can use it as a professional writing credit. Stories can be anywhere from 2500-5000 words or longer if they are exceptional. Feel free to put your rough draft in the writer’s workshop so we can give our feedback as a community and help you polish it. 24 stories will be chosen.
Psychosis anthology
Here is the master list so far:
The people with question marks after their name have expressed interest but I can’t remember if they chose one in particular.
Enough--self-mutliation
aliensoul77--OCD
Ryan--necrophilia
R.Moon--Cotard's syndrome.
wickedvoodoo--panic attacks
Limbless K9--Stockholm Syndrome
flamenia--Dissociative/Schizotypal.
Steve: Fregoli Delusion
Bryan--drug induced psychosis
Josef: Apotemnophilia
Raelyn: Muchausen by proxy
Nighty Nite: Folie a deux
Laurence Kitts: nymphomania
Typewriter Demigod: pedophilia
JaySJ: ???
Writingasgjensen: ???
Charles: ????
Nkwilczy: Schizophrenia
Everyone who has expressed interest in writing a story, please let me know your progress and if you are still interested and committed to your disorder because other people are asking me if certain ones are taken. I'd like to avoid repeats if we can. If you can copy and paste the master list and put what your disorder is next to your name please..........
ALien: I may have to gracefully bow out. Man, I just cannot come up with anything half decent for this. My mind just isn't in it. I started working on my novel again because it's been gnawing at the back of my brain and if I don't do something about it, I might miss some things then kick myself later. But, I'd still like to be a part of this in some way. However I can help, I'm in.
go ahead man. I'd like to see someone do it.
Okay - I'll do a story for you on postpartum depression.
It'll be grand.
I will still be trying to get a story in for this. Progress has been slow but I shall try my best to get it ready in time. Up to my waist in half finished projects at the moment, and I start back at work tomorrow. When I do get writing time I'll try to make this my priority because I really like the idea of the project.
Fingers crossed.
I'll do anti social personality for you. Try to bring something new to the table other than a serial killer story.
Sorry, Alien, I am sticking with sociopathy.
Haha, oh...David, that is pretty much exactly what I said in the earlier thread. This new thread is a little confusing.
Well it sounds like you had it planned before me so I'll find something else, The old thread was to long for me to care to read with this short one here haha. Well than I guess I'll have to with genital retraction syndrome. Amazing all the stories that come to mind with mental illness.
Hopefully the draft I am working on is at least AS good as yours would have been.
Is genital retraction syndrome a mental illness? I would have thought it was physical. Hm.
It's mostly with Chinese that believe their genitals are shrinking despite proof that their not and that they'll eventually disappear killing them. I'm glad I'm doing this though because what I'm doing now is much better than my sociopath idea was. I was feeling uninspired for the sociopath thing so I guess I should thank you.
Don't worry I have quite a light tone about the penis shrinkage, not something that would work as a serious story I think. And yes it's a mental disorder, their genitals never actually move. I'm still trying to find out why they believe they are though. I considered narcissism but I just couldn't feel it.
Please don't think Stockholm can't be written about. My story isn't coming along so anybody wanting to write about it is welcome to!
@limbless I've always thought it would be funny for a hostage to rape their captor. You could make it an over exaggerated story, like the person carves a ring out of their food bowl and proposes to the captor.
@David That is an awesome idea. Reverse rape. Hah. That isn't something you hear about often. Love it.
My professor friend just sent me a study I had asked for. I might rewrite the whole thing now. This study would make a great story in itself--a pyschologist working with sociopaths at a prison realizes that his housemate is actually a sociopath, and studies him until he borrows $300 and disappears one day <--that's from the abstract, i kid you not.
@Alien That would be cool for what im doing because the charater constantly pulling on his penis and staying up all night to study his penis is freaking out his girlfriend. A symptom of the problem is impotency to. Im having the most fun with writing about him at work though.
Ah, I misread the abstract when I found it a few days ago, he borrowed $300 and never returned IT, not never returned.
Sign me up for hybristophilia if thats still open. I can knock out a rough draft here in the next 2 weeks tops. I may even try to do one for Pica if that hasnt already been taken yet..
hmm...the list says that pica is taken and hybristophilia isnt? Oh well, i might toy around with both of them, it'll give me something to focus on instead of pulling my hair out over my other projects.
@limbless...are you giving up on stockholm? because if my other two choices are for sure taken, i might take a crack at this one.
looks like i'll try to contribute something to this. should be an interesting collection.
I haven't looked at the other thread, and while there isn't a whole lot of time, I'd like to give it a shot with anorexia if no one has claimed it already.
@Renee, you totally should have stuck with "never returned". We're all in this for the story. I, for one, never would have checked your research. In my mind, that guy still "never returned".
Yeah, but the upside is, if I write that into my story, I didn't steal it from the study!
Fuck yeah,
Richard is on board.
Psychosis anthology
Here is the master list so far:
The people with question marks after their name have expressed interest but I can’t remember if they chose one in particular.
Enough--self-mutliation
aliensoul77--OCD
Ryan--necrophilia
R.Moon--Cotard's syndrome.
wickedvoodoo--panic attacks
Limbless K9--Stockholm Syndrome
flamenia--Dissociative/Schizotypal.
Steve: Fregoli Delusion
Bryan--drug induced psychosis
Josef: Apotemnophilia
Raelyn: Muchausen by proxy
Nighty Nite: Folie a deux
Laurence Kitts: nymphomania
Typewriter Demigod: pedophilia
JaySJ: ???
Writingasgjensen: ???
Charles: ????
Nkwilczy: Schizophrenia
Waterhouse: ????
Aaron: pica??
Renee Pickup: ???
Chester Pane: Dendrophilia
I guess nobody remembers that I picked a disorder. It's ok, I won't meet the deadline anyway.
Renee Pickup--Sociopaths (antisocial personality disorder).
Wait. Wait, wait, wait. Is that Richard Thomas up there saying he's going to submit something? Damn. Now, I just may have to get my ass in gear and write something. He's got a sizable cover letter and is a damn good writer to boot. Some more writers like that will help pitch something this dark to a publisher.
Pliboktoq for me, if I can write it in time. Is the deadline still Dec. 12?
Does pyromania or alcoholism count?
Pettigrew, getchyo ass in here!
All right, Chester. I just might do that. I'm calling pyromania.
I would love to write a story for this on Schizophasia, but unfortunately I'm not confused enough in life at this point. I wish you all the best with the project, i've been stalking it since day one, but cannot come up with a good enough plot that would make sense in word salad.
Danny, I know I said I'd have something for you today, but I got a burst of inspiration and tore the whole thing down to start over, I'm close to 1k in right now, but I think I need to get at least a couple more pages done before it's worth having you look at. So...maybe tomorrow evening I can shoot you over what I've got so far. At least, right now, I am grooving with it, where when we spoke last night I was feeling pretty defeated.
OK...with the extra time I'll take a stab at Tourette's Syndrome.
@Brian - Shit. Sorry. I wasn't paying attention to the threads. Please be welcome to take Stockholm. I don't think things will go through very well.
Thanks guys for the kind words, I look forward to this collection, sent in my story.
Im not sure if Vagabondage Press is still around, but they did a mental illness anthology a year or two ago. Maybe reach out to them to see if they have any interest in producing this?
http://www.vagabondagepress.com/
That's Fawn Neun who runs VBP and The Battered Suitcase (maybe it's TBS that went under). Just an idea.
Sorry, don't know where I got Dec 12! Oh I know, that's the deadline for the voting on Thunderdome. Thanks for extending it to the 30th! If I submit, I'd like to do a good job.
I am working on my Dendrophilia piece. I have a rough draft I'm going through a few more times before submitting it to the workshop for some peer review and more revisions and re-submitting and more revisions and re-submitting.
I don't want to send you a piece of shit Danny, so I hope it's alright if I use December to get the piece in shape so then it can be edited...
Also, in my opinion it might be good to let this thing simmer so more writers will consider jumping on board?
Aha - if we are aiming for the 30th then I am more confident of getting a decent draft together.
I've been having issues with this story. I must have canned more than three thousand words that I wasn't happy with. I have an outline but bringing it to life is proving tough.
Made a fresh start this morning though. Fingers crossed I'll crack it this time.
It doesn't seem like anyone else is using any delusional disorders, if so please correct me. I only mention this because I've basically torn apart what I originally had because I've had a bit of inspiration.
I'll be doing Erotomania ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotomania ). However, it may still link up with Folie a deux. We'll see how this goes.
Okay, I'd love to attempt this. I have a plot in mind but not a specific disorder. Sadly, the one my character would probably slip into (antisocial) has already been taken. Does the story have to specifically be about a disorder and does the character have to discover that they have said disorder, or can it be vague? For example, the character is presented as clearly having some sort of psychosis but its up for the reader to figure it out. At the very least I could probably throw in some pathologial lying in there.
I suppose regardless I could still write the story anyway. If it doesn't make it into the book then I can always put it elsewhere.