/lit/ - Literature

Has anyone seen how pretentious that motherfucker is on his tumblr? He keeps going on as if his book is revolutionary and innovative and isn't just a rehashed idea that uses an emotionally sensitive topic to manipulate readers instead of good storytelling.

Get a Kindle Paperwhite.

You can get a used one in good condition for 80 bucks and then read any book you want on it if you have a working library card.

>>4986877
Rodger's manifesto was pretty meh-tier but it was really interesting how he detailed his life story. You could actually follow his descent into absolute insanity as a result of shitty parenting and a shallow modern culture propagated by the media that insists that you have to be getting laid constantly to have any worth as a person.

For the same reason the anime Sword Art Online was popular. The people that liked it the most were folks who hadn't seen a lot of good anime, (inb4 >good anime) and thus had nothing to compare it to, so they thought it was actually good.

Whenever a mediocre book gets popular, it's always with people who don't otherwise read for pleasure, so they think something that they like is the best thing ever because they haven't actually read a lot of good books.

>>4986155

I'll do it, bro. This isn't professional work. I'm just writing a short story for some dude on 4chan.

Here's my e-mail.

>>4986114
$15 for 6 pages?

I'll do it.

>>4986119

Mind providing a summary? I usually don't edit or critique longer works if I feel they aren't worth my time reading.

>>4986087
[3/3]

Lynnette reluctantly left the comfort of her office and stepped out into the common area. The atmosphere was thick with hostility and she did her best to dodge the oncoming glares from her coworkers. She quickly entered her supervisor’s office without bothering to knock, and breathed a sigh of relief once she closed to door.

“Good evening,” said her boss. He spoke from behind a massive leather chair with all sorts of ornate embroidery.

“Lynnette Lillee. Age: 20. Genetic rating: Tier 5. Qualifications: Living, useful to society. Reproductive status: Fertility match not yet processed.”

“Yes, that would be me. Can I ask what this is about?” Lynnette leaned to the side to attempt to address her boss directly, but he kept swiveling the chair to obscure his face. She could see puffs rising up from the vapo-stick he was huffing.

“Your national database file,” he said. “It was flagged a month ago.”

Lynette tilted her head, “Flagged for what?”

And that's all I had before I stopped writing and forgot about it

>>4986081
[2/3]
Eventually Lynnette’s coworkers dispensed with the formalities and began to tell her what they actually thought:

They would say, “We may be lower level gig-runners but those guys need to know we deserve some respect. Make sure you tell them that, yeah?”

Or “None of us can really discredit what you’ve done around here, but an audience with them might be a bit rough to handle, Lynne.”

Or even “Lynne, you’re a sweet girl and a joy to have around, but I think you should consider having me go in your stead. I’ve been here for 15 years and you’ve barely made it two.”

Lynnette made an effort to avoid the topic in all conversations. When someone would hail her, she would duck into her office and pretend as if she hadn’t noticed. The pace of her work became markedly slower as the pressure continued to mount. She would often find herself absentmindedly drawing nervous loops on paperwork with her inker. At night, she had recurring dreams that when appearing before The Infallibles she would have nothing to say and would often awake to find her teeth digging into her lower lip.

On the eve of the big day, she came across a message from her boss. She was to see him before she went home. She knew what it was about.

Posted this yesterday via pastebin, but it didn't get read and the link expired so here we go again:

[1/3]
As the quiet month of September drew to a close, Lynnette Lillee grew increasingly morose. Her coworkers, certified practitioners in the art of the Operative Sciences, felt it keen to constantly remind her of what she had been trying to forget: her summoning before The Infallibles and everything that entailed.

After the initial news, their dialog would go something like this:
“Impressive, Lynne! You definitely worked hard for this opportunity, didn’t you?” they would say.
“Thank you so much! I’m really excited about this!” she would respond.
She remained chipper and enthusiastic for the first week after she was notified and would bounce through her workdays with a permanent smile. She had prepared several speeches to praise The Infallibles for all they had done for the sake of the great nation of Thants. After all, only very special people would ever receive this privilege. Still, there were a select few details on which she remained ignorant.
The reason for her summoning was chief among those.

>>4981848
There's a lot of filler words in this that can be cut.

>every SSRI available, every Electroconvulsive
Take out the availabe, every and replace it with a comma.

Fiverr

>>4985505
This.

You would not believe how many people in STEM fields cannot write above the level of an elementary school student.

>reading for enjoyment

>>4984941
>>4985010

New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology

Basically, the administration of the university cares more about their own paychecks than the actual quality of education. They don't have anybody to teach the classes and there aren't enough new people coming into the department.

It makes me sad that this is happening in a lot of other places too. Earth and Environmental Science is still a very important discipline that's very much essential to modern civilization. But everyone just writes us off as hippies.

This guy is more mediocre than he is horrible. His story ideas stuck, but I do see some potential in the actual writing.

He just needs to read a helluva lot more.

>major in geology
>would have ideally finished this year but didn't have money to afford summer classes
>90 credits
>university starts falling apart
>classes now only offered once every two years
>can't take classes I need to graduate
>department is about to lose its accreditation

So now I'm going to try to learn film post-production, since it's something I already know about and have experience in.

It sucks because in that town that the college was in, it was impossible to get a job on-campus unless you had work/study and nobody off campus would hire students. I would get called in for so many interviews only have the people with work/study get hired over me.

Now I have to move back in with my mom and I never hear back from any of my applications.

Everything in that book felt so hamfisted.

They used to play it in the subways in Britain when the Germans were bombing them in WWII.

>>4980368
That made me physically ill.

There's a fuckton of sci-fi where the characters' race or skin color isn't even specified.

But the damn kiddies need to have diversity spoonfed to them to be happy.

>>4981561
>>4981570

The prose in this flows extremely well. I would like to read more.

>>4981476

Wattpad drives me nuts because I want to edit the fuck out of every thing I read on there. Most of the popular stories are absolute garbage, but every once in a while you'll find something that just needs a few more drafts to be good.

>>4980203
This sounds cool.

Is there a lot of conflict from the fact that he won't be able to communicate with his girlfriend once he goes blind?