/lit/ - Literature

>>20933090
What are your thoughts on Kurt Vonnegut's shape of stories theory?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc

>Shapes of Stories edition
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc

For Prose:
>The Art of Fiction
>Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
>On Becoming A Novelist
>Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
>How Fiction Works
>The Rhetoric of Fiction
>Steering the Craft
>On Writing, Borges

For Poetry:
>The Poetry Home Repair Manual
>Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry
>This Craft of Verse, Borges

Related Material:
>What Editors Do
>A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
>Garner's Modern English Usage

Suggested books on storytelling:
>The Weekend Novelist
>Aristotle's Poetics
>Hero With a Thousand Faces
>Romance the Beat

Traditional publishing
> Formatting manuscript
https://blog.reedsy.com/manuscript-format/
> Write a query
https://www.janefriedman.com/query-letters/
> Track your query
https://querytracker.net/

Other Resources
>General grammar/syntax/editing help
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
> When/where/how should I write?
https://jamesclear.com/daily-routines-writers
> What software should I write with?
https://self-publishingschool.com/book-writing-software-best/
> Amazon Publishing to make that KDP monie
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200635650
> Be like Fyodor and write serially
https://www.royalroad.com/
> Basic overview of the Screenplay format
https://screenwriting.info/

>Previously on /wg/
>>18900424

>>16255573
I dunno but I'll post this

>>13032554

Git gud, my main man, see pic related

would you have rejected his thesis?

/lit/, I'm at the end of my rope here and you're the only people who I can turn to. I've been trying to find the title of a book I read when I was young, maybe 8 or 9. I checked it out of the public library and only read it once but I've been dying to read it again because somehow it's been etched into my mind. Google has been no help to me, and neither has the card catalog of the old library.

If you guys can help, I'd be grateful. If I'm breaking any rules, just let me know and I'll delete the post.

Anyway, the book was a compilation of different short stories about the apocalypse, detailing sbout 7-10 different ways it could happen. The cover, IIRC, had a picture of a girl with big VR shades reflecting a nuclear explosion. Some of the stories I remember were:

>A meteor is going to hit the earth in 12 hours and an astronomer asks the girl of his dreams out on a date and holds her as the world ends.
>A nuclear holocaust happens and a group of 2,000 people struggle to survive in finland, had two endings with everyone dying or them making it through the winter.
>An 1800s scientist creates a maching that inonizes the atmosphere, creating a storm that will destroy all life on earth.
>A modern day scientist creates a form of algae that he thinks will be able to solve hunger but spreads to the ocean and he realizes it will cover all water surfaces within two years and there's nothing they can do.
>Some kind of superbug starts kicking off a anarchy revolution. Had a mom trying to find her kid in the chaos, I think.

/lit/, I swear to god I'll suck somebody's dick if anyone can help me find this book.