/lit/ - Literature

>>22560312
> As long as the world building keeps expanding
Lol
LMAO even
The world is established within the first few books and after that nothing new is added. Wheel of Time has one of the most boring worlds ever written specifically because of all the potential it had is never explored. Literally every interesting idea Jordan had is tossed on the wayside to make room for hunderds more pages of catty women being catty at each other. I hate the Wheel of Time so much.
And yet I read it all... more than once.

>>18386688
>Any progress on your novels?
Yes, I'm done now. I was never going to become the next Faulkner, the next Nabokov or the next Joyce, but I hid behind the language barrier to avoid criticism for months, maintaining an illusion that was fun to live in while it lasted. I had thought my country's education system to be topmost in the world, but this turned out to be utter bollocks. A child of 18, a person ten years my junior, has a greater vocabulary than I, who had to look up the word “topiary”, and no one likes the expression theory of art anymore, I am likened to a long lost dinosaur.
This will be my final post on /lit/. I've been humiliated and exposed as a fraud. My writing is pretentious, infantile, banal drivel. My observations are dull, my language grade school level. My tenses are mixed up; I use colloquialisms, ellipses and onomatopoeia. I mix tired and trite idioms together to obfuscate their unoriginality with a veneer of irony; I have continued to recite ornate Jewish chimpanzee parables with diminishing returns. The parable seemed very clearly to me to be asking me whether or not the now-grown-adult can choose. I say yes, of course, but that's not my issue.
I was never cut out for writing. I began writing my "book" on January 6th. Since then I've produced 96 thousand words for it. These words are a tide of garbage without value, without insight, without form. The themes of time, space, infinity, memory and pointless duelling are not present in my work. It was never real writing, it was anime and weebshit!
Story arcs, character arcs, narrative arcs, these are all outdated terms. You say what you hear, and only the anime fandom uses the term “arc” anymore. I am a toad! Look how many words I wrote, because apparently literature is bodybuilding and just aimlessly typing will somehow improve my writing. My appetites grew as I wrote, I set a goal of a 100 thousand words when I began, only for the cancerous growth to demand a 137 thousand words soon enough to be completed, and still I don't even know what genre it is that I'm writing. Is it autofiction? A comedy? A picaresque? Am I merely shitposting edgelord-triggering diarrhea in neo-emo gothic revivalist gestalt? Not even the most fundamental of a writer’s skills, phonetics, were known to me, as I trusted in story and character rather than language itself.
Regardless, I have failed. I have put down my pen. Never again will my fingers click-clack across the keyboard. No more outlines, no more characters. Goodbye

I finally started to write my story but whatever I wrote I feel like its trash, I start story but can't decide on one thing which results in characters acting unnatural, I'm trying to create a big universe you know. Where a lot of shit connected to each other but everytime I feel like I'm screwing up, what would you guys suggest to write a consistent story with a big universe?

Hey guys, neet here. Just wondering if I can sit in a university literature class without having to pay for it?
Thanks

What the fuck ever happened to effort.

I guess this is what happens when you live in a society where you can access anything at any time. At that point, why bother committing to something when you can get instant gratification at any time?