/lit/ - Literature

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I can only follow a book's plot if I imagine it as a movie, almost none of the word stick with me, only the pictures I made up

i don't read a lot of books but been interested in them lately as i'm writing my webcomic. what are some with interesting ideas at its core?

some that i liked
>1984
kinda gave an idea about why people want power/world order
>art of war
the military/psychological tactics and leadership protocols were cool
>the temple of the golden pavillion
i liked how it connected the themes with the zen riddle and why the main dude liberated himself from "beauty"

i'm pretty normie tier in knowledge so i'm open to pretty much whatever ideas are out there as long as it's not too difficult to grasp. please help an anon out, i just wanna be able to write something interesting and maybe learn a bit more about our world and people.

>Volume 1
>6 pages in
Oh God how I wish I bought some Jane Austen novels instead

Jeremy's Iron

Is *not* drinking /lit/?
>>19323569
>Of the not /lit/ alcohols, there are wine coolers, hard seltzers, and flavored vodkas.
How is light beer /lit/?

ESLbros do you sometimes use English phrases without knowing what they exactly mean? for example I often use the phrase
>precocious child
but I have no idea what >precocious means other than the fact that it's a positively charged adjective that often goes with the word >child. is it okay to use English words without knowing what they mean?

>>18965041
today basically marks 1 year of writing non stop and i realized how much my high school education on literature and writing fucked me up.

my teachers really forced in how symbolism and themes were important in a story and how there needs to be MEANING or some moral message; even when i thought it was pure bull shit as a student. i got punished and treated like an idiot until i complied and wrote paragraphs of literal bullshit by over-analyzing every detail like they wanted. it made me hate writing and books.

i liked supposedly garbage stories like game of thrones and attack on titan (up until their rushed endings) and those are what sold the most around the world too.

so i'm trying to unfuck myself and trying to enjoy writing for a webcomic i'm trying to create, but so many articles i found early on kept pushing the same bullshit about how theme is so important, when it's looking more and more like it's an afterthought after the story is completed and looked on as a whole and entirely subjective. i felt like i wasted an entire year learning that i should have just written what i thought was fun, interesting and coherent than trying to wrap my head around some stupid message/moral i knew i'm incapable of delivering because i'm not some life guru or philosopher. i don't believe ANYONE is in a position to tell someone how to live their fucking lives and what decisions they make except maybe their parents.

tl;dr, how do i just relax and write what is fun instead of worrying about the theme meme?

>tfw ywn have a /lit/ bf who is really smart and well read
Yes I am a tranny

I'm reading over my book for the last time before self-publishing. I've read it over a bunch of times already and I've had others read it too, yet I'm still encountering stupid mistakes and typos.

What are you supposed to do if there's a book you want to read which is the only comparable book written on the subject in english, which went out of print years ago, it was obscure enough that there aren't even $100+ copies available to buy 2nd hand and it's not on library genesis or any other websites that offer pdfs and the only place that I can read it is borrowing physical copies in the library in another continent?

>“Because it means the Consult has mastered the Old Science. Sranc, Bashrags, Dragons, all the abominations of the Inchoroi, are artifacts of the Tekne, the Old Science, created long, long ago, when the Nonmen still ruled Eärwa.

How fresh and original, magic is actually really advanced technology, I can only hope that my limited brain capacity can comprehend Bakker's works.

kellhus is the physical manifestation of those comebacks people come up with whilst taking a shower. He's worse than -Allah forgive me for uttering this word- an anime protagonist.