/lit/ - Literature

>>6328418

I've just started it. You've basically droned for two uninteresting paragraphs to say, "I walked the desert, and found an invisible wall." At that point, it would be acceptable to describe it, but in a drastically reduced state. "I reached out and felt out a ceiling, and four similar walls, which had surrounded me without my knowledge," would be preferable to forced pseudo-modern musings.

Describing a character breathing in the way that you did is overused and tedious.

Describing his feelings... I'd say great vocabulary but it feels really out of place considering how mundane the actions of your character are. You begin every other sentence with what the character is feeling, as if you picked up a thesaurus and looked up the synonyms for 'exhausted' and then went ham.

>jobs not gotten
anon, please.

The idea is cool; a vice that appears out of nowhere and forces the character to be alone with himself, but the execution needs work. If you think about it in terms of novel pages, you've basically used up five pages to show that the character walked the desert, found a box, and then whined about his problems at home. Snore.

I prescribe reading, less verbose stuff. Hemingway preferred. If simplicity doesn't attract you, then read some lit that forces you to expand your vocabulary. It'll also help you with a more fluid sentence construction, since reading your prose is like reading a train with mislaid tracks.

>>6211811
Yes.
But, Christians (like me) have to admit (if they're honest) belief is based on faith and not overwhelming empirical evidence, which more or less ends the debate before it starts.
Gnu Atheists insist the debate start from the perspective the anyone with an idea, statement, or belief is under the burden of proof to prove their view, which is essentially a debating technique and doesn't really apply to most reality and our dealing with it.
So, it's futile to an extent.
The one true fact is that no one, atheist or theist, can bring harm to others based on their views and defend themselves. Everyone's right to swing their fist stops at the end of the other's nose.

>>5582308
Dat last sentence.

>>4668364

>>4661827

*but fiction is also acceptable

>>3961569

>>3819735
That would explain a lot.

>>3131440
>"there is no God" choices combined with "not sure/not important"

>>2998839
>"objectively better"

>>2892626
>2000 or later

Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan?

most of the good shit's pre-21st

>>2511084
Dear sir, you just almost invoked a fit of rage in me. You know NOTHING of zen (the book) nor the metaphysics of quality and what Persig was endeavoring to communicate.

Its such a monumental thing, it goes right over modern intellectualism. Quality is right brain... more aptly quality bridges the right and left. Your dismissive post is purely from the left, and thus you miss the greatness of this tomb, if you read it at all.

I am a fan of Persig, because I get it, and its a beautiful word-view, and way to be, especially today where we have so much technology and are unable to escape from it.

>>2410904

>>2204737
I was just about to rant on absolute declarative statements...

Still saying that all AE articles are shit is quite a big word.

I had a hearty laugh with lots of them, and I still think lots of them are hillarious.

It seems your problem is with the suspected authors, but I couldn't care less. It's an anonimous wiki afterall.

So basically, saying AE is shit because most of the humour is immature is like saying that all boards on 4chan are /b/ clones full of 13 year olds.

You have to give AE the credit it deserves, because even you laughed to some of it

>>1702142
so ur a cinical stoic who feels right about feeling as much pleasure as u can

Any other published writers on /lit/? It doesn't matter how big or small, as long as you're printed. No competition. What are your influences, if so?

>>1555106
No Virginia, there is no deeper meaning.

Stop pretending.

>>1200869

Sure is Zeitgeist in here

>mfw TB thread is the biggest on on the front page

Stay classy /lit/