/lit/ - Literature

>>10056261
I'm fairly sure you're the irritating britbong frogposter in outer /lit who has been complaining about reading Ubik for the last week; more than that, you've also been posting self-pitying drivel about your lack of success with 'staceys', lack of motivation, wallowing walks through hyde park (always with the coffee, which you inexplicably flagellate yourself for consuming) and binge eating, for at least a couple of years; in other words you're incapable of finding joy in anything except complaining and shitting all over the board (sometimes twice a day, for at least a couple of years now) with your sub-r9k doggerel. It's a wonder you're not banned.

>>9980419
It's more of an apathetic response, but I've never gotten beyond the early stages of outlining and opening chapters, so now the idea of novel writing is a remote one. After seeing what somebody like Clark Ashton Smith and Borges can do in 7-10 pages, I'd happily aim at being a short story writer. I think I'm with Borges on novel writing - a mad, impoverishing and time consuming business.

>>9948061
Magic is a banal word anyway, and sorcery isn't much better, when there are plenty of better and more specific words; necromancy, enchantment, legerdemain, demonology, malediction, divination, sortilege, glamor, etc etc.

>>9912393
I like Prometheus and Covenant a lot, but I can't get enough of ancient astronauts, existentialist AI, and the teething problems of space colonisation, informed by Philip K Dick, Lovecraft, Asimov as well as Milton. Ridley Scott surely has a good library of SF and classics. It's not unreasonable to think he has read Gene Wolfe. Anyway, the problem is that the multitudes, who demand cliches, want another Alien 2, or Alien Vs Predator action movie.