/lit/ - Literature

>>10400316
>these are the losers who populate /catholic/ generals

>>9457116
Americans don't watch foreign films?
Sorry if my picture seemed offensive to you.

I asked this on /tg/, but maybe this would be a better place:

I'm looking for books about storytelling and world building; things like how to make interesting characters, tense situations, interesting journeys and conflicts, and anything else that can turn a story into something interesting and fun to experience.

Every recommendation is very much welcome.

I don't have one any more.

I spent so long trying to avoid being hurt, avoiding any and all risk out of fear, never once putting my heart in someone else's hands. Not even when she begged me to do so.

But that doesn't make your heart stronger. It might seem harder, perhaps, but really it just becomes brittle, and fragile, untempered by the heat of want and desire, or the inevitable quenching that rejection and disappointment provide.

The damn thing cracks a little every time I see a beautiful woman smile at another man, strains and creaks each time I hear a girl laugh.

I dared not let someone break it, not even once, and in doing so I've turned it into glass, and now even the most thoughtless acts of pity or petty kindness feel like punch in the face or a kick in the stomach.

>>6548539
>I pretty much only believe in the physical world. Everything else are just thoughts in our head.
>mfw thoughts in our head are physical as well