/lit/ - Literature

>>20689337
How about each alternating chapter is about the main character, then the alter ego, and you keep it hidden that they're the same person until the end?

>>20200674
Toughen up. If your writing ever gets noticed in the real world, you'll get much more withering criticism.
This pastime isn't for wusses.

Ligotti shit talking scientists and SCIENCE FUCK YEAH people was fun as fuck.
> schoolgirls over-heated by their first crush

Give it a shot, it's a very gripping read. And most of his arguments are solid.

>>10530478
>tfw bisexual fascist
My existence triggers /lit/ and /leftypol/

>>9757148
my thought exactly

>submit essay a week late
>wrote it over a period of 3 days
>400 words under the proscribed wordcount, which was 3500 words

And I still got an A

>>5853358
>paying thousands and thousands of dollars for what amounts to toilet paper

>>4411464
>Did your high school teacher teach you how to enjoy literature?
Typical Great Gatsby drone when confronted with the truth about a book they were spoon fed in high school

>mfw SJWs on /lit/ realize that the majority of the board also frequents /pol/

Good God, the butthurt ITT is glorious.

>tfw when you're eighteen and extremely inexperienced as a writer
>tfw you send in your manuscript to agencies anyway and receive many rejections from people who would not even read the cover letter.
>tfw one agency decided to read it, says they love it, and starts throwing money and editors at you.
>tfw I'm nineteen now and they want me to mature as a writer for my first novel and are paying having one of their agents regularly coach me on technique and gotten me private seminars with college professors.
>tfw seeing agents backstab each other, people fighting over who has the right to represent me, and basically throwing bribes at me or even threats.

I'll be honest here everyone that I have no idea what the fuck I am doing. I wrote for fun and had no idea what the industry was like. Now that I have dealt with it I see how cut throat it is.

What the fuck do I do? I have come to realize I am not even that great of a writer and am now in far over my head. They all know the industry better than me, and now I have to fly blind trying to figure out what the fuck to do.

Regularly they try to manipulate me because of my age, citing it as people as young as me never get this far. That's true, and I don't want to let this opportunity slip through my fingers, but I don't want them to put me under a contract where I get shafted.

>>3213133

Magnificent.

>>2520143

INTP/INTJ depending on the test

any historical or scientific non-fiction, conspiracy theory/political exposes, dystopian lit, Vonnegut, Borges, Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Bolano, anything written with a grand scope

>>1993682

>Rutgers

>feminism

>>1539401

>Peasant trying to get admitted into Oxford

Against the Day

>>557723