/lit/ - Literature

>>16651302
>>16651326

Just to reply to some of the already posted takes I think that as with any art, there's a required degree of prior reading/familiarity of current voices (i.e. writers). So yeah you have to read excellent literature to get a sense of style, greatness, whatever you may wish to define the merits of those works as.

BUT there is still a practice element to this. Even if you spend 10 years reading Goethe, Balzac, Joyce, WHOEVER, your first piece of work will probably be lacking in some areas. You need practice in the process of creating and self-editing. The development is still a thing, you just start from a better position.

>He had had that that had had to have been that that he had had before.