/lit/ - Literature

Halfway through 2 novels right now. Both sci-fi. People love the concepts when I lay them out, but I am struggling to finish them. I think it is because, deep down, I am insecure regarding the quality of my prose. On the one hand, it is sci-fi, so excellent writing is hardly expected. On the other, I couldn't publish a novel I did not firmly believe had a chance at being more than just a forgotten work.

So anyway, today I started a third novel.

Will you be gifting any books to your family this Christmas?

Hi /lit/, most "advanced" book I've read is Kafka's metamorphosis. What books are the standards to be on par with you fags?

>tfw would drink because no gf but can't kill gains

>>14697
>mfw I am 6' and love 6'+ women

>>9120596
I'm sorry anon.

The diagnosis is in and... you're a pseud.

I did this all through uni.

I'd spend weeks researching/reading about the topic but I wouldn't write until the night before.

I ended up with a 2:i, because the one time I didn't research enough (dissertation, did FAR FAR less than I should've) I got fucked. I got a 67 because the paper was 'too narrative' in nature (history student). All I needed was a 71 to get a 1st.

>4 books behind schedule

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5909029-nat

>csq relating more and more to Julien Sorel

People who would call themselves writers, what would you say the most meaningful or important lesson you learned or picked up is? I'm at a crossroads in my life, and this has been an introspective summer where I realized I don't want to stay in my current field. I used to write and read a lot in my youth, and started writing again recently. I have no formal background in this, just a ton of ideas for novels and stories.

I am not assuming I could just drop everything and write professionally, or even get a single thing published. Those of you who have finished polished works, are there any succinct things that you have stuck by to complete or advance your writing?

I would say pls no bully, but criticism and getting shit on is something i should learn to deal with sooner rather than later.

>>6442379
>tfw you're a steer
>just a damn steer, following Brett around

>>6386460
I'm not quite drinking age yet. Fuck being a burger.

I've settled into liking really comfy indie folk. Bon Iver, Iron and Wine, Fleet Foxes, Mumford and Sons. It's subdued and pleasant enough with soft lyrics so it doesn't disturb me.

Where the Red Fern Grows.

>you will never explore the Ozark wilderness
>you will never pit your wits, work, and suffering against that of the coons
>you will never experience a love as pure and beautiful as being a boy with his dogs, ever again
>you will never nurse a stray back to life and sob as it returns to the boy it loves

>>6216144
"Drums" was a fantastic thing to read way back when.

>>5841348
>Says the man posting on the anonymous Cambodian cartoon forums that perpetuate the sad frog meme

And business is good.