/lit/ - Literature

>>20125979
no spoilers here, just orthos and chill

I read sff for fun!

I haven't really been engrossed in a book since I read Mother of Learning a few months back

I like it. I like it well done

>>15753830
Muh diary desu senpai

>>11185867
Very bad. A first draft usually reads like a poor fanfiction, with slim transitions between actions and heaps of dialogue without description, because, as another anon said, it's all about getting something down, so that your focus isn't on finishing the story, it's on fixing it.
Everyone is different, but I can explain my personal habit. A first draft is done in about a week, usually is around 40k words (sometimes as low as 30) then I fucking hate myself and the story and I get depressed and abandon it for about two months, sometimes almost half a year.

By that point - because I wrote so feverishly and then immediately dropped it - I've forgotten most details, and in my mind begin envisioning it as I originally intended it to be; how it is in my head, not how it is on paper.

I briefly skim the manuscript. If it's making me cringe and I'm still hating it, I'll close it and rewrite it from scratch/memory. I already know the story, I just need to write it as it is in my mind, focusing on the core of the story (which frequently shifts around in a first draft.) If it's just bad, but not absolutely terrible, I'll rewrite it scene for scene, usually expanding (again, just me, because I write short by nature, others may be trimming scenes down at this point.)

The rewriting process takes far longer, usually a handful of months. My novels average 70k so they sometimes double in length during the rewrite process, with scenes being added and crucial descriptions and explanations I'd forgotten in my initial haste being squeezed in.

Then the second draft is done. Depending on the quality, I might rewrite it again, or sometimes only certain chapters need to be redone. Then I send the manuscript out to people who read it and give me their peasant general impressions: "It was good. I lieked the character who dide the thing :D" If there is anything that gets mentioned by multiple people, I'll address it, otherwise, then it's time to spend another few months polishing

OP do you even understand all the words you used?

It's easier to write off an entire genre than to judge an individual work on its own merits.

>>9822654
You don't have to do anything but I'm not going to spoonfeed you.

>>9769908
I respect John Green's sincerity. He's a complete faggot and probably a literal cuckold but at least he's sincere.
>>9770077
I hate niggers as much as I like your digits.

hi guys,
let's stop arguing and watch incorporated instead.
i think we all could agree on that.

ITT: Share your most pretentious literary opinions

how does one communicate without being widely misunderstood?

has a writer in known history achieved this?
hard mode: wrote about anything vaguely relevant to anyone.