/lit/ - Literature

>>21789604
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. F Gardner’s books are the biggest reason Writing Generals have become a regular thing. 100% of the books in the /wg/ pastebin came out after Horror’s Call. F Gardner’s massive advertising campaign and all the threads resulted in other anons here wanting to aspire to writing their own book.
F Gardner is honestly a genius for thinking of writing a series of books and marketing it on 4chan. It literally wasn’t done before him which is bloody shocking. 4chan has been around for twenty years and somehow it wasn’t till Gardner that this happened.
I’ll give credit where it’s due. Gardner is the single most influential poster here and the progenitor of /wg/ literary works. He spawned what is probably the strangest literary movement of all time.
My biggest question regarding Gardner is why is Call of the Crocodile so much more popular than his other books? That book has become eternal. Is it really the best of the books F Gardner has authored?
Pic moderately related. Screencap of an old /wg/ classic.