/lit/ - Literature

Prepared to rage:

>http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-famous-authors-their-hip-hop-equivalents/
>4 Famous Authors and Their Hip-Hop Equivalents
>#4. Ernest Hemingway and Biggie Smalls

Since there are a lot of English majors here, how do I learn what moods and other grammatical terms mean, explained simply? I'm studying French and I keep coming up to these grammatical terms, but when I read the definitions they're loaded with other terms, which are loaded with other terms in their definitions, and it gets confusing as fuck.

>herp derp lrn2grammar
I already implicitly use correct grammar for the most part, but that's because I'm a native speaker. I'm like a mechanic who doesn't know the names for any of his tools or how to explain to someone how to use them.

How do I become a writer?