/lit/ - Literature

>>8750642
I tried to write good, quality literature with trenchant themes and real new ideas and observations about our current society, but I just can't fucking do it so I'm trying to write a YA novel because at least teens won't recognize my fumbling attempts at depth for the shallow trash that it is.

>>5243124
Doing what OP said, I'll never finish this anyway because I missed the window of opportunity:

Opening paragraph: Everything’s haunted nowadays. Houses, of course, are still haunted. So are rooms in hilltop hotels. Abandoned theme parks, shopping malls, subway stations, office buildings, mental hospitals, derelict ships? All haunted. Also some things you might not expect, like cars and Laundromats. I heard people used to get possessed by evil spirits, now they just get haunted. Often in just one body part, like a cowlick or collarbone. You can imagine that with the steep increase in ghosts came a new demand for the spectrally sensitive, one not seen since the procession of the old world. These days we’re mostly in the business of ‘evicting’ rather than exorcising, and most tenets don’t give us much trouble. It’s not the first field I would have chosen, parapsychology, but it comes naturally to me. In practice, it mostly just involves listening. I’m not so bad at listening.

Summary: It's a satirical ghost story about a future where so many people have died that heaven and earth are overcrowded with spirits. Main character's crush has a haunted laugh, so he and his friend try to exorcise her through a shamanistic ritual (tickling) and in the process MC must face his own impotence.

2tired for hardmode.

>>4911432
>>4911438
Whatever. I'm really not in the mood to humour intellectually dishonest leftists tonight. You "win."

>>4894991
>The first thought introduced remains a constant theme throughout and forms the foundation for the overall message.

Apparently poetry has sunk so low that something as basic as this is sufficient to earn a poet accolades.

What is Western civilization even doing at this point? I read that some academics have determined that the average Western IQ has dropped by 14 points since Victorian times, and I think they may be right.

How does one live the "literary life"?

>>4714674
>this butthurt

Anti-Americanism is truly one of the most absurd and emotional ideological positions one can adopt.

>>4548719
Shut up please.

>>4539103
>dogmatically asserts that no truth can be correct except truth discovered his way
>accuses others of anti-intellectualism