/lit/ - Literature

>>21990634
>>21990172
What stops authors to be as socialy active as in the days past? Just look at H. G. Wells, he wrote almost 40 novels, incredibly well known in between 1890-1950. He not only wrote Time Machine, he made interviews with fucking Lenin and Stalin, very active in radio. Wrote texts that influenced the conception of United Nations post WW2. Can you name a writer today who's capable of this? Could G.R.R. Martin go and do something socialy that isn't just another medium to be consumed?

Now look at Youdkowsky. He wrote Methods of Rationality, a very well known fanfiction. Part of rationalist community. Never actually published. Yet at the same very active in media. An authority in terms of AI, people make interviews with him, the infamous 'we need to bomb servers of people not aligned with our views on AI Developement' comes from him.

Another person from rationalist community? Scott Alexander. His blog is so well-read and influencial he was targeted by the main-stream media after writing controversial article on how Democrats aren't as good as they claim to be (he's the furthest thing from a Republican, btw). He also wrote a fantasy/sci-fi(?) book, not published in print IIRC.

These people are modern H.G. Wells. They write, are read, and use their influence in the real world.

Why? Because published books aren't what gets you popular in the right ways in the modern era of information. Writers were 'Influencers' of the old era, now most of their position has been replaced. Bloggers are where it's at. Youtube is where it's at. Substack. Era of writers just writing, getting published and getting an access to intelectual circles is over. Intelectual circle is on substack, few clicks away.

>>21795939
>Tao Wong got cancelled, this is also the last time I went to this subreddit.
Tao Wong wasn't 'cancelled', he was ostracized from the community for being a greedy stupid fuck that thought he can trademark an entire genre, while at the same time copyright striking other authors. Fuck him with a rusted anchor, if it was 'cancelling' then it was one that I fully support.

>>21453203
>fantasy is one of the cornerstone genres in fiction, books and literature are perhaps the most accessible and widespread production method for art and storytelling.. there are 8 billion people, there have been hundreds through history, yet one person can run out of worthwhile fantasy to read in a quarter of a lifetime if they try. what's up with that?

The internet and modern capitalism has resulted in run to the botttom where writers try as hard as they can to appeal to the most common genre reader, while at the same time not being aware what makes for a good book. Readers prefer known and safestory tropes and cliches instead of new and unknown, making writers write the same books over and over again, just with different settings and characters.

These days you either bow down to extremly american feminized publishing industry which tries to appeal mainly to women and at the same time sets book standards for most of the world...or self-publish, mainly on Amazon, hoping that the fanbase you acquired by writing webnovels will allow you to make ends.But webnovels are Litrpgs and Power Progression genres. Still, you are far more likely to find an interesting and original webnovel than a published book.

>>21434357
>>21434709
There is nothing easier in life for an adult man in 1-st world country than to reproduce. Even if he is weird and off-putting and cannot get a low quality gf or someone to have sex with, even if he ignores desperate 30 year old women, he still can use his money (doesn't even have to be middle-class) and go to any poorer country in the world to have dozens of women, not even low quality ones, to literally desire to sire his children, whether for money, social status of having whiter children, or just for visa.

A non-broke white man can go to poor african country and literally have harems, if he so desires. There really isn't anything hard in reproducing in this day and age.

The only existing barriers are mental, because we want to reproduce among our social and culture group and to fulfil what we think is our requirement to 'make it' the right way.

That's why great people don't care about children. Because making them is no challenge at all. To make sure at least some of them reach adulthood and are ready to propagate the genetic material? That is a bit harder, but still Very Easy difficulty. It's achieving great things, writing influencial literature or achieving high social position that people struggle with.

>>21248341
>>21248418
You guys are clueless. People may bitch about muh world-building and magic systems, but stories with values and moral lessons are consistently the most popular ones, no matter the genre. Even the biggest Litrpg, The Wandering Inn is mostly read for its story and charcters, not secondary stuff like worldbuilding or magic system or Litrpg elements. Stories are and always will be the most important factor. Even Branderson wouldn't pull off Stormlight Archive without at least a servicable story, which drowned in his mormon values.

Not to mention magic systems and world-building tell stories by themselves, so people who are fascinated by those elements are just missing the forest for the trees. Fantasy is as good as it always been, the lack of good mainstream books is due to the industry being overtaken by women who want the 'right' books to be published. But as self-pub is growing, this generation might see the trend reversing.

Men want adventure, pretty, funny and head-strong female love interests and quests larger than life. They are going to get it, whether the mainstream wants it or not.

>>21236130
>Human's finally attain the medical skillset to go peacefully in their sleep
>Seething begins
It's a jealousy deep within our genetic code, isn't it? Our ancestors weren't given the option, so why are we?

>>16512965
Don't listen to the pseuds. For a good while, up until the 20th ce, education consisted in teaching classical languages so that the student can master grammar, logic and rhetoric progressively, i.e. the ending of "amat" tells me that the subject is singular, 3rd person and the verb is in the present, indicative tense.
After having mastered those, the student may proceed to study contemporary languages with great ease, on his own, since modern languages are a dumbed down version of Latin/ancient Greek. Moreover, familiarity with etymology smooths the acquisition of modern vocabulary, provided that they come from the indo-european family tree.
Finally, reading literature with such training allows the student to see the structure with which the author constructed his cathedral.

>>16448641
complete 180

>>16432720
>As I previously stated in my last opus...

>>16415855
Yes, yes ofc you are