/lit/ - Literature

You guys realize humans invented numbers right?

So if I just write a book I'll be able to escape my wagiedom, r-right?

Why is there such a divide between the "best prose writers in fantasy" and "the best prose writers in literary fiction"? Why is it that the best of the literary writers are so far ahead of the best of the genre fiction writers? Is it because they practiced more? Is it because they were just more naturally gifted than the writers who gravitated towards genre fiction? Why are Joyce and Faulkner so much better than pretty much anybody who has ever written genre fiction? I don't drop any names because there are many fantasy writers who are considered to be at the forefront; the names that come up the most are Gene Wolfe and Mervin Peake, among other names like Rothfuss, Le Guin, McKillip, Vance, Zelazny, Leiber, Howard... the list goes on and on and on. My main point is, why? Why are literary fiction writers so much better (or are considered better) than genre fiction writers?

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it's sooooo fucking gay and queer lamo.

>books about sports

I don't even know man. It's just a false value statement. People obviously don't like living in a world full of trash and overpopulated squalor, but what does it matter? People could be objectively happier living in poverty shit if the culture of those people accepted it and they were raised in a specific way. Life only exists for its own purpose; you give people everything they want and it makes them unhappy, listless, and shitty. The human brain doesn't want to struggle but it doesn't want to stay at rest. Suffering doesn't even matter in the grand scheme, it could be just as viable to have everyone on Earth suffer immensely from pollution or a restrictive, evil economic system for the purpose of boosting the wealth and pleasure of a ruling elite who, through happenstance, may invest more in sciences that improve the future hundreds of years from now. There's no way to really tell. It's all pointless posturing from what you the viewer greedily want the most.

The solace should be that it is obvious no matter who you are that there will be a form of eugenic selection in the future, if be by choice or by force, that will eventually occur. Infinite expansion of population is obviously limited. Sure, it may take a massive evil war and population destruction the likes of which the world has never seen, but the relief of natural ecosystems and immediate improvement to the future success of the children and people that come after would be worth it just for those people who didn't live through the shitty apocalypse times.

>Write 30 pages of a novel
>Start to think I hate it and made a bunch of mistakes or minor plot holes
>Feel like it's too much effort to edit and would rather just start over with a new story intsead

>Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
>Contains no motorcycle repair information