/lit/ - Literature

Just finished day 2. Keeping on pace, hopefully will get a lead tomorrow. Writing has been super smooth for me so far this year.


>>16703603
Chapters don't have to be 2-3k each, you can write them shorter to expect to fill them in later. I usually write a "wireframe" of chapters where I could go back and in editing add another thousand or so of filler/exposition. To me, the most important part of this is to get the plot moving in a cohearant diretion, flowery prose can wait for later.

>>16704302
This. I haven't finished nano yet in 4 years, but it succeeds in getting me off my ass and think about writing every year. Writing anything is better than writing the usual 0 words per month.

Not really, Mishima wanted to be a world-famous writer so he purposely made his writing as accessible as possible to westerners. He was heavily involved in the translation process and at times he even goes out of his way to explain some aspect of Japanese culture to the reader.

Context helps more with other Japanese writers like Kenzaburo Oe or Yasunari Kawabata

To be honest I doubt any successful writers post on /lit/

a better question to ask: what sort of debut novel would /lit/izens like to see?

I have never read The Recognitions or Gravity's Rainbow and probably never will

Shimumara represents the effeteness of modernity, he's a self-appointed 'expert' on western dance but he's never seen the dances performed himself, all he knows is from newspapers and books.
This contrasts with Komako who has learnt to play the samisen by just pouring over sheet music.

Shimumara is also entirely effete himself, he has no will to properly take control over his own life. It's hard to like him towards the end but it's also hard to totally hate him.

Komako overcompensates hard for Shumumara's passivity and as a consequence comes across as pushy and inappropriate, they're both as bad as each other desu. In my opinion Komako is slightly more relateable.

Why don't you guys all just take hormones and become transgender to get insta-published?

Ayn Rand, Charles Bukowski, Stephen King, Rupi Kaur and the Harry Potter series

>>11240109

the relationship between Yuichi and Shunsuke is super interesting, only a writer like Mishima could have thought it up.

Basically Shunsuke is an old writer who hates women because of bad marriages, he runs into Yuichi who is in his early 20s and engaged to a girl. Yuichi confesses to Shunsuke that he is gay and instead of saying he should call of the marriage, Shunsuke convinces him to go through with it specifically because it will cause suffering for his wife.

It gets a lot deeper than that but that's how it starts.

Following

I'm sort of curious if you guys agree with the psychiatric version of Schizoid Personality Disorder. A lot of psychologists seem to believe that schizoid people have no emotions at all.

But from my own experience (best friend with the disorder) they do, they just experience them differently.

Is it accurate for me to say doctors don't really understand schizoid? Or is my friend probably misdiagnosed?

You're going to be very disappointed when you actually read his books and find out he was a raging homosexual

>>8438903
>Went to Barnes and Noble and was impressed with their philosophy section.

Literally every Barnes and Noble I've been to, their philosophy section has been: those shite pop philosophy books, Kant, Kierkegaard, Plato, Nietzche and Ayn Rand.

You must live near a college campus or something.