/lit/ - Literature

>>9498347

You actually can't cynically write a successful trilogy like that.

You have to actually have a pop-cultural sensibility to write a pop-cultural hit.

Without a pop-culture sensibility you don't have a toutchstone against which you can check your prose and draw the writing from on a scene to scene basis.

You can't write twilight without having the weird sexuality of its author, which calls out in every line to its readers.

Intellectual understanding of tropes, plots, etc isn't enough to separate you from even the mountains of literature published by hobbyists who already have the pre-requisite sensibility.

The thing that separates these works is either a genuine refinement of that sensibility into a kind of technical skill of schlock, a talent for promoting your own work (which requires enthusiasm) or pure luck that either gets you picked up by a corporation looking for a property or that has you forge a uniquely appealing junk book.

Hi Anon, is Stoicism or Epicureanism the better philosophy? Maybe I'll go on a date with you if you get it right (;