/lit/ - Literature

Someone finally told me that they thought my writing was good enough to be a bestseller

Feels good bros

Also, digging in an old reaction face folder is a dangerous game

>>14692510
Fat cunt

>>9808071
I; THE SEMICOLON BANDIT; STRIKES AGAIN; THE FEDS CAN'T STOP THIS MADMAN!

>>8446487

>>7793385
Reading the best books in the KJV Bible. Not even religious.

Post your story ideas you've come up with. Rate other's. What does lit come up with?

>book ends with an injunction to kill landowners and capitalists

>tfw you actually live in society where leftist ~Everyone Has To Feel Happy All The Time~ totalitarianism has taken over universities and all public discourse, practically no one notices how creepy and orwellian this is or that it presupposes thought-policing, there are public adverts unironically telling us to "ban" words that hurt children's feelings, and actual Nazis who talk about burning Jews have become the most ardent champions of free speech and the only people who understand the virtues of small government and a sovereign private life
>tfw trying to hold on to this crazy ride while also jerking off to anime

What's the future of literature going to be like?

>>6064131
>>6064216
op, you and i sound much the same. i have been completely confused since graduating high school. i went with the military, but it was a terrible decision and i left after 4 years to become a neet. i also had $15,000 in savings, but only 12 remains.

if we are similar, i have a feeling the money doesn't matter. it's there just to allow time to discover yourself/what you want to do. going further, i'm certain where you live also doesn't concern you. you seem stoic and unattached enough to be content living anywhere, as long as you have internet, access to literature, time for writing and contemplation.

i'm going to suggest becoming a developmental english tutor for foreign families. you move in with rich/well-off families hoping to jumpstart their child's english ability and read/talk with them a few hours daily. they feed you, house you, and often pay you. when the child is in school, you are free to do anything that interests you. most of the time, it isn't even tutoring, just talking.

a site to reach families seeking this service is workaway.info, but i recommend arranging something long-term... no less than 2 years. there are many offers for native proficiency english speakers all around the world, although most will be found within china. hopefully a trivial job with plenty of free time and new experiences is what you're after.

>>4591595

Nonsense. Disregard certainty, utilize probability.

"I cannot truly trust the information received from my senses. I cannot be certain of my memories. Even my internal sense of logic, my gut feeling that 1+1=2, is subject to doubt. So, I could either sit here paralyzed by the uncertainty, or I could use as a working premise the idea that if my senses and memory and logic all agree on something, it's more likely to be true than not. There's no real reason to believe this, but the alternative courses of action are total randomness or inaction, which are boring, so let's do this.

So, where does this take me? I seem to be inhabiting a world with space and time, and some other rules that my memory and senses and logic tell me work reliably, ohh, you can do fun stuff by playing with those. You can throw balls and swim in water and bake bread, cool. And there seem to be other things here that look like me, they talk to me and do things... do they have thoughts too? Well, the noises they make seem to convey ideas, sometimes ideas that weren't in my mind, and my logic says it would be a really unlikely coincidence if they kept doing that WITHOUT having thoughts to do it with, so, they pass a Turing test, I'm probably not alone! Now let's see if we can play with those physical laws and build some scuba gear, I wanna see what's down under the water..."

Starting with doubt takes you to more interesting places than starting with certainty.

>>4545175

It doesn't matter that a dozen people are arguing about arbitrary genre distinctions.

It matters that one person just started reading Gibson.

Good job, /lit/.

jack stone

This is the second time since 2010 I've actually like OC on /lit/

Good Job

>>3017402

It's beautiful.