/lit/ - Literature

>"What happened to the American dream?"
>"It came true."
Why did this have to be in a fucking comic book?

Jesus iced a fig tree because it didn't have any fruit.

Why do over half of my stories end in tragedy and/or heartbreak?

>it's another "stuck writer ends up talking with a personification of his character/muse story"
I know this is cliche bullshit, but it got me writing again after being stuck for a long while. And I'm having fun with it, which I guess is a plus.

Does anyone feel really bad about what they put some characters through? I have this weird head cannon for myself that I simply create the worlds and characters, but it's my muse that is the agent of chaos going in and setting events in motion, and even when the blame isn't directly on me I can't help but feel like shit for killing this girl's little brother...

Guys, why does my third person writing always feel so... immature? There's just not weight to it, like some kid's book. Reread a short story I wrote about a guy contemplating suicide and it was just so hokey I spent the day rewriting it in first person because I know it'll have the gravitas that something like that needs to have.

Is there something I'm missing?

>>15306976
i keep falling in love with both likable and vile fictional priests fuck my life

Does it bother anyone else that most of us will never see the plays we may or may not read performed the way they were originally intended?

How do you build your vocabulary? Does anyone have any good vocabulary lists?

Alright, /lit/. I'm finally taking reading seriously. Can someone explain "style" and "voice" to me in a way that isn't completely abstract and how to "see" them?

The single most common piece of advice I see established writers give is to read more.

My question is how many books/stories must one read before they can write without feeling like a fraud? 100? 500? 1,000?

>literally don't describe a single thing unless it's relevant to the plot/action
Is this a serious problem? And how do I rectify this?

>read before you write
What do I do if I have a problem reading but have stories in my head that can only be expressed completely with words?

>>14205315
i can't even remember the last time we had a literature thread...

>>13930433
honestly, after reading it i WAS thinking to myself "hmmm i guess LG is apparently the high end appliance option. what do i have? i can't fucking remember but i know its not LG. damn"
do i really care though? not really. i mean, maybe it would be nice to hage LG appliances, maybe it would be nice to do laundry and not have everything end up wrinkled to hell, maybe it would be nice to cook on a flame instead of a fucking heated up coil of metal (how the fuck is this in any way human?), maybe it would be nice to not have to hand rinse my dishes after they go through the dishwasher because they still end up with food and soap scum on them, i don't know. thats the thing is that i just don't know, and i just don't care enough to find out if i really would appreciate LG appliances or not. maybe i would get them and still end up lying awake at night thinking about what it would be like to have a friend or what it would be like to want to wake up tomorrow morning, i don't know. maybe LG appliances would fix all that.

>>13904188
in the USSR, some remote bumfuck-nowhere settlements served as exile point for criminals, often exiled here for life. imagine how locals who just naturally lived there felt

what are some short books worth reading?

>studied Latin for six years
>can't sight translate anything beyond 'see Spot run' level sentences
>even with a dictionary and unlimited time, accurately parsing any literary sentence is hit or miss
At best, it feels more like Chinese Room style artifice than the lucid, freewheeling sensation of working in your native language. On some fundamental ontological level I can't comprehend the state of actually being fluent in more than one language. What is it like? When you think of something, do the variant words come up simultaneously, or in succession, or just from one preferential language and you have to make a conscious effort to switch into another one?

I've just given up on Latin at this point. I think my achilles heel is the combination of countless homophonic inflections across word classes with the loose sentence structure, which just leaves everything a sludge of morphemes.

>>12998808
They're more verbally talented than men meaning they read at lower IQ levels (+the average woman has more time), their peak IQ levels are lower and, this one is rather controversial, their overall average is lower as well. All this will result in 'choosing mostly garbage'.

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Mexico
Letters from the Earth, by Mark Twain

>haven't read anything
>though i used to be a huge reader, i spent 2 months withouth reading anything
>i get tired after 5 minutes
>i have to re-read because i can't retain it

I remember they cut down an entire forest just to get better sunlight or some shit when I grew up. Capitalism is so strange.

>>12685517
I know. Why do you think I've been venturing out into other boards?

>>12533314
So, I head you don't have a girlfriend? Welcome to the club.