/lit/ - Literature

I’ve started, abandoned, and then re-started and finished so many books. I always go back to the beginning.

let him out!

>>17553413

>>17493435
>the artist class
you're such a retard lmao

>>16618359
>he isn't living in a psychward/on schizo benefits so he has the time to read 3 a week
ngmi anon

>>16529429
>and nobody called you a worthless brainlet
People call me that all the time. I'm okay with it. Being smart hurt so I did drugs until I wasn't smart anymore. It's pretty comfy.

Should rhetorical questions end with a question mark or a full stop?

I unironically buy Wordsworth Classics

>>15721179
I don't understand why is it "his taking" "his making" rather than "him taking" or
"him making". I'm an ESL btw.

>>15716009
I don't get it

>>15215649
t.

>>14621458

No thank you I'm staying

What are some books that will help me btfo my mom?

>>14435156
>It's also a very feminine line, so I hope it isn't from a male character.
I'm interested. How is "That was the one thing you couldn't get used to in a slave foundry." Feminine? Seems pretty neutral to me.

>>13495189
>The foundation (or at least I tried but its utter trash)

>>13177607
Yes.

I could go and explain what are the elements of good writing, and the diference between an amateur and shakespeare.

Most of /lit/ fells into the same mental trap as /ic/ anime retards is my style faggotry.

bad writing, beyond grammar mistakes and typos, usually feature amateur writing, in the sense it lacks any technique or craft.
Poorly written subjects, no deep or original thoughs, cliche tropes, cliche descriptions, no use of all senses, static conflict, no philosophical background, is pretty clear their work is incestous with the most plebian forms of entertainment, usually anime or comics or capeshit or film.

Top tier writing and genius ones, basically can be described as acumulated life experience, knowlege of the writing craft, extensive use of compound sentences, use of niche vocabulary or several languages, extensive knowledge of tropes, use of anti trama plots, tridimentional characters, descriptions that uses all five senses, a didactic use of the work beyond mere fiction and entertainment, deep ideas based on philosophical tradition about a variety of topics.

Basically bad writing is a mark of being young and amateur, while good writing is a mark of being more mature and experienced at life.

can u learn a language by just translating your writings into said language?

my goal is japanese, but even while I know the basic grammar I need vocabulary.
I find most anime shit cringe as fuck, same as playing japanese vidya, which I don't care.
most weeb shit while I'm interested in it, is just pretty awful on general.

I tried to translate my english prose into japanese and seems like a good exercise, and I'm forced to use my target grammar and I've learned a few words by translating maybe a couple phrases.

It seems a better exercise than reading because you've been forced to recall the words from memory.

>>12974791
>tfw will never be able to effortpost at this level

>tfw too brainlet to use the socratic method

>>12262865
>it it

>>12134400
>>12134429
Cheers mates

>>12078147

>looking to improve my vocabulary in day-to-day life
>bought Dante's inferno

ull look so smart talking like a 700-year-old hermit dago who spent his entire end of his life writing about a woman he saw once in passing on the street. be sure to pick up the longfellow translation to really get those 14th century florentine metaphors and methods of speech. bitches will get so fucking wet

>"so anon, wanna go out to a movie sometime?"
>"O Lady of virtue, thou alone through whom the human race exceedeth all contained, within the heaven that has the lesser circles, so grateful unto me is thy commandment to obey, if 't were already done, were late; no farther need'st thou ope to me thy wish!"
>"uhh sorry im actually busy so..."

>>11385242
nah you're just a tard