/lit/ - Literature

>Have spent more time on creating a backstory for my pen name than working on my novel

Books for this feel?

I've put more work into creating a childhood for my pen name than I have my first draft

>>6389740
>massive, brain-shaking concepts
>Harry Potter

Yeah, what would Hitler be like if he had a magic wand? Brain-shaking.

>Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

>In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.

>mfw this is a real book

>>6322275
I talked philosophy and life with my best friend every night for months. When he started holding doors open for me, and being nice and shit, I knew something was up. It was weird, uncomfortable, and not at all what I wanted out of the FRIENDSHIP. God, I had to tear it out of him that he'd apparently fallen in love with me; made ME say it. It's not like I took pleasure in telling him that I was not interested, and that I had physical standards (inb4 le shallow). Asking me to just hug him and really pathetic, weird ass shit from someone I just wanted to talk philosophy and life to. Someone who I considered a good friend.

Weirding relationships up isn't always a good thing. Sometimes, people aren't into you. If so, drop 'em, or remain friends. But don't be a bitter fuck. It's retarded and pathetic.

>somehow I'm going to be "unreasonable" because /r9k/

>Jose Saramago dies
>no sticky

>Terry Pratchett dies
>sticky

>>6244510
>detective Harry D'Amour

that aside, I thought Pinhead always was evil. He takes people against their will, tortures them, and when Frank "escape" Pinhead is greatly offended and wants to recapture him. This doesn't sound like an amoral guy with his own philosophy, it sounds like a rapist.

A better question would be, how do you approach a girl at all?

>I identify with labels

>>4816869
>magical realism, I think I've only read one book that's was like this. What are its rules?

>half a page dedicated to describing a cat

>what's a good way to start a story?
>everyone posts the start to their unpublished crap
>one or two people actually post a real beginning to a published book

that is one big pile of shit

>>3486135
Its basic elemental physics, please don't say 'Lol no', if you don't have an alternative theory.

>>3459239
you win. we're all mad. now go away.

>preferring to keep books in shelves rather than use them as a CO2 neutral carpet

/lit/ used to like this, before it exploded in popularity with the tv-series.

>>2561012
yeah, /lit/ also loves to discuss movies, music, and Sasha Grey.

but /lit/ hates to discuss books.

The Huffington Post talked about this recently: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/top-reading_n_1373680.html

If you like reading young adult literature, do it.

The problem is when we have adults reading nothing but young adult literature. Then you wind up with college students who can only read at a fifth grade level.

Personally, what I hate about adults who read YA fiction is that they think I'm some sort of fun-hating leper when I tell them I don't like YA fiction. That fucking attitude has to stop, pronto.

>>2495510
>hottest girl in the burn ward

Here is something I quickly made. Critique it:

Would you think I was dumb if I told you I wanted to talk to you today about nothing?

Your hair cascaded down your head and your face sulked in a world of your own

Like a wild rose bloomed around the fostered you grow supreme

But romanticism is dead and we must grow up

A postmodern world is true and cynical

Where do we go from here?

Do we really need words?

This is all I know and wish to know

We don’t always have to talk, but I have nothing to offer

So would you think I was dumb if I told you I wanted to talk to you today about nothing?

>>2304683
Why is everything that just happens to be shaped vaguely like a penis automatically a metaphor for one?

>>2223816
>implying black people on /lit/

>he took the words of the original chant and replaced some of the lines with penis references

>>2113154