/lit/ - Literature

There seems to be infinite about of instruction on plot, story, characters, world building, all the mechanics of writing. I'd even throw in that "Shandification of New Vegas" into the mix for examples of how common this kind of thing is. And I'm grateful for all of it. Because of that, I feel extremely confident in my ability to come up with a story and plot and eventually a world and all of that really well. Characters I feel I struggle with because autism and my general lack of people I interact with over my life in meaningful ways, but while I'm writing they always come to life in ways I usually never intended which seems to be fairly common; I'm okay there.

What I can never seem to find is stuff on style, voice, the actual words. You look at music, or art(painting/drawing), film directing, you can find endless analysis on different styles and all of that. But with writing I just can't seem find someone talking about what specifically makes Dickens different from Hemingway, or Faulkner different from Austen. I know if you read them it's easy to feel the difference and instinctively know who is who just like with any of the other mediums I mentioned, but I can't seem to find someone breaking it down in the manner you can find them doing with all the other parts so easily. That's the one area I'm not comfortable with, and it's the area I can't find any... training I guess is the word I'm looking for.

Obviously you can't teach "voice" and all of that, it's something that can only come from within, but you can show people how to get there, and that's all I want.

Mutation is evil all the shapes are evil, everything that can be touched by light is evil

>>9577385
Nothing if you aren't a pleb yourself. Most people here are just doing it so they can finally feel superior to someone.

>>9326724
he doesn't like pdfs.

>>9277152
>being scared of losing the only thing you've ever had