/lit/ - Literature

Should a story have a moral or teach the reader something?

>>4389138
whoa there was more than 1 of these?

what was it about after the 1st one?

and if I remember from what I read in school, wasn't it some shitty metaphor for communism? I remember enjoying it at the time but I enjoyed some stupid things

How do you come up with a good pen name?

basically

Should every story have a moral or overall message?

What makes a good writer?

spoiler alert: he shaves in the end.

I love that book!

How does this sound (sorry if it's vague) for a novel?

-takes place in a late bronze age fantasy world, war and strife among various races and across continents
-a very powerful man plans to purge the entire planet of all life and discovers an artifact to recreate his own race of beings build his own civilization
-throughout the story, entire villages are burned to the ground, men, women, and children and slaughtered, entire races wiped out, more struggle to survive
-protagonist is a man with stubs for arms, who miraculously survived intense torture and has a traumatizing past
-dark comedy genre

I swear to god I'm going to fucking write this regardless of what you say. So give me an honest answer.

I have a question, /lit/
What exactly is 'voice'? My professor described it as 'the clothes the narrator wears'. I don't understand it still.
Like, how can a story have multiple voices? This is unrelated to POV from what I get.

English major here.

What's the most credit hours you've successfully taken in a semester at college?

I'm taking 16 hours this semester as a beginning freshman. I have15 hours already under my belt from AP classes in high school.
My college requires special permission for anything over 18 hours. Thinking about stacking up on classes next semester and quitting my crappy part-time job.

You are stuck on a deserted island. You can only have one book in your possession. Which book do you choose?

REMEMBER, ONLY ONE FUCKING BOOK