/lit/ - Literature

>>20703205
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbHKbvwCnU

Video summary from Pullum as well, essential stuff. At a bare minimum you have to watch the first two videos.

>>20703269
>"lies-to-children"
Show don't tell is worse than saying "eat all your food or you won't grow big" because 1) it lists 2 very vaguely defined subjects and 2) it tells you unequivocally that one is correct and should always be done and the other is incorrect/bad. The elaboration to the "children's lie" of show don't tell is 'actually you so need to tell sometimes", meaning the initial advice was just wrong to begin with - so let's just start with better advice.

>the pretense that anybody does displays an even more pedestrian mind than the one that adheres to them without any reflection
Go visit reddit or most amature writing hangouts - people fiercely defend these old lines and apply them rigidly to their own detriment. Successful writers parrot these phrases but aren't strick about them in practice of course.

>>20703032
Read half the video game short story - liked it although a lilting uneven in parts.

>>20703399
Yea two I alternate between.

>>19796088
>>19796099
I think it only makes sense if the book is a Hitchhiker's Guide style comedy. If not I think just dunking on someone you politically disagree with is lame unless you represent them fairly even if you're just ribbing in them - it would read like the "I am silly" meme

Maybe I'm just biased though because one of my future ideas in the can is a sympathetically written Kaczynski-like cult that builds a pressure dome on an planetoid at the edge of known space to escape mass media/culture and all non-essential tech.

>>19793627