/lit/ - Literature

>love fantasy
>want to write fantasy
>have tried for years
>always fear that I'm not writing something substantial enough
>always shelve projects that are too ambitious for "when I'm a better writer"
>want to capture a sense of adventure and journeying to strange, new lands and encountering strange, new things
>but feel it's an overdone concept that nobody is interested in
>want to write about adventuring parties
>but feel like the entire idea of the adventuring party is outdated
>always suffer from blank slate protagonist syndrome
Who here /sogenresavvythatyousecondguesseverysinglethingyoudobutdon'tknowhowtotakethatawarenessandcreatesomethinggreatherthanwhatcamebefore/?

>just finishing up second book of Prince of Nothing
>realize Akka's name isn't Achamain
>it's fucking AchaMIAN
What a shit name, I'm glad he's getting cucked

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>plebs making a pleb genre even plebier

>>8911131
>I had to teach this to 13 year olds during my education practicum
I still don't know what their teacher was thinking

>>6892047
Anon that hit way too close to home.

>student teaching
>forced to teach a YA book about this Indian kid living on a reservation
>there's a passage about masturbation
>before class starts think it'd be awfully clever to discuss this with the class
>read it aloud
>students mortified
>sperg out
>spilling my spaghetti as I try to explain why I brought it up
>somehow get to discussing my dad and how this sort of stuff would have gotten him in trouble
>everything is falling apart
>co-op teacher scolds me at the end of class
>said what I did was the equivalent of encouraging her three year old daughter to masturbate using the shower nozzle
>some kid reports me
>administration forcibly escorts me out of the school two days later
>college is sympathetic and gives me a new position to finish up in
>abandon education a semester later anyway
I mean, I know I fucked up. But it was all there in the text. The text I was forced to teach the class.

Where did I go so wrong?

>>6131974
Pretty disappointed by Mieville after Perdido Street Station.
>rape analogies
>RAPE IS DA WURST THING U CAN DO TO A PERSON
>can't help your bro who helped you save the world because he raped another bird person who doesn't really care all that much