/lit/ - Literature

I'm in a slump when it comes to writing, should I read works within the same genre for inspiration?

I've been avoiding them because I didn't want to be unoriginal or "contaminate" my work but I'm stuck and losing motivation.

>>10928996
All Mini's need are the bard.

>>10760978
>tfw seeing an anon have a published book open to a page of my writing

>>10021362
Wow, name-calling and memery, truly the christian way of making your point.

All you said was
>The arguments only lead you to the doorstep, not through the door. It's pointless to lay out the arguments unless you can accept that.

Which is a good way of saying "I'm dancing around the question instead of actually answering it."

I assume your reply to this will be another buzzword-heavy attempt to deflect the question rather than make any sort of argument.

>>9892068

What are your favourites by him?

>Tragedy: Macbeth/Antony and Cleopatra
>Comedy: Two Gentlemen of Verona
>History: Henry V

>>9836537
ehehehehahahaHAHAHAHAehehe

>>9772236

I had this experience about a year ago that I can only describe as "becoming literate" - I finally read enough to reach this critical density of understanding that has worked to light up everything I've read subsequently in a way that I never experienced before. Since then, reading has actually been deeply enjoyable, such that I don't have to deal with the internal struggle of forcing myself to read literature anymore. It just happens.

Highly recommended.

>>9715942

>the prose

fucking lel

>>9576865
>All those years wasted writing novels, when I could have been pursuing my real passion -- eating chicken.

What is your favourite Shakespeare play and why?

Through blackberry brakes that tried to pluck me back, though I but strained towards fruitless growths of mountain-laurel; up slippery steeps to barren heights, where stood none to welcome.

>>9550812
>>9550829
I think you're wrong. Have you ever talked to a female that is analytic? If not, then the subset of total females you've interacted with is clearly smaller than the set of all females in the world, and the analytic subset of females who are competent at analysis are clearly the ones you haven't met. Think about your claim: you are applying the property of a subset to the set which it is part of, without good evidence for that application. That's unreliable and unstable reasoning.
>>9550840
Is actually correct.

>>9549678

>feminine passive aggression

>>9474334
ahaha

>>9467004
Thanks for the elaborate reply, anon!

Charles Martin's is USUALLY quite good but he makes a few baffling decisions, I mean stunningly awful, he turns the contest between the magpies and the muses into a fucking rap battle, I mean, they literally use the word "homie" and the contraction "cuz'" in their AABB couplets

>>9431604

>>9402990
Michel Tremblay, not even kidding. He wrote about 60 plays and his pieces are constantly featured at any theatre in the french world. He's basically copying greek playwright and it works. Too bad you fags are stuck up in anglo/american shit world.

>>9379480
Is this what projection looks like?

>>9369888
thanks for the new reaction image