/lit/ - Literature

>>8670204
You forgot
>sexual tension

>all of the great works you read will eventually be dispensed into nothingness when you inevitably die
>everyone reading this will one day cease to be
Who /existentialdread/ here?

>>7899340
I'm so shit at actually starting writing projects, /lit/. Tell me which of these sounds the most interesting:
>Man with healing powers helps other residents of a flying "cattle city" farmed by technologically sky pirates for slave labor, when his power is found out he's taken under the wing of the merciless pirate lord who keeps the city under his thumb
>a bitter mage who once helped save the world is forced out of retirement when his memories start to come to life
>NEET internet friends are despondent after one of their own streams his suicide, they soon become aware of a "Hikki killer" phenomenon, supernatural occurrences ensue
>fuck it, fun desert fantasy adventures with scorpion riding tribesmen, jackal men who own the wind, and cities on the backs of giant beetles

>>7876159
>Matthew Burch
Dodged a bullet, there.

>someone asks me what my favorite book is
>immediately blank and suddenly uncertain what it actually is

>meet qt3.14 in my creative writing class
>always links me shitty tumblr gifs about US WRITERS HUH? XD
>never think of a polite way of telling her she's being a pleb
>implicitly buying into le meme writer culture by not stopping her

>everyone keeps telling me to read Kingkiller Chronicles
>everything I hear about it makes it sound generic and retarded
>read it
>everything is generic and retarded
>standard fare fantasy from the perspective of a Mary Sue
>despite being well aware of how shit it is, I enjoy it
>tear through both books
>eagerly awaiting the third
HOW? It's fucking AWFUL, yet I love it.