/lit/ - Literature

>>4134857
Taxing at times but wonderful. You should try it.

Also, pic.

Writers of /lit/,

Try to list around three novels that have inspired, influenced or are just similar to what you're currently working on.

For me
>As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
>Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
>Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

Your original writing, Rate & Post fam
Here Goes

We will buy books and never read them

We will download pdfs and leave them there; our macbooks clogged with untouched media

Staring at antiquated collections of ink and parchment trying to, telekinetically, absorb the information held within them

Giving up after three minutes and resolving to watch a documentary

Forgetting it all the next day

We are educated

>>3915272
There ya go.

How's your story going?

ITT we tell stories about failure.

Write me a story in one post, with a pictures about that story.

>This is Ernest Hemingway moments before he shot the photographer, whose last words were; "what are you going to do shoot me?"

Lets see some excerpts from today's work.

how do you write?

Alright, lets see what you've got so far.

Let's see some excepts

What's your word count goal for the day /lit/erati?

What are you currently working on?

I'm writing a story about a town slowly becoming a garden paradise.

What are you working on currently?

I am writing a little short story about some distant future civilization looking back at humanity being able to find records up to about now. Regarding the shift from physical economy and goods to digital.

Tell us about what you're writing at the moment?

I am writing a story about a river having a mid-life crisis at the moment.

What are you currently working on?

What are you working on at the moment?

I'm currently writing a story about a man lost in the London Underground.

What are you working on at the moment?

I am writing a story set inside Waterloo station.

I am working on a short story set during some riots in my area. Will be set over the course of one night.

[spoilers]Apologies to people who posted in this thread already, was intended to be for people to post what they're working on. Not just me blabbering on. And yes, set in London[/spoilers]

I am working on a short story set during some riots in my area. Will be set over the course of one night.

What you working on at the moment?

I'm working on a short story in which the President of an unnamed country keeps hearing various voices in his head.

What are you working on at the moment?

I am writing a novel set during a Friday night out in Bristol.

So what are you working on at the moment?

I am writing a novella in which a man accidentally stumbles upon an underground organization of left-handed people.

"Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well, he could never know, now."
-Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Normally I see inspiration posted on other boards to help people get fit, fashionable, better at drawing or whatever. Yet despite having a large amount of budding writers here I never see any threads for inspiration and motivation.

So /lit/ and writing related motivation thread...