/lit/ - Literature

>>19491770
>The skeptical fantasist: in defense of a oxymoron
>I was crossing campus not so long ago and I happened to bump into one of my old professors. She greeted me with a warm smile and congratulated me on my success writing children’s fiction. After swearing under my breath, I explained to her that I wrote epic fantasy, and that if anything, it was as adult as adult could be. The idea, I told her, was that in today’s electronically balkanized society, genre was the only place where it was possible to write ‘literature.’ She did not look convinced. But then I’ve been to several literary festivals now, and I have a pretty good sense of just how deep the pigeon-hole goes. We humans have three pound brains, and we live in a universe so big that we regularly see starlight older than our species. We are overmatched. As a result, we tend to economize by packing our terms with implicit judgements. In literary circles, ‘epic fantasy’ has all the cache of ‘bag lady’ or ‘redneck’ or even worse, ‘corporation.'

Yeah, I'm going to pass. The guy should come to terms that he's writing genre fiction and not literature. He can't even take compliments without sperging out.

>>18666099
These threads were better when they had anime OP since they filtered the schizophrenics.

>>18612313
>how many languages do you speak, understand via listening, and write in?
So far 2, I am a native speaker of Spanish and I like to think that my English is good enough to not look retarded. I am also starting to learn Japanese.
>How did you learn (or are currently learning) each respective language?
For English, it was basically just osmosis, I really didn't put too much work on it, unironically video games and internet was what forced me to learn it.
>How do you keep each language fresh in your mind?
Almost everything I read is in English and I work close with native speakers so that helps, for Japanese I am a weeabo that has been watching anime for more than 20 years, but that probably would not help me.
>Is there any intermingling among your languages (e.g., acquiring a new word in language and assuming you already knew it in the others, being able to recall a word easier in one language than others, etc.)?
There are a few cognates between Spanish and English but I think that its also part of most spanish speaking people adopting some degree of spanglish.

>>18407690
>sure I've never published anything but I won money from a writing contest once
>can't even prove that
Why are pseuds like this? Why do they shit on writers writing their stories but never back up their own?

>>18244709
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>>18244719
Holy fuck, this is hilarious. So the whole “pseuds hate Gardner because he actually finish his novels” is true?

This is even more pathetic than I thought.

>>18231168
Don’t care, I just want to read books that entertain me. Nothing more and nothing less.

>>18219442
>Bakker obviously isn't YA
Anon, Bakker is YA. Stop being in denial. He even threw an autistic fit when he wasn’t taken seriously by the literary community because a former teacher told him her child buys and reads his book.