/lit/ - Literature

>>20896207
>man drives a car at 150mph, slams into a wall, miraculously escapes with minor bruising
>decides to not do that again
>other drivers tell him he is missing out on the thrill when he stops

>>18576255
Shakespeare, Browning (Childe Roland), some of Coleridge, Keats, Dickinson, Tennyson, Yeats, Eliot

>>18576300
The former. Generally you're expected to to contract work for a couple of years. Being willing to relocate is a big plus, hence why I'm taking the opportunity to much about in Italy for a while (since I also like Dante and Italian history). I would recommend 'The Professor is in' by Karen Kelsky, I found it pretty helpful in strategising career-wise. Publish as much as you can and get whatever university - level teaching experience you can.

>>17858784
An unbelievably selfish woman. She muses over her past in diary form, first person POV. She refuses to settle for anything and has destroyed the lives of a ton of people in the process. Deeply believes that doing so was justified in her 'pursuit of love and happiness'. Very self-deluded which becomes increasingly apparent as the novel goes on and she does more and more terrible things, so the reader goes from initially empathising with a neglected child bullied by her mother to sort of feeling horrified at how destructive she becomes. Sort of a modern day Emma Bovary, shades of Anais Nin.

There are a few elements that I really think are original, which I won't share here, but the outline is completely finished and I've got a lot of hope of getting it published. Fingers crossed.

What authors have the best prose/writing style?

>Hard mode: no Joyce or Nabokov

It's so, so, so much easier not editing as I go along. Beforehand I'd suffer so much creative constipation, get 200 words out in a day which I'd constantly revise and polish, and whenever I realised a scene didn't work and I had to delete hours and hours of work I'd just give it up.

Now I'm just letting it flow. If I can't think of a name for something I insert a marker and keep going. If I contradict something I've written earlier I keep going. If dialogue is shit I just keep going. Now I'm cracking out thousands of words which I'll revise at the 25k mark.

Feels so freeing to actually be progressing the story on the page, even if it's messy.

>>17247185
>7k words now
I have to say lads, this might actually become a real book one day. I have no idea how much material there would be in the end though. I have a lot of stuff to tell, but how big of a book should a series of vignettes from a 9 month period be? Somewhere around 100 thousand words? At this rate I'd finish this thing around March