/lit/ - Literature

>>22891621
>>he was only 23 when he wrote this

>>22614963
>mfw I can relate to this

>winds of winter

>mfw no pop-punk gf

>>21762490
I actively work from home and it's a nightmare. Do you know what it feels to have the absolute sanctuary and the safe zone of your line turned into the pit of your slavery and despair? The feeling that there is no place left for you to crawl and safely hide from the world? I hope you never need to find out.

>>21542050
my mum used to violently beat me and abuse me verbally haha

>tfw no dwarf drinking buddy

>>21383431
when I had Facebook I would change my birthday date so the notification didn't pop up for all of my "friends." That way I avoided all of the "happy birthday" posts from people at school who I've never actually talked to. It just felt so fake.

>part of the reason for reading books is to have interesting dreams
>dream about reading interesting books instead

I'll be honest, there's this girl that I know and it is fucking KILLING me knowing that I'll never be able to lick her feet once in my life. Other than that I am almost numb to the misery of life now, just patiently waiting for it all to end

>>20169098
haha

>>18606663
Bro, hear me out on this. All possible configurations of letters and words already "exist". The author is more like a sea-captain navigating the oceans of potential existence.

gf is once again trying to fight me over petty, ridiculous shit and I just do not have the energy for it

>>15834475
Please feel free to give your input on how to correctly do it.
I thought it was good advice.

Who is, in your opinion, the best genre-fiction or sci-fi/fantasy writer?

How would you rank genre-fiction? Or sci-fi/fantasy for that matter?

>next semester starts on Monday for me
>haven't read a single book or story all summer
Who else wasted their entire summer? I'm so mad at myself.

>>12327037

It's what happens when you spend all your free time sitting on your ass playing video games or watching shitty movies.

>>11197135
I'm speechless. Good on you for posting your shit here, though.

>>11159779
>spend all day at work thinking about cool shit I'd like to do on free time
>do nothing when unemployed other than think about how I should be working

>>10404653
>by Richard Evans

>>10145852
I'm not an authority on writing, in fact I kinda write like this, but here are some things I would do differently (disclosure, I only read the first few lines):::

>"The majority of the drive along I-80 East and up I-55 North met Ryan and Jolene with little issue."
Why is the 'drive' acting as the subject to the verb 'meet' here? This is a form of personification, but the stylistic choice doesn't amount to anything. If Ryan and Jolene were lost, perhaps the personification would be warranted since it would imply a sense that our characters aren't able to control the situation and it feels as if the road is dictating where they go and what they do next, but that isn't the case here. I only bring this up because it is the very first sentence which ends up being off-putting.


>"Ryan has made the trip ... resistance on the way. "

"Ryan has made the trip himself."
There's no need to say himself, omit it.

"beforehand"
Omit "-hand."

The word 'visitation' and the noun 'visit' are synonymous (American English here). The more-communicable choice would be 'visit.'

"the two"
Omit.

"traffic resistance"
Omit 'resistance.'

I might re-word this excerpt like so:

>'Ryan's clever planning will land them at Navy Pier on time, excellently avoiding the dead-stop traffic that chokes the interstate from here to Chicago's south end and the groaning throngs of chortling tourists posing for photos and stupidly asking the fast-talking locals to repeat themselves.'

Ryan thinks himself clever by making plans. We're in Chicago. Ryan's familiar with it. Ryan hates crowds and traffic; We know how he feels about them / We know what he thinks of when he thinks of crowds and traffic.


>>10145932
This. Your dialogue and the actions of the characters are akin to what is happening as if they are on a screen somewhere (I noticed my writing suffers from this as well).
The strongest stuff in a narrative comes from a character's motivations, not the actions; Characters commit (or not) to certain actions because of personal motivation, which is far more interesting. WHY is more interesting than WHAT in these cases. Honestly, it might hurt and you might feel like a noob, but start very, very obvious and whittle your way down to satisfactory levels. Don't feel like you need to grasp every concept On-the-first-try, In-your-own-unique-way. I know some artists who are phenomenal now, but who I witnessed producing sketchbooks and sketchbooks of utter garbage. Start small, and build upward. It takes longer, it hurts much more, and yields better results.

>>9974149
Rich Evens has read the entire Western Canon

>>9777865
I have imagination but my writing mechanics are terrible and I frequently get B's on my essays...
>tfw average intelligence

>>9500873