/lit/ - Literature

>>22660540
First of all, you have to read read read.
I take heavy inspiration from C.S. Lewis when it comes to the weight of words. This specific passage, I cant point to anything specific I was inspired by, but as I mentioned in my previous post where I crossposted my shitpost from /ck/, that was inspired by that "yes" passage from james joyce.
I have a completely different stroy where I follow the narration of a character in the style of Gene Wolfe's botns.
That being said, don't copy directly exactly what they do, but take what you like from their styles and put your own twist on it. You absolutely NEED to have your own voice shine through, even if it's clear you took hints from other great authors. (I'll post the Wolfe style story in another post, but I'm worried this thread is turning into a personal vanity sesh for me lol. I do genuinely want this thread to continue with OP's original request)
The second thing is that you need to work on things like sentance structure, legnth, variety, etc. This pic from a different thread is a VERY good thing to study
Essentially, if you do this and do it to the extreme you will end up with something that sounds good even if you dont have a personal style locked down yet
Thirdly, I actually recommend movies and shows to become a better writter. In a book, there are hundreds of thousands of words, but more importantly, the things people remember are the LINES. Specific lines that stand out, specific individual moments that remain with you. Movies and shows do this to an extreme, where you may not know every scene in an episode, but if there's one scene that's powerful, that's meaningful, you WILL remember it. Always try to get your LINES to be peak, even if the rest isn't up to par all the time.
Lastly, (now that I'm rambling) I'll just say that practice is important. (I neglect this often lol) the more you write the better you will be. Happy writing and believe in yourself :)

>>21418360
This has to be bait, but I'll reply anyways.
Having perfect pitch does not make you a good listener nor does it make you a proficient critic.
It is a niche ability, its scope of being able to connect a particular pitch to a note in an equal temperament (western) tuning system without needing a tonal center as reference encompasses about as much of the art form that is 'Music' as knowing the definitions of the 1000 most frequent words in the western canon would encompass 'Literature' as a whole.
It enables you to know a key of a song which is only the domain of harmony and only functional and tonal harmony at that. Even then there is much more to functional harmony than just naming the key. People with absolute pitch even have it harder hearing intervals and cadences (examples of relative pitches) which are, in comparison to notes and keys respectively, at least significant to harmonic analysis.
Absolute pitch is to music what being able to tell a story vividly at a pub is to Literature.
>>21414379
Most generous equivalent otherwise would be having a good sense of sentence length in prose writing/good meter in verse writing – without any good content or good word choice or stylistic skill whatsoever.
For reading the equivalent might be speed reading while also missing the point of whatever you're reading lmao