/lit/ - Literature

>>22911475
I went on a Raymond Chandler tear starting in the summer. I loved all of them but these I remember the most.
>The Big Sleep
>Lady in the Lake
>Farewell, My Lovely
He got me inspired enough to try my own hand at detective fiction and now I'm working on a detective novel. It's given me a hitherto unexpected appreciation for mystery writing, because that shit is seriously hard.
What I like about Chandler is how he builds webs of characters that when charted out are just as tangled as when you tried to read into them. I don't know if he ever plotted or just ran with the ball, but I like the way his work feels like it has no holes. I keep thinking I have "the formula" figured out, and then I come back to Chandler knee bent asking to be taught again. It helps that his novels and his short stories are all fun to read.

I also liked
>Hurricane Season
Which I got as a Christmas gift last year. It's a foul book but I liked it, especially in review of its main character The Witch, who got seriously fucked over multiple times in her life.

What is the best titling convention for a novel? Is there any consistent formula or pattern to what makes something sell well, or a prominent part of the literary canon?

There are a lot of 2 word titles, often Adjective-Noun constructions, for example:

Infinite Jest
American Psycho
Blood Meridian
White Noise
Pale Fire
Dead Souls

There are of course a lot of "The X"

There are the mononyms:

Lolita
Siddhartha
Stoner
Ulysses

Obviously there are all sorts of other kinds, lots of long ass book titles. But just curious in people's thoughts here. What makes a title the most iconic? What catches one's attention?

Newfags don't remember pige but I do

An young man struggles to reconnect with his Scottish heritage in the midst of American culture wars that demonize whiteness

Post your novel ideas!

Not like they're going anywhere.
I'll start:

https://youtu.be/eiF-OoM582Q

Post your story ideas.

... not like they're going anywhere

>>20867329
Post your novel ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere.

Post your short story ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere.

The Writing General

Post em edition

You will make it if you persevere

Previous thread: >>20739337
For General Writing
>The Rhetoric of Fiction, Booth
>Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, Burroway
>Steering the Craft, Le Guin
>The Anatomy of Story, Truby
>How Fiction Works, Wood

YouTube Playlists for Writing
>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTCv6n1whoI23GmdBZienRW0Q0nFCU_ay Robert Butler
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc


Technical Aspects of Writing
>Garner's Modern English Usage, Garner
>What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing, Ginna
>Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Tufte

Books Analyzing Literature
>Poetics, Aristotle
>Hero With a Thousand Faces, Campbell
>The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives, Egri
>The Weekend Novelist, Ray

Traditional Publishing
>you get to focus mostly on writing
>you must write a proposal to the publishers and sell your story to them
>you make 10-15% profit max, but they also eat all the risk and the costs

Self publishing
>basically like running your own company
>you only need to do some simple marketing and reach out to readers

Self Publishing Options
>https://archiveofourown.org/
>https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
>https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/writinglife
>https://www.royalroad.com/
>https://www.scribblehub.com/
>https://www.wattpad.com/

Self Publishing How-To
>risky, but much more profitable
>you must pay for everything yourself
>if you do, you will spend more time on running a business than writing, but can be worth it
>https://selfpublishingwithdale.com/

Poetry
>This Craft of Verse, Borges
>The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser
>Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, Mason

Anime Writing (^･o･^)
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4on26mKakgs
>https://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-Anime-Story

For advertising
>https://youtube.com/watch?v=bQygKqJVFXg

AI-generated book covers
>https://nightcafe.studio
>https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini
>https://app.wombo.art/

/wg/ Authors and Flash Fiction Pastebin
>https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ

Other forums
https://reddit.com/r/writing
https://writing.stackexchange.com/

>>20710136
>300 words tonight
>MC finally beginning his doomed romance arc with the main girl
It's happening bros. This is the arc that fucking sets his character up for the next 35 years. And it only took me 120,000 words to get there.

Also first for pige

>>20506099
It better be going somewhere.

Well well, if it isn't my old pal, dubyah gee. Why don't you go ahead and post your novel ideas? It's not like they're going anywhere.

>>20387812
Newfags don't even KNOW pige

>>20375135
Post your novel idea. It's not like it's going anywhere.

>>20360281
>Post book ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere.

>>20287582
I take it you haven't been on this board long

Post your short story ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere.

>>20239536
Are you asking for us... to post our novel ideas?

Post your short story ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere.

Post your short story ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere.

>>20194478
All these posts and no mandatory pige reply? Lit has lost its soul.
>A man wakes up one morning to find all of his paintings have been replaced with windows into other dimensions

>>20171655
Pige
>An executive woman who has dreamed all her life of being a singer wakes up to realize she has a golden singing voice and considers giving up her life's work to follow her dream

>>20117165
So if you post your novel ideas, they ARE going somewhere?

Post your novel ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere.

Post your novel ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere.