/lit/ - Literature

>tfw too many descriptions of scenery
>tfw pointless musings and flowery prose

>tfw no discernible plot
>tfw no discernible action
>tfw no characters to relate to or cheer for

Why do so many writers not understand how to craft a story?

>>4099014

>hylomorphic-dualism
>aristotelian heresy

Enjoy the pits of hell infidel.

>mfw distance is measured in miles

>>3921027

please stop and please go.

>the story is fiction and never actually happened...

>you will never be a 13th century peasant who reads the bible and revelations and believes it to actually be true

i can only interpret it in a vague allegorical and atheistic sense
damn science and logic!

>>3769566
>The guy was a legitimate scientist and made the genre into more than pulp novels

nahh

>>3745466
>Bertrand motherfuckin Russell

I mean a real philosopher.

>>3738913
>so that you may be violent and original in your work
>advising people to work

no thanks, I'd rather not be a slave

>>3692429
>Does development matter if all you end up with is a bunch of self-contradictions, as Nietzsche did?

>>3681992
>I did not once imply that survival is the only meaning in life
>>3681957
>these are the only true meaning in life, everything else is conjecture.


Just stop it.

>>3677778
>Afrocentricity