/lit/ - Literature

I wonder why this thread was started today--
>I'm running a kickstarter in June 2022
Oh.

>>15535594
>What are ironically be more based

>>13327616
>Nietzsche hates Christianity
>Nietzsche loves Islam

>>11183136
>I just realized that my prose is a knockoff of DFW
When I saw the Joyce pic I thought "at least he's copying a good author"

>>11084693
>China is a literal communist dictatorship
Pictured: the quoted poster

>>10784763
People posted cute pictures of cats and talked liek thiz and there were no politics

>>10454987
I once got my Modern Lit. prof. a book of seamanship, and he seemed to enjoy it very much. I saw him carrying it around campus a few times the next quarter.

Your professor probably already has every book related to his field. It'd be better if you got him some offbeat present that you'd think he'd enjoy.

>>10396569
Not picking the mystery box just enhances the mystery.

Righto, only need to 1) get a job before getting expelled, 2) get heath insurance, 3) find new place to stay before kidded out of dorm and transfer shit, 4) buy tickets for home, 5) actually do the things before it's too late and the crumbling sand castle's already long washed away. No worries, it'll -, I'll work myself out. rrrrighto.

Dubs decides how many acts my play has. 14 decides how many characters. Go.

>reading Brecht
>ever

>implying anyone wants me
epic

It's a story about a police officer in a third world communist shithole, one of the few "normal" countries left in the world after the liberal developed countries used a virus to rid themselves of the parts of the brain that provoke competition and violence, creating a genuine utopia. She's investigating a corrupt politician alongside an agent from the UN, who is working with her as part of a plot to force the communist government to submit to the complete infection of its own population with the "Anti-Aggression Virus". The UN agent is immune to the virus, and works as a 'licensed aggressor', one of the few remaining types of law enforcement. She's a happily-engaged patriot and local hero. He's a sociopath whose only principle is the spreading of his society's values to the remainder of the rest of the world. They bang. It ends tragically for her and for her communist shithole country.

>>6494316
Ughhh, how can anyone stand to read Hebert's Dune? His son Brian did a much better job with the series. Thinking machine wars were so cool.

thread of the goddamn year

Gawker (>'')>

I'm just curious if there are any writers here who've published and sold ebooks successfully on Amazon. It'd be cool to get some insight from these people. I'm considering writing a few short novellas since I've just successfully sold a pilot script (nothing serious, not for a significant amount of cash, and I doubt it will ever get made, but it's a really awesome feeling writing something "good" enough that somebody would actually buy it).

Would those of you that do it suggest it as an effective use of time in terms of cash output? Is it a better idea to write short novellas or hope for a hit with a full lengther? It seems romance and fantasy dominate the market... is it really all chicks who are buying these books?