/lit/ - Literature

How does one write flirting? Maybe I don't know how to write it because I don't know much about it in the first place. But is there a formula to follow? How do I introduce this romance with flirty dialogue while doing the business of the plot at the same time? I'm driving myself crazy over this one scene...

Where do I start reading about Eugenics?

>>3748000

Oh the places you will lol.

hahahah lol'd hard.

My mother is complaining about the book club she is in as being just an excuse for the women to get out of the house and congregate because no one actually reads the books or want to talk about them. Are all book clubs like this or are there legit ones out there that I could find for her?

What did you work on today /lit/?
What are you writing?

I have a problem /lit/

Im trying to write a storyline for a project, problem is its group assignment, and when introducing an antagonist I wrote an idea similar to pandoras box which made the protagonist flawed and thus lead to a story line filled with character development and growth in terms of redeeming themselfs.

Problem is one of the others in the group doesnt really agree with it and wants to appoint himself the ideas/story guy, I dont normally have a problem with anyone suggesting stuff, but this time apparently my ideas bad and thus needs to be rethought...

Any ideas on how to try and make a middle ground?

I just read this:

In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, the hero John Galt posits "the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four". Responding to this claim, the psychologist Albert Ellis and the founder of rational emotive behavior therapy wrote "Here Rand falsely notes that two and two make four: and that you are noble for grasping this 'fact'."

okay I've never read it, but now I'm convinced that this book must be every bit as terrible as everyone keeps saying it is.

So I've just finished reading Animal Farm for the first time /lit/. I have to say, I was expecting something totally different. I was expecting it to be much darker, heavily dialogue-driven with most of the plot consisting of arguments and debates with colorful language and complicated political science. What I got was a fairy tale. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but it was different.

So what did you think? How do you think it could have been better, or at least, deeper?

What do you think?

Isaac's study was barely lit by the candle when a light tapping was heard at the front door.
If it weren't for his maid, he would have remained indulged by his work. He turned as the door
opened and Mrs. Hester procceeded through.
"Yes?" Isaac questioned, hardly supressing his frustration at the situation.
"A package for you, sir," Mrs. Hester quietly explained as she laid the package on a table across from Isaac.
Isaac fumbled with the package nonchalantly, not caring to open it at the moment. "And to who do I
owe the thanks for this gift?"
Mrs. Hester gestured to the back of the packaged. "I thought you might be able to tell me."
Isaac saw a note entwined in the string of the parcel.
It read:

-A friend

Isaac's brow furrowed.
"Seeing as you're a shut-in who insist on living in this stupid cupboa-"
"That's quite enough," Isaac said sternly, "Now, if you wouldn't be so kind as to get out."
The maid hurried out of the room as Isaac turned back to the package and spared no time tearing it open. There, wrapped in an exotic cloth, were two notebooks.

Advice would be helpful. Co- Writer is Four-Eyes.

Also, choose your favorite plot.


Two friends, both wealthy and successful writers, have been entrusted with special gifts from some mystical jest or some hoopla. Those gifts are notebooks. The notebooks have the power to make the writers' literary works become reality. The catch is that the effects of the notebooks power will only work if the consequences are obtained in some way that is a story. The rewards cannot simply be awarded. They must be earned, the notebook makes it easier to earn those. The second catch is that the notebooks are bound by friendship. One writer's notebook affects the other writer. A problem occurs and one writer tries to kill of the other while the other tries to survive.

Second: Only one notebook. Writer has it stolen and must use the clues from each plight to kill him or destroy his reputation to find who stole the notebook.