/lit/ - Literature

>>22734128
>>22734216
The duality of man.
Maybe you can help each other.

My tip for sad scenes is #1: don't fucking force it. Don't do melodrama (unless that's the intent). The "sad scene" has to serve some plot purpose or expose the character. It can't be just pointless wangst in a cheap attempt to get everyone pity the character, because in worst case, everyone will just fucking laugh.

As for comedy, contrast always works. Situational comedy is very easy to do. Off the top of my head? Depressed guy buys a lottery ticket in hopes of finally winning a life-changing prize, but as he goes home with it, he throws it out in a fit of depression, because why would anything good ever happen in his life?

A hobo finds a discarded ticket, it's a winning one for massive sum.

>>22396778
>This is holding you back as a writer
Said the guy who literally didn't see my fucking writing.
Seriously are you baiting me? Or is this retardation legitimate? If you want to stuff a room full of beautiful descriptions of furniture and dress your characters in Gucci shit feel free, but that's not my writing.

I feel like character's homes and clothing is implicit. Nobody is naked. No room is unfurnished. In cities, there are people, outside of cities, there aren't. This is all implied, and the default state until you as a writer make it not be so.

If how the character's home looks is unimportant, why the fuck would I write it? Have you ever heard of Chekov's gun?

>>21938574
>Cumean

>actually drinking vodka out of my nalgene and staring at girls
Fuck jannies and fuck librarians kek
>the books in my carrel are all about Hitler

>>21888608
W-was I not supposed to??

>>21230273
i was waiting for this passage the entire time i was reading a song of ice and fire, only to find out it's one of the last pages in the very last chapter of the last book.

>>21051926
Schwuchtel

>>20541696
>nooo, you must read about old as fuck writers writing about shitty western historical drama stories and talking their stupid philosophical ideas

>American literature

>>19954928
Guess he meant that they should've cracked those oven doors open just a little bit if they really wanted to lessen their chances of turning into human challah bread.

>>19953479
kek based

>>19937870
based /his/fag

>>19912197
kek'd

>>19464884
>this faggot actually believes this nonsense

>>19001584
excellent bait