/lit/ - Literature

>>21816194
There was recently a thread on /tv/ about this for a movie called Reds that I can sum up as follows: "The ten years you spent working on your project doesn't immediately mean it's worth my 2 hours." It was about a director who got asked to screen a movie he ultimately disliked even though it was a passion project of the other director. It may seem callous but the reality is people don't care how long you spent working on something if it's not relevant to them, or doesn't catch their interest. You can do two things, then: make products aimed to catch as much interest as possible, whether you like to or not; or make products you believe in and care about, regardless of who it catches.

>>20854943
Zen

>>20647284
Zen has actually been incredible for focus and feelings.

Telling is the Yang. Showing is the Yin.
They are complements and complete.
One must not exist without the other.

The Path Edition

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Links (some may be off topic.)

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://youtu.be/-6HOdHEeosc Brandon Sanderson

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
>https://blog.reedsy.com/manuscript-form
>https://www.submittable.com/
>https://querytracker.net/
>https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/

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
>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･^)
>Get a different hobby

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

I'm interested in learning about Tibetan Buddhism. What are some good places to start with?