/lit/ - Literature

>>10024201

I started to read through the western canon, and spent my nights posting on /lit/. Everything I had once drawn pleasure from began to disgust me. I’d watch my friends smoking pot and secretly I’d want to vomit. I started to wonder about my girlfriend’s sexual history, or the fact that she so willingly had pre-marital sex with me. I could barely focus on my classes, as I’d seethe with rage at my professor’s hidden agendas.

One day I left my laptop open, to a thread on /lit/. I came back from the bathroom to find my roommates circled around it, giggling and whispering. When I got angry at them, they all began to chant “Brendan’s a Nazi” and laugh.

That night they threw a party. I tried to act as if nothing happened. But an irreparable rift had already opened. I could see it in the way everyone looked at me. At one point, when everyone was doing shots, I realized how degenerate the whole situation was - the clothing was so revealing, the music so primitive, the alcohol sickly sweet and uncultured. Nauseous, I retreated to my room, and locked the door.

For the next two weeks I stayed in my room. I ignored my girlfriend’s calls, and broke up over text. I didn’t go to any of my classes. I quit my internship. I taped my window shade shut and lived in darkness, never sure if it was day or night. I sat by my desk and read Dante’s Inferno, filling the room with cigarette smoke. The time I wasn’t reading I was browsing /lit/.

I had an idea. I began to type up a screenplay, like a man possessed. I felt like I was channeling spirits.

>>9856136
I feel like this particular brand of sarcasm serves only to stifle personal feeling, and make emotions seem like something that is laughable- if only because someone else may have shared them first. This isn't how it used to be however; until recently, stories were a form of sympathy: a writer's way of a capturing a moment or feeling that might be shared the one reader in a thousand. Writers like these, however, make stigmas out of perfectly ordinary feelings of angst. I don't like it. Even less, I dislike this modern habit of pushing everyone into boxes: "this person's a dudebro, this person's a stacy etc." This is the true habit of the present age: people wantonly having themselves defined by some silly, ephemeral title; denoted by journalists.

>Lend friend novel
>Get it back with some of the pages stuck together
>It's maple syrup

>>5838640
>>5838645
I have been smoking for four years and for the first time three days ago have not smoked one.

I am currently rereading Hemingway and reading these two posts on top of it is not making it any easier you fuckers.

Have to say though, my lungs do feel better. And I can smell shit now.

'Musashi' by Yoshikowa

What's your experience with first timers trying to get representation for long novels (say, 140 to 200k words)? Is it true that agents just go "LUL, TOO LONG" or does the content actually factor in to it?

I have a finished novel that I'm currently editing that is well over 170k words (it isn't sci-fi or fantasy). Should I just shelf it until I publish something shorter, or is it possible that some agent will show pity and still read some of it?

>>4576657
>armed from head to toe
>absolute hell broke loose
>as if his life depended on it

DOSE CLICHES
DAT MELODRAMATIC TONE
DOSE SEMICOLONS

>The victim then turned over several flips in the air
ALL MY WHAT

One paragraph in and I want to gouge my eyes out. I really hope this turns into some fantasy crap right quick.

Hey, /lit/

I want to get into Balzac. Where should I start? I've read an Very Short Introduction on the French Revolution, so I'm caught up on a bit of my French history and society after the revolution. I'm more interested in his stories than plays. Is there a particular piece I should start with?

Is their like a baby's First Book list with easy reads like Harry potter and The Hunger games and stuff?

I want to read more but I'm kind of too retarded

I looked at the wiki btw

It's not done yet.

Critique my poem please?
http://pastebin.com/7iaLWyCU

Any feedback is helpful, I'd really appreciate it.

I don't care if you think its shit, and if you do I would actually prefer you to tell me its shit. Thanks.

Hey /lit/, what do you write with? I hate using a computer but I have wrist issues so using a pencil and paper is even more difficult. What do you use? Any typewriter users here? I'm interested but it would seem a bit silly to take it around travelling unless it was a portable model etc. People either seem to like them or think you're pompous for using one. Let's talk
also my captcha was: Theist Washington

particle physics
advanced electromagnetism
string theory
programming for physics
relativity & cosmology

>>1647898
>mfw emma watson's face