/lit/ - Literature

>>20619002
I have hopes for K-anon but I think he's focusing heavily on a project, a play or a novel. There's not much presence but he's still been tweeting a lot, just rarely about writing so I'm a little worried that he's not gonna make it. He has four nice short stories in that book but the rest are just okay I'd say, and not much range in the feeling which I think is common when authors first start with stories.
Besides Alitspa who only came to my attention last week, I thought about reading BEHEAD ALL SATANS and other than that I'm not sure.
I'm still trying to read the classics and even a little bit of contemporary too (starting to read Jesmyn Ward, her voice is similar to Faulkner and I like it so far) but anon fiction will take a special shelf in my library because I think you all have some unique idiosyncratic perspectives that I want to mull over myself. It's the bizarre, unheard voices like from here that I want to use to take a giant step over the current spirit of the age, hopefully to show people how wrong most people are about contemporary life. People are thinking with post-modern brains but that's maladaptive at this point.

>>19389270
>have a couple scenes that I told first and realized I could show them
>one of the scenes I am still telling is with a monologue
>the story is mainly about what happens after Chapter 1, but the monologue allows the protag to explain his past mindset to understand his dynamics
I don't want to spend too much time on the topic and I'm hesitant to use a flashback.
How does /wg/ feel about flashbacks? I can't tell it in chapter 1 because the most important themes and symbols don't appear in the scene. I feel like it'd setup false promises if I told that part first instead of a flashback or monologue later.

>>14236685
>philosophy
>nonfiction

The fucking state of this midwit

>reading philosophy

Like why the fuck, nigga? At least fictionfags can get some entertainment out of reading. You are never going to put that dry philosophy in practice. In fact it probably messed your brain further from reality.