/lit/ - Literature

>I will never write a good novel because my prose is simple and technical, more suited to encyclopedia articles or journalism than narrative literature
>but I HAVE written a 319-page graphic novel script, some parts of which give me the shivers
>my face when

sage for blatant self-congratulation

>>2331367
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The worst thing that could happen is that you find the writing a little dry.

>Talking to guy about books
>He asks me what I like to read
>I like literature and a bit of science-fiction mostly, what about you?
>Matthew Reilly, Tom Clancy, other shit
>We respect each others tastes and talked about films instead
>mfw
Learn2communicate, you 'tards.

>Taking Colonial and Post-Colonial Lit
>Worried about noxious repetitious white-guilt/gender issues that may plague the class
>Walk with my professor through the halls for a while, and tell him that I worry about white-guilt and victimization becoming a focal point in our discussions and that I think it would be dull not to critique both the colonized and the colonials
>He listens and implements what I said into his lessons

Yay.

>>2051365
YOU'VE SAVED ME!!
OP here, I got American Gods.

That feeling when you read it again in the morning and notice it's even better than you thought during the night, when you were still being over-critical of your writing like you tend to be after just writing it.

>reading a book from a independent publishing house
>9 pages missing in the middle of the book
>call up returns office expecting the worst
>they've taken my address and are priority shipping a new copy to me today