/lit/ - Literature

I wrote a book, and my story is not done yet.

It's the story of a pious preacher who's chosen to be the messiah of a new land, he accepts and he's thrown into an ancient society based in tribes and races, fighting the Battle of the Dawn, the Apocalipse, and equipped with a pot and a grenade.

It's not the best thing ever written, but I started with a short story about faith and then the story was not done, and a whole new world came to me from the pages. I write it from a conversation with a friend about faith and how to teach people to believe, and from what came from that during writing.

My favourite authors are Neil Gaiman and Tolkien. I know it's not much similar, but I like both of them for different reasons. I took inspiration from them, the Bible and D&D, specially Forgotten Realms and Eberron.

I'm not a writer, but I'm very proud of the book that I wrote, and I wanted to know what should I do to publish? I'm not that well payed, but can save some cash for some time. I'm also not american, but wrote in english because I deal better with romantic metaphors this way, something my character is fond of.

What do I do to share my story? That's it. I want to publish it to share with people. Anyone?

So according to modern standards, poetry doesn't have to rhyme. Poetry doesn't have to have regular meter. Poetry doesn't even have to be arranged in verse (see prose poetry).

What the fuck is poetry, then? How are we to distinguish it from the other written arts?

>>6934161

In which case the point is more clearly proven. It's counted as an epic poem, and has no clear rhyme scheme. Which means that the rhymes weren't tight in the first place, which is what I claimed.

It also serves the as an argument versus the necessity of previous claims to the throne to have a rhyme scheme prior to consideration.
Without rhyme scheme consider, I'd tentatively back N-Rock's Zarathustra.

I'm working on the education part, but my lack of contextual knowledge on the rhyme scheme of the Illiad does not invalidate my point.

>>6934163

I don't think I'm jumping around, merely clarifying. If you think I'm jumping around, can you explain why? If you do, I might be able to clarify my own point.

Establishing a singular construct does not make it divine, I agree. I feel that my argument is not coming across clearly. The epic writing about nature establishes the separate construct of nature as an entity.

This separation between these two may create the perception of a 'greater other' which Carl Jung proposed as the psychological notion of the existence of the divine. You're just trading one God form for another. Check him out, also argues humanism as a perception of a greater self as a God form.

>>6934177

AKA No one's written a good one in a while. Baudelaire brought back Romanticism, one good author could bring back the epic. They'd need to be pretty good, don't get me wrong, but yeah.

>>6511240

>Didn't read it.
That doesn't change it. When your road comes slowly to an end and you haven't found what you're looking for, the bread pill will be waiting for you.

>>6511241
So sayeth the sun king, who rules over the valley of ashes.

>>6461792
That's excusable, but learn to socially interact man. Don't blame others for your lack of social skill. You did not say the correct title of the book.
Read Fear and Trembling yet? It gets better. Come into the light.

>pic related

The only escape from irony is religion. Nothing is ironic to the religious man, because even what seems to be irony actually becomes mystical with its countervailing meanings. Of course Wallace was too much of a plebby mainstream American to grasp this.

>>5252815
Faith is a good and powerful thing. It is perhaps the most important thing. As Paul says, "If Christ was not raised from the dead, your faith is in vain and you are still in your sins." That is our creed, and if we stand by it, one can argue that we need nothing else.

But humans are frail and weak by nature. This is the failure of Nietzsche and Stirner, in their assumption that we can move beyond our constructs and achieve life on our own. Humans totally on their own are prone to failing and falling, and everyone is susceptible to this, no matter how mighty, no matter how grand. Humans need structure. Humans need spooks, to use Stirner's term. Humans need constructs which they can cling to, rocks upon which they can plant their anchor and wait out the storms of life.

Faith is one such rock. But it is not enough, or at least, not enough for many. So the Church acts as as a rock- as THE Rock, upon which the Church is built, and "the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." Humans NEED a Church. Humans need a light in dark places, a strength in weak times. Humans need the Touch of something that is not of this world.