/lit/ - Literature

>>11171515
>tfw i sidestep this circlejerk by only reading and writing among aesthetically minded peers

>>11171515
Can't be one and not the other, anon. For instance, what's a composer who doesn't listen to music? Answer: there isn't one.

>>11171515
I've written and ghostwritten several books that have made me what I consider to be a 'not inconsiderable' amount of money by my personal modest living standards. I can't say I understand the concept of the writer being a bull and the reader being a cuck. In such an instance, who or what is the cuckquean? Not only that, but where is the underlying humiliation aspect or lack of self-respect that comes with the cuck's position?

In a way, if a writer writes to market rather than what they're inherently interested in, I guess a weak argument could be made that the writer is the cuck and the reader is the bull while what's written to market is the cuckquean being formed not purely by the writer's own mind but by the direction of the market's readerbase. Either way, however, I can't see much sense in this concept. Even the more fleshed-out idea that I provided seems rather flimsy.

>>11172095
Beethoven didn't do much listening :^)

>>11172147
Sure he did. He could read music.

>>11171515
Most child molesters were molested themselves.

>Spend 7 years writing novel
>Pushed to the edge of death, barely sleep, develop 7 addictions
>Book gets published and fails
>High school NEETs pirate your shitty book and you get like $20 in royalties for it
Definitely the "bull"

>>11171515

On the contrary, my friend.

You see, I believe myself to be one of the few people, who can state that he has /written/ more books, than he has /read/. That's how much I love my craft.

>>11172702
>>11172702
Based