/lit/ - Literature

You need to pitch the ideas to us first.

im surprised at your self-doubt/worth brownbear. of course we would.

>>1506218
>>1506218

not got any idea here, im literally just going with the flow and seeing how it develops

>>1506220
I'm not convinced I want to read it.

Obviously we'll read it. Word of advice if you're going to freeflow it though: once you're finished you should look at it, map it out in an outline, and rewrite it. Trust me when I say this will do more to improve it, even before anyone else has seen it, than anything else you could do at this point.

I look forward to reading your piece.

>>1506221
>>1506221

okay the basic plot i've got revolves around the life of a man called James Lawson, an uneducated man from Manchester who lies dying aged 101 in a room surrounded by varied and interesting characters (i'm talking not neccessarily FAMOUS people, but people like the ambassador for Russia is there, ringmaster of a world famous circus etc) and basically as he dies they slowly begin to tell each other the stories of how they know this man.

Each chapter has its own unique voice (as its told by a different member of the gathered party) and the time line varies because they all met him at different times in his life.

This all comes together at the finale when he ties the unfinished plot together with his own recollection of certain events.
then he dies

sound good? y/n?

>>1506264
Yeah, those kind of stories can be good. There was a Connections play a few years ago with a similar premise called Burn (except the characters were all much younger). That was wonderful.

>>1506264
mitebcool. Go for it.

this sounds terrible

>>1506264

cool concept, but sounds hard to pull off. do it anyways and see how it goes.

>>1506264

Sounds fucking awesome bro! Although I am quite stoned atm. I'll read it!

it's weird you guys troll your own boards. brownbear and fat&lazy, with trips, can't you think of anything interesting to post? What is the point of this bullshit?

>>1506311
we're all still pretty young, not everyone can be as insightful as me.

>>1506310
>>1506308
>>1506272

thanks guys, i think i'll butcher the concept horribly but you never know.

>>1506311
>>1506311
>trolling a board
>with trips

you think using a tripcode is trolling a boatd?
pic related.

>anything interesting to post
>calls it bullshit
>doesn't sage
>laughing_girls.jpeg

that story doesnt have a lot of potential and i dont think it will be very good

If you want, send the chapters to me and I'll send them back with only minor corrections and editing notes for any stylistic suggestions on changes.
I've got to get ready for work now but next time we're on tinychot talk to me about it if you're interested.

>>1506331
you're a shit editor. suffocate please. and yes i really visual the fantasy of that happening to you when i say that. suffocate.

Sounds cliché as fuck.
I wrote some shit like this as an essay in S1

>>1506338
the whale awakens, dark storms rise as the mass moves in for the kill and the sky burns with thunderous flames; it has started. Hambeast vs Behemoth

>>1506344
Neat.

>>1506344
i'm not a girl. or fat (in the way you mean) .

>>1506343
Oh what, so Mr fucking ocean colour pants don't get it? Well, quelle fucking surprise.

>>1506352
Quoting alongside a picture of Super Hans in a relevant manner?

You get to live.

>>1506220
>literally just going with the flow
>literally
Are you in a river?

>>1506390
i think he means the flow of his thoughts

>>1506331
>>1506331
thanks broroviev

>>1506394
>>1506394

i did mean the flow of my thoughts

>>1506331
>I'll send them back with only minor corrections and editing notes for any stylistic suggestions on changes.

"too much wibbledywobbledy, not enough clippetyclop"

>>1506585
>mfw you've never seen one word of my prose
>mfw that has jack shit to do with editing anyhow
>mfw ty thinks what it's seen me do on /lit/ has anything to do with what I actually do when editing
>mfw I had other writers on campus pay me to edit their works
>mfw I've been to dozens of poetry and writing workshops on a number of different styles and ideas, and led a few as an editor
>mfw the author's club here on campus came and asked me to re-join and when I said I've quit writing they asked if I could still come and give people input
>mfw you guys consistently think I don't know a damn thing, I do I'm just not as good at remembering it
>mfw it's because I'm not an English student and reminded of it all on a daily basis
>mfw I'm going to have a decent job most likely re-building America's infrastructure when I leave college
>mfw my job will leave me enough spare time to write and pursue other specialized fields if I so choose while you're busy taking your work home night after night to work on while eating half-cooked noodles multi-tasking to crunch your miserable allotment of "free" time because you're a broke-ass TA reading awful term papers and kissing ass
>mfw I bump this thread just to talk some shit.

>>1507339
u seem to be upset

>>1507345
>u mad
Really bringing the A-game there, anons.

>>1507368
when do you -ever- not get pwned by d&e?

I would read it. I'm particular though, just so you know.

>>1507377
When discussing Steinbeck.

>>1507402

>>1507434
>>1507434

>tearfulpunjab.gif

i laffed

>>1507434
didn't we go over this? you have to have a good name for it to be littered on.

>>1507345
no, that post has a smug cat picture attached to it. there is no way he's upset.