/lit/ - Literature

>>15553111
Hi anon. How are you this evening

>>15553111
You can do it anon. Hell, if anything autism can be an angle to get you published.
Unless you mean you're just socially inept. If so, what are some of the struggles you have understanding normal conversation?

>>15553111
Set the series in some kind of strange foreign culture, people will praise it for being a "unique, truly alien feeling setting"

>>15553111
Just read Wilhelm Meister, it should makeup some groundwork in social sincerity for a bit.

>>15553166
I usually don't pick any social clues, and i ending up saying some fuck-up shit without realizing it's wrong

And my writing session, my characters are just too formal

>>15553111
Someone needs to go out more.

>>15553111
check Spoken English corpora.
Problem solved.
https://www.english-corpora.org/tv/help/spoken_e.asp

>>15553178
then don't write dialogue
take after Borges and write conceptual stories

>>15553171
There is something incredible about that book. I felt I gained so much life experience just by reading it.

>>15553111
Neither do I but you can just copy how they speak in movies

>>15553396
Wilhelm Meister is a million times better than Werther, yet is almost never discussed here.

>>15553519
Dunno, screw that. I'm reading faust

>>15553519
To be fair, whenever Werther is discussed it is completely misunderstood, so perhaps that's for the better. I would say that they serve different purposes and both are incredibly great at what they do.

>>15553111
Try and write stories with little to no dialogue.
Simple.

>>15553111
Why don't you write precisely about that? Your inability to connect to normal people

>>15553111
Bullshit you don't. You're not looking deep enough.
What about your parents? Your siblings? Your coworkers? What about in the supermarket when you do your groceries?
Maybe if you paid a-fucking-tention you'd see that the banalities of ordinary human discourse are all around you and you could write stunningly versimiltudious dialogue like
>they said it was gonna rain today
>looks like it. but it didn't yesterday
>no it didn't. it was sunny
>very sunny yesterday
NORMAL PEOPLE!

>>15553111
My advice is don't even try that till you're past 25, possibly 30, then if nothing much comes of it, turn to the personal essayists for influence & direction. The best of those, including the giant original Montaigne, had personalities so unitary & indivisible they couldn't have put on another voice or written a convincing line of dialogue to save their necks from a royal purge, and also tend to be the latest of literary bloomers too--lame before 40, lithe after 50. What's the hurry anyway? Just do what you're best equipped to do at the time, and no better can be done if the genes have any pleasant surprises wound into them.

>>15553111
It may not hold you back. I think Kubrick has this problem with films. Full metal jacket and all the way the people talk is like an imitation of normal interaction. Doesn't seem to do much harm tho Altho I've always admired accurate dialogue

As long as your characters talk about something interesting it doesn't matter. Can't you think of plenty of stories with an absurdist tone? Try looking at Discworld.

listen to some podcasts and pick it up from there, idiot

>>15553111
this is actually perfect for a surreal story

>>15553111
Yeah I know, good job.
It’s this, also it’s not knowing how other worlds work, I’m only encyclopedic about specific things that writing about wouldn’t be any good

>>15556693
Seriously, you ever watch a David Lynch film? If you can nail down a specific kind of style or template for the kind of interaction characters have, but then extend it to an interesting enough end, you could still do something good. You just need to know how to do that.

>>15553111
worked for me