/lit/ - Literature

>>18526700
Hows your book comin faggot?

>>18526700
I'd rather talk to the other guy to be honest.

>>18526748

Nearly done. Thank you for asking. :^)

>>18526700
he chases his dream

I have never met anyone who actually was writing a book.

pic of OP

>>18526700
woah sounds like an awesome book

>>18526774
What's it about?

>>18526797
You might have. People who are actually writing one don't tell people casually.

>>18526868

Bored college drop out finds a late 19th century vampire girl in an old building. They find semblance in similar plights of not being able to return to the past there's no romance

>>18526700
His enthusiasm is endearing. Honestly, it’s good people are writing anything at all, even if it’s garbage. Better they’re doing that then some monotonous consoomer hobby like videogames or collecting marvel pop figures

>>18527924
>, it’s good people are writing anything at all, even if it’s garbage
No. If what they're going to produce is trash better not produce anything at all. The medium itself is not going to dignify trash.

>consoomer
Oh, shut the fuck up. As if literature isn't the most money consuming interest, with just as much obsessive consuming of large hoards of it as any other hobby.

>>18527894
>your self insert finds a manic pixie dreamgirl but is too much of a pussy boy to fuck her
Wow so much more interesting.

>>18527949
>As if literature isn't the most money consuming interest
It isn't. Not even close. Warhammer or vidya are much more expensive interest. And that's only the tip of the iceberg.

>>18526700
What does the picture of onions mean

>>18527894
Wow man I'd rather read the cyberpunk space opera

>>18527985
It means OP is a newfag
>>18528005
Honestly this.

>>18527985
onions wordfilters to onions.
soi
S.O.Y.
S--O---I

>>18527894
This is fucking Twilight but without romance and roles reversed. That guy's sci-fi sounds way better.

>>18527982
>>18528005
>>18528031

the ABSOLUTE STATE of /lit/

>>18528051
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LIKE MY TWILIGHT TIER NOVEL

>>18527983
>Warhammer
is for retards

>Videogames
clock at 60 or 45 dollars each, 15 if its indies, almost exact same cost for books, which have around the same price tags

You just aren't reading enough

>>18528058
>is for retards
So is vidya, buddy.

>>18526700
>>18526774
The bit where the plumber is looking for his pipe wrench is extremely kino.
>>18527894
I need more detail anon, that’s like an elevator pitch of your novel
>They find semblance in similar plights of not being able to return to the past
Describe to me the manner in which this happens, I’m curious. Don’t listen to the other anons, your novel very well might be cringe but at least it’s about something more than the party numale’s cliche pulp fiction.
Also I want someone else to write something with the prompt “party numale”.

>>18527949
>As if literature isn't the most money consuming interest
Lmao haven't spent a buck in books in years. Take the zlibrarypill.

>>18526797
i met someone that was writing a book. i heard a great deal about it. i was hoping to avoid having to read it but a copy arrived in the post. it contained many grammatical errors but i read it from beginning to end. something i can't say about don quixote and the divine comedy: paradise.

>>18526700
>>at a party
in a global PANDEMIC=?

>>18527894
You played too much Touhou, bro

>>18528076
>Describe to me the manner in which this happens

College McDropout realizes he's an adult and continuing to live the adolescent lifestyle he's had until now isn't going to fly. He can't go back to being a stupid little kid ever again. Vampire LaCutie grapples with the fact the world she is from is gone forever, but unlike McDropout realizes the world is bright and full of promise. They come to love each other in a sort of pure way but romance is never going to work between a vampire and human. Bad guy is another vampire who is unreasonably obsessed with youth and beauty. He gets a stake in the heart.

Thems the broad strokes.

>>18528117
Bruh that's peak söy ngl.

>>18528117

Sounds fine. Ignore the low iq genre-reading posters itt.

>>18528158
>t. Anne Rice

>>18528117
This story doesn't need an antagonist, I think, but if it really needs one, let the "battle" be a more philosophical and psychological one.

>>18528117
That’s a pretty good premise, though I think the presence of a centralised villain in that way is reductive and pulp-y, the core idea of your story is a good one and the lady vampire would probably be appropriate rather than forced.

>>18528171
I hope OP goes on to write bdsm erotica reimaginings of classic fairy tales as well

>>18526700
Next time you see him you should suck his dick to establish dominance.

>>18528175

Yeah I feel this too. They don't interact for a majority of the story and there's not much of a dramatic climax. I just wanted a sort of antagonist that embodied the negative themes of the story and maybe serve as a temptation to McDropout.

>>18528117
Anime-tier

>>18528117
cringe

>>18528019
Onions

>>18528117

highly based

>>18526700
>At a party
>Guys are playing BrawlHalla, a cheap flash animated bootleg Super Smash Bros Brawl
>Tell guy I'm learning how to code so I can build a newgrounds style game
for money can animate a Google Play store phone game about demons you play RPG love novel platformer levels on and pay for each episode
>Tells me about his comic series
This is what respectable speculative artistic visions look like OP
Fret not and find us struggling artiste autistes

>>18527949
>The medium itself is not going to dignify trash.
The novel form is ALREADY trash. Literally pulp garbage designed to be an easily consumable bourgeois luxury. It's like being elitist about what kind of toilet paper you use– people with actual standards just use a bidet.

>As if literature isn't the most money consuming interest, with just as much obsessive consuming of large hoards of it as any other hobby.
I'm talking about WRITING, not collecting books, you illiterate mong.

>>18528466
So if novel are toilet paper, what's the bidet in this metaphor?

>>18528488
Shitposting.

>>18528466
>The novel form is ALREADY trash. Literally pulp garbage designed to be an easily consumable bourgeois luxury.
Welcome to the 18th century bro.

>>18528466
>The novel form is ALREADY trash.
If this is the case what medium of literature isn't trash? Illuminated manuscripts and Vatican archive scrolls?

>>18528117
I was with you until you mentioned that there's a bad guy. I'm in agreement with the others saying that a direct antagonist is unnecessary. Good luck nevertheless.

>>18528466
>Literally pulp garbage designed to be an easily consumable bourgeois luxury.
Written like a true mental retard who thinks literature was invented in the booms of popular novels of the 18th century, as if it hasn't always been a form of art that has consistently been the highest echelon of expressive creation when it comes to expressing the human condition and metaphorizing, allegorizing philosophy and politics.

>I'm talking about WRITING, not collecting books, you illiterate mong.
Inherently tied to reading, and you didn't make that remotely clear. Then again, if that is the case writing is surely much more monotonous than disposable entertainment media like games and collectibles, but those have an arbitrary measure of moral inferiority because people like spending money on things they enjoy.

>>18528286
brawlhalla is a fun game anon

>>18528466
you are a major retard but you are right about the bidet

>>18527894
This is just Kizumonogatari desu

>>18527894
Bad monogatari copy?

>>18526774
Working on the cover is the most fun way to take a break from writing. Book 2 baby, woo!

>>18526700
>22 year old ex navy kid at my blue collar job who wears nothing but fancy suits to work tells me how he wrote a book
>turns out it was literally just him compiling a bunch of other author’s quotes into a self help book

>>18527894
And you’re making fun of him?

>>18526700
Post your book

>>18528912
>as if it hasn't always been a form of art that has consistently been the highest echelon of expressive creation when it comes to expressing the human condition and metaphorizing, allegorizing philosophy and politics
Holy hell shut the fuck up you pompous asshole. Your book is gay twilight fan fiction, stop acting like you have any more artistic integrity than a soiboy writing a space opera. It's embarrassing as fuck

>you didn't make that remotely clear
I absolutely did, see:
>it’s good people are writing anything at all, even if it’s garbage. Better they’re doing that than some mindless consoomer hobby
If you really are this illiterate, I would suggest maybe holding off from writing a book until you learn how to read.

>>18530355
anon....

>>18530766
Quit flouncing like an emotional child who has been told off. I'm not OP (who wrote about the vampire) and you know so, your last resort to restore from butthurt is a pathetic chain of expletives that has nothing to do with this argument.

Also don't act as if wannabe writers or anyone who invests into the creation of an art or craft isn't consooming and spending tons of money towards their beloved craft, specially because it is IMPOSSIBLE to separate writing and reading. Quit with the pathetic cope, you got told off, you are pathetically wrong, shut the fuck up and take it with a shred of dignity left.

>>18530788
Butthead blue hairs being offended by based author
>Book came true, dating is worse than ever and people are incredibly lonely. Recent university study showed 11% of students gave up looking for sex. Also now stealthing is being psy opped as the next big scare.

>>18530792
>your last resort to restore from butthurt is a pathetic chain of expletives that has nothing to do with this argument
>you got told off, you are pathetically wrong, shut the fuck up and take it with a shred of dignity left
t. pic related.

>don't act as if wannabe writers or anyone who invests into the creation of an art or craft isn't consooming and spending tons of money
All of which is moving the goalposts away from my original point, which was about WRITING, not READING. I don't care what mental gymnastics you try to pull to argue that they are "inseparable", because they ARE different things. Stop being so intellectually dishonest.

>>18530821

The only piece of intellectual dishonesty is using the term "moving the goalposts" to justify obsessing over extremely specific semantics because you've noticed your logic is an inherently retarded and hypocritical one you can not defend. If you possessed a brain you'd try to make excuses for why consooming is different or less bad when done in the context of a wannabe writer consooooming, but then again that would require a brain capable of argument and debating rather than resorting to basic instinctive self-preservation impulses.

>>18526700
>cyberpunk
>space opera
You’re probably right to cringe a little

>>18526700
i like the garfield philosopher

>>18527949
>obsessive consuming of it

I want to tell you you're wrong but there are easily 2:1 shelf and stack threads for every shit post and 2:1 shitposts for every actually literary discussion.