/lit/ - Literature

>>18645544
If you have nothing certain and well defined to say in your head, never write a word.

>>18645544
Just write about what you did today.

>>18645551
Complete bullshit advice propagated by people who have either never written or will most likely never write anything good.

>>18645544
I have a good one, could be funny. I just came up with it:

Women working at the perfume department of a department store are approached by a man who sells them homemade perfumes. These perfumes have a drug-like effect on the opposite sex. The different women quickly discover this and use their new seductive powers, some for good reasons, others for nefarious purposes. They run out of the perfume and the man comes back, but this time, to get the perfume, they must...

You finish the rest?

>>18645544
Write about being an anon, and what do you think of /lit/. Also try to guess what kind of people other anons are, as in, you pick a couple of posts from a thread and build a profile from them. You can pick your own fields, definitely no name, but you could invent a nickname or something.

>>18645568
Good to know, high quality writer of virtue Stephen King

>>18645581
Someone should write a book where a bipolar maniac posts his work on /Lit/ gets trashed, and then decides to find out who the anons are who dissed him and where they live, and flies to their city and kills them and posts on /Lit/ as them to warn the next posters. One by one, they get culled...

>>18645551
This. Just read until you feel like there is something you want to say.

>>18645576
well the simplest answer is suck his cock but that's too easy. the story is fundamentally about women using cosmetics to beguile men, something they've done since antiquity, but beauty is supposed to be skin-deep, so maybe, as an ironic contrast, he makes their appearance and odor resemble their inner beings for a week (in this version he's a faustian devil) -- but that reeks too much of incel bitterness so maybe he gives them some perfume in advance and gives them one week to find the love of their life, if they succeed, they'll get a lifetime supply. the ladies all go off, but no matter how good the man they always manage to find something wrong with him -- he's too short, he's too fat, he doesn't make enough money, his ears stick out too much from his head, etc. -- except for one girl (the new girl, let's say, for that fairy tale feel) who just wants to be with her childhood sweetheart in spite of all his defects (for extra irony, the same ones the other ladies complained about). she finally confesses her feelings to him, filled with confidence from the perfume, and her sweetheart, under the influence of the perfume, happily accepts. the ladies come back, disappointed that they couldn't find mr. perfect, and the new girl comes back -- also disappointed, because although she did find the love of her life, she won him by subterfuge, through the perfume. nevertheless, the man, true to his word, gives her the lifetime supply, and when she gets home, still sad, she finds out one more flaw in her mr. perfect: he doesn't have a sense of smell!

>>18645551
This is absolutely terrible advice. Quite possibly the worst advice any anon has given to another on lit.

>>18645544
I think people would love a novel about a masculine, interesting, non-suicidal, and well paid 4chan janny.

>>18645544
write a short story a week using some gay shit online to tell you what to write about
do this until your writing isn’t awful
you don’t want to end up with something to say but have no writing ability

>>18645610
Your twisted fantasy doesn't actually sound too bad and I would probably read it desu.

>>18645968
i guess that's why they call it fiction!

>>18645544
>what should i write?
Pepe/blowjack slash fiction. Duh.

>>18645956
That's fucking beautiful!!!

This is why I come to /Lit/, so many good minds here.

From very basic premises, to a plot outline in a few posts. Feels great to witness and be a part of. Hopefully it inspires at least ONE person tonight to start writing.

>>18645981
Ahhhhahahahahaha!!!

>>18645990
When are you going to kill yourself?

>>18646207
That's not nice.