/lit/ - Literature

>>19395040
daylight saving

>I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, “Why do you write the way you do?” I must answer that I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not the best part. Writing is a way of making the writer acceptable to the world—every cheap, dumb, nasty thought, every despicable desire, every noble sentiment, every expensive taste. There isn’t very much satisfaction in getting the world to accept and praise you for things that the world is prepared to praise. The world is prepared to praise only shit. One wants to make sure that the complete self, with all its qualities, is not just accepted but approved . . . not just approved—whoopeed.
Literally me

>>19395040
to get a gf
and because I don't want to be an hero

>>19395040
To satiate the brain's hunger for philosophy and the heart's hunger for adventure!

>>19395060
“There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical. Revolt in the abstract is – revolting. It's mere vomiting.”

― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

"The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are.“ — G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant

>>19395040
To contrast crushingly hopeless and grim scenarios with the small pieces of warmth that make it all matter. To dive into that aspect of the psyche that drives it to keep going no matter what

>>19395301
t. Dostoyevsky

>>19395040
To breathe life into the worlds of my imagination and thereby ease the pain of knowing I may never visit them.

>>19395060
Based. My highest aspiration is to get normies interested in my fetish without realising it.

>>19395040
to explore the word whirled

>>19395040
Because I'm better than literally everyone else, and it's my job to spoonfeed the helpless, ignorant masses my divine nuggets of wisdom through fictional constructions so barebones they hardly resemble stories, that are more like vehicles crafted with the express purpose of shoveling my opinions and all-important little hot takes down the throats of the mouth-drooling idiots who wouldn't otherwise be capable of comprehending my genius.

I write because nobody makes the erotica I like to read

>>19395379
Ayn, I thought you were dead...

>>19395040
Movies are too expensive

>>19395379
t. twitter guy with in depth, complex, and likely genius internal feed logic that’s completely unrecognized by anybody else

It gives me joy

>>19395040
Because I have to. Even the few times over the last 15 years when I convinced myself that my novel projects weren't worthwhile or important enough and very consciously set them aside, intending to simply keep the drafts as time capsules of my youth, I always came crawling back to the craft because I think my life has to be expressed.
>>19395301
nice

>>19395405
They aren't. Do you know how to torrent or are you a retard?

>>19395284
As good a writer as he was, this fatass was beyond naive, to the point where he just sounds stupid most of the time

>>19395425
Nice anon! How long did it take you to get to that level?

>>19395401
Dead for 40 years and still making people seethe I see

>>19395505
>positive = dumb

>>19395284
*barf*

>>19395284
>woman walks up to GK on the street and taps him on the back
>”why are you not at the front?” She said
>”if you’d come around here you’ll find that I am” he replied over his shoulder

>>19395040
Gass is smart as fuck. This quote means a lot to me. I'm going to write more instead of just waiting for my thoughts to explode in a psychosis every few years where I try to redpill everyone on the Jews

who are in fact evil but one must chill about it

>>19395495
To make, stupid fucking faggot retard

>>19395791
Your meds.

>>19395040
I write cause I got a lot of free time. My asian mail order bride is turning tricks down with the local johns and my father is on death's doorstep.

>>19396113
Oh, you're not the family with the milfs? Then why am I even talking to you, dude.

To make them human again

>>19395040
Does anyone knows where can I find Habitation of the Word by William Gass?

>>19395077
>to get a gf
cringe

>>19395791
Part of their evil is their intelligence. There is very little left we can do that will not further their goals one way or the other. That is how the tracks have been layed. For now we must focus on our own sphere of influence. They will keep corrupting society and we will keep seeking for ourselves new silent loyalities. Their shit will always crumble because it is not based on true strength. The darker the room, the more powerful a tiny speck of light.
Keep a warm heart and a cool head.

>>19395040
>>19395060
Based beyond belief

>>19395040
*ate

>>19395040
I don't write because I'm unhappy
I'm unhappy because I don't write

>>19395040
to fill the time until I kill myself

>>19395040
He's literally me, but I don't write anything.

>>19395040
As a difficult and mentally involving task, it distracts me from depression.

anger is a poison. It slowly kills you until the only other thing you can feel is grief.

>>19399133
Anger is great. Go back to r*ddit.

>>19395040
I'm bored.

>>19395379
>guys, I'm such an amazing writer
>yes, I just use insane amount of very rarely used adjectives to make my shit look like I'm special

It's always interest to see people bragging about what awesome writers they are. Every fucking time a retard says "MUH I'M THE BEST WRITER EVER!!!!", they just do the same rare adjective stacking and think this is special.

There are secrets that show a good writer from a bad writer, but stacking adjective is just a sign of a retard who struggles with the language and thinks that the quantity of different words (especially adjectives because they are very easy to stack) means quality.

It's the exact opposite. Adjectives are a sign of incompetence and using adjectives is a sign that the writer is retarded or at least the book was written for retards.

And no, "nuggets of wisdom" don't exist if you are an adjective "writer". Especially if you think using adjectives makes you better than "literally" everyone else, you are the prime example of why ready is dead. Books like your adjective book are not only retarded to read, adjective heavy book have also the disadvantage that they are worthless for literally everything and just a waste of time.

>>19395505
Did you mean to reply to OP?

only thing i've ever been told that i'm good at

>>19397580
stop

I think the term art is a very strong word. You can produce artifacts or sounds that have a beautiful aspect to them but they might not evoke such vivid emotion as to be considered to be "art" and I think that many people use the term art very lightly to refer to things that aren't really, it gets thrown lightly as a term used in marketing campaigns for popstar tours, video games, sports skills.

I'm not devaluing the merit of anyone, if you like what you like and it moves you then good for you but there are objective standards for these things. I've noticed people online like to attribute to their favourite writers or musicians these abilities that they perceive subjectively but aren't really there. There are websites where the people will go on and on about how death metal is the same as Wagner which is just not true, or how a vastly popular author is literary. The talent required to write something that achieves massive popularity might very well possess literary traits and I'd say it's even likely that the things we call literature tomorrow are extremely popular right now. I just don't know what.

Long ago I saw a video proclaiming the death of the artist as a genius in favour of the 'creative entrepreneur' who is basically an influencer. Will it be the righteous pedants of tomorrow that overlook some starving songwriter in favour of Travis Scott because he reflected the "spirit of the moment?" have I just no brains to tell?

>>19395040
>>19395060
unfathomably based. I will read every novel this man has written.

>>19398586
Powerful stuff, anon.

>>19395379
>nuggets
>barebones
>vehicles crafted with the express purpose of shoveling
I have some bad news for you.

for money

I have images running through my mind constantly and writing about them is a good way to pass the time

>>19402137
how does that work

My primary motivation to write my first novel was so I could have a power fantasy about saving the world and getting together with a tsundere girl.
I think the biggest influences on my writing are Star Wars and superhero movies. The good ones, anyway

>>19395040
the only reason is because it parses out my thoughts somewhere that actually has to be slighty regulated.
Once in a long while ill write something less then banal and decide not to delete it. Then it graduates to something beyond me and sits among my clutter as its own person.

>>19396124
mfw no asian mail order bride

i don't know but i can't stop.

>>19401159
>Homer was a retard

>>19395060
hurr durr pls read my book

>>19402194
pretty well

>>19395040
>>19395060
his writing is like the slothy expression of his face and his decaying body. not hatred at all in his novels, just a mass of dull, timid, layered contempt. fucking coward.

>>19395040
Gass's reason is unironically part of it. I write to destroy false idols. To dispel ignorance and to understand and set what is crooked straight.

>>19395425
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