/lit/ - Literature

>>20991655
>I don’t write fantasy

>>20991655
If someone asks this call them a coomer.

>>20991668
I don't have experience with it. Maybe you can teach me.

>>20991726
that doesn't work outside of reddit, chuddy.

>>20991655
I hope you get banned for posting a frog

>>20991655
You can say you're not trying to capture that facet of humanness. You can say you're writing about people who cannot love others because of the fallen pillars of sentimentality or something

>>20991956
In English, Doc?

>>20991655
sex in writing is usually a mistake.
allude to it or skip it

What's sex?

>>20991655
sex is a myth

>>20991655
Frogposting in the OP should be a bannable offence

>>20991655
I avoid sexual content for the most part, but having some amount of romance that actually contributes to the story isn't that difficult imo. I've yet to be called out as a khv; you can learn.

>>20991824
>>20992431
Carry on seething

>>20991655
Because I'm not writing an erotica.

Just say your an ace then you also get the lgtbqxyz++ minority bonus

>>20992440
I've tried but it just feels like I'm copying things I've seen in films and tv.

>>20991655
Laugh at them for wasting their time reading a nobody like you when they haven't gone through the canon yet.

>>20991655
"why do they need to?"

>>20991655
Sex scenes are a waste of time and are often very poorly written and cringe worthy to read. Of course every single book, movie, and TV show has to have a sex scene because writers are shallow people with the emotional mentality of a child, so of course they think the entire world revolves around sexual experiences and not of things like metaphysics, the nature of being, or the subtle functions of our own world.

>>20991655
Tell them sex isn't relevant to your plot, and any depiction of it would be a pointless digression.
Frankly, I wish more modern authors would realise this.

>Sex scenes are a waste of time and are often very poorly written and cringe worthy to read. Of course every single book, movie, and TV show has to have a sex scene because writers are shallow people with the emotional mentality of a child, so of course they think the entire world revolves around sexual experiences and not of things like metaphysics, the nature of being, or the subtle functions of our own world.

>creative writing class
>get into groups for peer review
>I have a sex scene in my short story
>girl who's peer reviewing my paper leans over and whispers "are you a virgin?" and giggles
>"no"
>"it's okay if you are I think that's cute"

SHES PULLING MY LEG RIGHT
THERE'S NO FUCKING WAY IT'S SO OBVIOUS HOW FUCKING HARD CAN A SEX SCENE BE

>>20994703
Is the girl cute?

>>20991655
Ummm does rape count?

>>20994703
You probably fucked up your depiction of the female sexual response. Now the entire class knows you're an incel.
Protip: before you write a sex scene, hire a prostitute and rehearse it.

>>20991655
I dont generally explore these themes in my writing and I have no intention of shoehorning then in for some low brow entertainment value.

>>20994771
Based.

I wrote a romance novel despite having zero experience IRL. I'm still deeply repressed so I'd never depict a sex scene between them. The farthest it goes is kissing, holding hands, etc.

>>20992401
hard agree. and if you disagree, name one instance when getting descriptive about sex has improved a book that wasn't about sex to begin with

>>20994831
Does the maxim "Write what you know" ring any bells for you, anon?

>>20994877
Yeah but I based it on various books/shows/movies I've seen

>>20994831
You should not be writing about shit you have no experience with unless you get someone with experience to vet those words. This is how you end up with dumb shit like full bullets on the ground instead of just casings

>>20994895
The basic problem with millennial "literature" is that zoomers haven't lived lives that are worth writing about. As a result, they only produce trivia.

>>20994859
when the fem fatal betrays the noir detective the scene is usually more impactful if earlier in the story they had a graphic (though not gratuitous) sex scene.

I don't care if pepe started out as a meme on 4chan, pepe posting is the most reddit thing 4channers do.

>>20994859
two words: two turds

i dont write smutt novels

>>20991817
it actually does, you just use different terminology zir.

>>20994859
American psycho. I know it is an obvious call around here, but the way that Ellis bleeds between explicit sex and gruesome violence really solidifies the idea of the whole book potentially being an hallucination by the main character

>>20994965
I tend to agree, but calling someone a '4channer' is also very reddit.

Imagine getting triggered by a cartoon frog.

my mc is a 9-year-old girl you sick fuck

>>20996772

>>20991655
Stupid frogposter