/lit/ - Literature

>>21824228
He provides a consistent product that people want, no different than McDonalds. Why do you even care? Read Cioran, read Ligotti, read Goethe.

>>21824228
Why can't I like something enough to spam that something until I have many millions

>>21824228
I don’t think he even writes his books. He gets ghostwriters to do it, or at least they help him immensely. It’s crazy.

>>21824348
You have to ejaculate to it, you can see clearly that he has, many many times, cum is a currency whether you believe it or not

He's a hack, which means he's prolific and writes what people want to mindlessly read.

>>21824352
The hacks of old could put out two short stories a month for the pulp rags. Not saying he doesn't have assistants now, but the man has a process and discipline like few others.

>>21824359
>The hacks of old could put out two short stories a month for the pulp rags
What's the modern pulp rag? Fanfiction.net?

>>21824359
>discipline like few others.
He has no discpline whatsoever. You're falling for the old case of seeing someone do what is difficult for you and thinking it'se because they are more virtuous, when in fact he simply has graphomania. His brain just works differently. He doesn't need to focus on writing, he has to focus on NOT WRITING. Some people simply are like that.

Pirateaba, the author of The Wandering Inn, suffers from that affliction as well. 12 milion words of story within just 6 years. Considered to be the best webnovel author alive. And yet the quality of his fiction, while much better than others', cannot be called more than 'decent.'

That's because writing good is never the goal here, jsut writing. Getting the voices out of their heads. Giving live to the characters that keep pestering them. I'm not puting down their work, but it has to be recognized for what it is, an expression of neurodivergent brain.

You wouldn't call an autistic child 'extremely disciplined' because it keeps reading about trains 10 hours a day. There is no discpline. Never were. Ask Brandon about rewriting or polishing his writing and suddenyl he replies 'I don't like it, I write for the endings.' Because rewrites take actual discipline and are boring, while letting graphomania run free isn't.

Eh. Even if his stuff is trash, I respect the hustle. Look at the other fat mongs in the genre who can't finish a book or series.

>>21824228
Alright. Which one of you got a job at Wired?

>>21824406
Yeah, people really overanalyze a dude who just loves making little magic-system dioramas in the form of prose. He writes an insane amount, but doesn't really improve on himself, that's not really discipline. Just motivation.

My biggest regret is not simply emulating Brand Sanderson in my 20s. Literally go all in on churning out slop that pays the bills and then if you have higher aspirations reach them in your 30s and 40s.

>>21824406
Hello Jason, still seething about your little trip to the Sanderson estate? Was it too normal for your coastal sensibilities?

>>21824228
>>he doesn't think he's a good writer
He said, not a VERY good writer. He is trying to play humble, he thinks he is a good writer, like Tolkien or Hemingway or Nabokov but not a very good one like Homer, Goethe or Dost.

>>21825900
Homer isn’t very good. He was getting completely refuted by Plato all the time.

>>21824406
> writing good
It’s writing well*

>>21825906
What, you cant refute a fiction writer? It sounds stupid.

>>21824228
While you shitposted, he studied the bastard sword.

>>21824362

People don't really read enough for there to be a modern equivalent but at least the pulps used original characters and stories. Fan Fiction is just noise.

>>21825946
Homer wasn’t viewed as fiction in antiquity.

>>21825900
>Dost
>very good

>>21825987
>Homer wasn’t viewed as fiction in antiquity.
>ah yeah dude, cyclops are like not real and stuff, i have like debunked Homer
Was Platon really this stupid?

>>21825999
He is and you know it very well, my dear Tolstoi-fag

>>21825900
>Good writer
>Tolkien

>>21824228
If he makes that much, he's making more than Stephen King and why doesn't he ever show up on the Forbes writer's list?

I call bullshit.

>>21826033
>>21825999
>>21825906
Stop baiting, its not funny.

>>21826057
I mean you can literally look at his kickstarter which made something like 40 million? I think the key thing here is that's 50 mil revenue, not profit, he has to spend most of that back into actually producing the stuff he sold.

>>21824228
I hate fat people so fucking bad. Fucking fat fuck. He deserves NOTHING. The state should make it legal for ubermen to forcibly take from gluttons. This guy should be forced to lose everything he owns and consigned to be working in the checkout line at Walmart. Give me ONE (1) good reason why fat people should be afforded human rights and property rights. Pro tip you can't.

>>21826073
>he has to spend most of that back into actually producing the stuff he sold
Not really. Modern books are very easy to make: cheap glue, cheap paper made from wood not cotton etc.

>>21826057
The real question is why he hasn’t stopped. If he’s made so much money, why not just stop pumping out low brow pop fiction and take a few years to try to do something sincerely artistic? How do you not get bored of being the fantasy shlock human conveyor belt?

>>21825912
writing is about ideas, not grammatical correctness. you understood exactly what he was saying. stop being a ledantic ass

>>21826095
Anon has already explained it,
>>21824406
He just not capable of it.

>noo he can't just love writing it must be pathological

>>21826198
Yes.

>>21826198
Not why im seething. I'm seething because I'm not fat and own nothing. He is fat and owns more than I'll ever have. It isn't fair.

>>21826273
skill issue

>>21826273
Would you be fat and rich?

>>21826273
There are loads of fat rich guys, what are you even talking about?

>>21826091
Most of the authors you admire were fat. That's not to say that fatness is good, however.

>>21824228
>How is this mediocre piece of shit is raking in 55 mil a year
Who?

>>21826327
Brandon Sanderson

>>21824228
actually checked the tweet and the replies and QRTs are all dunking on them lol
https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1638843805645541378

>>21824406
Fuck off Kehe, he doesn't have "graphomania." that's not what that is.

>>21826067
I’m not baiting. On artistic grounds, Homer is whatever but his main theological backing is in getting demolished by Plato.

>>21826073
Hahaha bro there is no legal accountability for the 50 million Kickstarter cash. He can spend it on coke, hookers, and a private island and nobody could do shit.

I mean obviously he wouldnt do something so cool because he's lame as fuck, but generally creators collecting money on kickstarter are not obligated to put any minimum percentage of the haul into the promised product. It's the closest you can get to pure profit.
>It's the project creator's responsibility to complete their project. Kickstarter doesn’t step into the creative process itself or manage the fulfillment and shipment of rewards.

>>21824228
Mormon backing

>>21826397
are you trying to make some kind of a point here or?

>>21826327
I imagine this guy saying "Who?" like suddenly his eyes are filled with dollar signs saying this $55M will soon belong to me.

>>21824406
So he’s mentally unwell got it

>>21824406
>while much better than others',
I assume you mean other webnovelists because literally any traditional author (even Sanderson) would blow it out of the water.

>>21826416
LMAO

>>21824359
>but the man has a process and discipline like few others.
Fat people have no discipline. He doesn't deserve anything he has.

>>21824362
Royal Road

>>21826511
>I assume you mean other webnovelists because literally any traditional author (even Sanderson) would blow it out of the water.
I'd better than say 90% of webnovelists and the majority of traditionaly published books. Including Sanderson. It's not pretty, but it gives it all to serve the plot and sometimes tries to go beyond that. I'd honestly prefer that over word vomits I see all over 'classics', essence should always trump the form.

>>21825912
thats well good!

>>21826033
IKR
tolkien was a decorative writer.

An actual good write was Lewis.

>>21826095
apparently the wiki says he was writing since teens all the time, I think after 25 - 30 years of that, you would probally die if you stopped

>>21826416
it intresting that 55m will not be enough to buy a good house in sydney.

>>21824228
Jason Kehe certainly does something. He lives somewhere.

>>21828083

He seems like an Illuminati faggot.

>>21828149
He's quirky as you can tell from his flamboyant dress and his 2deep4u bio.

>>21824406
true, true... there is nothing more economically or politically viable than to have a mentally diseased freak do your bidding 24/7... unfortunately there's nothing more wasteful and destructive with regards to nature (polluting air, water, earth etc., nothing abstract here!) either... just look at commies and the demonrats fighting "ableism" and "racism"

>>21828156
>He's quirky
is that an euphemism for "he takes two BBC's up his ass before breakfast"?

>>21828852
Only faggots say BBC.

>>21828861
you wish

>>21828885
Go dillate.

>>21828889
you remind me of a 6 hour "documentary" in which a flaming faggot analyzes how everything in media is pushing the gay agenda
of course the only person pushing the gay agenda was him
but don't worry, soon you will be recycled ;)

>>21824352
He writes his own books

>>21825900
Look at his website. He puts it all in the table. He knows he’s not as good as most “good” writers but that’s not what he tries to do. He writes fantasy and has said he doesn’t care about style and that is all about ease of reading and getting the plot to the page.

>>21824228
he's a bad writer but a very good businessman, and good for him really

bumb
i wan t to know more about writing as a business
like what kinds of people are publishers and how can you pick one in line with your style and interrestssss

>>21824228
Nice checkerboard freemason floor Brandon. Mormons are freemasons which are a jewish luciferian cult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usJw0-rOqzY

I'm a philosophy guy who doesn't read a lot of fiction. I like his books.
I don't really care about prose. The plots are interesting, some of the characters are likeable, the magic systems are nice and the books don't push a lot of degeneracy.

>>21831061
real

>>21831061
This.
>How dOeS hE do IT?
>All photographs are filled with obvious freemasonic imagery
Brandon Sanderson is a private corporation composed of a dozen different ghost writers which exists to funnel money between various intelligence agencies and financiers. Stop falling for the lies.

>>21824228
>masonic floor
Explains a lot.

>>21824406
It's called being a hack. That's all he is. He puts food on the table and nice cars in the garage, but he is no DFW nor Pinchon.

I already set up my alpaca 30m fine tuned on erotica and sanderson's prose to automatically insert shallan sex scenes fully voiced by an elevenlabs clone of casie Platt (shallan'shallan's graphicaudio voice actress) along with nude images of her using stable diffusion dreamshaper and there's nothing the old prude can do about it

>able to shit out five 300k word books in 2 years
How does it do it?

>>21831723
>Shallan
>not Jasnah or Blushweaver

>>21826095
Because he enjoys writing pop fiction more than he enjoys the editing required to write something of high quality.

>>21831723
Based. We need more Cosmere porn.

>>21824228
>friberg

>>21828903
Hey I read your posts. Actually he's right and you're wrong/incorrect. You should seethe, cope and dilate, in that order, fucking fag.

>black and white checkerboard floor
>jachin and boaz symbolism light sconces
>as above so below hand positioning
>sword in right-hand pointing at inverted cross in panel

nigga's initiated, simple as

>>21830814
roll

>>21831061
>>21831508
>>21831626
>>21832788
I can't tell if this is /pol/ or /x/

>>21832792
it's a fact, anon

>>21824228
>mormon (freemason?)
>checkerboard floor pattern
>michael friberg wired writer
>longtime sanderson editor (((moshe feder)))
i miss when i didnt see the world this way. i enjoyed brandon sanderson but now i just idk

>>21832812
>>21832847
You tryna spark up that hyperborean loud with an Aryan trap$tar and fly off to Agartha in a haunebu matte black saucer?

>>21832847
the english gematria on brandon sanderson btw

>>21832847
>>21832858
>>21832868
im not to knowledgeable about gematria and number symbolism and stuff. anyway also jason kehe in picrel

>>21832955
Wow what a quirky shirt. And he's covering his eye with another eye, that's crazy haha. Seems like a really cool happy go lucky normal guy.

>>21832955
He looks like a faggot

>>21830814
Roll

>>21826273
>It isn't fair
Why are you owed anything?
Who made you so entitled and pathetic?
Your life, like that of the salmon or the fox is to struggle against the natural forces of the world until your time of death.
Do not expect or desire easy or comfort, it will only Warp and sicken your mind.

Embrace the struggle and grow

>>21834436
>reads berk and skims nietzsche's wikipedia once

>>21830814
llll