/lit/ - Literature

>main character is an awkward teen whose primary characteristic is a love for reading

>Plot twist at the end of story reveals that the main character was a dog all along

>>4307637
>main character has a dark, hidden past s/he thought s/he'd left behind

>>4307654

I've always wanted to read a story in which the main character has this characteristic but the so called secret is revealed to the reader and every other character in the prologue and the rest of the book are the realistic consequences of everyone finding out

>main character has a picture perfect family with 2.5 kids, and a house in the suburbs... but they are not as perfect as they seem on the surface... they have more secrets than meets the eye...

>main character is a 20 something male who smokes cigarettes and is a hard drinker. he has uninterested bland dominant sex with random women but will always return to the arms of his no homo buddy because "only another man can truly understand my darkness"

>main character is a magical surgeon girl who runs about with her ambiguously transgendered male friend in a world filled with French Muslims

>>4307665
I just wish the secret wasn't always bullshit. Or that somebody isn't trying to "run away" from it, whatever the fuck that means.

>male romantic component is a suave older mentor/teacher figure
>female romantic component is a young nubile student who is naive but eager and sexually voracious with wide idealistic eyes and a desire to explore and experiment

>>4307730
Well of course they do. They've already cannibalized .5 of their kids.

>>4307743
10/10 would totally watch this instead of killing off Snoopy :(

>>4307737

I remember you!
Good luck with your mlp fanfiction and story.

Also:

>main character is a moron with fetal alcohol syndrome and a magic flamenco guitar

>>4307756
T-thanks, anon.

>"So the whole universe" you said "it's just..."
>"An egg" I answered. "Now it's time for you to move on to your next life."
>And then I sent you on your way.

>mfw "omgGG this is soo deep it rly made me thinkkk"

>>4307759
Next time make a real map, don't just color in the outline of the Mediterranean Sea, you assmuncher.

(Protip: there's even software out there that can autogenerate realistic-looking terrain.)

>friends make a blog/journal entry about a short story or a "deep personal anecdote" they just wrote
>setting is an art school
>everyone is an entry level pleb who talks about marina ambramovic, barbara kruger, jenny holzer, the hyper real, postmodern consumer condition and baudrillard
>burn it all
>burn it all down

>>4307637
Eh, it kind of works in The City of Glass.

>>4307802
Someone's new.

>>4307802
>don't just color in the outline of the Mediterranean Sea,

Haha oh snap. I'm willing to bet most people wouldn't notice that.

>>4307817
Can't be unseen.
Destroy your map at once.

>>4307802
It's set in the basin of the Mediterrenean Sea, dickface.

>Projected orthogonally from coordinates 35 N 18 E

>>4307812
that's because he's not writing it as an indulgent author insert, it's part of exploring the thematic concerns of the novel and is clearly a character created with no more ego than another. Usually it's the former

>stephen king story
>one of the characters is a middle aged man with a limp because he was hit by a car

>>4307842
>tfw every tv show nowadays has to have a Sawyer- the writer's self insert to stick in funny one liners and be sarcastic and ironic

>>4307834
>It's set in the basin of the Mediterrenean Sea

Not him, but intrigued. Do elaborate.

>>4307847
Not the author, but he put his draft on /lit/ a few weeks ago:

https://docs.google.com/a/trioptimum.com/document/d/1UrasBxiMQKSIfLmpsSeDE7jMzatp4k3rdauLz8V043E

>>4307841
> that's because he's not writing it as an indulgent author insert
actually the character is named paul auster who writes detective fiction and meets paul auster who wrote the novel

>>4307637
White male, early 20s, artiseest, smokes and drinks alcohol, probably wants to be in a bad, in love with quirky mary sue.

>a novel by James Joyce

A fantasy book that start in a European-like village then CHOSEN ONE CHOSEN ONE CHOSEN ONE CHOSEN ONE CHOSEN ONE CHOSEN ONE CHOSEN ONE CHOSEN ONE.

>>4307856
They've obviously put a ridiculous amount of work into this. It's a bit too dry for my liking though.

>>4307822
>>4307817
>>4307802

>>4307867
>european-like village

lol

>>4308098
>lol
WHATS SO FUNNY ASSHOLE?

HU?

YOU WANT TO FIGHT MAN?

>implying roman à clef is not the superior literary genre

>>4307646
R.L. Stine pls

>>4307736
>mfw this is my actual life, without the darkness bit
It's not as glamorous in real life as it is in the novels

>>4307730
Is this really a cliche?

>>4308789
Oh fuck, I meant to quote >>4307736

>>4307637
I don't see anything particularly wrong with this. Ask The Dust was a great book.

OP confirmed for never having read Bolaño

>Main character is a cross between Wittgenstein and Sherlock Holmes and spends all his time solving logic puzzels and DPing whores with his best bro who's a cross between Russell and Stirner and they solve a murder mystery by championing pure reason

Would you read this?

>>4307737
Please tell me this is an actual thing

>>4307637
>you have a main character.

>from spablems

>>4308910
i would absolutely read that shit

>>4308910
isn't that Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, essentially?

And, yes, I would read that.

can't wait for the compelling legal drama sequel: consistently interfering with police investigation, Sherlockgenstein meets a fiery but troubled female detective and spurns threesome fanfiction

>non-resolutional plot ending

>>4307812
That was possibly the worst novel I read. Auster can't hold a candle to Italo Calvino

> Main character is a narcissistic asshole, who's motivation for stopping the main enemy of the story stems not from the thousands of lives he will consume in an attempt to become a god, but because the main enemy decided to keep him out of the loop on the plan and he feels personally slighted.

> main character happens to be an affluent white male and the story is a non fiction memoir piece about gaining enlightenment and insight via having traveling Thailand and toking in Amsterdam but is instead told as a short story fiction piece

>>4310569
Whose, not who's.

>>4310571
Sorry about that, just got off a 14 hour shift at a call center. My eyes are a bit blurry from looking at a screen all day.

>>4307759
autist

>>4308910
I'd read it, but I'd prefer a serialised set of short stories in which Wittgenstein and Stirner are a couple of exorcists who go around fighting demons and ghosts which are obviously stand-ins for various ideologies and worthless philosophical debates.

>>4308910
https://docs.google.com/a/trioptimum.com/document/d/1UrasBxiMQKSIfLmpsSeDE7jMzatp4k3rdauLz8V043E/
Yes.

>>4310575
>working at a call centre
I do love Indian literature.

>has a plot

>>4307802
>(Protip: there's even software out there that can autogenerate realistic-looking terrain.)
I'm too autistic to not need to know what this is.

>is written using real words

Races in fantasy lit that are just small twists on Tolkien fantasy

>The Evlar where a tall ancient race
>The Whorks where stout and resided in caves.
>The Terrans are a young and industrious race
>DRAGONS DRAGONS DRAGONS

>/lit/ constantly complains about /pol/
>uses /pol/ memes

>>4312013
>Races in fantasy lit that are just small twists on Tolkien fantasy
Races are stand-ins for different human races and ethnicities.

>fantasy
>post-apocalyptic

>>4312080

>>>/pol/

Stop shitting up our board, shitlord!!! Stop raping our rapist-free sanctuary of non-rape, you raping patriarchal fascist racist rapist of rape victims! Rape!

Btw, I'm a grill. :3

>>4312162
>being a woman
>not being a superior homosexual
Shiggy diggy, friend.

I hate when this happens in any form of media. When a main character in a film works in the film industry it breaks immersion as I quietly seethe at the writer for his lack of originality.

When a protagonist in a novel is an author, editor, or prospective writer I'm always tempted to return to Hemingway, who said "fuck that, I'll just do awesome shit and write about it, who wants to read about a guy writing a book?"

Surprisingly people let Stephen king off easily in a lot of this. Not only does he base the characters off himself, but he writes it in his home state.

I can't stand people who can only write themselves

>main character's only flaw is his kindness

>>4313630
Alternatively
>main character's only distinguishing feature is his kindness

>>4314638
>main character is a girl whose main distinguishing flaw is its kindness
i.e. chinese cartoons

>main character is just an observer that goes along with anything