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No one cares about your novel: So writers, don’t be boring Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:02:15 2014 No.4657638 [DELETED]

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http://www.salon.com/2014/03/12/no_one_cares_about_your_novel_so_writers_dont_be_boring/

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:04:15 2014 No.4657647 Some of my favorite books are boring though. I appreciate a dry, deliberately slow pace in a book.

>>	mom Thu Mar 13 00:09:14 2014 No.4657662 >>4657647 Salon is giving advice to idiots

Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:11:15 2014 No.4657670

>an article devoted to trashing MFAs

Fucking fantastic. I once had the misfortune of being packed into a bar full of them, listening to them read their navel-gazing poetry and prose while all the rest of them whooped and cooed like they were watching a baby gazelle take its first steps. Never again.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:26:16 2014 No.4657720 >livejournal >ontd >salon.com jesus mary and joseph

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:28:14 2014 No.4657730 >>4657647 Were these books written in the last 10 years

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Thu Mar 13 00:31:14 2014 No.4657740 >>4657720 >jesus mary and joseph AH. My favourite curse Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and the whole fecking Christ family! /Irish accent

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:34:14 2014 No.4657755 >>4657740 >tfw you'll never have an irish family to curse and drink with

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:39:15 2014 No.4657774 File: 184 KB, 500x308, HOBixoZ.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4657670 i wandered into an informal workshop for creative writing undergrads in a student lounge once >proseless drama-style dialog >newsy hats >autism >lard

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:41:14 2014 No.4657781 >>4657670 Arrogance and self-centeredness transcends degrees, mate. I've known people who are so profoundly full of themselves and constantly boast about being in their junior year in an engineering or computer science program.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:41:14 2014 No.4657782 File: 30 KB, 247x248, 1392178269114.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4657774 >one guys writes his characters all in a fake Hollywood-inspired scottish dialect >he speaks them in-dialect and butchers them

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:42:14 2014 No.4657787 >>4657720 Something just for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGwfwuNv5yU#t=43

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:45:14 2014 No.4657798 >>4657787 >posting your own youtube channel >being a faggot

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:48:14 2014 No.4657807 File: 111 KB, 186x264, nxKGjE2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4657798 >being you

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:52:14 2014 No.4657811 >>4657787 >thinking you have any right to respond after being called out for ontd

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 00:53:15 2014 No.4657818 >>4657787 is john serious? Does he not care anyone and isn't afraid of anything

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 01:08:14 2014 No.4657871 >>4657781 Yes, but they don't subject me to their terrible writing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 01:10:15 2014 No.4657880 >>4657811 Thinking any1 cares except anal edgelords like u

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 11:10:13 2014 No.4659089 who doesn't hate jerry seinfeld? one hit wonder of a shit show

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 11:36:13 2014 No.4659153 And /lit/ scoffs at me whenever I tell them that you can judge a book by its first few pages... It's how the business operates

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 13 11:49:13 2014 No.4659181 >>4657638 the article that this one references is much better the "mfa vs nyc" one in slate it's sort of depressing tho

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