/lit/ - Literature

>learning how to write
you will never make it

>>4765044
On Writing Well
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
The Norton Anthology of Poetry

>>4765044
thats a shitty card mate

>>4765044
>Does /lit/ has a list of books to help learn how to write?
What aren't you doing right now?

>>4765054
Is this trolling? I can't tell.

>>4765044
A hero of one thousand faces
The Writer's Journey

>>4765257
Also, The Book on Writing, by Paula

The Pleasure of the Text
Elements of Style
Good books.

>>4765281
Can't find Good Books. Which author wrote it?

>>4765133
wrong, it's tournament-viable.

Elements of Style
On Writing

Mostly though, no book can help you more than reading and writing a lot.

>>4765311
lel

elements of style is obsolete

>>4765387
It's obsolete as a rulebook for advanced writers, but not as a starting point for beginners.

How to Read and Write Correctly, by Bloom

https://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/25497

>>4765375
>no book can help you more than reading

>>4765044
Just this

>>4765044
Yes, but it's crap.
Most /lit lists need to be fixed

>>4765454
Ste'nking gives great advice on how to write pulpy, popular schlock.

Anyone who wants to write beyond (better than) that and outright ignore everything he has to say.

>>4765044
Knut Hamsun taught me how to write

>>4765348
Seriously? Tell me how.

>>4766478
Between the lines and What not to do are GOAT

>>4766478
>Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul

I don't know what that is but it sounds bad.

I liked On Writing, that's the only one of those I've read.

>>4766484
Hemmingway is that you?????

>>4765257
Never use Hero With a Thousand Faces as a handbook for story structure. It's an anthropological text and it's common misuse for that purpose has been extremely detrimental to the past several decades of of English fiction and screenwriting.

>>4768855
>it's
*its

I apologize for my phone's fiendish and inexplicable automatic "correction."

>>4768855
>misuse
>dismissing a book because it's too mainstream
/lit/ everybody

>>4768855
>ignore the most used and useful writing guide because too many people use it
Oh wow

>>4769649
>>4769652

It is not "too mainstream"; it is an excellent book and I would encourage anyone interested in the subject matter to read it. It is not, however, a "writing guide" by any stretch of the imagination. It is a groundbreaking work of anthropological analysis: a description of how stories have been told, not a prescription for how they ought to be. Deliberate attempts to follow the blueprint it uncovers lead almost inevitably to derivative, uninspired works lacking in both style and content.

I repeat: an awareness of Campbell's work can be beneficial to a writer attempting to engage with mythic patterns, but to use it as a guide to writing displays a fundamental ignorance of its nature.