/lit/ - Literature

>story starts with a description of falling rain outside the window

>story starts with the introduction of a name

>>6413014
>tfw you've done this

>story starts with dialogue

>story starts with main character falling asleep

>story starts with implifications

what an original thread

>>6413014
>story starts with an imitation of roman catholic mass

>>6413033
>story starts with an original idea

> story starts with a cliche

>>6413036
>tfw nobody here gets this/my joke

>thread starts with greentext about something the OP doesn't like in books

>Story starts at the beginning.

>story starts

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>story starts with a meme

>story starts big letter

> story

>>6413014
Wait, no

Okay

When he wakes up

He's a bug

>>6413058
>starts story about memes with a meme

>>6413062
>starts story without greentext

>>6413054
>post starts and ends with un-selfcounsciously ironical greentext parroting what it addresses one metastructural level higher

>story starts with a paragraph on the pronunciation of the novel's name

>>6413058
>story didn't start with a meme upon publication but gradually over time its first line became a meme

>>6413075
esrever ni gnitirw ton<

>>6413082
>story starts with a memeing across the sky

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>>6413085
accidental tag m8

>starts with comedy chevrons

>story starts with a sky tuned to a meme channel

> surrealism

>>6413019
>The raindrop accelerated towards earth at 4.9 meters per second, per second.

>At least, it did from my perspective.

>Story starts at the apparent resolution of another story.

>starts with a clock with too many hours on it

>>6413014
story starts with a long description of the weather, of a street outside or follows in medias res

>>6413014
I kind of want to write an intro where the character goes to bed. And then end the chapter immediately after he goes to bed.

>try to write a story
>remember these threads
>can't do anything that is memed about
>everything is memed about

>>6413161
>doing something

>>6413161
>writing stories

You're literally a meme

Memes

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>>6413213
Me-Me

So... How would you start a story?

>>6413299
With a dedication of love and the turmoil it dragged you through.

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kek'd

love these threads.

>>6413299
by invoking the muses, ofc

"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof."

>>6413014
Ill keep reading if it describes his rock hard erection

>>6413138
nigga it was thirteen o clock

>>6413056
story stars in media res

>>6413086
"we are the music makers, and the memers of memes"

>>6413299
you isolate yourself with a pen and notebook and you sit there for hours staring at a blank page until your story vomits onto the page

>literary work contains a single coherent narrative

Do I legitimately have autism if the word "said" following a line of speech puts me in physical pain?

>>6414492
Not at all! I suffer from the same disease (which the writers inflict on us).

Try reading some Higgins: "that's what Paul said", said Jimmy. Repeated in variants about 1 000 times, my God! I will cut him if I ever meet him in the after life.

>>6413034
>he's never seen Winter Light

>story ends with main character going to sleep

lookin at you Joyce