/lit/ - Literature

oh, so you made another shit rip off of TAR

good luck, there will be at least three more startup failures before the end of the month

>>6418707
You mean shitty rip off of ZWG, newfriend? Or That Horrible Zine?
I didn't know that there was a single try mechanic to zines or group projects, you better get working if you want everyone in the world to know.
Meanwhile we'll try to have some fun if you don't mind.

>>6418697
>We'll be a bit demanding with the quality
good luck with that

>>6418736
If you feel there is no possible quality in /lit/ we'll be happy to not get submissions from you.

>>6418730
>>6418811
Also, I'm sorry for repeating pulp covers, it won't happen again.

>>6418811
>submit to you
ahahahahahaha

So, what do you mean when you say genre? Pretty much anything is genre.

>>6420209
While we're open minded when it comes to topics and themes we're mainly interested in sharing pulpy adventures, things that aim to entertain, bewitch, captivate, thrill or charm the audience. We want to know by just reading it that the author had a great time writing it and that the reader will to.

If you have any particular doubts just send us a mail and we'll discuss finer details with you.

>barely a project
>editors, designers, marketers, Web designers
>"no such interests" in paying

kill yourself

>>6420860
Were you expecting a payment for doing something /lit/ related? Do you think there's money in making a zine?
I'm sure you're a professional with a lot of serious payed work, I'm happy for you and hope you keep on getting regular jobs. This isn't for you, it's cool, nothing is for everyone.

>>6418837
>You can be framed, on a SEX CHARGE

>>6421015
>>6421025
I can't, and won't, believe that /lit/ wouldn't love writing stuff like this.

>>6422025
But /lit/ doesn't write. We know this.

Fact of the matter, you're recruiting from /lit/, which is a small pool in the first place. Secondly, you're trying to get them to write genre fiction, which /lit/ has a kneejerk reaction to hate. You're barking up the wrong tree, OP, you're trying to get the wrong material from people who don't really put out much in terms of material.

>>6418697
Ignore the haters, OP. Happy to submit ... for the offer of a pro pay rate for my work. Otherwise, go die in a fire.

would love to contribute but i have written a word in almost a year because depression

>>6422069
If someone rejects material just for the genre he can't be more of a pleb. Borges wrote genre, Carver wrote genre, Poe wrote genre. If they don't like it it's healthier for them to ignore it, but to dismiss it out of some imaginary superiority is just being infantile.
I trust enough people will write and show how fun it can be.

>>6422145
Why would you get a pro pay rate without qualifications? If you are being published in literary magazines just make a new thread, pretend you're not yourself, and viral market them.

>>6422168
There's no better cure for depression than sitting down and writing adventures of the men you'd like to be.

>>6422519
You should create these threads on /tg/, /co/ and /x/ - those places have writefags (some of them quite good) and no aversion to this kind of writing. Unlike /lit/.

>>6422691
/lit/ can do a better job. The moment we start outsourcing our own writing is the moment the board deserves to die.
Also, just because you don't like it doesn't mean every single user must hate it. That kind of thinking just makes the place more and more homogeneous until we have every single thread being the same.

How's it going /lit/? Any interested writers around?

Couple of questions.

Is pornography allowed?

What about erotica instead?

What about gore? Or - ahem - Gore?

Assuming you're still reading this, I'm not trying to be baitish. I understand you are looking for quality. Let's say, as the outer end of this scale, would you accept something like "The Delicate Prey" by Paul Bowles?

Not a copy/paste of his story, but something in that style.

And, for completeness, would you accept fan-fiction? Not an eight year old's clustersuche; but, something wacky, say, Gore Vidal and Graham Greene do a night on the town?

And how about poetry?

>>6426522
>porn/erotica
We haven't fully discussed this issue and at the end we'll judge in a case to case basis, but as a general rule of thumb the main interest is that it can be entertaining. Having or not erotic content isn't an issue, but if it's two pages just describing a fuck we'd probably ask you to submit something else. This doesn't mean that we expect any degree of delicacy, just that the plot should be interesting on its own.

>Gore
Again, if it's just a description of a busting ribcage we'll probably pass, but if it's part of an interesting story we don't have any problem with it.

>Fan Fiction
Being a short story it would be better if you just make the characters stand alone. If you want to reference something else its fine, but don't depend entirely on it.

Don't worry about sounding batish, most anons are just posting to say that /lit/ suck and that you won't write anything good. Most bait can be nicer to read than that.

>>6426915
A night bump in case the lurkers of the dark have some interesting tales to share.

>>6427684
>Exciting true adventures FOR MEN
>Don't let rupture cripple YOU!
>How the international white slave racket operates
>The spy who planned Pearl Harbor for the reds

I really hope you get submissions as good as this stuff.

>>6418697
what if your literary skills are a little on the lacking side, poetically speaking, but have some ramblings on themes of things.
I have some strange adventure ideas, that I think have a good balance between plausibility and total nonsense. Not like Kubrick level what the fuck is going on sort of stuff, just strange incidents of human decision making that lead to terrible outcomes. I'd like to make films because the literature isn't the same as cinema. I only think a lot of directors have gotten bored of making intricate movies and more funding is in wowing the audience and having some basic moral function.

Space and techno are interests of mine.

>>6427864
Part of the point of submitting your work to an amateur zine is getting some amateur editor to discuss your work with you. He'll ask you why you did something, question you if you chose the best way to express your idea, give you a chance to rethink what you were doing and improve on it with an outsider's perspective. That is, of course, in case it's not complete and utterly impossible to fix. Which happens to the best of us and just means you have to keep writing.

>>6427825
We all do, anon.

i like this concept and if i ever lose my horrible fear of writing ill throw something your way

see thats the problem with /lit/. we're hypothetically better, but no one here writes.

>>6427973
Speak for yourself slacker.

>>6427891
That sounds pretty cool, if I can edit some stuff I'll keep your site down somewhere. I hope this collaboration goes somewhere too.

>>6427973
why is /lit/s problem synonymous with your own again? just write something!

I want to do a story about these guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL85cUbxIlc

they're inspired by zombie pop culture and spend their hobby times playing murder mockup with relatively well crafted swords. I think they'd make a great team of awkwardo's for some great non-drug related parody.

>something happens in the city
>they over react and misinterpret the problem
>the conspiracy seems legit enough to be real.
>injuring people, running from police, they have a bunker obviously because they're afraid of zombies

if this is trash then all my ideas are trash

>>6427973
Just sit down and write. You can make 2000 words in less than two hours and you'll feel better just by getting there.
Try not to flood our mail with every single thing you write, though.

>>6427999
Nice trips for truth

>>6428060
We hope to.

>>6428088
It might be trash, but fun trash.
Right now we have a 3000 word limit, down the line we might change the format or something but right now we doubt /lit/ will care for more than that (zwg had some awesome historically accurate military fiction that a lot of people ignored because it was just too long). If you think it would work as a small series or something we're cool with that.
In any case, see what comes up and write to us.

>>6418707
>shit rip off of TAR

TAR was never good bro. I dont know what world you live in.

Is Prole gonna be in this? Are all /lit/ zines Prole's? Can you at least get him to get doxed again?
His drama was the best part of all /lit/ projects,

>>6422724
Hahaha, are you new?

>>6430631
>>6430545
Well, Prole isn't among us unless he's playing coy. We're probably the first independent /lit/ zine. I really doubt that means anything.

>>6431058
Are you?

>>6430631
>>6431981
Who's Prole?

Do you take sword & sorcery?

>>6432438
Of course, as long as its good.
If you aren't 100% sure you can discuss it with an editor, as long as it isn't a sketch or a draft of course.

>>6432410
One of the original editors in ZWG, the one who tried to make WAAZ but couldn't and the main voice for TAR. He was cool, a bit of a diva but he made it work.