/lit/ - Literature

>>7072497
Stoner is a great book, you fuck.

>>7072497
> talking shit about Misery Chastain's creator's creator
You can't be serious

>>7072497
haha you have to write what you know op!!! : )))

>>7072497

>protagonist is an alcoholic and/or drug addict
>writer had/has struggles with alcoholism and/or drug addiction

>protagonist is a loner

>>7072497
are you trying to say that 2666 is bad?

>>7072497
>antagonist is a publisher/editor

>>7073225
kek

>>7073225

heh

>>7073225

>protagonist is a writer
>antagonist is a publisher/editor
>antagonist berates protagonist's work for not conforming to "abitrary storytelling rules"
>protagonist wins in the end through her creative spirit or something

>>7073244

>protagonist is a poet
>the poems aren't good

>Atonement
shut up you little bitch, you're a shit writer and a shit person

>>7073279

Totally expected

>protagonist is a poet
>he didn't even know it

>protagonist becomes a writer
>protagonists writes a book about his story
>it has the same title as the book you're reading now

>lord of the rings
>the stranger
>gulliver's travel
>le great gatsby
>breakfast at tiffany's

>Writer writes a book
Unoriginality at its finest

>>7072497
>protagonist is a shameless self-insert

>>7073382
Self insert is a shamalong-a-dingDONG

>Protaganist was you all along

>protagonist can tell the future because he finds the book inside the book

>protagonist faces a challenge

>author portrays character in way so he can fill the characters dialog/chapters with cheap prose
I'm looking at you, DFW.

>>7073356
So basically
>portrait of the artist as a young fuccboi

>book is relateable to real experiences

>>7073481
>book is relateable to fake experiences

>protagonist is a sentient being

>rising action
>climax
>falling action

>>7072497
When will /lit/ grow up and realize that a good story is a good story.
Tolstoy broke almost all the rules of good writing as we now know them, and is almost universally reguarded as one of the best writers of all time.

>>7073492

>protagonist is an inanimate object

Hóng Lóu Mèng you well hung asshole.

>protagonist is dead

>Protagonist is actually/also the antagonist

>>7073432
That's how I felt when I read A Confederacy of Dunces.

>>7073531
>That's how I felt when I read A Confederacy of Dunces.
feels good man

>>7072497
>expecting the entertainment industry to be creative

>there is no protagonist

>protagonist
>author

>protagonist has sex

>protagonist protagonizes

>>7072497
>protagonist is angsty teen

>>7072497
>protagonist is a total fucking loser
>yet somehow he continuously succeeds with little struggle.

>piece has a protagonist

>>7073687
>the author wrote a ten-page sex scene for it
>in a mystery novel

Never again.

>book isn't autobiographical

>>7072497
> protagonist is a disgusting middle aged leech who by the way happens to be a writer
>spends a large part of the novel having sex with barely legal girls way out of his league
>author is is a disgusting middle aged leech who by the way happens to be a writer

>>7073990
>not naming your gif "now thisis posting.gif"
It's like you want to remain a Plebeian

>genre
>three-act structure
>plot
>subplot
>hero's journey
>characters
>character arcs
>protagonist
>antagonist
>inciting incident
>rising action
>climax
>denouement
>books
>parts
>chapters
>sequences
>scenes
>scansions
>paragraphs
>sentences
>clauses
>style
>voice
>register
>tone
>syntax
>tropes
>words
>characters
>alphabet
>orthography
>morphemes
>graphemes
>phonemes
>medium
>being