/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11114739]

>privileging character development over formal experimentation

[Anonymous No.11114747]

>delving into character psychology instead of employing characters as ideological vessels

[Anonymous No.11114759]

>developing a compelling literary voice instead of imitating forgotten authors

[Anonymous No.11114779]

>engaging and reflecting one's own zeitgeist instead of romanticizing previous periods

[Anonymous No.11114792]

>outlining and sketching and refining instead of banging out yet another publishable work during a 72-hour binge

[Anonymous No.11114804]

>reading "great works" and classics (in translation) instead of exploring genre, eroticism, and trash to better understand contemporary publishing practices

[Anonymous No.11114822]

>casting yourself into a revered aesthetic tradition instead of shilling for likes and hearts and follows through fractured lowercase sentences with slightly more adjectives than standard speech

[Anonymous No.11114842]

>spending your time following academic trends and award ceremonies to keep up with the latest prizes and recipients and honorees instead of promoting small presses and reviving authors who have fallen into obscurity such as Walter Van Tilburg Clark

[Anonymous No.11114860]

>even thinking about this gay shit

[Anonymous No.11114867]

>privileging
>foregrounding
>resistant reading
>binary opposition
>discourse
>intertextuality
>denotation and connotation
>coding and decoding
>power
>semiotics

[Anonymous No.11114876]

>experiment
>search

[Anonymous No.11114894]

>>11114860
>even replying to this "gay shit"

>>11114867
>buzzwords

>>>11114876
>intentionally being vague instead of directly grounding criticisms in applicable texts

[Anonymous No.11114907]

>returning to this board day after day instead of spending that time developing one's craft and seeking out journals and publishers desperate for original voices and topics

[Anonymous No.11114916]

>deconstructing and reassembling literary traditions instead of forging a voice hard and clear

[Anonymous No.11114925]

>asserting sincerity and directness instead of cowering behind the corpses of the jaded avant-garde

[Anonymous No.11114932]

>relishing in your willingness to research endnotes and obscure references in an impenetrable text instead of seeking resonance and reflection in a psychologically rich work

[Anonymous No.11114935]

>consuming instead of reading

[Anonymous No.11114940]

>investing every waking moment into your literary passions to grow and thrive instead of clinging to what you could have done if only you had applied yourself sooner and with more effort

[Anonymous No.11114954]

>writing book after book about how life sucks instead of hanging yourself on a pile of your book about how suicide is the only option

[Anonymous No.11114965]

>remembering that you had made plans to begin reading more often and to make that your primary hobby alongside sketching aphorisms and brushing up on literary theory but instead find yourself mired in routine and drink, listening for your alarm or peering through your window for a sign that yet another day has come without anything having changed

[Anonymous No.11114972]

>>11114954
>conceiving of a short story in which an author aims to write enough over his life that he's able to stand upon a stack of his own work with the confidence that he would have enough room to dangle if he were to hang himself and realizing that you have less ambition than a suicidal fictional character whom for some reason you admire

[Anonymous No.11115066]

>writing instead of fucking whitebois