/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11347777]

>tfw I want to write an epic fantasy series and have a huge mythology built up in my head but I’m too scared that people will think it’s shit.

[Anonymous No.11347789]

>>11347777
I hope you write it anyhow.

[Anonymous No.11347793]

Just write it, damn you.

[Anonymous No.11347824]

>>11347777
even if it is shit, someone will read it
Harry potter is shit and millions of people read it

[Anonymous No.11347831]

People will think it's shit because that's how people work you retard. People will also fall in love with it so it's your job to sift the shit out, embrace the side that helps you develop your series.
Stop being a limp dick loser, get over your fear of judgement, and get it over with.

[Anonymous No.11347838]

>>11347777
Don't write it. All the time you spent building up your universe could have been used to become a better writer. Instead of creating interesting characters and write good prose it will undoubtedly be garbage however sprawling your fake religion is.

[Anonymous No.11347841]

>>11347777
with great quads come great responsibility

the universe has already spoken anon, this thing is out of your hands now anyways

chapter one on monday

[Anonymous No.11347846]

>tfw have a 2000 page Encyclopedic Fantasy novel but the themes are too revealing so I won’t publish it

[Anonymous No.11347854]

don't show anyone

[Anonymous No.11347904]

>>11347777
what you're really scared of is the work, you'd rather ideate all day than have an actual story

get fucked

[Anonymous No.11347938]

>>11347777
i already think it's shit, and i haven't read it yet.

oh, god, ANOTHER faux-medieval society, with inequality, the lords are cruel and the serfs are downtrodden and here comes magic protagonist with yet another system of spells and shit, to right the wrongs.

see if you can find an essay by Charles Platt, called "The Curse of the Hobbit".

you may not want to write fantasy after that.

[Anonymous No.11347966]

>>11347938
You can break down any genre fiction like that and make it sound shit, it’s meaningless

[Anonymous No.11348636]

>>11347938
What is serious, realistic literature for no-nonsense adults? Is anything pre-modern (i.e. mythical) out? Did literature only become serious when it became realist? Is English literature serious enough, or does it have to be Scandanavian?

[Anonymous No.11348967]

>>11347777
The whole genre is built on shit. Just do it for the money.

[Anonymous No.11348979]

>>11347777
You got quads, god is telling you to write it faggot.

[Anonymous No.11348988]

>>11347777
Is this pic from the pizza review?

[Anonymous No.11348991]

>>11347777
write it anyways you slut

[Anonymous No.11349026]

>>11347938
>write an essay in the early 80s bashing authors for escapism and the immaturity of fantasy and complaining about how shitty things are compared to the good old days
>35 years later literally no one reads fiction at all

[Anonymous No.11349033]

>>11347838
this, unironically

[Anonymous No.11349049]

>>11347777
who gives a fuck if its shit write it anyway cunt

[Anonymous No.11349057]

>>11347824
What are you retarded? For every Harry Potter there's a million other works, even potentially good works that no one will ever read and the author may as well just dumped down the memory hole

[Anonymous No.11349067]

>you should write it bro, fantasy is a worthwhile genre

The absolute state of this thread

[Anonymous No.11349073]

>>11347838
The best way to become a better writer is to write and then improve on your writing. There's no reason to just '' train '' and never do anything with it, write a novel that you feel proud of and print one copy for yourself and put it in the bookshelf.

[Anonymous No.11349077]

>>11347966
Hint hint because all genre fiction is garbage

[Anonymous No.11349078]

>>11349073
>The best way to become a better writer is to write and then improve on your writing

Wrong. Its actually by reading

[Anonymous No.11349120]

>>11349078
There's enough books to just read for a hundred thousand years. At some point you need to start writing.

[Anonymous No.11349136]

Would anyone be interested in reading a series about a magic user who is turned away from practicing magic but instead becomes one of the most renowned dark magicians of all time? I was thinking of writing it in the style of Proust with him narrating his journey from childhood to adulthood as he grows up learning all sorts of trades and magic.

[Anonymous No.11349140]

>>11349136
I'd read if you did it from a black magic / blood magic angle and the '' mage '' turned his/her back from the academy and lived with swamp witches. Make it violent and gritty, too.

[Anonymous No.11349190]

>>11347777
Never got the point of even thinking about or wasting time on fiction books, I only have time for theory.

Btw, I left a spook around here, anyone know where I left it?

[Anonymous No.11349204]

>>11347777

Don't be scared and write it, you can't get better without making some mistakes

[Anonymous No.11349235]

>>11347777
Write under a pseudonym, faggot.

[Anonymous No.11349268]

>>11347777
Write it and publish it with a fake name.

[Anonymous No.11349311]

>>11349120
>At some point you need to start writing.

You really don't actually

[Anonymous No.11349316]

>>11349190

[Anonymous No.11350354]

>>11347777
Best case scenario: You're the modern Tolkien. People remember your name for generations to come.
Worst case scenario: it's shit, you make abit of money. No one will remember you, or your name, and it won't matter.

[Anonymous No.11350588]

>>11347938
>essay by Charles Platt, called "The Curse of the Hobbit".

where can i read it?

[Anonymous No.11351025]

>>11350354
Protip, you're not going to become the next Tolkien so focus your attention on something good instead

[Anonymous No.11351260]

>>11349311
>>11351025
You don't have to be the next Tolkien, you don't have to be great or even good. Writing isn't about being famous, telling stories isn't about having an international audiences, it's doing something that you feel compelled to do.

Someone like you is a defeating fucking loser, and I mean that with all my sincerity. Writing isn't about being a legend, Tolkien didn't write LOTR thinking about all of the copies he's going too sell, he wrote it because that's just what he does. Write, even if no one will ever read it but you.