/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12143773]

>post work on /lit/
>get ONE reply, which is just an insult towards me and not my work
Guess Ill go back to lurking

[Anonymous No.12143786]

>>12143773
sorry dude
only shit threads are popular now

[Anonymous No.12143789]

I remember that teenager musician Lorde posted her 650,000,000 Youtube views hit single on /mu/ before she was famous and it got 2 replies of people saying "meh not very good" and then 404'ed

You realize the people who respond to critique threads are some of the most pathetic fucks on the board? They're the "I'm gonna be a writer some day!!" types who write modernist pastiche shit with fifty thousand semicolons everywhere and think "literary writing" = "Her auburn hair tresseled plamgloriously down her sunset dewy locks and the auburn rays of the twilit sun emburgened from a nearby open fane."

[Anonymous No.12143810]

take that as a compliment, because your writing is passable other anons pass over it. I've posted my poetry in the critique threads and besides one compliment I have received nothing.

[Anonymous No.12143828]

>>12143789
laffin real hard @ this post

[Anonymous No.12143844]

>>12143786
>>12143789
>>12143810
Well that's sad. How do we improve the board then?
Why the hell would anyone waste time shitposting on /lit/, when you have other boards more suited for that kind of behaviour?
I thought /lit/ was a serious board.

[Anonymous No.12143851]

>>12143844
The point of /lit/ is to shit post about literature. Sometimes to find good recommendations. If you want to have actual decent conversations about books, real life is the way to go

[Anonymous No.12143864]

>>12143844
I feel the same. Despite what some anons say, /lit/ wasn't always a cesspit. But /pol/ has infected our board, and casual visitors from /mu/ come for memes and shitposts. Unfortunately very few discussions seem to stick around.

Try getting involved with some other online writing communities, anon. There's plenty via blogs, social media groups, other websites, etc. You're better asking for feedback in other places than 4chan where most people are contrarians and edgy.

[Anonymous No.12143865]

>>12143844
It was around 2014/5 very based and literati and tirned to shit afterward. It's actually beginning to be not shit again ironically thanks to a huge surge in liberals or redditors who have moved on from reddit coming here, ive had legit good convos with people who know literature and read canon and deep canon literature on their spare time who come here to discuss for the fun of it lately, bjt teah its still pretty shit atm. Getting better tho

[Anonymous No.12143878]

>>12143844
>How do we improve the board then?
>Why the hell would anyone waste time shitposting on /lit/
>I thought /lit/ was a serious board
Any sort of genuine, serious discussion about anything on 4channel.org was hobbled when 'meme culture' became popular, paralyzed in a stroke when /v/ started bitching about SJWs in gaymen, and was shot and killed /pol/ who thought advertising Trump on reddit was a good idea

[Anonymous No.12143881]

>>12143844
the only way you'd post your work here is not to get "feedback" but if you wish to be flogged. and if you have a low enough opinion of yourself to actively seek unhelpful negative criticism to fuel your self loathing, well that's a hole that someday you won't be able to dig yourself out of.

[Anonymous No.12143929]

there are specific feedback threads that offer advice but you should take everything with a grain of salt because everyone is overly critical here. not everything has to be James Joyce to be good and not everything has to be high brow literature to be successful. the thing that i've learned about lit is that it's pretty much all shitposting and shouldn't be taken seriously except for specific threads that are basically generals

[Anonymous No.12143945]

>>12143929
it's not even really that they're overly critical, it's that being critical is itself a convenient form of posturing for people who don't know anything but want to feel cool for a minute

crit threads are one big LARPing opportunity for people to go
>Hmm, ah, ahh yes, quite nice allusions.. Not enough z's. Put more z's in it. Hmm, ah, mhrm, I was rather amused by the third line, but.. add a z to the second line. That's a good lad.

it's nonsense, it's people acting like what they think a wise critical person who knows stuff would act like. what the fuck would /lit/ know about good writing?

[Anonymous No.12143963]

>>12143851
>If you want to have actual decent conversations about books, real life is the way to go
>tfw italian

[Anonymous No.12144022]

>>12143789
>come to a board chock full of high iq autists
>post patrician shit-pop and expect rave reviews
Lorde will always suck cock to anyone with a music iq > 100. Catering to the mean is why everything sucks. This is reality.