/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13854682]

How’s your novel coming along?

[Anonymous No.13854744]

Eh, hard to write with all these feelings of inadequacy. Deep down I'm a psued, but I dont like to admit it.

[Anonymous No.13854746]

>>13854682
Has anyone under 25 written anything worthwhile?

[Anonymous No.13854757]

>>13854746
Fuck no that will never happen

[Anonymous No.13854768]

>>13854746
Writing takes seriousness and that’s something I know underdeveloped brains can’t handle, even a 25 year old, fuck joke of a writer, unless you’re highly intelligent

[Anonymous No.13854774]

>>13854682
This is too funny

[Anonymous No.13854782]

>>13854746
Rimbaud
Goethe was barely 25 when he wrote Sorrows
Lermontov wrote hero of our times from 24-26

[Anonymous No.13854789]

>>13854746
joyce, o'connor, dickinson, in short: yes.

[Anonymous No.13854798]

>>13854782
SHUT UPPPPP

[Anonymous No.13854998]

Why do people only reply to the pic in the op not the op itself? I guess /lit/ really can't read.

[Anonymous No.13855010]

>>13854682
Kinda based

[Anonymous No.13855050]

>>13854774
*le sigh*

[Anonymous No.13855058]

>>13854682
This is plain and simple harassment of a protected author. You incels will rue this day.

[Anonymous No.13855060]

>>13854682
I didn't think rebbit could be based but this is next fucking level

[Anonymous No.13855067]

>>13854682
I took heavy inspiration from one of my favorite novels for the opening (literally copied and pasted then changed characters, locations, etc) and now I'm in the process of converting that prose into poetic form.

[Anonymous No.13855070]

>>13854774
Honestly why do they care?

[Anonymous No.13855074]

>>13854782
Werther is pretty infantile and you know it

[Anonymous No.13855095]

>>13855074
It's still a fine read. Obviously Faust is better, but I like Werther better than Elective Affinities

[Anonymous No.13855096]

masterful

[Anonymous No.13855099]

>>13854746
Keats died at 25.

[Anonymous No.13855108]

>>13854746
Mishima was 23 or 24 when Confessions of a Mask was published.

[Anonymous No.13855112]

>>13854682
Why is she showing off her feet when they are so ugly?

[Anonymous No.13855135]

>>13854782
I don't know who Rimbaud and Lermontov are but Goethe had like a 200 IQ and can barely be described as an usual writer.

[Anonymous No.13855146]

>>13854782
>Goethe was barely 25 when he wrote Sorrows
>Lermontov wrote hero of our times from 24-26

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.13855150]

Lowest average I've ever seen on Goodreads. It's a nice cover though and I like the title.
As for my novel, I have a bunch of chunks written but can't connect them, and I worry that it's so bad that it's completely unsalvageable, like even a complete rewrite wouldn't save it, it just needs to be thrown into a dumpster fire.
>inb4 charge your phone

[Anonymous No.13855154]

>>13855135
>I don't know who Rimbaud and Lermontov are

[Anonymous No.13855165]

>>13855135
why are you here

[Anonymous No.13855169]

>>13855165
I'm a STEMfag and want to balance my interests

[Anonymous No.13855181]

>>13855169
It shouldn’t be difficult for your, drive that motor ran autism to drive culture into your brain
VROOOM VRRROOOM

[Anonymous No.13855182]

>>13855135
>I don't know who Rimbaud and Lermontov are
Well, you certainly don't have a Goethe-level IQ, I can tell you that much.

[Anonymous No.13855216]

>>13854682
So far I'm one year into worldbuilding and writing up the manuscript. Coming along nicely.

[Anonymous No.13855233]

>>13854682
first one is finished, second one hasn't made any significant progress in months. I've been so stressed about it that I've actually begun to lose interest in writing

[Anonymous No.13855258]

>>13854746
No. But it's not 25, it's 30. There has never been a top book written by someone under 30, just a few okay ones.

[Anonymous No.13855259]

>>13855135
>I don't know who Rimbaud and Lermontov are
based
>>13855154
>>13855165
>>13855182
cringe

[Anonymous No.13855285]

>>13855096
This reads so horribly, where is the flow?

[Anonymous No.13855291]

>>13855285
She started the novel when she was 16. Instead of doing the rational thing and throwing that trash out, she self-published. It reads like a 16 year old's scribbles because it is.

[Anonymous No.13855292]

How do I into "scene composition" bros?
Like I have a list of events that happen in the novel and a list of character traits for each character but I can't seem to put these together into a scene unless I'm straight up copying from some source.

[Anonymous No.13855293]

>>13855258
Plenty of poetry collections though...

[Anonymous No.13855306]

>>13855291
>Novel when 16
Writing words on a paper doesn’t count as a novel
You mean autistic ramblings her boomer parents would cheer her on for writing

[Anonymous No.13855309]

>>13855293
Poetry is the most juvenile of the written arts so it's the opposite. The older you get the more you feel like a fag for writing poetry.

[Anonymous No.13855319]

>>13855309
>Poetry is the most juvenile of the written arts so it's the opposite.
Waiting for source on this one...

[Anonymous No.13855324]

>>13855070
She lied.

[Anonymous No.13855351]

>>13855319
Cite this: no one will ever read your poetry.

[Anonymous No.13855358]

>>13855351
Yet Joyce is about ten times as juvenile as a Celan or Kirsch.

ps : I don’t write it, keep hierarchizing your own tastes though lel

[Anonymous No.13855387]

>>13855351
B R U T A L
rekt and kek'd
Finally some good bantz on /lit/

[Anonymous No.13855392]

>>13854746
Poetry? Yes. Prose? No

[Anonymous No.13856159]

>>13854746
DFW was 24 when Broom of the System was published
>Marek Hlasko was 23 when Eighth Day of the Week was published
>F.S. Fitzgerald was 23 when This Side of Paradise was published
>Carson McCullers was 23 when The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published
>Tao Lin was 24 when EEEEE EEE EEEE & Bed were published
>Italo Calvino was 23 when The Path to the Nest of the Spiders was published
>Kerouac was 20 when The Sea is My Brother was published
>Goethe was 25 when The Sorrows of Young Werther was published
>Musil was 25 when The Confusions of Young Torless was published
>Hemingway was 25 when In Our Time was published
>Tatsuhiko Takimoto was 24 when Welcome to the NHK was published
>Ryu Murakami was 24 when Almost Transparent Blue was published
>Garcia Marquez was 20 when Eyes of a Blue Dog was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Napoleon III as a President" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Fate and History" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when Free Will and Fate was published
>Nietzsche was 19 when "Can the Envious Ever Truly Be Happy?" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "On Tendencies" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "My Life" was published
>Saramago was 25 years old when Land of Sun was published
>Dickens was 24 when Sketches by Boz was published
>Dickens was 25 when The Pickwick Papers was published
>Huxley was 25 when Limbo was published
>James Joyce was 25 when Chamber Music was published
>Proust was 25 when Pleasures and Days was published
>Mishima was 23 when Confessions of a Mask was published
>Bret Easton Ellis was 21 when Less Than Zero was published
>Kenzaburō Ōe was 23 when Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was published
>Emile Zola was 24 when Contes à Ninon was published
>Balzac was 20 when Cromwell was published
>Baudelaire was 24 when Salon of 1845 was published
>Hitomi Kanehara was 20 when Snakes and Earrings was published
>Stig Dagerman was 23 when Ormen was published
>Strindberg was 22 when The Outlaw was published
>Ibsen was 22 when Catiline was published
>Milan Kundera was 24 when Man: A Wide Garden was published
>Adam Thirwell was 24 when Politics was published
>Ned Beaumann was 25 when Boxer, Beetle was published
>Norman Mailer was 25 when The Naked and the Dead was published
>Eleanor Catton was 22 when The Rehearsal was published
>Robert Walser was 23 when Schneewittchen was published
>Noah Cicero was 23 when The Human War was published
>Jorge Luis Borges was 24 when Fervor de Buenos Aires was published
>Tolstoy was 24 when Childhood was published
>Johan Harstad was 23 when Amublance was published
>Kim Insuk was 20 when Bloodline was published
>Evelyn Waugh was 25 when Decline and Fall was published

[Anonymous No.13856184]

>>13856159
All of which are their worst or lower-tier work or cringe.

Writers can't produce truly good and lasting work until they're in their early 30s and almost always decline after 40.

That's just the way it is.

[Anonymous No.13856218]

How can you create when all you do is hate everything you create? How do you stop hating yourself long enough to write? Normally I just drink, but been too depressed to drink lately.

[Anonymous No.13856230]

>>13856184
Maybe but it's more important that they got into the work, and got a project under their belt.

NaNoWriMo is nearing, twenty-somethings...

[Anonymous No.13856675]

>>13856159
This list is everything but intimidating. We’re gonna make it bros.

[Anonymous No.13856755]

>>13854682
Dumb cunt is now probably getting dicked by some old fat man thrice her age in hopes he will publish her next drivel

[Anonymous No.13856912]

>>13854782
Tbh Rimbaud is actually the only person I can think of who achieved anything as a teenager. Even Alexander the Great was 20 by the time he became king.

[Anonymous No.13856933]

>>13855096
It's not that bad for YA honestly.

[Anonymous No.13856939]

Pretty amateurish it's difficult just to sit down and write for hours on end

[Anonymous No.13856996]

>>13856218
You write somehing fun and simple to remind yourself why you loved writing

[Anonymous No.13857092]

>>13856939
I wouldn't try to. Write for however long you're comfortable with and able to. Don't push yourself or it'll show in your writing. Write, take a break, and get back to it again when you've recovered.

[Anonymous No.13857195]

I usually write LNs, although my artist has just charged herself out of my range, so I guess I'm going to be learning to art in the very near future, too.

On the third one atm. Nearly halfway through it. Need to have it ready by mid-November. The writing, I'm not too worried about. The artwork, I am.

[Anonymous No.13857203]

>>13855070
dumb roastie, "UmmmM?/???? :S Why judge anybody????"

because their behavior is shit, moron woman trying to paradoxically socially shame people into not judging eachother

[Anonymous No.13857340]

>>13854682
I want to write, but while I used to read quite a lot from elementary to highschool, my engineering degree sapped me of all will to read after being buried in mathematics and physics literature. As consequence, I feel I don't have a proper grasp on prose anymore. Where does one use ";"? How do you write dialogue? Do I put a dot at the end like
>"This is a line spoken by a character.".
Or is it
>"This is a line spoken by a character".
Or is it
>"This is a line spoken by a character."
I can get an answer to these specific questions rather easily of course, but I'm just exemplifying my issues. I've been trying to get back into reading but other bullshit always ends up in the way so progress is slow.

[Anonymous No.13857381]

>>13856159
>Ballsack
xD

[Anonymous No.13857403]

>>13856159
>>Nietzsche was 18 when "Napoleon III as a President" was published
>>Nietzsche was 18 when "Fate and History" was published
>>Nietzsche was 18 when Free Will and Fate was published
>>Nietzsche was 19 when "Can the Envious Ever Truly Be Happy?" was published
What the fuck?

[Anonymous No.13857427]

>>13857403
Yeah, he was thinking about writing about those topics his whole life, but nobody cares about those texts. Think of them as AP english essays

[Anonymous No.13857444]

>>13856159
Where is thomas mann?

[Anonymous No.13857478]

>>13857340

Rip the bandage off. Study composition and grammar.

[Anonymous No.13857530]

>>13854682
Swirling around in my head.
I should really figure out a good way to start it, or do something else. Anything other than spinning my wheels for years.

[Anonymous No.13857603]

>>13857195
It'd be easier to find a new artist than to teach yourself to do art.

[Anonymous No.13858002]

>>13857603
I can kinda draw anyway, just the digital side of things isn't great. And I'd have liked to have kept the same artist throughout. They're not terribly important - I do them up as Christmas gifts - but I'd have liked them to look the same so if I do decide to try self-publishing or anything, I have them looking the same.