/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16864016]

If I make my own website to post my webnovels, will /lit/ read it?

[Anonymous No.16864023]

>>16864016
No

[Anonymous No.16864031]

>>16864016
Maybe the first couple of chapters, but you probably won't get much readership from here. Many of us are putting off reading novels and great works from authors much better than you

[Anonymous No.16864058]

>>16864016
What will they be about?

[Anonymous No.16864074]

>>16864058
fantasy stuff.

I want to make a novel that is basically terminator meets inception meets your name.

[Anonymous No.16864094]

>>16864074
Idk if I can take reading anything designed to make my paranoia worse

[Anonymous No.16864146]

>>16864016
No but i will pretend to read it and give you kind words to encourage you.

[Anonymous No.16864738]

>>16864146
based enabler

[Anonymous No.16864756]

>>16864016
Maybe, but only to laugh at you, I suppose.

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYYIIins No.16864795]

>>16864016


IF YOU WRITE FOR OTHERS, IF YOU PUBLISH FOR THE PUBLIC, YOU HAVE ALREADY FAILED.

YOUR PURPOSE AS A POETICAL AUTHOR —ID EST: A CREATOR OF ART— SHOULD BE TO REIFY, AND COMMUNICATE, A CONCEPT, OR SET OF CONCEPTS, IN THE FORM OF AN ARTIFACT, BECAUSE THE ART OBJECT IS AN END IN ITSELF; THE POETICAL AUTHOR'S PURPOSE IS NOT TO APPEAL TO THE VVLGVS.

[Anonymous No.16865092]

>>16864795
stupid tripfag
if you're not writing for others, there's no need in writing
the value of the book is in the eyes of the reader
you need to convey you're idea

DIDN'T YOU WRITE THIS OBNOXIOUS POST IN CAPS, BIG SPACES AND A LITTLE ABSTRACT NAME ATTACHED TO IT, BECAUSE YOU WANT OTHERS TO GIVE ATTENTION TO IT - GIVE ATTENTION TO YOU. EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE A REAL IDEA TO CONVEY.

YOU DON'T JUST WRITE FOR OTHERS.
YOU LIVE FOR OTHERS.

[Anonymous No.16865254]

>>16865092
bAsEd

[Anonymous No.16865277]

>>16864016
I will read them, assuming you post it fairly soon. I promise.

[Anonymous No.16865313]

>>16865092
You’re retarded.

[Anonymous No.16865383]

>>16864795
Based Kevin

[Anonymous No.16866890]

>>16864016
>>16864074
I wasted too much of my life on fluff and filler.

I need manuals for saving myself and society.

[Anonymous No.16867127]

>>16866890
>I need manuals for saving myself and society.

find any?

[Anonymous No.16867137]

Dont website for that already exist?
Whats the advantage of creating your own?

[Anonymous No.16867186]

>>16864016
>>16864074
>If I make my own website to post my webnovels, will /lit/ read it?
Probably not outside of a few curious readers, but you definitely should still do it anyway. There's the off-chance it'll actually be interesting for others, and either way it's a creative outlet, that's good for you to do.

>>16864795
>IF YOU WRITE FOR OTHERS, IF YOU PUBLISH FOR THE PUBLIC, YOU HAVE ALREADY FAILED.
Lol I have no comment here. But one of the most interesting websites of personal writing I've come across was this website of some high school girl that wanted to "recreate Columbine" and had a personal website with diary entries, writing, art, etc. Not updated anymore since the Feds started looking for her and she killed herself, but when I was reading it, it definitely felt like she was writing "for an audience," at least some of the time, definitely.

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYYIIins No.16867238]

>>16867186
>... it definitely felt like she was writing "for an audience," at least some of the time, definitely.


YOU ARE CONFLATING THE ACCUSATIVE: «WRITING FOR», WITH THE DATIVE: «WRITING TO».

[Anonymous No.16867287]

>>16867238
I mean I don't think there should be any "rules" on who gets to write, or who they get to write for. Not a fan of popular young-adult stuff or JK Rowling or whatever but FWIW JK tried submitting her manuscript to dozens if not hundreds of publishers before she was successful, not sure what your point is.
>and many such cases!

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYYIIins No.16867340]

>>16867287
>Not a fan of popular young-adult stuff or JK Rowling or whatever but FWIW JK tried submitting her manuscript to dozens if not hundreds of publishers before she was successful...

AND?


>... not sure what your point is.

IRONICAL...

[Anonymous No.16867384]

>>16864795
>>16867340
>YOUR PURPOSE AS A POETICAL AUTHOR —ID EST: A CREATOR OF ART— SHOULD BE TO REIFY, AND COMMUNICATE, A CONCEPT, OR SET OF CONCEPTS, IN THE FORM OF AN ARTIFACT, BECAUSE THE ART OBJECT IS AN END IN ITSELF; THE POETICAL AUTHOR'S PURPOSE IS NOT TO APPEAL TO THE VVLGVS.
This is so vague and ambiguous, it's meaningless to me, but if you can help me understand it, I'm all ears. What's an author that embodies this ideal? I just mentioned a random author that's successful to illustrate a point that, yes, you too can write for an audience if you'd like -- I still don't really know what you're trying to say.

[Anonymous No.16867411]

whats a webnovel

[Anonymous No.16867537]

>>16864016
You're alive, probably born between the late 90s and the early 00s and from an english speaking country. Those are 3 red flags.

[Anonymous No.16867737]

>>16867537
>Western values, probably not in poverty, not incredibly young or old
>Trying to be an artist anyway
ishygddt

[Anonymous No.16869002]

>>16864016
>>16864074
Yes OP, you should, I'd give reading it a shot if you do make something. If you wanna see what's possible, one of my favorite works of writing is Jon Bois's 17776, a story of what football may look like deep into the future (it's pretty heavy on the multimedia, though):
https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

>>16867137
The internet is a great great tool to make stuff that goes further than what most social media has to offer, and if you make your own website, the possibilities are endless. I think HTML and CSS are art tools just by themselves - couple that with creative writing, you can do great stuff.

>>16867737
>Implying that certain people are exempt from feeling emotions and thus cannot be artists

[Yung Byr()n No.16869023]

>>16864795
You're high on your own farts, man. Please stop, it's unbecoming.

[Anonymous No.16869032]

>>16864016
does it have an RSS feed?

[Anonymous No.16869187]

>>16864016
Only if you read mine
phallusferrus.github.io/blog,html

[Anonymous No.16869209]

>>16864016
You will not scrape my IP. You will not botnet me. I will not be cyberraped.

[Anonymous No.16869220]

>>16864016
Just post it on AO3.

[Anonymous No.16869238]

>>16869209
lol you just gave me an idea for a new product -- if personal websites with original stories/comics/art/etc. become popular, I'd want a "read only" internet browsing device, one that don't store any personal info or allow it to be sent to websites. Kinda like e-readers that exist now, but not dependent on something like an Apple store or Amazon Marketplace or whatever

>>16869220
Never heard of this one before, but sounds cool

[Anonymous No.16870744]

>>16869002
>The internet is a great great tool to make stuff that goes further than what most social media has to offer, and if you make your own website, the possibilities are endless. I think HTML and CSS are art tools just by themselves - couple that with creative writing, you can do great stuff.

you talking about making a multi-media experience and really messing with formatting?

[Anonymous No.16870893]

>>16867411
A novel written by a spider

[Anonymous No.16870897]

>>16870744
A bit, I think any cohesive multimedia experience (even if it's really experimental) will start out with a written outline, if not an entire written story. I actually just googled some stuff and found this: "Hyperliterature" by James Yu, https://jamesyu.org/hyperliterature/
>The vast majority of fiction on the web is nonergodic: stories presented as linear text. Yet, in an age where everyone has a supercomputer in their pocket, literature can take on any shape imaginable. In recent years, some pieces have taken advantage of these capabilities—not as a gimmick, but in a way that is integral to the narrative.
>Let’s call this hyperliterature
>Imagine a love story told through interactive Gmail threads. Or a corporate heist as seen through the history of a Google Doc, where blinking cursors become characters and edits drive the plot. Or a tale where the main character goes mad, and the words themselves begin to seize control of the webpage as you scroll.
It's exactly what I was I thinking about, and I only really thought to search it because of your comment lol - some of them read more like short stories, some of them are much more experimental. There's also a list of different examples of it he's compiled there (he's got 17776 at the top too). Anyway, nothing against a conventional short story, just some content for possible inspiration.

[Anonymous No.16870902]

>>16866890
>I need manuals for saving myself and society.
A legitimate hyper-genius has killed people with bombs to get his one hundred percent correct manifesto published, and society has not budged a millimeter. It's over.
Even 'entertainment' as in lighter literature is over. You can't even get away with making decent schlock, you have to go for the dumbest brain-dead grand scale idiocy or you will be simply forgotten. Otherwise you won't be "discovered" in the future, because nobody will venture to search what's left of the infinite yet at the same time incredibly ephemeral digital dumpster that we'll be leaving behind.
Everything is so incredibly bleak. All that is left to look forward to is a dignified deathbed.

[Anonymous No.16870920]

if you let me post shit there too, sure

[Anonymous No.16870973]

>>16870893

[Anonymous No.16871199]

>>16870920
If you wanna just have a place to post stories anonymously, there's a few sites that exist already, like this one: https://txt.fyi/about/
Don't abuse it though since it's a free resource, and a really cool and open platform.