/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1838072]

>>mfw summerfags have turned /lit/ into creative writing 101

[Anonymous No.1838078]

Creative writing is influenced by literature.

[Anonymous No.1838076]

it's so annoying
this is /lit/ - Literature
your creative writing IS NOT LITERATURE

[Anonymous No.1838098]

Awfully broad definition of "creative" writing.
Pic related Southern "literature"

[Anonymous No.1838117]

Not really summerfags doing this, it's a constant on this board. If you've been here for more than a couple of weeks you should know that. You've no right to criticize them anyway when you're posting meta threads. /lit/ has always been a melting pot of anything even slightly related to language, as well as some completely arbitrary topics. You just need to chill and get used to it.

[Anonymous No.1838119]

>>1838098
Aw no you didn't. Faulkner is southern literature. That is redneck literature and there are shit-tons of rednecks in the midwest, the west and even the NE. So break yourself.

[Anonymous No.1838120]

>mfw summerfags don't know /lit/ has always been like this
>mfw no face

[Anonymous No.1838122]

>>1838117

summerfag detected

[Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 No.1838126]

>>1838072

Creative writing is a super element of this board. I will continue to support and be positive about anyones attempt to write something.

[Anonymous No.1838128]

Creative writing thread, just to spite OP.

[Anonymous No.1838144]

>>1838126
Stradlater for president.

[Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 No.1838148]

>>1838144

Oh you!

By the way, you better be joining the Infinite Jest reading group.

http://litinfinitejest.org/

Everyone should.

[Anonymous No.1838163]

>mfw I have to come up with an essay for my english class but am terrible at writing essays

[Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 No.1838176]

>>1838163

>mfw I will try to help you!

[Anonymous No.1838180]

>>1838163
an essay about what?

[Anonymous No.1838192]

>>1838176
I have to compare the best example in Brent Staples’s essay, “Just Walk on By,” to the best example in "High School Confidential." discuss these in terms of the narrators' personas and credibility, and their use of language and tone.

But i'm not clear on exactly what to write about. The essay "Walk on by" is about racism and stereotyping while the highschool one is about censorship and first amendment rights so I don't quite grasp on what to compare between the two since they're so different.

Unless i'm over thinking it and am being retarded.

[Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 No.1838210]

>>1838192

Oh alright. I thought you were kidding. Make a thread about it. Ill try to find the essay..

[Anonymous No.1838272]

OP here

I know creative writing has always been part of /lit/, but recently I've noticed an influx of them. All I ask is that all these prospective artists take a writing course or two before they decide to write their own opus.

[Anonymous No.1838275]

>>1838272
>click all the way through page 15
>no thread for people to post their story ideas
>still cant find evidence of summer on /lit/

[Anonymous No.1838276]

>mfw you are too much of a manchild to hide threads and would rather create a meta thread to bitch and moan

Fuck off.

[Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 No.1838277]

>>1838272

I have never taken a formal writing class. I went to university and write essays and made speeches and banged my shoe against podiums. There are some intelligent people on /lit/ who are usually forthcoming when it comes to basic advice.

[Anonymous No.1838292]

>>1838277

Tell me more about this shoe banging.

[Anonymous No.1838305]

never change /lit/

...atleast not for the next 3 months

[Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 No.1838308]

>>1838292

When caught in a point so fervently you take off your shoe and bang it against the podium in a fit of passion. Just make sure it is your best argument. It can either be an iconic scene or a scene of jest.

[Anonymous No.1838354]

>my invisible face when it's ten times better than the trip-trolling-trap that used to be /lit/ prior to summer
Embrace the fl0w...