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ITT: how to tell if a writer is bad

They quote themselves in their own book.

>> No.8378367
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8378367

>protagonist is a young hip writer who's misunderstood by society

bonus points if they have the same drug problems as the author did

>> No.8378370

Retarded frogposter.

>> No.8378371

>They're not published
>Nobody reads their work
>They can't make a living from their writing

>> No.8378384

>>8378371
Kek

>> No.8378394

They insert a lot of pretentious words to sound cultured and sophisticated.

>> No.8378444

Distorting facts to fit their view and book subject in their favour.

>> No.8378483

>>8378356
>>8375747

>> No.8379517

nabokov does this

go fuck yourself frogman!!

>> No.8379810

borges does this

>> No.8379908

when a male author writes a female protagonist

it's gender appropriation, and thus sexism

>> No.8379919

>>8379908
WHEW!! someone's just started skirting 'round corners, burlap-sacked & knife-at-the-read, twin holes where a head would be, a big juicy question mark? hanging heavy and sweating up above.

keep it on keep it up

>> No.8379947

>>8379919
i don't understand this post, and i won't respond to it.

>> No.8380921

Nietzsche??????

>> No.8380924

If they wrote a YA novel.

>> No.8381009

their name is john green

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>>8379908
What if it's that they wish they were born as a qt grill?

>> No.8381043

>>8379919
LMAO

>> No.8381105

>>8379908
Oedipa Maas tho innit bruv

>> No.8381109

>>8378394
pretentious and sophisticated are pretentious words to sound cultured and sophisticated.

>> No.8381154
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8381154

Mentioning math or science of any kind.

>> No.8381155

itt: you idiots managed to to rule out every relevant author

>> No.8381193

>>8381155
Oh yeah, that's a good one.

>being a relevant author

>> No.8381528

>>8381017
what's the story on this pic? i love it

>> No.8381557

>>8381154
hey, come here for a second anon, i swear i won't Pynch you

>> No.8381561

>>8381193
No m8, you're doing it wrong:
>being an author

>> No.8381702

>>8378367

Who the hell writes that?

>> No.8381969

>>8381702
Steven King

>> No.8381994

>>8381702
le umberto eco

>> No.8382003

>>8381969
King does, in like half of his books. Most blatantly was the shitshow the penultimate arc of The Dark Tower miscarriage.

>> No.8382188

>>8381969
>>8382003
>>8381994


Heh, never was much of a King fan, but now that you mention it.

Don't recognise it in eco, tho.

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>>8378356
What about quoting your pseudonym?
That doesn't count, r-right?

Asking for a friend.

>> No.8382326

>>8381702
Tao Lin

>> No.8382675

>>8381702
DFW, Malcolm Lowry, the most boring postmodernist and modernist respectively

>> No.8382993

>>8380924
For you Americans, yes.