/lit/ - Literature

Probably this year. Even though recent years it has faded a lot there was still that slight magical feeling about Christmas buried deep in me.

This year it just feels like any other day of the week except the food is a bit better and I get to give and receive a few gifts.

Unemployed.

Currently starting up a zine for local authors and poets. No point doing nothing, right?

I think memes are effective when they are a distinctive feature of a certain community. For example, /lit/ has Tao Lin, /tv/ is currently shouting FOR YOU and so forth. The problem emerges when it becomes too widespread and just becomes this bland template.

For example, what really irks me is when you see this mspaint comics which are just a series of reaction images in a certain situation. Trollface followed by sadfrog followed by whatever. They lose their meaning and just become some way to limit and streamline communication.

You have reached the point where companies sell t-shirts with memes on them and so forth. Just feel with a lot of memes we have reached a point of saturation and instead of people inventing new ones they just rehash the same thing over and over again.

>>3235720

The thing is that despite the content of those letters being nothing but filth you can clearly see how incredible his control of language is. His descriptions can hop from humourous to raunchy to beautiful despite their subject matter.

If anything, I think his fart letters prove why he is such a talented writer.

>>3235478

Stephen Fry's favourite book is Ulysses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL_rXp-T4tc

Have her followed around by a posse of young excitable women. Whenever someone says something to piss of the bitchy girl she snaps her fingers, says 'You did not just say that!' and the group of young women burst into applause and cheering.

>>3234383

Sheep.

I'd like to think that during the day they are quite obedient and hard-working, but at night they obey no one <s>But the rhythm</s>

>>3232567

That's a great idea. Going to go fish out my box of old Pokemon cards now.

>>3232551

No clue who he is and yes.

He did at one point but Saruman said it looked gay.

Being middle class

Often when you get into a new author you begin with their most famous work but I've been wondering whether one should.

Are there times when it is best to approach an author from one of their lesser known works? Obvious example is Joyce.

>>3231807

I think that is why I actually liked that book. Sorry if I am a little unclear but I feel that he is able to come up with tons of interesting ideas but generally has a weak grasp of narrative. By narrative I mean the ability to weave the characters, themes, events and ideas together into an emotionally fulfilling story. Without that the books feel quite hollow. With Mother Night, however, he has the interesting ideas but is able to create a tragic narrative to support them.

So that's what a story written by a /b/tard looks like

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It's fake.

I have a problem with Vonnegut in general.

He is able to write about really interesting ideas, nice turns of phrases and with a good sense of humour but his books are unsatisfying. I enjoy them while I read them but they feel like snack books - enjoyable while I read them but quick and can throw them away.

The only book of his which stuck with me was Mother Night

There's nothing there to say it's /lit/. It's such a small board that is overlooked I can't imagine him receiving so many complaints from us in particular.

Yeah but so do lots of authors. Not exactly uncommon to see writers who can go pages without a paragraph break.

>>3231677

Yeah, I can't deny The Shire is idealistic. But I feel The Shire wasn't intentionally written to be a model for the ideal society (though the Scouring was probably an allegory of how society should not be run) but is just Tolkien expressing his own, romantic ideals. He was probably well aware of his own romanticism towards it.

Write whatever feels most comfortable for you.

>>3227590

In the same way I am tone deaf: I can tell whenever others are singing badly and failing to hit notes. But I have no clue whether my own singing is in tune or not.

>>3227578

No, I agree he is saying that too but that is the second part of the strip. I'm referring more to the second panel which I believe is saying (or at least, what I believe writer's block to be) is a way of falsely externalising one's lack of creative progress in order to avoid guilt or dissatisfaction. As you said, it creates this imaginary external 'boogeyman' that can seemingly strike everyone and is in no way connected to the author's creative ability or imagination.

In reality, the person is just struggling for ideas or lacks imagination or something else. But that requires the individual to admit the problem lies with them while claiming 'writer's block' is a way of making the problem separate to them and therefore you don't have to worry about not working hard enough or lacking imagination.

But I know mine is.

And when it's not shit, it is even worse...it is just mediocre.