/lit/ - Literature

>>9830668
>Does anyone have any writing hacks

>>9706947

>Anon, I'm a fat, incompetent fuck with no sense of direction. I need YOU to finish ASOIAF.

How does it end?

>your weight
>your length
>favourite book
>least favourite book

>and they all sang a song of ice and fire

wtf martin i hate u now

It seems like so much content in books is just meaningless conversation or action and about 60 percent is actually meaningful, is this just to extend pages?

>>9475363
how does he do it?

Has there ever been an author as slow and pathetic as this guy?

How you uh, how you comin' along with that novel you've been working on? Huh, George? Got a a big, uh, big stack of papers there? Got a--got a nice little story you're working on there? Your big novel you've been working on for 6 years? Huh? Got a, got a compelling protagonist? Yeah? Got an obstacle for him to overcome? Huh? Got a story brewing there, George? Working on--working on that for quite some time? Huh, George? Yeah, talking about that 6 years ago... Been working on that the whole time? Nice little narrative? Beginning, middle, and end? Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? At the end your main character is richer from the experience? Yeah? Yeah, George?

>So much to do. And the days go by so quickly. I love my work, all my work, all my projects, all my children, but sometimes it seems as if the harder I work, the further behind I get.

What a stupid fat fuck. Maybe if you didn't sell your soul to the Jews you wouldn't be a slave to contracts and you'd actually have time to finish your shitty books.

>>9212198
apologise right fucking now

>when a fantasy books spends more time explaining the magic system than the tax system

What was Aragorn’s tax policy?

And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?

What was Aragorn's tax policy?

Is this guy the most overrated author of all time?

>Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?

>The war that Tolkien wrote about was a war for the fate of civilization and the future of humanity, and that’s become the template. I’m not sure that it’s a good template, though. The Tolkien model led generations of fantasy writers to produce these endless series of dark lords and their evil minions who are all very ugly and wear black clothes. But the vast majority of wars throughout history are not like that.


How will he ever recover?

>worst/craziest/weirdest lines you come across in literature

"The ship groaned and growled beneath him like a constipated fat man straining to shit."

pic related

i wouldn't be surprised if he used his dick at this point, just held up the keyboard and literally fucked the words out to show us how little he cares

stark naked in a roomful of cash wearing nothing except a red lobster bib and that stupid little hat

if we desire twow we must all pay the martin price

What do you plebs use as a word processor ?

"The war that Tolkien wrote about was a war for the fate of civilization and the future of humanity, and that’s become the template. I’m not sure that it’s a good template, though. The Tolkien model led generations of fantasy writers to produce these endless series of dark lords and their evil minions who are all very ugly and wear black clothes. But the vast majority of wars throughout history are not like that."

Was he right /lit/?

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real … for a moment at least … that long magic moment before we wake.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to middle Earth.

Is he the best writer alive? I think so

I know Tolkien is considered the father of modern fantasy, and has been ripped off countless times by basically every modern fantasy author.

However, I think George R. R. Martin if the exception, having lifted virtually nothing from Tolkien's works, and actually being more creative than J. R. R. himself, as Tolkien drew largely from religion and myths, while George's stories are a lot more unique.