/lit/ - Literature

What is important? The storyteller's voice should be like a well played fiddle, stringing together high notes and low notes, counter-points, crescendos, fortissimos, pianissimos, and silence. To be understood means two things: to have explained well how each instrument of your story moves as time goes on, and to have made clear to the reader that one of those instruments is his heart. What makes a piece enjoyable? That which I have stated above, and invention. To invent is the soul of wit; it means to take a thing and turn it ever so slightly to make it interesting again, to uncover a new meaning, a new way through the woods.