/lit/ - Literature

>>18537647
Everyone thinks of cool (pic) Kerouac and doesn't realize that barely coherent drunken midwittery was the logical outcome of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0KluIXx6fI

Seriously, at this point his (false) image is more meaningful than anything he and his pedo/drug-addicted friends wrote (excluding some Burroughs). Just do a google image search of "Jack Kerouac."

>>18113363

You don't need a hard life to be a talented writer.

>>17628803
Thinking

>writers who could beat up most people on /lit/

Based dream

I want to write an epic western set in the 1880-90s that deals with themes of inheritance both material and metaphysical wherein the protagonist and antagonist both have inherited sins from their families who were on opposite sides of brutal blood feuds during the bleeding Kansas. I was hoping to have the protagonist be the son of the family that fought for slavery but have him be a true hero who comes to reject parts of his father’s views without abandoning his family as it is their massacre he is set on avenging. He will at one point in the novel come to even come in contact with a community of former slaves and see and appreciate their inherent humanity.

The antagonist of the story will be the son of the family who were vehement abolitionists who in their apparent zeal for righteousness exterminated the protagonists whole family in an ambush near the southern Missouri/Kansas border. Conveniently after this slaughter it is the abolitionist family who ends up with the deeds to the slain family’s farm, thus representing the dual natures of inheritance. By the time our story takes several of the antagonist’s family members have died, some quite suspiciously, but some quite naturally to the point that he is the sole heir. However, he believes that his family is cursed or marked, and so has sold everything in Kansas (for a great sum) and moved to California where he runs a raucous saloon in a gold mining town near Yosemite Valley. He quickly earns a reputation as a violent and vile pimp and is perpetually drenched in whiskey and champing at a lit cigar and runs it alongside his sadistic mistress who is mostly responsible for keeping the whores in line.

He pays off the law who works for him and the gold company loves him because he keeps the miners poor, drunk, and sapped of ambition.

Our hero’s journey is his commitment to travel half the continent and exact his revenge but along the arduous journey (for he is poor and must slowly and painstaking make his way with odd jobs between stretches of travel marked by privation) he learns about community, platonic love, and his decision at the end to kill is one with great conflict and a heavy heart. And honestly even I as I’m writing am not sure if he will go through with it.

>>17294612
On the Road by Kerouac

>>17292403

>>17281258
there's something magical in his writing style. I find his work a rush to read.
>>17281319
ty. title is catchy :)
>>17281329
had no idea his daughter was a writer

Just read Kerouac's on the road original scroll and was floored, mostly a newcomer to lit recommend me books with that sort of quality/energy