/lit/ - Literature

How much flak would you get for writing a book without a single woman in it? Like the book takes place on a ship or whatever and not a single character is female (and none of the male characters are gay so there just isn't any romance at all)?

>>18484254
How many years do you think it's gonna take before English becomes almost incomprehensible compared to our current English?

Books about Seamen that aren't Moby Dick

>>16597767
>Finally get around to read Dune Messiah
>First few chapters involve wondering how a fish man has sex and a Bene Gesserit plot to get Paul to sleep with his sister
I was told the series gets weirder as it goes on but hot damn we went from politics to borderline erotica real fast.

>>15753598
>>15761050
This, nothing wrong with world building but just remember that most the shit you came up with isn't going to come up in the book at all without it feeling like some sort of bizarre fan wiki.

>hear ringing in my headphones
>"damn, they're breaking..."
>take them off, but the ringing doesn't stop

>>12929097
Their brains don't work like a normal person's does, in their own mind they think people will read their shit and think "wtf I hate Lovecraft now!" instead of just "wow, this is shit"

>>12866709
>tfw Sabriel feels less like a YA series than most non-YA fantasy books that come out these days

>>10351448
>Schools and colleges are going to use this version until people no longer know that unpozzed translations exist.

>>7928409
>They collapse, and they go without killing the majority of people within a country.
>>7928430
>Freedom is a cancer on civilization.
Am I being trolled?

>>5425579
are you shitting me
[s4s] loves this kind of thing
this is the board that makes their own fucking endless newspaper articles
advertise it there you negroid