/lit/ - Literature

My favorite painting.

Preferably unsettling or dark.

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>Brothers Karamozov
>Blood Meridian
>The Best of HP Lovecraft
>Book of 5 Rings
>Generation Kill

>>10195191

Wanted to like East of Eden, but something felt so forced about it. I get that Steinbeck wasn't trying to be subtle with the Bible allusions, but it still didn't ring true. Still a good story overall, but certain elements brought it down. The uber-wise Chinaman was painfully a hamfisted character, and the autistically evil female character was likewise unbelievable. This book hasn't a patch on grapes of wrath

Tips for new writers?
I have an idea that I'd like to write, but I'm not sure how much of it I should outline or how I should go about it. It's kinda intimidating as hell.

Short story or novella
>Low fantasy world
>Rare docile creature wanders into town
>It carries a disease spread by touch that wipes the village out except for one man who unknowingly becomes a carrier of the disease
>He is driven mad, and brutally slaughters the animal
>As he wanders from village to village searching for more of the animals he spreads the disease.
>Group of men is dispatched to deal with him after they see the destruction he's left in his wake.
>They find him, and he attempts to fight them off at first
>He realizes what he's been doing in his quest for revenge, and is overcome with despair
>They execute him and set on their journey back.