/lit/ - Literature

>>23192721
>>23192736
My god…. I wish I could be this based

>>21902717

>>21688028
Modern works
>you WILL not end your sentence with a preposition
>you WILL not split the infinitive
>you WILL never use a semicolon
>you WILL start a chapter on the next page
>you WILL use adverbs sparingly
>you WILL use speaker tags
>languishes in dollar store bargain bins.
classics of the past
>Completely nonsensical chapter organization (If it even has chapters at all)
>endless run-on sentences with hundreds of commas
>semicolons and em-dashes sprinkled seemingly at random
>will start a new chapter at the bottom of an already full page, text starts next page
>Doesn't bother to include a glossary or index, figure out who's speaking yourself
>Footnotes and margin notes of ideas he was too lazy to fit into the body of text
>Dialogue goes on for pages and pages and looks like an answering machine transcript from the early 2000s.
>Millions sold, entire departments in university dedicated to study of the text, a classic,