/lit/ - Literature

Good luck!
You should get most of it with the capital, everything else is just personal opinions that don't matter as much and are only relevant in an era of gossip.

Get something easy to start that tries to be a bit deeper, Dune for example. And as soon as you finish start something different. Once you create habit the amount of stff you get from reading will make games feel like autistically hitting your head against a wall.
But also this >>12274844

>>12272224
That might have been a niche reference.
Hellraiser 5 to 8 were really generic movies that feel like a mix of everything that was in vogue at the time. They were made as independent movies and forced into the franchise with a twist ending, usually reveling that the main character was responsible or the victim.

>>12272241
that's not a point tho
it should show your personal feelings on a very specific thing that only has that level of specificity for you.
why are they flawed? how did you come to have that feeling? who are you thinking of when you think of a hero?
For example, it could be about your relationship with your father, basing the MC on him, and how you came to see him as a flawed person, the crime he won't admit to being a metaphor of that moment and giving some depth to why and how he kept going pretending it didn't happen. That's what gives weight to a twist, a meaning tied to what you were writing all along.

When I think of super basic genre stuff I think of DBZ. The very first arc made the whole show, and it had a ton of weight while still being all about punching the other dude. The thing is that the balance of power kept shifting, even little kids were aware of what they were feeling and how it was a result of the same things that got them there in the first place, no resource was wasted and every dumb character that wasn't the main guy made a difference in a way that forced you to keep track not only of who were the players but how and why they were doing the punching. It didn't need stakes, it was entertaining in itself because it had particular meaning.
That's depth in genre fiction, going through the paces of the classic plot but making every action part of it. And writing a good detective novel is just as hard as writing 30 episodes of two dudes punching each other for earth or whatever.

>>12272290
I love 1, I adore 2, I've seen every other one as masochism.