/lit/ - Literature

>>13423554
>i can't focus on reading, because my mind is too distracted by bullshit.

>accidentally attached my grossly graphic buttraep fanfic to e-mail I sent my agent
>wifi went bonkers immediately after so I couldn't even beg forgiveness and send the correct file until the next day
NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN, NOBODY KNOWS MY SORROW

>mc and female sidekick never even share a kiss although half of their interaction has sexual tension thick as week old stew
>mc and literally first non blood related female he meets fuck like barn animals the exact moment they're alone for three and a half minutes
two sides of the same coin, both horrible

>>12066197
I kekd so hard I peed a little

>>12066270
>Is it true that you can make a decent chunk of change writing smut?
definitely. you will NOT become rich off of it, but it's comfy disposable income if you got your target audience and smut subgenre
>I've written my share of sexy time greentexts before, and the standards are not much higher for this drivel
lol. yeah imagine the worst purple prose you ever read, but with sexual euphemisms of the cringiest sort
>But the difference is like the difference between the imagery in porn and the imagery of sex in a film. In the first case it's meant to be arousing, in the other case it's meant to advance to plot by showing that these two people fuck.
>You just can't write it like it's porny. You need to write it as matter of factly.
that's not what I struggle with per se, I know the difference but just lack practice for the latter, and I don't know how long it should be. either the reader will think I was forced to either shoehorn it in or cut down a longer draft, or that I put some author insert fap fantasy right before their innocent eyes. both is entirely untrue

>>12013504
>Lost In The Funhouse
based

>>12013595
both. some perfectionism is warranted, but by the general tone of your post I'll go ahead and assume you're too far into the deep end of it already. let it be for a month or two, focus on writing entirely unrelated shite just to clear your mind, then come back to it with a rational, fresh eye and read it only once, making a pro/con list as you go. flesh out the pros, amend the cons, then start writing off that rough draft.
I mutilated my 631 page magnum opus into an unrecognizable mess and finally deleted it because I couldn't stop overthinking. don't follow in my footsteps.

>>11076470
That's false. These works help us understand ourselves and each other. If we consume it in a vacuum, and do not synthesize the content through discussion and debate, then we only serve to read something and learn nothing.

>>10941786
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/towering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Parnassus
There, was that so hard? Now, please kill yourself OP.

“What will you see when you're dead?”

I know what they say about starting a novel with a line of dialogue. But I get the benefit of it for using first person point of view.