/lit/ - Literature

>>18139196
yeah it explains that I'm an oldfag who hung out on /lit/ for years and I don't give a shit about your meme books or arguing about the meme philosopher of the month. Just stay here okay buddy? It's the smart board afterall ;)

Bringing out one of the ancients

>>17845149
What need I be so forward with Him that calls not on me? Well, ’tis no matter. Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honor prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honor set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honor hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honor? A word. What is in that word “honor”? What is that “honor”? Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore, I’ll none of it. Honor is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism.

>>17803854
Despite being somehow renowned by my high-school peers for writing fiction (???)*, I've never written anything creatively — nothing so long as a short-story, anyways. Eight years after, I begin having dreams that are dense with narrative: the kind that don't dissipate or curdle upon waking. I begin writing notes for "my novel," which I half-expect never to undertake. But I like writing the notes, even if I can see the firm stylistic thumbprint stamped by my favorite author.

A year later, a professor in my M.A. program offers us the choice to either write a standard research paper — so easily manufactured — or else to write a Platonic dialogue. I opt for the dialogue. No one else does. The professor is great, by far the best I've had at this school, so I don't fear being vulnerable before his critique. His critiques are (as yet) justly given and without both sugarcoating and unnecessary vitriol.

I can see weaknesses in my writing, but it's so fun to create a world and populate it with storied characters. It's fun to follow in the direction the writing takes you, and to be surprised by your own subconscious foreshadowing. I can readily notice the stylistic plagiarism I've committed, but it's fun to think of ways to strip the influences and unearth your own voice. More than anything, I think it's fun to be a vessel for a steady stream of ideas, past experiences proving their relevance in unexpected ways.

Turning it in by Friday, wish me luck!

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* [While I can't remember why my friends thought me such a good fiction writer, I used to be skilled at lying and self-promotion. My wife claims that my description of a sidewalk was one of the most potent images she's read, which is sad because (a) she's well read and has so many better references, but also (b) I don't remember writing it at all. I'm sure that I did; I just don't remember it.]

>>15767703
nigga

It's a terrific book when you are 15-18 and only just started to delve into actual literature. I think that impression stays with many people who jerk over the book excessively, or it's simply that they just read it for the first time.

It's a really good and accessible book, but like OP says it's nowhere near the top.

>>14934186

What is the Citizen Kane of literature? I'm a huge Orson Welles btw.

>>14134552
>I’m a huge Eugene O’Neill

What a coincidence, I'm a huge Orson Welles.

>PEROTY

>>13254176
>I'm a huge Thomas Augustine

Dracula. It was tedious and boring most of the time.

>>11939759
I think you meant to say:
>he sounds like *he has* a massive prick

>>11871552
>huge James Joyce

>>10742612
Pride isn't really the right word. After decades of experience, in places such as Oakland (the third highest crime rate in the US) and a little college town in TN (no crime at all, almost completely racially homogenuous) — I can tell you that civil everyday life is far easier to have near whites than near blacks. Greetings with kindness in them, meaningful conversations, and the readiness to help and love one's neighbor are just a few traits of (the majority of) people in the South.

I have no animosity towards blacks, just a ton of lived and hard-won knowledge. With this in mind, yes, I prefer white people when possible.

I can only write philosophical essays and shitty poems in blank verse. Who else /sidelined/?

>a large Walden
is this the heir to a huge Orson Welles?

>>10489319
If you go to the pastebin, there's a link to the discord for management.

>/lit/ memes
oh boy, I like these threads!

>>10365567
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
imagine being this much of a newfriend

>>10104369
good times

>goes to /lit/ once

>>9412249
>Huger Games
I'm a huge Orson Welles and I approve this message

I'm a huge Orson Welles