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Where does the future of literature lie in this digital age? How can the writers of the future best form and distribute their work to the current time?

>> No.15803113
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15803113

We have to slay a monster, anon.

>> No.15803149

>>15803113
Oh my god, woman, read another book.

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>>15803149
I am.

>> No.15803545

>>15803421
Read another type of book that doesn't just placate your own puddle deep beliefs.

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>>15803545
Also reading this

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And started on this one. Looks interesting if angsty

>> No.15803589

>>15803006
Hard to say. Self publishing seems like a way out but it's hard to get notice and build a readership since the barrier for entry is so low that the market is flooded. Blogs once seemed like a good digital equvilant of the essay but twitter killed it.

>> No.15803964

bump

>> No.15803974

>>15803006
Could we group up by authors and set up a patreon and have a book out once a week or so? I'm running ideas wat do you think?

>> No.15803991

>>15803974
Something along these lines. The curation factor is important. Can’t be done to any scale though without a team and a talented roster. Eliminate agents, houses, and big money but retain and cultivate real talent. Solve this problem, be hero.

>> No.15803997

>>15803974
There's the /lit/ quarterly, I suppose but it doesn't come out that often. Problem with these kind of things is nobody ever takes it seriously enough.

>> No.15804021

Posting ideas and system 1 thoughts on twitter, selling e-books to followers, blocking them if they get out of line in the replies, forcing them to post proof they bought the the e-book to get unblocked.

>> No.15804044

>>15803006
Its written in my diary desu...I'll bring it up, one sec.

>> No.15804138

>>15803006
Ideally self publishing will expand and writers won't rely on the circle jerk of agents, editors and publishers.

Once we have basic income some sort of (state) sponsored portal which pays reviewers to go through the sludge of self published shit sounds doable. Ideally new authors would also get a small budget for an editor, marketing and cover artist. If the more successful writers give a part of their profits to the portal, it might be able to finance itself over time. Without the publisher/agent middle man taking most of the profits, the writers might still end up with more.

Though the obvious downside is that even something like this feeds into the current trend of writers mainly being e-celebs who have to spam blogposts, insta, twitter, youtube and do silly skillshare courses to make a new for themselves.

Plus there is the downside of the market deciding on quality which isn't a step up from agents.

>> No.15804169

>>15803006
its probably the best time ever to be an author, you can easily self publish through amazon and market your shit for free using social media. I'm really curious to see how

>> No.15804173

>>15803991
>>15803997
If Wattpad operates like YouTube in that the ads generated from reading works can be paid based on subscribers and views that's another avenue especially if Wattpad published regularly books on there to make extra cash.

>> No.15804199

>>15804173
With this you could even rank up as a reviewer and high rank reviewer reads can give more revenue. It promotes a good chain between them

>> No.15804703

>>15803549
Is it good? Been looking at this

>> No.15805925

>>15804703
It is a mostly slow meandering piece with nice olde English prose. Seems like it’s just something he started writing with no clear ending at the start. It’s not a great piece, but I can see how Tolkien liked it.

>> No.15805954

>>15803006
Most will probably disagree with me but I have this feeling that capital L literature will go the way of the opera sooner or later; effectively a fossilized relic of the past not made anymore but enjoyed time and again. Could any of you imagine a book having the same effect that Werther did in Goethe's time, or an entire pan-continental movement being inspired by a singular author like it happened with Tolstoy in the past? The sun has set.

>> No.15806124

>>15805954
I think you're right and I think most people here will probably agree. The cultural landscape is so ill-fitted to traditional literary forms that I can see no way of literature ever regaining some form of cache, let alone supremacy.