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Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:12:44 2012 No.2431621 [Reply] [Original]

>Try to write serious, gritty story
>someone reads it
>"i love your sense of humor!"

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:38:48 2012 No.2431676 Women cant write for shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 16:27:46 2012 No.2432014 it happens. if you're naturally funny/sardonic it can seep into your writing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 16:29:05 2012 No.2432017 No Country for Old Men by the Coens (I don't know how the book is) Accept the humor, use it to make it gritty. It's not dark humor, it's something else, but use it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 16:35:03 2012 No.2432027 Sometimes people who are faced with serious things they can't comprehend perceive it as humor. Or they don't know how else to react so they go with the least threatening thing, turn it into funny.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 16:38:04 2012 No.2432029 File: 40 KB, 560x375, davidfosterwallace.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I was watching an interview with Davy W and he pointed out that a writer really has limited control over what parts of the work the reader praises him for.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 16:41:03 2012 No.2432038 >>2432029 Interesting. Compare that with Harold Bloom's quote "Infinite Jest is just awful. I shouldn't have to say it. He can't think. He can't write." Did DFW know in advance that he would be a shitty writer?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 16:44:04 2012 No.2432044 >>2432038 Harold Bloom is a fat damaged girl.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 16:50:03 2012 No.2432054 >>2432044 > harold bloom > girl Who's the one that killed himself, again? riiiiiiight

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 16:51:03 2012 No.2432056 >>2432027 Serious things can funny if you can take a step back and observe the ridiculousness of the state of affair. OP needs to make a reader engage with the work.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 16:55:04 2012 No.2432061 File: 234 KB, 430x533, haroldbloom_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2432054 Harold Bloom is an stoic uber-mensch.