>"I don't read fiction"

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Anonymous Sun Sep 7 14:52:38 2014 No.5401013 [DELETED]

>"I don't read fiction"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 14:55:56 2014 No.5401027 File: 39 KB, 250x156, 1401555638903s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I read fiction.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:00:33 2014 No.5401052 File: 17 KB, 262x225, 1395002295987.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"I don't like to read stories when I could be out making my own"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:03:54 2014 No.5401063 File: 24 KB, 479x720, 1408218368997.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I read true crime

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:04:48 2014 No.5401065 >"Reading fiction is good for you"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:05:41 2014 No.5401068 >>5401065 >nofunallowed.jpg

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:06:01 2014 No.5401070 File: 734 KB, 1500x1172, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5401065 >I

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:08:46 2014 No.5401077 File: 16 KB, 250x250, 1300044776986.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I publish traditionally

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:09:08 2014 No.5401079 >'I only read to expand my knowledge.'

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:10:24 2014 No.5401084 File: 7 KB, 230x180, 3f0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I don't have patience for books

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:13:34 2014 No.5401092 File: 91 KB, 530x275, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5401077 >I self-publish

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:14:38 2014 No.5401097 File: 47 KB, 460x276, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"I don't read for fun"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:18:14 2014 No.5401103 File: 9 KB, 242x223, 1409737877579.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I can't imagine the characters and setting in a book

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:21:09 2014 No.5401112 File: 44 KB, 366x380, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"I watched the movie/TV show but haven't read the book"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:21:32 2014 No.5401115 File: 14 KB, 250x250, 14081302416497.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5401092 >Supporting greed driven publishers as they systematically destroy the art of writing >2014

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:22:36 2014 No.5401121 >>5401013 Biggest turn off for me. Inexcusable. They even say "I want to know REAL stuff." There's merit to fiction: unique ideas at least.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:23:17 2014 No.5401127 >>5401115 Yeah, so pay a vanity press publisher who will publish literally anything for a quick buck, because they are obviously less greedy and their intentions more noble.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:23:26 2014 No.5401129 File: 116 KB, 600x600, 1337881193558.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I only read YA fic.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:24:13 2014 No.5401134 >>5401013 fiction is for nerds.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:25:26 2014 No.5401137 >>5401115 But muh fame! >>5401127 >self publishing >pay a publisher pay myself?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:25:40 2014 No.5401139 >>5401121 >"There's merit to fiction"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:28:26 2014 No.5401154 File: 12 KB, 560x407, 1378493552468.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"Why I would read sci-fi or fantasy when I could read an historical romance and learn a bit of real history?"

Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:31:33 2014 No.5401163
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>>5401127
>Using vanity sites
>Intentionally ignoring all the validly established websites with solid publishing platforms
>Not wanting all that artistic control
>Wanting publishers to ruin your vision for the sake of marketability
>Mfw

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:32:13 2014 No.5401167 File: 14 KB, 320x270, Guns of Will Sonnett.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No brag, just fact. Time is limited. And I only read for pleasure these days. The history of the cold war, for example, is simply more interesting to me now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:34:12 2014 No.5401173 File: 48 KB, 500x388, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"I don't read poetry" >why >"I just don't like it" >why not >"I don't understand it"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:34:13 2014 No.5401174 >>5401163 >ignoring all the validly established websites with solid publishing platforms like?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:34:20 2014 No.5401176 >>5401154 >"Why I would read sci-fi or fantasy when I could read an historical romance and learn a bit of real history?" >when I could read an historical romance and learn a bit of real history? >historical romance >not being fantasy >2014

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:35:31 2014 No.5401181 File: 9 KB, 184x184, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"I re-read all the Harry Potter books over the summer"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:36:32 2014 No.5401187 >>5401176 B-but muh Outlander

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:38:47 2014 No.5401192 File: 65 KB, 640x960, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"I read steampunk/cyberpunk"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:40:47 2014 No.5401204 >>5401173 >play on words = good >rap = bad >same poetry snobs shits on rap >rap is poetry with a musical beat >"I don't you like rap" >why >"I just don't like it" >why not >"I don't understand it"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:41:57 2014 No.5401209 >"I only read the canon"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:43:12 2014 No.5401217 File: 109 KB, 1100x800, 693e5b60669d1d26430f6a706700010b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I only read books from 200 years ago

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:44:28 2014 No.5401220 File: 23 KB, 320x374, 1409486315019.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I started with the Greeks

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:47:46 2014 No.5401234 >>5401192 There are some good cyberpunk novels, steampunk less so.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:48:23 2014 No.5401237 File: 115 KB, 591x530, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5401204 >bix noods hollering about muh dik while a sample stolen from an '80s pop song plays in the background >on par with the poetic greats of history

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:52:10 2014 No.5401258 >>5401237 watch out everybody, this dude's on track to get a high school diploma

Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:52:55 2014 No.5401263

>>5401234

The problem I have with steampunk, cyberpunk, or really any genre ending with "-punk", is that they all rely on gimmicks instead of actual original content.

Steampunk:

>let's write a Western/Victorian novel with the same exact plot as a hundred others
>but with DIRIGIBLES AND AND AN EXCESS OF POCKET WATCHES

Cyberpunk:

>I want to make a romance novel
>but with CYBORG WAIFUS AND LASER GUNS LOLOLOL

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:54:29 2014 No.5401267 File: 56 KB, 460x276, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5401220 >I haven't read the Greeks

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:55:52 2014 No.5401271 File: 397 KB, 1170x780, 5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5401263 >I don't understand cyberpunk Lol ok

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:57:03 2014 No.5401276 >>5401271 What's there to understand m8?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 15:58:08 2014 No.5401281 >>5401271 What more is there to understand? Please enlighten us. Hard mode: don't use the phrases "dystopian future" or "social commentary"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 16:05:03 2014 No.5401301 >>5401281 Extremely hard: don't use the letter e

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 16:05:18 2014 No.5401304 File: 34 KB, 440x632, putinpoter.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5401181

Anonymous Sun Sep 7 16:10:09 2014 No.5401313

>>5401263
You'll find bad writing in any genre, cyberpunk and steampunk are no exception. Good cyberpunk, however, is an interesting exploration into a society more technologically developed than socially, what you've described is a story with a cyberpunk setting tacked on. Cyberpunk done right is more than a gimmick.

Steampunk has the same potential but it's a younger genre, at the moment it's primarily gimmick like you've described.

Also, even bad cyberpunk is fucking entertaining. How can you not enjoy cyborg waifus and laser guns?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 16:14:02 2014 No.5401327 File: 42 KB, 310x425, penn[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5401237 >englishman fag hollering about "muh failed romance" in deliberately anachronistic language because i wanna sound like shakespurr >on par with anything

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 16:39:02 2014 No.5401425 File: 145 KB, 375x500, Mia Concentrada.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5401052 >Do the same shit every week

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 16:59:29 2014 No.5401518 File: 466 KB, 375x480, Shoopenhower.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Reading fiction

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 17:04:12 2014 No.5401543 >I only read western works of fiction

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 17:05:23 2014 No.5401548 >why not? >cause fiction is not real

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 17:22:42 2014 No.5401623 File: 206 KB, 474x528, 1408753639764.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"Pornography is always badly written, no matter how good the quality of the writing itself is."

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 18:18:48 2014 No.5401905 >>5401543 >I read Tao Lin

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 18:40:25 2014 No.5402009 File: 57 KB, 394x395, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mocks/criticizes religious people incessantly >"I don't read religious texts"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:32:47 2014 No.5402827 >>5401327 >displaying ones lack of understanding of the tremendous depth and breadth of western poetry while defending niggers hooting about spinnin rims and purple drank shiggy_diggy.doo

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:37:36 2014 No.5402844 File: 36 KB, 212x218, 1403614517738.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"Sorry, I don't read anything by dead white guys."

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:39:02 2014 No.5402846 File: 87 KB, 479x720, i dont wear a fedora.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5401013 >I don't wear a fedora

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:41:53 2014 No.5402853 File: 102 KB, 803x430, rafu intantsufaisu desu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"Sorry, I don't read anything by women, blacks, moslems, leftists, or degenerates."

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:46:58 2014 No.5402872 File: 258 KB, 1912x1688, 1293466186180.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I post made-up claims made by nobody in existence in green text and upload an image expressing scorn, disdain, derision or the three of them all at once.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:48:04 2014 No.5402874 File: 53 KB, 500x500, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5402872 >I think I'm being ironic

Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:48:14 2014 No.5402875
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>>5402844
i met this super cute asian girl at a bar once and she told me she was studying literature. then she told me she doesn't read anything by white men because all of their work is made from the high perch of white male privilege

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:50:12 2014 No.5402882 File: 18 KB, 236x354, 1264670951290.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5402872

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:50:54 2014 No.5402887 File: 190 KB, 500x382, claire pondering.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5402874 >I don't know what words mean.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:51:17 2014 No.5402888 >>5402875 USE GREENTEXT BITCH!

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:51:44 2014 No.5402891 File: 36 KB, 398x531, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >We must convince the proletariat to rise up against evil, white, bourgeoise, male capitalists

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 22:54:19 2014 No.5402899 File: 52 KB, 500x333, 1278490919312.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5402888 >sry

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 23:08:53 2014 No.5402945 File: 98 KB, 660x348, 45678.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"I only read biographies"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 23:11:47 2014 No.5402954 File: 102 KB, 1000x1197, SamuelTaylorColeridge.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5402827 >Implying Coleridge didn't love purple drank

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 00:19:24 2014 No.5403170 File: 19 KB, 250x256, kamina holding a soda.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >check out book from library >half of every page is underlined in red ink, the margins are covered in plot synopses

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 00:53:11 2014 No.5403328 >>5403170 >desecrating a book with pen/marker >not using sticky notes or just using a notepad Take that book to a deep part of the woods and shoot it, it's suffered at the hands of philistine savages too long

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 00:55:15 2014 No.5403341 >>5403170 >Not having your own books to mark with interpretations and personal remarks lol, u suck

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