/lit/ - Literature

>>3213757

Just read lots and read widely. It will come with time. Nothing wrong with asking for feedback but it should be supplementary to your own editing.

>>3213729

You only get better by having a better critical eye. If you never improve your editing you will never improve your writing.

Problem I have is finding the time to read and picking the book up in the first place.

Once I do I can read for hours on end.

I'm more shocked that /tv/ has already deemed the film to be shit without waiting for most of the reviews to come in or seeing it themselves.

Oh wait, it's /tv/, I'm not surprised.

I can't afford it though.

I have noticed the janitor/mod has been deleting threads for no good reason.

I was banned and my thread deleted two weeks ago for posting a recommendation thread. Reposted in the next day with no problem.

Fiction reviews

>Nikon
Good concept, writing is hit and miss. Some sections work well others need a little work. Bit overall positive.
>A Scene at the End
Have a bit of a Lovercraftian problem in which description impedes narrative. Think it needs to be tightened up a little, some descriptions are quite interesting, others are a little sloppy.
>The Static Din
Your similes really don't work well and don't give the desired effect.
>Dear Judge
Bit unoriginal, at moments it's like reading HG Wells' The Time Machine
>Working
Flawed but there's quite a few sentences and descriptions in here I quite like.

I read the book while there were some riots going on in my area so I found it particularly terrifying.

My issue with Vonnegut is that while he can write works with interesting concepts, events and ideas he is unable to write work which is able to provoke an emotional response in the reader. As a result, even though I enjoy his work as I read it, after I am done I feel unsatisfied.

The only work of his that breaks this is Mother Night which I really enjoyed.

I volunteer at a charity bookstore and today I had to go on the till on the top floor which I'd never done before. A customer was asking for some wrapping paper and while rummaging through the draw I found a copy of 50 Shades of Grey with a bookmark in hidden in it.

No clue which person is reading it.

But not narrative.

Sometimes cyberpunk allows for social commentary or discussion of technology and its impact on society.

Steampunk seems to be nothing more than wish fulfilment.

>>3194659

Why is /lit/ Ulysseses? Is it based on the name alone? Because he would be better suited for /pol/ based on his philosophy

The misconception is that words flow from a writer's fingertips. It is ultimately a gruelling process of despair, agony and frustration.

No, not really.

Hemingway of course, he sounds like he would be really interesting to talk to and has a lot of wisdom.

Would like to meet Thomas Hardy just to learn from him and tell him that people love his work in the future and understand it's greatness. He quit writing novels due to the public criticism he received.

For some reason I imagine Hunter S Thompson would be quite irritating in person.

Non-English Major (not a major either, It's a US term)

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

>>3190220

Well the scene is meant to be that he looks down at the Smiley face food and finds it absolutely grotesque and it seems to encapsulate everything wrong with his wife in her present state.

As a rule on Twitter should get half the amount of followers as the amount of people you follow.

What you do is follow a bunch of random people, many will follow back out of kindness and others will follow you in return for being followed back.

Apparently this is a fault of mine. When people try and be serious I am persistently silly which I can understand why it would be irritating.

I do the same when I write: I look back at more somber and serious works I've done and cringe, but the more comedic pieces I can still endure.

W. Somerset Maugham is a good example.

Of Human Bondage still is popular but his fame has almost completely vanished. During his time he was the wealthiest and one of the most widely read authors around. Yet now beyond a few pieces he has faded into obscurity.

He did acknowledge that he wasn't the greatest of writers though. He felt that out of all the mediocre people he was the best, but never quite good enough to be considered great.

Paperback. They are smaller and much easier to hold. Plus, the sleeve on a lot of hardback books annoys me.

>>3186507

Because giving something a rating out of 10 is a very narrow way of expressing one's feeling for something.

They do, the market is saturated with them.