/lit/ - Literature

>>8810869

>>8807820
You're right.

I've had a friend in France who had twenty different copies of Lolita, and a couple of years ago, someone read their paper aloud in class detailing why Lolita should be required reading.

Un-ironically, something like Bottom's Dream is a book that I would say that women wouldn't understand.

>>8807794
Lists in which the material needs commas? Like listing cities? (Sacramento, CA; Tallahassee, FL; Houston, TX; etc...)

>>8807796
That's pretty much the best explanation I've ever received for its intended use.

How does one use semicolons, then? Is it just a comma, but with the pause being longer?

>>8806910
The punchline is the entirety of the jest.

>>8790624
Think of Nabokov, but with even more useless prose.

>>8782774
I didn't say women were dumb, I just implied that women are susceptible to enjoy to certain things, just as men are to certain things. It's not always the case, but it's a safe assumption.

>>8782775
Why would robots even come here, let alone stay?

>>8782778

>>8782384
All the women that I've met that's even heard of these works, have only watched the movies.

Not to say that they aren't capable of understanding the prose, but films are marketed in such a way that entices them into submission in a way that only a woman could fall under.

Why does this board hate women so much? I've had my fair share of getting fucked over by women, believe me, but I have never developed such pathological feelings towards women such as this board does.

>>8778768
Seeing as though there are no such requirements to create threads, you can fuck right off.

>>8778694
We're not playing league here, m8; this is serious business.

I feel as if it's impossible to recreate what he's done in today's society.

Does anyone here think that Nabokov is bordering purple prose?

How can one write like Nabokov, but not get called out for overly extrapolating prose?

>>8774312
Can you detail how your system works?

>>8770759
When will you learn that /lit/ is not as pure as you think it is?

You're a fucking twat; you should be the one fucking off. Believe it or not, if we didn't have these fucking wastes of space making these filler posts, Hiroshima would've gotten rid of us by now.

>>8769055
To tell others that you have a literature degree.

>>8768879
/lit/ doesn't need to do shit.

People like you need to take your haughtiness and fuck right off to some other place where it'll be welcomed. You can't see the beauty of /lit/, and you will forever be condemned to an existence without it.

It's 4chan, what can you do to fix it? It'll always be this shitty, and there's nothing else to do but to submit, and become frogposters ourselves.

>>8763050
Sounds dumb, but hey, whatever gets people reading, I suppose.

>>8763021
Damn. That's good.

I'm waiting for your requisite thread about how you finally got published. Good luck, OP.

>>8762778
Genuine question: What makes a YA novel the way it is? Why does it need its own category?

From what I know, The Catcher in the Rye would count as a YA novel, but no, it's a "classic."

Now they decide to make a sub-sub-category. What makes NA different than YA? Are these just marketing techniques?

>>8763004
Make the protagonist a female, and somehow indicate that she was a refugee at one point in her life.

That'll get you published in no time, my dude.

>>8762198
You're a prime example of what OP's talking about.

>>8762031
This board has been infiltrated by other, more toxic boards; that's why. Also, it's 4chan.

The true /lit/izens are the ones who've been rejected numerous times for publication; those who have actually read the top 100 lists; and especially the ones who don't make threads at all and just lurk.

>>8760196
Chemical reactions

>>8753327
Through time, comes evolution, right? I'll do just what you suggest.

Thanks, man. I needed it.

>>8753249
To be quite honest, I feel totally uncomfortable with mostly everything that I write. Everything I put down on paper, I second guess, and ask constantly if it's necessary at all. Am I just not cut out for writing? Or do I just need more practice?


I really appreciate your feedback, but just to clarify: are you telling me to essentially simplify my prose?