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/humor/ /lit/ thread

The writers on /lit/ have forgotten how to utilize this board to hone their craft, it is an amazing resource and the anonymous format allows you to get the sort of feedback which you can not get anywhere else, unsolicited honest reaction to what you wrote. Every thread is a writing exercise. When you come onto /lit/ go right to the catalog and select the newest thread (low effort threads that will go no where are best and offer a good challenge), create a character you would be interested in seeing in that thread and write a little flash fiction, the (You)s are your critique, were the responses what you attempted to elicit? Do not reply to any of them, just let your little story stand on it's own. This will help you create believable characters more than any critique from other writers. Picrel is a prime example, I bet that anon did not respond to a single (You), just took notes and learned from the responses.

If you can not figure out how to write something, find a picture that suggests it and make a thread requesting anons describe it in their best prose, or formulate a writing game and observe how other anons deal with it. Make sure to include your own entry in the OP, little good comes of these if OP does not contribute, once again, don't respond to critiques of your offering, but do respond to others contributions.

We need to get the writers back onto the board and not holed up in here.

>>10665617
Have some prose.

>>8811965
Gotchu f-a-m

>>7972625
got you fqm

This doesn't really belong in this thread but it is a part of board culture I don't want to see go to waste.

Once you've read enough you can constantly reference characters and authors in every day conversation. Like this guy.

>>7844856
>What the author wrote: next bar tab and rent
>What underaged banned thought: "Authors control meanings by assigning texts to them"
>What undergraduate gonna undergraduate thought: "The author is dead, readers control all meaning."
>What anyone who has done the least literary criticism thought: "texts have an impenetrable depth of meaning and only discipline practices can recover meanings from texts"
apparently that caption was written by an early computer program from the 1940s