/lit/ - Literature

I had a dream last night where the heroine of my story was drugged and fucked by some random dude in graphic detail. What the fuck is wrong with my subconscious? I didn't ask for any fucking cuck dreams goddammit

>a reader breezes through 200k words of your web series in 2 hours
Why pretend like you're reading it when it's fucking obvious you skipped almost everything? This is even more insulting than just calling it shit and dropping it at chapter 1.

>want to write an erotic novella
>4,000 words later, I'm still just setting up characters and nothing remotely lewd has happened

What is wrong with me??

>girl asks me what I thought about another girl, whether I think she's hot
>say I think she's pretty
>she looks at me in disgust and calls me a faggot
Don't judge people by their usage of certain words please :(

Shut up, you're not reading anything. You just force someone's talking through your ears and probably register less than 10% of it.

>post a chapter where literally nothing happens, just some daily life
>readers post several excited comments
>post a chapter with a clever plot twist that I personally thought was amazing
>no comments whatsoever
I don't get it

>in local used bookstore
>was actually able to find some really good stuff
>armful of books ready to check out
>qt black girl working register
>nooooooo this can't be happening
>before i can slip out of line and put the books back she's calling "next" and smiling right at me
>spill books onto the counter and drop a few bills as i flip through them (I don't use a wallet) because I'm a klutz
>she slowly starts ringing everything up, making small talk about each book
>"Oh what's this one about? Have you read the author before? Oh I didn't realize we had this guy. Oh is this philosophy? I don't know much about that. are you a philosophy student?"
>stuttering and mumbling my replies
>"man it's been real a long day. luckily I get off soon."
>prolonged pause as i stare her hands while she holds the books and receipt
>can feel her staring at me
>finally hands the books to me
>"well, see you later!"
>realize halfway on my drive back what was going on
>consider an hero
>masturbate to ebony porn while thinking about her instead
>never go back to that bookstore
>it closed down a few months later
probably going to masturbate to black girls again tonight now that i reminded myself of it. i hate my existence and deserve the lonely death i'm getting.

>novel has like 5 main characters and switches between them constantly
>only one is even remotely interesting
>at least one pov is a child/teen character

>>16175070
Really, no one? Nothing? No thoughts? Is there anything at all going on between your ears? Is pondering how to use apostrophe or whether you're a writer if you're not writing the absolute limit of /lit/? You guys stink

>>16151377
fuck this bullshit. I've been writing about lesbian characters since early 00s when everyone thought it was just awkward, but now, thanks to all the liberal twitter mumbo jumbo campaigning, I look only like yet another bandwagoner after easy money what the fuck

>tfw that guy on twitter whose only contributions are "I'm going to sleep now, good night" and "good morning everyone!" has more followers and interactions than you tweeting about literature
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE

>>15382077

>write something
>imagine people from 3000AD diving into my memories to study how I lived
>they watch me masturbate to feet and incest doujins

Future must never come

>>15131526

>bro, use adverbs to bring your prose to life, that's what all the pros do
>cut all the adverbs, you must write like Hemingway!
>show, don't tell, you need to leave things to imagination
>can you explain what happened, I didn't understand anything

I'm so done taking "writing advice" from anyone

>you will go to Oxford but you’re going to a small shitty college instead of Magdalen, Balliol or New

>tfw qt at my dance won't stop calling me west briton

>>13078897
They're literally in the same line of thinking as Alt-righters.
>Muh Postmodernism=Leftism

>tfw khv

>>12960982
because I am voluntarily celibate and refuse to have sex outside of marriage and probably won't ever get married because society is disintegrating before my eyes

It's like the whole universe is conspiring to keep me from writing again. Why the fuck, what is so wrong about it? Give me a break, it's literally the only thing I care about in life, yet I'm not even allowed to do that?

FUCK
JUST THINKING ABOUT IT BRINGS ME TO DESPAIR
THAT FUCKING GODDAMNED BOOK
WHY DOES IT FUCKING MAKE ME FEEL SO STIRRED IN MY SOUL
I FUCKING CRIED SO HARD READING THAT SHIT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I was promised that college would be fun in high school but I just delved deep into despair and nihilism.

I don't know how to describe it, but as soon as I even try to type a single word, all my willpower drains out and I can't even think about it. I can't even walk and sleep and eat properly. I can't even read a single chapter of a book. So of course I cannot finish an entire essay.

Actually I went to a psych ward and took a break for uni for this same reason last year already. Yet it's still the same. God I'm such a failure. In Dante's Inferno the wrathful and the sullen are stuck in swampy stinking water in the fifth circle of hell. That's how I feel.

My examiners wouldn't believe this, my parents wouldn't believe this if I say this, but it's true. Please forgive me if I don't make it mum.

hey guys what are some good books to read MERE FUCKING MOMENTS before killing one's self?

>tfw you are Little Chandler

>>10334787
>Yet, for [Langkjaer], the kiss felt odd. Remarkably inexperienced for a woman of her age [near thirty], Flannery’s passivity alarmed him. “As our lips touched I had a feeling that her mouth lacked resilience, as if she had no real muscle tension in her mouth, a result being that my own lips touched her teeth rather than lips, and this gave me an unhappy feeling of a sort of memento mori, and so the kissing stopped….”
>ywn be 30 year old Flan's first kiss