/lit/ - Literature

>>20647549
The first one is perfectly fine. It just so happens to use a style that isn't popular anymore. The second one is more in vein with stream of consciousness, or maybe third limited, and since you don't get to see into his head, I'd hesitate to even call it that. I feel like this whole "show don't tell" debate is really an argument over omniscience in narratives, which tells me that no one who touts the show don't tell garbage really understands what they're talking about. Let's take these two samples.

The first is as if it were told to you by a narrator around a fire at camp. You're more involved with the story as it's being told than the moment to moment thoughts and senses of a character. And there is nothing wrong with omniscience in writing, at all. It's a way to tell a story that omits discovery on the part of the reader and supplants it with an unfolding of everything you need to know. It's less labyrithine, more "observe the story as a story happening/being told."

The second follows imagery without describing effects on the character. It reminds me of watching a movie. You get pictures of a scene and image fragments of what the subject sees, but no invitation is made into his head. It invites more thought from the reader: okay, what's going on, why is the snake important, etc. It's simply another way of telling a story. You let the actions showcase, like listening to a performer act things out ("He shot his pistol, BANG! And all the women screamed!").

I don't think either is a poor way to tell a story and in particular to suggest that the first is worst than the second willfully ignores that there are different ways to present and tell a story. I think these people just hate omniscient storytelling.

>>20095213
>write black characters, get backlash
>don't write black characters, get backlash

>order a used book
>previous owner annotated the intro and the conclusion, but not the text itself
>the annotations are in illegible Russian cursive even though the book is in English

I am a autist that can't talk or form a coherent sentence for shit and want to fix that by reading good literature, may help with inspiration as well.
Problem is my attention span has been phenomenally fucked from spending so much time on the Internet, how do I get into it and what are some good must read books?
Sorry for being a shiteating faggot asking to be spoonfed by the way.

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>>11155261
quick question anon: what the fuck?