/lit/ - Literature

>>3201983
IDGAF lafl

whydoineedtohaveanopinionaboutthis.watercolour

They're all equally important.

Not only that, they're all facets of a singular whole: the work in itself

>>3201983
>Prose
>Characters and development
>Plot

Exactly that order, from most important to least.

>>3201983
it depends, monsieur, on the algebra of my feelings. when i am tired, i say the first, because it is the easiest to reach. when i have more energy, the second. and when i am full of life, the third and most distant.

>>3202000
Who or what are you?

>>3202006
My bet is that he's a very lonely man with some kind of abnormal sleep schedule, and that he has never lived in France, though he may have visited.

>>3202036
and unhappy, monsieur. his life is a tragedy. but he will not tell the story of it. he is repressed. it is all because of some trivial event, some absolutely trivial event, which a sane man would think nothing of, but has sent this particular man into the lunatic bin of 4chan. i can picture it all, all the trivial details, all the neurasthenic indolence that goes into creating a self-torturing non-entity like this poor fool with his monsieur!!! ahh, shut up with your monsieur, you son of a bitch!!!!

>>3202048
>neurasthenic
You're goddamn teaching me words. I'm sorry I was rude.

>yfw monsieur is Thomas Pynchon

All three are interesting things to have. None are most important.
This thread is bad.

Who is great at prose?

>>3202066

He's been on here once. I know the guy and he chuckled about it at lunch one day. That's why I come here occasionally anyway.

>>3202168
>knows Thomas Pynchon
>hasn't taken photos of him and sold them off for a cool couple thousand
Them tires ain't gonna change themselves, nigga.

Is prose essentially sentence construction?

I dunno mang but if this was, /tv/, then

>just prose
Think of a really beautifully shot movie without characters.
>just characters and development
Think of the most boring drama ever.
>just plot
The kinda George Lucas shit people love.

Characters and development. Prose is by far the least important of the three, and plot is not really going to be engaging unless I care and can somehow relate to the character/s.

>>3202166
Mervyn Peake
Thomas Pynchon
David Foster Wallace
John Steinbeck
Jay Griffiths

I'm a prose man. If the prose aren't amazing I can't read it. For instance I can't read Philip K Dick and most of Vonnegut's works.

Personally I see it like a painting. The painter could have a great idea but he still has to do an amazing painting.

The writer can have some cool ideas but if it's written like it's for 14 yearolds then I won't read it. I don't care if other people see differently, that's just how I see it.

>>3202196
I see it as your writing voice.