/lit/ - Literature

>>8526011

>>8496172
>indie books from local authors

>>8428670
>aren't drifting in life working jobs that have nothing to do with literature
>being this delusional

>>8413997

Mildly humorous

>>8182548

>>7947771

>>7543377
> Is there a better love triangle in recent dystopian outer-space homosexual death competition YA? I think NOT

10/10

>>7480669
>>guy goes on to say, 'he must understand it cause he turnin the pages'

I'm known for being the funny guy. I'm actually thinking of writing a book on how the process works because it's so interesting.

Everyday humor is usually the spontaneous wit that leads to someone shooting off a joke or having something snappy to say - this is wisecracking. This usually starts in school, where there's hundreds of opportunities to be a wise ass every day. >>7345508 isn't entirely wrong that it's a trial and error thing, but they are wrong in assuming it stays that way. You have to hone your timing skills for years to get the aspect of spontaneity down. But I actually think wisecracking is very closely related to how Plato describes poets in Ion. Things have to happen at such a rapid pace that it really is the most spontaneous thing in the world. You have to be inspired towards a joke. I'd open it up to you guys whether you think this can be trained or not.

Then there's old humor, which is fart jokes and body humor, funny voices and stuff. This stuff comes off more as a skit than anything else, and when two funny people are together it's the most likely type of humor you'll see. It's actually pretty interesting how funny people interact with each other. It's not exactly acting, but good funny friends can reach a level of straightman and foil that feels entirely natural. There's a lot less at risk in this than in wisecracking, but to get to this level you have to be a pretty good wisecracker in the first place.

Then there's stuff like stand up comedy which really unfunny people try to emulate, not understanding how much of stand up comedy depends on context and orientation. That's how you get shit like OP's post or the worst reddit jokes, those little awful plays they write and shit. People that don't think in terms of wisecracking every day look at stand up and think that that is how humor works, that the stand up is spontaneous when it's totally the opposite. Stand up comics earn their right to do stand up because they go through the terrible process of writing down wisecracks and retooling them, rather than just blurting them out. This is why truly funny people never laugh out loud at televised stand up. They can see through the veneer of the show, see the wisecracks for what they are, and deconstruct the whole stage. Going to stand up shows in real life, however, is a totally different experience because it removes separation from the wisecracks. It's not cut horribly, the comedian is actually pacing around and being casual, etc.

But stand up is really just a combination of wisecracking and storytelling, which MUST be trained.

>>7322988
>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

>>7315797
Yes.
It really is legitimately timeless, and although I only full-out knee slapping laughed once the humor was clever enough that I chuckled throughout and by the end I considered it one of my favorite books.
It does build up to a pretty great crescendo, though. Highly recommend you finish it, after all, it's pretty short anyways.

>>7304851
>>7304917
>The Slap
Greatest/Only Australian contribution to any medium of entertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm_niiQfeWc
>tfw I saw this and thought it was some comedy
>google and find out it's a 4serious drama based on a dumb book
I don't know what the hell they were thinking, but I'm glad they were.

>>6928975
>few things exist necessary and those are logico-mathematical truths.

>>6917027
>when someone doesn't nihilism near me
>when they write 2,000 pages about it and kill themselves

>>6876287

Sure they are
>in the political sense

>>6771595
>translations

>>6602167
>Infinite Jest, an unwieldy tome whose title serves as a glaring red flag on any online dating profile. (Seriously, do not engage these people.)

/lit/ I think we should try are hands at making a novel. That's not unironic satire of 4chan. I've been in most of the threads where we have attempted to write a book, and I can see most of the problems that stop us from achieving anything. Honestly I believe we can do it some of the other ideas had promise but failed due to lack in communication and a failure of understanding of one anothers ideas, but sometimes it's constant meddling from random anons, but this can easily be solved by creating multiple save files and rough guidelines for contribution.
>not everyone needs access to the doc just a select few.
>all story submissions must be posted on the thread and approved.
>submissions should have a title in which they can be identified with.
>longer stories after the title should have fractions such as 1/2 , 2/4, 3/5 to indicate longevity and allow the doc users to organize the stories properly.
>the people with access to the doc will edit language, tone, grammar and what not to ensure consistency
>other non-editing anons will be able to view the doc, and can post suggestions on the thread.
>covers, will be decided in the thread by vote, and submissions from any anon are welcome.
>we decide the story by posting and other will vote or rolling

Now I'm pretty sure that we can't roll for our choices but through a voting system we can help choose, though it we'd choose Genre, perspective, themes, scope, characters, setting, etc.

>Which would include
(Respectively these, however if you want to point out a specific branch of the genre such as Urban Fantasy, Hard Sci-Fi, etc point it out in your post.)
Fantasy
Scifi
Realistic Fiction
Historical fiction
Mystery
Thriller-psychological, espionage
Horror
Romance

>not knowing the universe is just having a great time trolling itself

>>6423194

>>6389428

>>6362376
it amused