Hey /lit/ how does one go about choosing the tone of their novel and how do you keep it consistent?
Your pic makes it hard for people to take you seriously.
>>8328777
Is this the sort of shit people think about so they have an excuse not to write?
just be yourself
>descriptivist dictionaries
>>8328764
>prescriptivist dictionaries
>>8328768
>descriptivist dictionaries
>>8328784
How much do care about understanding the context of a book or author when you read one?
Do you have to do a little bit of historical research before you read Charles Dickens? Or do you just dive in?
stephen dies in hard times
>>8328758
literally only read any intro material they give you.
and dont read a cuck novel like ulysses
>>8328758
I don't quite understand that graph.
I'm 3 chapters into The Trial by Franz Kafka and I find myself absolutely bored while I'm reading it. There's nothing interesting going, no interesting characters and the prose is nothing special, from what I can tell it's like any other book. I want to drop it but at the same time I keep thinking it's going to get better later since it's on the /lit/ must read list.
Should I drop it? How many chapters do you give a book before you drop it?
shut up loser
You should at least get to the point where Kafka dropped it
You can drop it, just realize that whenever it comes up in conversation, you will have to explain that you could not get further than about 50 pages into a sub 200-page book that is often taught in highschool.
Why have fanfictions a bad reputation?
>>8328742
The Aneid is part of Western Canon
>>8328742
none whatsoever are good
>>8328742
We no longer see imitation as good training, so no one but shitty amateurs do it (and for ALL the wrong reasons).
After i saw this book in the amazing movie "Into the Void" and in various artists favorite books list, and Thom fucking Yorke said something good about it, i decided to read it. But i'm not even halfway in and it's very boring, buddahead that buddadick that, does it get better? do i need tips to "get it", why so many great people love it, alice in wonderland seems better
It's annoying how you refer to him as Thom fucking Yorke.
>>8328721
>Thom fucking Yorke
What a weird hero to worship. You do your eyes like he does too?
>>8328721
>being influenced by artists rather than intellectuals
S H I G G Y
I don't think people appreciate the vibe and style J.K. Rowling created in her first couple of books. Absolutely perfect children's novels. People tend to forget that. She's a writer for children, and she doors a great job with it.
Ya, she really doors.
>>8328702
One of her greatest feats is that she understood the minds of children and so wrote in a way that connected with them better then perhaps any author has in history.
>Exterminate all the brutes!
what did he mean by this?
>>8328666
Pretty straight forward actually.
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9kT37eIkaY
Kurtz has realized that every man has a heart of darkness, and, after shaking away all of his English ideals of progress, this realization reigns in a solipsistic state not of nihlism, but of imperative creativity. He does not cower under the weight of self-knowledge, but formulates and promotes the same imperialistic ideology already promoted by the Western world to serve his master plan of eliminating all life that refuses to bow before him. Think Hitler if we fell for the "he did it all because he disnt get into art school" meme.
Am I the only one that found this book difficult to read?
I went in thinking I'd blow through a quick novella but it was so dry, dense, and frustratingly nondescript. I constantly had to reread passages to get a feel for the setting and events because there was such sparse imagery and I don't know shit about boats.
It was tiring, wrestling with this book, but Conrad came off as incredibly intelligent and experienced and I did enjoy it. But damn.
>Sad, in my quiet room, alone as I have always been and as I always will be, I sit writing. And I wonder if that seemingly feeble thing, my voice, does not perhaps embody the substance of thousands of voices, the hunger to speak out of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls who, like me, have submitted in their daily lives to vain dreams and evanescent hopes
How come Pessoa is not the most memed author on /lit/? Every anon here would feel identified with him. His book of disquiet is literally "my diary desu".
>implying people here read
>>8328662
I think you might be right, this is hardly a good board for anything that is not 'A Great Joke'.
>>8328630
because /lit/ is very much anglo and "reading translations is not patrician".
also, that esoteric stuff in some of his work really bores me.
So we all agree this is the worst of the trilogy? Shame as the too-short wolf quest was what hooked me.
All the Pretty Horses > Cities of the Plain > The Crossing
No. Crossing > Horses > Cities
>>8328599
Explain yourself heathen
He walked in the woods and saw a wolf and wiped his mouth and hablo espanol and thanked her.
How the fuck can an anon be a writer?
>>8328595
Put your ideas to paper. Bam.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xq-JdBNak&feature=youtu.be
>El Chapo confirmed pleb
damn...
>>8328521
>jump cuts
Heard about this book. I'm expecting it to be delivered tomorrow.
What should I expect? What is /lit/'s consensus on The Way of Men?
Just read Marcus Aurelius and put that shit away
>>8328500
Self hating faggot who thinks jerking dudes with his biceps makes him da man.
>>8328502
Why read Marcus Aurelius when we have Epictetus?
any good literature about or set during the Italian renaissance? anything to do with the artists is especially appreciated.
>>8328495
I'm guessing you've read Vasari?
I saw Merezhkovsky's "Resurrection of Gods: Leonardo da Vinci" on a shelf once, so I don't know if it's good, but you might want to give it a shot.
ITT: Second half 20th century thinkers who are actually worth a damn.
>>8328488
yeah, thats pretty much it.
Okay, can we please stop this. This is the kinda shit that's making /lit/ trash. Everyone's going to come out, name drop, dish out some half-assed arguements, and then run, and OP will not be left with the coherent "guide to becoming smarter" that he's expecting. So, please, if this is a genuine question, guide the discussion. Let's talk about a few books and give some illuminating responses. And by a few books I think we all know I really mean Hardt and Negri's Empire and the complete Foucault ouvre.