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No, she shouldn't, and fuck her for doing this. SHE'S the author. They're her characters. If her readers don't like her choices they can write some fanfics.

I don't even like George RR Martin but props to him for never apologizing to his readers. It's his story, not theirs.

She just says this shit to get attention. Same rationale for retroactively making Dumbledore gay.

If an author has to apologize for their creation it's obvious their work is VERY flawed and that they as a person don't understand the craft.

If people are upset and pissed off at one of your characters dying you should take pride in the fact that you created a character that someone was able to connect to emotionally and have feelings for, not say sorry like a big baby.

I'm a big fan of her body of work

>>7992745
would pound

My favorite work of hers:


As for minute joys: as I was saying: do you realize the illicit sensuous delight I get from picking my nose? I always have, ever since I was a child–there are so many subtle variations of sensation. A delicate, pointed-nailed fifth finger can catch under dry scabs and flakes of mucous in the nostril and draw them out to be looked at, crumbled between fingers, and flicked to the floor in minute crusts. Or a heavier, more determined forefinger can reach up and smear down-and-out the soft, resilient, elastic greenish-yellow smallish blobs of mucous, roll them round and jelly-like between thumb and forefinger, and spread them on the under surface of a desk or chair where they will harden into organic crusts. How many desks and chairs have I thus secretively befouled since childhood? Or sometimes there will be blood mingled with the mucous in dry brown scabs, or bright sudden wet red on the finger that scraped too rudely the nasal membranes. God, what a sexual satisfaction! It is absorbing to look with new sudden eyes on the old worn habits: to see a sudden luxurious and pestilential “snot green sea”, and shiver with the shock of recognition.

>>7992689
Yes and yes. It's probably the best written, most interesting science fiction novel of the latter half of the 20th century.

>>7992689
I got bored half way in and had trouble finishing it. Other than the sex scenes nothing really interested me.

Better than Hogg? Well no Hogg is his Magnum Opus.

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429-399 BC

1860-1890

1790-1800: Romantics are god tier
1910-1920: Modernism and memes start appearing
1970-1980: Birth of the postmodern meme

I read this book.

wow op. i am so angry that you would post this here. i am outraged. how could you. this is outrageous

(you) (you) (you)

masterpiece

>>7992645
You'd be far pressed to try to get a good living off of just dumping novels out of the blue into the Amazon marketplace and hoping fish bite.

Here's how alot of people make their living off of Amazon using books:
>They write a few books, giving them out for free on the market at first
>After building up enough interest from the free books, release a book for something cheap, like $0.99
>Gradually start building the prices on future books up

Basically, you need to build an audience, then release your master pieces. Try releaseing some short stories for free. Use it as a way of getting some practice.

>"Game of Thrones"-ish fantasy novel
There is a living, for people with original ideas

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>>7992645
>Is there a living to be made off of novel-writing? I'm currently on page 87 of a near 700 page "Game of Thrones"-ish fantasy novel that I'm writing, could I make a living off of it if I self-publish on for ebooks on like Amazon? Or even the traditional way?

nvm faggs https://github.com/rhelsing/worm_scraper/blob/master/worm.mobi works

He wrote the plays high when he was on weed.

cause show and dont tell is autistically overgeneralized advice designed for genre writers

and shakespeare is for poetics not for plot.

>>7992638
also he had limited actors who would double/triple roles and not everyone could be on stage at the same time so some shit had to happen off stage.

>>7992539
holy shit this kid looks cool

>>7992539
jesus christ
how could anyone buy this? who could possibly think the story of a 13 year old who makes kid friendly covers of rap songs would be worth reading? I understand how a lot of dumb books can sell well, including other memoirs, but I just cant imagine anyone buying this

>>7992539
An uplifting and candid memoir from thirteen-year-old YouTube sensation, boy-next-door heartthrob, and musical artist MattyB.

“Don’t worry about what others think. Don’t try to be cool or be someone else or be this-that-or-the-other. Be you.” —MattyB

Matthew David Morris, better known as MattyB, was virtually unknown just a few short years ago. After posting his first rap cover to YouTube at just seven years old, he quickly catapulted to record-breaking Internet stardom. Now thirteen, MattyB is an accomplished recording artist: he has sold out shows all over the world; appeared and performed on national television; recorded the smash hits “Right Now I’m Missing You,” “My Oh My,” and “New Kids”; is approaching 3 billion views on YouTube, and loves meeting his fans every step of the way.

Although his success is more than he could have ever dreamed of, MattyB wants his fans to know that he’s a regular kid, just like you. In his first memoir, That’s a Rap, MattyB opens up about his journey so far, including what it’s like to go from the boy next door to a global sensation, grow up with a sister with Down syndrome (and how he uses his songs to spread awareness about it), the heart and soul that goes into making his music, and the importance of the Christian values that have kept him and his family grounded through every up and down along the way. Totally honest and 100 percent personal, That’s a Rap tells MattyB’s incredible story, offering B-Boys and B-Girls a look into his fun-loving, family-oriented, one-of-a-kind world.

Write whatever comes to mind and go from there. You're trying to write a final draft right away. Nothing good comes on the first try. Write shit until it's not.

oh shits, thats my bad. the books are

Ulysses - Joyce
Les Mis - Hugo
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Either/Or - Kierkegaard
History of the Arab Peoples - Hourani
Being and Nothingness - Sartre

read the history of the arab people so you can better know your soon to be masters unless your a woman in which case don't read you won't need to instead try to be a mother to some upstanding muslim boy so you can at least live in wealth

>>7992473
Well that sounds a little racist, but I will take your advice. Thanks.

>>7992404
>Why doesn't /lit/ celebrate Easter
fukken orthodox easter my man? just because we like "the greeks" doesn't mean we like the greeks.
>I thought this was a Christian board
try 2014

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the romans dont feel like theyve made their "point" yet.

theyll be back. the catholic clergy is currently humiliating their followers.

>>7992404
I'm celebrating the resurrection of Jon Snow for Orthodox Easter. It happened a day late, but whatever.

>>7992391
Pale Fire?
Just pick a random one, and read it.

>>7992391
woah - um those kind of pictures aren't allowed here

>>7992391
lewd. this thread will be deleted

nobody actually has ever read that. people just pretend that they've read it.

>>7992252
I've read it. it was funny and incredibly depressing at the same time.

>>7992246
>giving up after 60 pages
Honestly, yes, you probably are a pleb. If you were a true patrician like me you would read every single word to the bitter end, periodically snorting in derision not at the humor but at the poor literary craftsmanship.

It's not even a challenging book; Absalom, Absalom! is about 200 pages depending on which version you purchase, and it's unbelievably more difficult and complex (and rewarding).

Consciousness was a mistake. Everything else follows from that.

>>7992241
this lad is right and a true detective to boot

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