>come up with absolute genius idea for a book >in a flash

>>8818218
read more. pick your favorite stylists and imitate their qualities that you like the most. write until your prose becomes something you could call your own.

hope this helps but desu /lit/ isnt for pussies so really the best thing to do is to stop crying on the internet and start doing something you fucking faggot.

>>8818218
The problem is that you haven't realized that the prose is the story. The prose develops with the evolution of the work. No works worthwhile come from a pre fab design, they're built. Language is the work itself, anon, not the idea or plot. I recommend Gass' non fiction.

>>8818232

fuck you, you lil fucking twerp bitch

>>8818254
>>8818232
but also thanks for the input

Why don't you just tell us the idea? Right now I'm just gonna have to assume it's a sprawling mess. I promise none of us are gonna steal it if you just give a light summary.

But more seriously, reading Jean Genet and Don Delillo helped me think more about style

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>>8818218

>>8818615
where's the source for Melville studying exclusively Shakespeare?

>>8818218
just publish the outline.

i mean, hey, all that matters is getting your name in print, right?

Write it. Wait. Rewrite it. Wait. Edit it. Edit it. Edit it.

>>8818748
well 'Moby' has Shakespearean allusion on every page so it makes sense

>>8818855
Sure, he read Shakespeare and liked him, but where's the proof that Melville did as that anon said he did, devoting his entire life just to Shakespeare?

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-writer-as-reader-melville-and-his-marginalia/#!

regarding melvilles reading

>>8818968
thanks main

>>8818218
Read James Salter.

>>8818968
Damn, that was crushing and inspiring at the same time. Thanks, anon.