/lit/ - Literature

Τῆς ὀπώρης edition

>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>24669573

>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·
https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw

>Mέγα τὸ ANE·
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>Work in progress FAQ
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All Classical languages are welcome.

Any recommendation for books that detail previous successes and failures of psyops

Preferably with a neutral view and not just something jizzed out like pic

What is the symbolism of the pain and discomfort the freed prisoner feels when first exposed to the light?

/wng/

Anon Ascends Alone Edition

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>What is Web Novel General?
A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more

>Why read web novels?
Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.

>Why write web novels?
Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.
Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.

>Advice for Noobs!

##READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP##

Running your story like the business it is:
www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/116847

On writing web serials:
alexanderwales.com/how-to-write-a-web-serial/

Sanderson's Writing Lectures 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUh_y1IFZY&list=PLSH_xM-KC3ZvzkfVo_Dls0B5GiE2oMcLY [Embed]

Recommended web novels
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Anon's guide to success
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FAQ
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Preferably through the use of international law and accords. I personally do not like conflicts that predate the dissolution of their previous custodians (like the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the Caucasus which took off way before the implosion of the USSR and was subject to different legal systems, resulting in nitpicking).
Israel-Palestine is okay though since it more or less started because of the UN.

I'd also like to mention that troll posts belong on his and I am only interested in factual and legal readings of this topic. You can display any belief you want, as long as you can at least tell us where it comes from. If you do not like providing or engaging with citations, then this is not the thread for you.

If I were to explain as succinctly as I can the failure of contemporary poetry, I can do no better than to post this meme.

"Reading Rambo" edition

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/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ
RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC

Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.
Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.
(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)

Simple guides on writing:
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Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiD2Qcth0EI

ITT: femcel-lit

How do I get better at organizing and presenting my thoughts in a more cohesive and easily transmittable manner? I feel like I need to go back to basics when it comes to writing and orating ideas. Not that I don't talk with people regularly or write but I suspect years of parasocial media and imageboard use has gimped my communications skills. Anyone know that feel?

Why did he decide to publish his novel on October 7?

Can you recommend me a book that summarizes the history of the Roman Empire? I am a beginner reader who is interested in the subject and would like to read a book about it. I do not want to start with something too complex, and also don't want to start with primary texts. Was hoping to read something that summarizes it basically. Thank you.

>ESL writes the most beautiful English prose of the last two centuries
what is this bullshit? how?

Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb

>Archive:
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>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

>Previous:
>>24690786

>Thread Question:
What's your favorite author known a particular book which lead to people overlooking everything else he wrote?

Post your own work and critique others.

meereenese throne edition

ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters

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its romantic.

I want to buy a book of poems to have around the house. Is Hart Crane a good pick? I've liked the ones I read by him. But maybe there's someone better.

The entire problem with Marxism is that it assumes a virtue in the lower classes that simply doesn't exist. The proletariat aren't good, they're crude and ugly and oafish and they beat their wives and molest their children. They're not good, they're bad. Everyone is bad. Human nature is wicked and depraved, and that's why communism will never work.

What is your experience discussing literature with zoomers?

>freedom is the essence of humans
>*cannot physically stop himself from hounding after his egotistical desires*
???

>mfw trying to find good book releases and all i find is this

Do women REALLY?

Good /lit/ posts

Hegel thread.

I know a few of you niggers are reading the Phenomenology, where are you in the book and what do you think?

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What do you do if you barely slept the night before and thus are too tired to concentrate on reading? Is there still some way to get some reading done?

is it possible to live a happy life without romantic love?

If you want a long, detailed fantasy series that has tons of lore, monsters, magic, gods and whatnot, you can't beat this. The heroes feel virtuous and the villains make you hate them. 10/10 fantasy series here and there's thirty-two books to delve

The guys who wanted to make the Houellebecq porn just dropped one of the most interesting discussions on art that I've listened to in the last years.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTndTJEZer4&t=7657s
Part of the video goes on to talk about their manifesto, which you can find here:
>https://www.keepingitrealartcritics.com/wordpress/ennobling-portraiture/
Overall, many debatable ideas, but many things relevant also for this board insofar as we talk about literature as art. These seem to me to be more or less like the only people trying to go beyond the woke/nazi duality of 2016, which, as you may have noticed, has grown very stale in the last years.
What lies beyond empty culture wars? What form does power have today and how does it interact with art? And what purpuse does art serve in a world where institutions are crumbling and people with means are not interested in it?

Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb

>Archive:
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg

>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

>Previous:
>>24681926

>Thread Question:
Say one positive about a book/series you dislike and one negative about a book/series you enjoy.

This is your shot to break into the publishing industry
Goldstein & Cohen press is willing to provide a 5 Bitcoin advance if you can pitch the hottest, most marketable smut of the year for femcels.
What’s your pitch?

Does anyone here have an MFA?

What percent of Americans do you think regularly read books that are not romantasy or self-help and were not assigned to them by a professor?

Tomorrow morning 10:00am BST the Character and Theme requirements of will be released.

You will have until Monday 23:59 BST to write and submit.

Submit via rentry.co – you can change the url of your submission to your story name to be identified easily.

Your writing must reflect the Character and Theme requirements – the character requirement doesn’t have to be your main character and the theme can be creatively interpreted, but those who just ignore it will not be voted for.

No word count, but anything over three thousand is most likely going to drag and no one wants to read your novel.

To submit, reply in the thread with your rentry.co url using a tripcode (Namefield: Name + “#” + Password).
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If you submit you should leave meaningful feedback for at least two other stories. Put in what you want back. There aren’t many places on this planet to get raw, no filter feedback, and it’s the best way to keep sharp and improve. And let’s not circle-jerk each other. Empty, positive platitudes do NOT count as a critique.

When you submit, you can edit your submission up until the point submissions close, Monday 23:59 BST rentry.co has a ‘last edited’ record to keep you honest.

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You will have until Friday Midday BTS to read, vote and most importantly CRITIQUE.

Good luck writers, readers and red-headed retards all!

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What are your favourite editions to buy?

I really like the penguin modern classics although the oxford world classics are quite nice too.

Is there any book/writing that ACTUALLY deals with the problem of evil?

Most apologetics online just go "free will" with no elaboration and that's it.

I am searching for this book's best edition. I want the original text, without modernizations.

If there's an annoted would be great, as long as the original text is respected. That's why I dismiss the Norton Critical Edition.

Thanks in advance. I am spanish so it's not like I can review or buy this book in my town's library

>bro you just can't adapt it, it's just too complex and intricate you need 150 iq for this bro
>reads book
>It's "unadaptable" because the plot and characters are written nonsensically

This is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.

>Hobbit

Beorn tortured an orc for information and joyfully displayed his decapitated head to our heroes. Not only that, he nailed a warg's skin on a tree next to his former owner.

Gandalf and his companions were the first transgressors. During their travels, they illegally entered goblin territory. The guards who approached them responded in self-defense. Instead of killing the dwarves outright, the orcs had them arrested (despite Gandalf’s killings) and brought to their king without harm. While being questioned, the king spotted an orc-cleaver in their possession. Understandably, the leader and his people were enraged. To draw an analogy, imagine being Jewish and someone sneaking into your house at night carrying a Jew-cleaver to threaten or attack you and your children. How would you respond to such intruders? Even worse, the orc king gets murdered, which amounts to regicide and the destruction of an entire society.

Orcs had every right to attack the dwarven fortress. They had been persecuted for thousands of years and deserved justice for their king’s assassination. They did not attack first; it was the elves who initiated the Battle of the Five Armies. The text explicitly states on page 238, "The elves were the first to charge. Their hatred for the goblins is cold and bitter." Regardless of how one interprets subsequent events, it’s clear that Gandalf, his companions, the elves and dwarves have engaged in war crimes and committed genocide.

Pages 245 and 248 describe the complete eradication of orcs after the final battle. None were spared in their defeat. All retreating orcs were hunted down and slaughtered without mercy. Tolkien confirmed that female orcs exist; so what happened to them and their children who were living in the mountains?

The book states: "The goblins of the Misty Mountains were now few and terrified, hiding in the deepest holes they could find; and the Wargs had vanished from the woods, so that men went abroad without fear. Beorn indeed became a great chief afterward [...] the men of his line [...] were in heart like Beorn. In their day, the last goblins were hunted from the Misty Mountains and a new peace came over the edge of the Wild."

We have Beorn, who participated in mass extermination, described by Tolkien as a "great chief" and a good-hearted individual.

Wiping out an entire population achieves peace? How could this book have been published for children?

>spend years online in discussion spaces seeing people debate every kind of topic
>see the the way different kinds of people argue and the the kind of information they put, forward, ways of arguing, etc.
>given enough time, realize that autodidact chudbots who "do their own research" are almost always wrong and very bad faith debaters.

cupness bros, our response?

How is it?

My Paris Review subscription ends this fall, should I renew or go with another one?
Also, why aren't literary magazines more discussed here? Is it the reek of caviar leftism most of them emanate? Do you subscribe to any? Which ones?

75Hz e-ink devices are coming bros. Postpone your e-reader purchase. The future is /lit/
https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor

i was reading some reviews for wuthering heights and a bunch of people started shitting on the book purely bc of how toxic catherine n heathcliff are. isnt that the main point bronte was trying to make abt their relationship? theyre both clearly too self-absorbed in their own agendas that being a decent human being isnt their highest priority

What is the relationship between the Forms and the human soul?

Sorcery, Wizardry, Witchcraft, Psionics, and General Magic and Powers Edition

FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.

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Even they are waking up for the fact that women only read porn.

Any anons in Vancouver hit up the library book sale downtown today? It's on until this Sunday, and the pickings are quite good.

Favourite finds:

Hal Morgan - Symbols of America
The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics
Bernard Leach - A Potter in Japan
The Penguin Anthology of Imagist Poetry
The Grove Press Anthology of Chinese Literature vols. 1&2
Stan Brakhage - Film Biographies

Total cost: $100 CAD (≈$70 USD)
U jelly? Rate my stack.