/lit/ - Literature

So, ultimately, would you rate the effect of reading philosophy on yourself as positive?

>What is /wng/ - 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'.

>/wng/ authors.
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>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

Recommended web novels
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Anon's guide to success
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FAQ
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Best novels by women
1. Eliot, 'Middlemarch'
2. Burney, 'Cecilia'
3. Brontë, 'Wuthering Heights'
4. Austen, 'Persuasion'
5. Rhys, 'Good Morning Midnight'
6. Woolf, 'The Waves'
7. Shelley, 'Frankenstein'

>The torrent pours from an invisible source, the point of entry being the center of the symbolic circle of the universe, the Immovable Spot of the Buddha legend, around which the world may be said to revolve. Beneath this spot is the earth-supporting head of the cosmic serpent, the dragon, symbolical of the waters of the abyss, which are the divine life-creative energy and substance of the demiurge, the world-generative aspect of immortal being. The tree of life, i.e., the universe itself, grows from this point. It is rooted in the supporting darkness; the golden sun bird perches on its peak; a spring, the inexhaustible well, bubbles at its foot. Or the figure may be that of a cosmic mountain, with the city of the gods, like a lotus of light, upon its summit, and in its hollow the cities of the demons, illuminated by precious stones. Again, the figure may be that of the cosmic man or woman (for example the Buddha himself, or the dancing Hindu goddess Kali) seated or standing on this spot, or even fixed to the tree (Attis, Jesus, Wotan); for the hero as the incarnation of God is himself the navel of the world, the umbilical point through which the energies of eternity break into time. Thus the World Navel is the symbol of the continuous creation: the mystery of the maintenance of the world through that continuous miracle of vivification which wells within all things.
Why did no one tell me that this book was just schizo shit?

Which year would you cut it off at?
I am thinking 2002, aka people who graduated high school before covid really took over

"Tried and True" edition

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>What is /wg/ — Writing General?

A general for self-published writers and readers, focused primarily on serialized english authors posting for online audiences. You're welcome to discuss works hosted on Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, AO3, Spacebattles, HFY, and other literary blogs.
Also welcome: Genre Fiction, short stories & more.

>>Why read serialized fiction?
Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, serials 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 serialized fiction?
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 successfull Amazon authorship 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 online serials:
alexanderwales.com/how-to-write-a-___-serial/

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

Recommended novels
rentry.co/d2yvczro

Anon's guide to success
rentry.co/RRBasicGuide

FAQ
rentry.co/pytefpxn

>Interests & Discussion

Serial authors: feel free to link chapters and synopses, but please be mindful of your frequency
Give feedback as often as you receive it. This thread thrives on exchange.
Share ideas, brainstorm your next arc, or provide honest reviews to others.
Discuss ongoing serials, industry news, and publishing strategies.
Encourage anons to keep writing.

If I order this from Hackett's website instead of amazon will it at least get some decent packing? I am fucking sick of amazon throwing books in envelopes or boxes just to get bashed around

>can't buy these for love nor money
This phrase makes no sense, since when is love a traded backed commodity like money

Any books on a slow descent to madness caused by the degradation of beauty from aging?

The most badass kid's book in the world.

suppose you were introducing a teenage boy relative to classic adventure/sci-fi/fantasy/horror pulp,
what authors would you recommend apart from these four of course

are visual novels considered /lit/, /co/ or /v/?

I just finished Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer. I don't know if his idea of Alpha and Omega is based on any real psychology, but out of all the philosophy and theology I've read, it's the only thing that makes sense. It has always felt like there are two different people in my mind fighting for control. I also agree with his description of narcissism. I've never been able to love or hate another person because I used it up on myself. When I read Stendhal, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche I thought there were some great ideas, but nothing like a profound revelation Mailer caused in me. Where should I go from here? I don't think novels are doing me much good. I would prefer to read something non-fiction. I already tried Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Schopenhauer, Kant and a bunch of Christian doctrine. I've avoided Frued because everything I heard sounded nonsensical. Is Jung any good? Or Epicurus? I've heard many interesting things about him. Would it be pointless after Lucretius? I feel like I'm wasting my life and need to discover my identity before I die. There's not enough time to read everything. I have no clue where to start with psychology and I'm not even sure it's any different than philosophy. Seems like the same thing under a different name. Science vs. metaphysics.

I don't see these because I use an adblocker, but according to /wg/ pic related had an ad for a while. Post more.

Hello /lit/ I have an admittingly strange and odd request. I have a problem of having to deal with what feels like an immense amount of energy coursing through my entire body from time to time. It feels very potent and very dangerous and i'd like to learn more about it before jumping in head first and getting a stroke or something.

From my very limited knowledge pool it sounds like it could be excess chi or kundalini energy. Is there anything else it could be and are there any recommended books on those subjects? I really feel deep down that I need to read up on what this is.

All you need in this lifetime. You have been waiting for this for many thousand lives.

Has anyone finished this book? The First part was great but the second part Is really disappointing the whole Makeba/Solomon love story Is really annoying almost as much the Letter to Mother sections. I barely got trough It but the third part still has those sections and the story Just gets less and less exciting.

What are some patrician 'night feels' book?

https://strawpoll.com/bVg8B7Vx2yY

Reading is becoming a more female dominated hobby since moids just watch porn and play videogames.

I notice comfy boards tend to have more women in them. You can compare /r9k/ and crystal cafe and while the latter is less active it is much more comfy, wheras the former is cancer.

"Next Generation" edition

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>42 year old with no wife or children
>starts obsessing over cats souls raw meat and reincarnation
Sad

What’s the literary equivalent of this

Idealism and the Protestant reformation were mistakes.

Do you think any of the Tributes in the Hunger Games have ever raped each other? Also, what if there were just 2 people left in the Games and instead of finishing the Games one of the remaining tributes decided to rape the other? Do you think the Gamemakers would punish this? Do you think Suzanne Collins would be offended by this question?

Rimbaud and Nietzsche insulted Hitler's lineage between the lines. Hitler responded with a big cuckfest. You good?

"Bad Blood." -Rimbaud (Hitler's family is shit. "Have a face or two.")

I am asking, basically, what your thoughts are on intellectuals having foreknowledge of the Holocaust. Was it preventable? What could make a repeat preventable?

The idea of an "ultimate fate of the universe" is a lie spread to keep the masses in line. There is no heat death. All of the literature on this topic is incorrect.

Every book written on the topic of the "ultimate fate of the unverse" is full of propaganda meant to threaten and terrify the masses.

Dark energy decays into dark matter, and dark matter decays into baryonic matter.

Booktok girls are noticing the themes and symbolism in One Piece, can you?

The rules are simple. Rewrite the following story in a different style. Don’t repeat what other anons have already written. I’ll start with three variations.

I was in the McDonald’s on King street. The guy at the front of the line had a bowl cut and a pencil mustache. He accused the guy behind him of breathing on the back of his neck. Then he grabbed his nuggets and fries and quickly left the restaurant.

An hour later I saw him outside the bus station on first avenue. His friend was telling him that his zipper was undone.

The West needs you. These are troubled times. Stop "having fun".
"Fun" is not for men.
Stop smiling.
Always wear a suit.
Grow a beard.
Be cold.
Be serious.
Be stoic.
Grind for 21 hours a day.
Gym for 4 hours (while manosphere/conservative self-improvement/finance/motivational audiobooks/videos/podcast play on the background).
Take a 2min cold shower.
Read manosphere/conservative self-improvement/finance/motivational books for an hour.
Sleep for 3 hours (at most).
Monetize a hobby.
Get a passive income.
Always be ready to hop on a call with your clients and prospective businesses partners.
Never engage in casual sex.
Never drink alcohol.
Never play videogames.
Never consume sugar.
Never consume carbs.
Only eat at the end of your hard day of work as a reward, and never drink to fulfillment. Always stay hungry.
Drink 4L of water daily.

Never do drugs.
Take your pills.
Quit caffeine.
Quit movies, music, shows, videos or any form of "entertainment".
Go to Church.
Never watch porn.
Never masturbate.
Never sin.
Study the biology of female attraction.
Talk to that girl. With a serious face and calculated words.
Be a gentleman with her and with every woman.
Marry and provide for her and her kids.
Become a father.
Sacrifice yourself for your family.
Put your wife's needs above yours.
Grind relentlessly. No "rest" days.
Defend free speech online.
Defend the correct positions.
Enlist.
Fight for your country.
Bear the cross.
Responsibility.
Sacrifice.
Suffering.
Struggle.
It is hard. It is supposed to be.
Put. In. The. Work.
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What am I in for?

many of kafka's novels were never finished before his death. do you think you could do them justice and complete them?

I wanted to get into Hegel. What am I in for? Will it inspire me into new delusional paths for grasping our current 'reality' that is going to the shitters lately? How suddenly billy changed his tone on climate change, why microtransactions are still a thing, and what tf really happened on that goddamn island (I was vaccinated three years ago if this information is necessary)

There’s a lot less Kantposting lately, so I guess I’ll have to fill in.
Alright, listen up and get your critiques of pure reason out and start reading. 10 pages a day should be manageable for everyone.
Btw what is the best introduction to Kant? (Some anons might need help after all)

So...you should read the same book three times to really get it?

Every third word is made-up

>female authors believe publishing under a male pen name will increase their success
>male authors believe publishing under a female pen name will increase their success

Which is it?

Any books that unapologetically justify Jewish rule over goycattle?

The Moon Thought

Why didn't Hermione's parents fix her teeth?

What are some books, referred to by some as 'sigma lit,' or 'incel lit,' that provides practical advice to men who are alone and who want to remain alone? I've already read Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, and I'm going to read the Hagakure. Is there anything else? I'd like a book that more directly tackles the life of an incel, provides advice on how to get on in this life, how to deal with normies and the workplace, and how to be unseen. Pic unrelated.

>I hold his enthusiasms, his fervors against him. He demolished so many idols only to replace them with others: a false iconoclast, with adolescent aspects and a certain virginity, a certain innocence inherent in his solitary's career. He observed men only from a distance. Had he come closer, he could have neither conceived nor promulgated the superman, that preposterous, laughable, even grotesque chimera, a crotchet which could occur only to a mind without time to age, to know the long serene disgust of detachment.

Kek, This is the best criticism against Nietzsche

What's the Old Money equivalent in literature?

Get the fuck in here faggots, it's autumn, it's Trakl time

What are some of your opinions which are verboten in literary history. Eg: Shakespeare sucks.

My personal is that Robert Graves and Peter Green are better translators of Homer than Fagles, Fitzgerald or Chapman.

How does he even answer the proposition that reality is as real, or more so than the world of forms?
Is his fear of playwrights just him and Socrates, after studying for years on end, get btfod by barely literate theather kids since the theater kids have strict limits on rationalizing, as the story needs to be engaging and immersive, ironically landing closer to reality because they study nature rather than merely thhinking about it.
It also seems to me that Hegelian dialectics are just the same platonic fantasies but more immersive by obfuscation and already engaging due to the fantasies not having to correspond to nature
I wonder what the modern aristotle to this would be desu

In my opinion, villians almost always make poor protagonists... they're just one dimensionally evil and have no morality or struggles. How can you make a protagonist exciting and interesting if they are just boring like villians?

Seeing as the time is nearing us and everyone either wants a change in the system or sees it as a bullshit time waste, the top 100 vote has to be overhauled this year.
Now, what are the main critiques:
>It's the same books every year, especially top 20-30s
>Not enough people participate for it to have validity
>It's overall dumb
Well, I can't argue with the last two as they're dependant ot the individual's emotional outlook on the vote and seeing how ineffective last year's system of "vote for whatever and however much you want", the lack of enthusiasm is to be expected. Therefore, here are my propositions on how it shall be conducted this time:
1. If we want one collected list, then it will be good to limit the votes and to give them each a point amount, e.g.: 3p, 2p, 1p. To address the problem of always having the same books on the list, here is a method for voting I believe will counteract that:
>3 points vote goes to your underrated, underdog, unacknowledged masterpiece. It doesn't have to be your favourite book, but it has to be one you believe is massively overlooked (or closest to it)
>2 points go to your favourite. IJ, GR, Ulysses, MD, The Bible, Karamazov all go to the top because they're agreeable, which is because they're fucking good, so there isn't really much to counter that, except implore people to not give them their top vote.
>1 point goes to your second favourite, or whatever you feel like has to get that little extra push.
But, there is a second problem. Whatever fiction book isn't in the top 100, it's place where it could have gone to is most probably taken up by a philosophy book. Also, the simplest way not to get the same books on top every year is just to forbid voting for them, so:
2. Splitting the lists into categories, while cumbersome for the voter and the list maker, is the most effective way to make them more colourful, e.g.:
>Fiction, in the three point system I suggested, no philosophical or theological texts and the such
>Non-fiction, again a three point system, so it's not just the greeks, the Bible and the manifestos there
>Underrated, voting for books in the top 30 (or even lower if you want) of the aggregate list will be forbidden and not accounted.

What do you think? I think the cynicism can be cured by work towards a change. And those that keep complaining should just not participate for their own and the others' good.