REFORGED FROM RUIN EditionStubbed >>24854248>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.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24864059sometimes I look for smutty novels but non on RR where the rules don't even allow outright smutif it's just a "normal" novel with sexual content on the side that's pretty neutral to me. unless it seems like haremslop where like 5 girls are in love with the mc then I will avoid it.
>>24863641Shilling your own story is bad enough, imagine shilling someone else's story. Might as well star in cuck porn lmao
>>24863379>Are there any where the protag has like an infinite number of things to get better at and use?Aren't pretty much half of those stories "I can do literally anything lol"
>>24864115highest IQ post in the history of this general. shillcucks absolutely obliterated lol
Greatest webnovel ever written. Read it.
one time i tried to read 1984 and 3 pages in the protagonist was talking about raping a woman i just put the book down after that i don't really care
>>24864174Nice opinion, Mr. Reddit Tranny.
Is this too hard? I haven't much previous knowledge in philosophy. Should I wait and read it only when ive become more knowledgeable?
>>24861558>>24861791>>24862924That's weird. A lot of people on reddit said it was a really difficult read and not written for the layman at all. Search it if you don't believe me. The first result will be a reddit thread saying just that.
its 2 pages long.
>>24861441I'd call it comparable in difficulty to Nietzsche, so like medium level. It's mainly because it's written in a somewhat annoying style, the concepts themselves aren't that hard to grasp. Like this anon said >>24861791 you will want to take notes as you read. However I think EEAAO sucks ass, so I'd recommend reading pic related instead.
>>24862989By "not difficult" I mean that it's still hard, it's a literal stream of consciousness, but if you put enough effort into it you'll be able to understand the book. Camus doesn't use some sort of hard philosophical terms (mostly)
It's not particularly difficult, but it isn't a novel and requires you to read differently from what you're probably used to.
Does /lit/ like contemporary poetry?
>>24862798It's a perpetual childhood. Most of us as children thought that we were innately bound for success and could accomplish absolutely everything through work and talent alone, and a large part of adulthood is learning to accept the limitations you can't change and aim for more realistic goals. Men are forced to learn this the second they leave school (if not earlier) and have to enter the real world, because they soon realize that nobody else will help them if they fail. For women, there's no such pressure because they can always find a partner to support them even if they fail (not to mention that it's still relatively more socially-acceptable to live off your parents as a woman). This coddling leads to delusions of competence, you can still larp as a poet or an influencer or a "professional activist" and live off of others, while men have to give up phases like that in order to survive on their own. I see this pattern play out constantly, especially among siblings. For example, my buddy struggled to find a job right out of college, so his family pressured him to join the military. Meanwhile, his sister never received that pressure, and she's spent the last few years stretching out an English associate's degree and living off of both her parents and her boyfriend. I wouldn't necessarily mind this immaturity if we still lived under a patriarchal system, but when half of the population is both developmentally-stunted and encouraged to pursue positions of power, it's a catastrophe.
>>24862993>>24863432I don't know what causes this arrested development, but as a zoomer, it worries me deeply. Most of my friends spend a lot of their freetime watching children's cartoons and playing video games (keep in mind that they're in their mid-twenties). Higher aspirations and values seem to be rare, it's just constant recreation over stuff they should have grown out of years ago. Granted, I'm not much better considering I spend my time reading and shitposting on a mongolian basketweaving forum, but still, it's just pervasive. I can't imagine what someone from just a century ago would think of modern adulthood.
>>24863432NTA. Material prosperity does the same thing to every organism. The group decays until things get hard again, if you give it enough time and it doesn't go extinct it finds an equilibrium point instead of oscillating wildly between abundance and mass death.The world will be forced into a new era soon, it's already beyond peak resource extraction and around peak-population, post-AI, post-democratization of propaganda through the internet, post-woke, post-feminist and post-reactionary. . Economic and military hegemony was outsourced to China and a reckless bet on some vague high tech future fixing everything. The most powerful force of the previous era, US cultural hegemony was lost to the internet, starting a fracturing of cultures that will continue across every tech revolution.
>>24863730I suspect the problem is twofold: There is little left to accomplish, and post-WWII society and culture is built around preventing Great Men from emerging so the world wars don't happen again. What should an individual today aspire to? What is there to pursue other than pure pleasure? Man has been to space, he has reduced the tyranny of distance to a day, and now we are building systems that can think and create the image of anything we imagine, with only the effort of a thought. Why shouldn't they waste their time? Struggle is no longer necessary.
>>24863700>they soon realize that nobody else will help them if they failThe mononuclear family structure fucked over american men so hard...>my buddy struggled to find a job right out of collegeWhat was his degree, if I may ask?
"There can be only one!" editionPrevious: >>24848643/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease 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:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24864025im jealous
>>24864030We're all gonna make it
>>24862951You got your thread back, because I got too lazy to report it again
If that was actually the case anyone could just report it and we'll be deep inside /wg/s asshole again.
>>24863459You should just have her change into appropriate clothes. Do you know what a scull is like? It's not plausible that she's wearing street clothes going sculling. Also the whole sculling section is not very convincing. Are you saying the sculls are being kept outside with a bicycle lock? Boathouse, sand and pier doesn't sound right to me either or that if it's cold weather (she's wearing a coat?) as claimed, the old man is sitting there with his feet in the water or had just been swimming in a cold lake (hypothermia?).I googled some of the place names mentioned in your story and my guess is that these locations and stuff are made up? Why not use real locations? There is something jarring about the juxtaposition of luxury watches and cars in a place like rural Kansas. They don't fit together in a very convincing way. Even her own car is something I don't associate with the Midwest (and yeah, you probably want to capitalize that), but with the Northeast. Though I guess if it's a college town, we can make an allowance for that.>Townsmen Townies would sound more naturalMentioning God in the final sentence is probably not a good idea because it suddenly makes the story religious.
I think I'm in love. but like she says about Kant, I never really left my hometown either.
>>24863660holding in a mouthful of black man's cum
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>>24864154I'm not autism but what's the point if people can fake their faces?
>>24863660Flirty
>>24863464she look like Kant
Can anyone recommend a book(s) about a character with a mentally ill mother (bonus if the father is neglectful) I have already read the glass menagerie
>>24863966Carrie by Stephen King.A Child Called 'It'
My novella's protagonist has a neglectful family with a history of mental illness.
>>24863966Mad Shadows
she's already done with:harry potterartemis fowlnarniaa series of unfortunate eventsspook's (aka the last apprentice)percy jacksonearth's childrenwhat now?
>>24860798give her the Hunger Games.
>>24860798Did she understand Narnia? If not, did you explain?
>>24860798I loved pic related books when I was 10-14. It's Christian Indiana Jones for kids.Besides that, she's right about the age where she's likely developing her own tastes and you might be able to start introducing her to more "adult" books, especially if she's a voracious reader so her brain is primed for it. My preteen and teen years are when I started developing an interest in the books my parents were reading.
>>24860881I read Lord of the Rings at 12
>>24864089Unfortunately if she ever looks any books up on the internet or anywhere all she's going to get into is "dark romantasy" because this is literally the only thing being produced and marketed.
>Women have spent centuries writing down exactly what they find desirable in men>And you won't read it
>>24863766You are retarded
>>24863831Yes, I'm the retard, not you, the guy reading Jane Austen, investing in the superficial illusion of female thought, who can't use simple punctuation.
>>24863364>just be tall, dark, handsome, rich, and mysterious, and come off like an asshole at first but not really because you're just a nice guy that was wronged by people your entire life, then got insulted by some random mid ass bitch, then decide to switch your entire personality for her bro!I'm ok. I can die single.
>>24863370>be rich>be tall>be a dark triad asshole
>>24863373Women don't actually think or believe anything. They are so cognizant of changes in societal and social behavior that they are not and cannot be their own people.
>Dude, life is a struggle, but you should.... deal with it, lol>Also I'm a rich chad who bangs hot women and live like a high-roller, I totally know what struggle is like, take my advice
>>24864102Then read history instead
>>24863516Nah. But my balls taste pretty good, or so I've heard.
>>24863565Die Kreuzen, Killing Joke, Husker Du, Metal Church, The Cure, Running Wild, Franz Liszt, Antonin Dvorak.
>>24863383Camus grew up in a French colony, his father died in world war one, and they were extremely poor.
>>24864120i do, and i find it way more interesting than some pompous faggot's internal musings that he wrote down in order to bore the future generations with his pseudointellectual proselitism.
How do you feel about the rise of anti-intellectualism within the last half-decade?
>>24863818>historical analysis of the protestant reformationIt's completely ahistorical. I will go as far as to say that he knows nothing about major Reformers like Luther and Calvin.
>>24862808Another russian psyop. The alt right cattle is now taught to perceive intellectuals as degenerate tranny loving liberals, and scientists as puppets of a globohomo government. That's why the average 4channer informs himself here, and not reading papers or books, because they automatically assume everything not said by an anonymous stranger on the internet posting porn and saying nigger every few syllables is false.
>>24862838I never understood guys like you who prefer to think some puppetmaster is orchestrating some grand plan rather than the more likely scenario that the world is full of people who have competing interests all vying for a spot.
>>24863170>Instead of dozens of synonyms for something bad, you just get ungood.So, the Cool Nigger in your headshiet unc, you actually care about that take ur meds bruh what if a cool nigger saw you being passionate about smth das wild skull emoju>Emphasis is standardized (double plus ungood).fr fr ong 100 emojiZoomer slang and trying to portray blacks as the arbiters of culture and of what is cool was 100% pushed by the government in some capacity. Making someone a retarded stoner too embarassed to take a stand on anything is way easier than stopping him from doing something once he takes a stand on something
>>24864146Stopping people taking a stand is incredibly easy. Read about what happened to Spartacus.
Dolores wasn't a heckin groomed abused victim, she was a knowing minx whore slut that knew exactly what she was doing and abused Humbert and exploited him, then left the only man that loved her so she could be a porn star and get pregnant with another mans child
>>24863160I know this is a ragebait thread but she only did that INITIALLY. After the first time they did it, he took it too far and continuously raped her while she despised him.
>>24863160Translating it into *nglish was a huge mistake. *gnlo mind cannot comprehend anything which isn't puritanism (or something).
>>24863336Because what you is a pedophile delusion. And if there are teenagers who seek sex with adults, it's the duty of a normal well adjusted adult to refuse. Dealing with teenagers is like dealing with horny toddlers. You have to be fucked up in the head in the first place to want to do anything with that. I'd even go far and say even 19 year olds are pure undiluted cringe and you have to be mentally deficient to find any intellectual or emotional stimulation from interacting with them. >>24864083>You know what me and the girls and a boy did at summer camp?>It means she consented. He drugged LolitaWhen she woke up, she asked if he knew what she and Charlie did, and if he did the same in childhood. It sounds rather innocuous, like a child asking if you know what is in his hand.Humbert concluded that meant Lolita was experienced and ready for sex. The scene is pedophilic to the max and shows how pedophiles abuse the slightest tinges of sexuality in kids in order to justify their molestation and rape. "Oh, she said she touches herself down there; it means RAPE TIME."Along with Finneegans Wake, Lolita is the litmus test for autism, because you have to understand people and their behaviour instead of mere words to see how fucked up and predatory Humbert Humbert is. With Lolita, the secret is in the details outside the first person narration, but it requires not being an autist to see it. Everyone who thinks Lolita consented or initiated or seduced Humbert is an autist who takes the obvious narrative at surface value.>>24864068>>24864081You don't need to have an English degree to see that Lolita's actions don't agree with how Humbert interprets the events.If you support Humbert you don't know how to read and take the book at surface level. You can't spot nuance and dissonance. That's the game Nabokov plays with his readers. He presents one version of the story while giving hints, through the behaviour of characters outside the main narrator, about another version of the same story. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24864110Sip your corn syrup and chill out mutt. Humbert is Aryan.
>>24864110Autism is very useful for Finnegans Wake though
>>24864002>EliteHe was a based class traitor who supported the Revolution.>Bisexual goonerHe was a based sexually liberated man who did not cower before prudish mores.>Murder/power fetishHe was a based free spirit who understood that moralism is used as a tool by the powerful to repress the powerless and keep them enslaved by their own inhibitions.
>>24864012The middle class "revolution" His liberty to debase was all that he preached
>>24864016>The middle class "revolution" Yes. In 1789 the industrial proletariat were still in too weak a state to mount their own democratic revolution, so they had to join forces with the bourgeoisie, who, of course, then stabbed them in the back. But, it was ultimately still a progressive and earth-shaking historical event that is celebrated by every intelligent individual.>His liberty to debase was all that he preachedIf he was only interested in his own liberation, he would not have bothered writing so many books extolling the benefits of a liberated lifestyle. He clearly wanted to spread his freedom to others.
Are there any concise biographies on this man? I want to read about his life but not exhaustively.
>>24864041https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-120-days-of-sodom-and-other-writings
Are there any newspaper columnists you like?
>>24863950Chris Hedges. Has integrity and isn't spineless.
Yes, but all of them died before I was born.
>>24864040Where’s he frum?
>>24863950No, they are all dirtbags. Dirtbags with run-of-the-mill, average opinions, presented as highly important
>>24864070He's Canadian-American.
>paperback has a dust cover
>book has dust cover>book is hardcover
