$76.240 Per Month EditionStubbed >>24682944>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!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
So if you want to really get big, you have to come up with something comical and reddity, relatable to americans, like "I opened a drive-thru car wash in another world but since there aren't cars, I wash dinosaurs lmaooo"?
>>24688363no thats eastern slop meta, retard. not rr
>>24688360NTA but>le ebin goofy animal sidekickcringe reddit slop>completely played-straight cool ass animal companion, especially some edgy shit like a pantherbased
And then, the fated moment arrived.Escorted by a maid, [heroine] crossed the threshold and entered the classroom.[MC] was struck dumb, and his mouth fell open.Glossy black hair cascaded in waves past her shoulders, framing the porcelain skin of her face, neck, and collarbone. Onyx jewels sparkled in place of her eyes, decorating either side of her delicate snub nose. A slight jawline and full, pouty lips set between slightly round cheeks gave her a lingering cuteness even as she was clearly growing into a gorgeous young woman. She was petite, half a head shorter than the maid next to her, and she wore a loose off-white blouse with short puff sleeves and a low neckline and a long, ruffled dark-grey skirt ending just above her ankles. Her small feet were clad in eye-catchingly shiny, polished black leather loafers. Her clothing, though loose, couldn’t hide her generous curves, a body type that [MC] had never seen in his home village before.She was the most beautiful woman [MC] had ever seen, and from that moment on, he never had eyes for any woman but her.As [MC] could do nothing but stare, rooted to the spot, she cocked her hip and placed a hand on it and sighed loudly—revealing sparkling, perfectly white teeth between her rose-pink lips.“Ugh, there’s no more seats left!” She turned her gaze onto the Smith, narrowing her eyes and producing the slightest furrow in her brow.“You there, foreigner. Give me your seat.”How does this read as an introductory description?
>>24688407The arrogant noble and cool black-haired beauty can't be the same character. It's a conflict of aesthetic conventions.
"Anomaly" editionPrevious: >>24668754/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.
I wrote a short story and a professional literary editor liked it, how would I make it into a comic book? Do I have to hire one guy to draw it and one guy to color it in? Is there a directory of artists for hire?
>>24688273Good luck finding an artist without corporate support. Any decent artist is either only taking work from companies or is absurdly expensive.
>>24688273AI.
>>24686774I bombed your mom last night.
Why is it so hard to write FUN? I constantly catch myself rambling paragraph after paragraph about some irrelevant bullshit that's not even interesting
If Aleister Crowley was such a great occulist then why he couldn't he save himself from going bald? Same with Austin Osman Spare, he was bald and miserable and died in poverty.
>>24688248Holy shit that was you?
In Natures infinite booke of Secrecie, a little Ican read.
>>24688278important corresponding film
>>24688346Humans want something more special in life, and they fall into a spell of desperate delusion. They put themselves in position to be ensorcelled by charlatans, and what is a sorcerer if not a charlatan who has a lot more presence? A true wizard, or the sage, won’t necessarily see themselves as such. They won’t necessarily go out of their way to weaponize ignorance, though they use it conveniently to enchant others the same way a stage magician enchants others.
>>24688362>Christopher Walken lol anything he is in you know it's the good good. much appreciated
Post your own work and critique others. Or just talk about poetry more generally and share poems you like.
>>24683228Peroty?
>>24683228A specter invades a nightly retreat,to a land of lost wants and thoughts incomplete.Upon baren soil i stand, bewildered at the sightof a pale apparition shining bright, and bold she stoodTowering againts the ocean dark sky.Her eyes beamed upon my soulInquiring on days of oldof when her hands i held, herlips i felt, and soul i exploredHer voice trickled down to my earsQuestioning decisions made over the yearsThe siren's song closed with a gongasking if i'm happy to be where i belongComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24686396In de zeven zeeen zal ik zoekennaar de diepste waarheiden het zuiverste gelooftot ik elke dag heb leren vissenen niet meer verdrinkin de storm die mij bedroogI typed it into a Nokia phone while on a bike when I was 15. I think it's the only thing I've written that felt worth preserving. I sent it to my mother. She is pisces (vissen). She also is the storm. She liked it. I don't think she got it. Though I don't think I did back then, either.
>>24684315>>24686403I interpreted it as the night being warbled too by drunks, so both clear and not clear, in the way wodka makes people blurry, even if itself it is clear.>>24685703Isn't it sometimes worth pointing out which of the two it is and why? It's the clash of perspectives that makes communication interesting, isn't it?
I wandered alone through the crumbling stone.A shadow that roams.My people are gone, yet my spirit lives on.All that remains is empty, a stain.In the streets, in the towns all the people are brown.An Empire in rubble, no fighting, no struggle.All that's left of Old England; a puddle.
Redpill me on Brandon Sanderson.Are his books worth reading? Is he woke?
>>24686778Rock solid magic systems>Never makes up magic rules then breaks them later>Obviously played a lot of D&D>Power levels feel strong but have well defined limitationsServiceable story and characters >Manages ensemble of characters well>Dynamic characters have meaningful growth>Static characters compliment the world, support main charactersSatisfying>Wraps up story threads without glaring plotholes>Characters get satisfying arcs>Actually finishes and releases books, literally constantlyComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24688331Pretty sure I did. “Lord Spirit”, a prince who “comes back from the dead”, brings hope, magic and the promise of new life to people who have given up hope
>>24688354Yeah, you definitely didn't read the book. If you had then you would know he never promises them a new life and does everything he can to not be treated as a messiah.
>>24688384>new lifeHe brings back the ancient magic of the god like people. He returns agriculture, stops crime, and gets people to be self sufficient rather than rely on charity. It’s a new way of life/ a metaphor. Also, he’s pretty much literally the messiah
>>24688395Do you just think every hero is a Christ allegory? The book is just magic zombies (which the author has even stated to be the case) so no shit there's rebirth themes.
how do you guys feel about this one
Perhaps I didn't get far enough into it but it gets so repetitive for me. I get it's the catch-22 but every page is filled with catch-22s that it gets tiresome to read for me. I've tried reading it three times and I can still never get past the first ~150 pages.
>>24686973Fun desu.
>>24686973very funny book written by a jew.
I read this when I was 20 years old. It's clever and an interesting look into the war from the American perspective. It shows things that your average person doesn't think about regarding the soldier's experience. I despise the US military, but it's a good book.
(((Milo Minderbinder)))
Are there any good Marxist/communist novel in the second half of the 20th century or contemporary?
>>24688161I was asking for novels in late 20th century and on, but I’ll let it count.Thank you.
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>>24687919East of Eden, grapes of wrath?Wtf even is a "Marxist - communist" novel? Is it about how the production resources belong to the sexual workers?
>>24688270What novels did e.g. the French structuralists or Althusser-school guys read. You know like communist worldview, second half of 20th century, novel. Those guys must have read stuff besides theory. Just as an example.
>>24688336class-struggle is a recurring aspect of alot of 19th century French novels - to name a few; Zola's are a strong example (Germinal is the apogee here) another is Jules Vallès nightmarish autobiographical trilogy - imbued with a strong hatred of the bourgeois which climaxes in the author mounting the barricades of the Paris Commune to take his shot at 'barrack and bivouac, saber and musket, mustache and uniform' (only the first book has been translated into English - 'The Child' - as far as i am aware)
If God is eternally complete and self-sufficient, what motivation could there possibly be for creating a universe? Does creation imply a "need" or "desire" within God?
>>24688038A world where things must consume each other in order to live, how lovely.
>>24687736The universe is eternally complete and self-sufficient
>>24688260You turn man's inventions into God's... how small of you.You gonna pin entropy on God too? What about death? How about don't eat from the fucken tree next time?
>>24687784he didnt create the universe, the universe as we know it is him
>>24687736Its a meme ya dip
what lit should i consume in preparation for halloween?
>>24687439This in its entirety
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>>24687439A Night in the Lonesome October
>>24687707i'm not 6 but i do like goblins
>>24687439
How did dostoevsky become a mind virus?
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>my simple life>I do the same as 99% of the population>but I try to make it look deep with a shitty video I post on social media for validationWhat brings a man to do this?
>>24681512what would the female equivalence be?
>>24688110Femenine mind and the lack of a family
>>24681868reads like my diary desu
Are there any sci-fi/cyberpunk novels that are not action/crime/conspiracy/mystery focused, but show life in a society like that?
>>24688290>Cyberpunk is an aesthetic more than anything else and is quickly becoming retrofuturism because of how the world developed. It's a future that never was, so finding exactly what you want would be difficult. Not so much though if the cyberpunk aesthetic is dropped.Retarded take. It's happening just like it was said. The issue is that being radical and punk post-2016 means that any cyberpunk novel with "real" topical critique would be unpublishable.
>>24688358>any cyberpunk novel with "real" topical critique would be unpublishable.bullshit
>>24688358You don't understand cyberpunk.
Personally I prefer post-cyberpunk.
>>24688358How so? There have been cyberpunk stories published about torturing Elon Musk, assassinating Trump, killing all tech bros, destroying all AI, and all other sorts of things. Maybe you mean the other way? Surely there has been some of that as well..
What is some good Indian lit?
>>24688107
>>24688107Saar chronicles: the life of poo
>>24688134>ravi subhuman
funniest shit i've read in probably in the last 10 years
Just finished Gravity's Rainbow and I'm underwhelmed. The prose is needlessly convoluted and the philosophical insights are just warmed-over boomerisms. It feels like people only pretend to like him to seem smart. What am I missing?
>>24687980>perfect artThis is an empty statement. To say something is perfect is to say nothing about it. There is no information value conveyed.
>>24686458Okay but portrait of the artist was 100% about all of that Beckett I get though
>>24686280Haven't read GR yet but read V. and enjoyed it quite a bit. There is a sense of loneliness in it I enjoyed, and I don't think the driving themes of his work are so simple, at least in V.
>>24688042op is what is referred to as a "troll"
>>24687980> in general seem really amorphousThis isn't a hard science, so follow along if you can. The novel is a more superficial form, the only form where women are frequently greater than men (no offense to women intended), and Tolstoy is a fairly womanly as novelist (his female characters are most prized--which is pretty interesting since we know how much he hated women privately). We judge art by the depth of its conceptions--what problems it was chosen and overcome. Tolstoy's problems are not as deep as others, and his main value is negative in rebuking society, rebuking hypocrisy, depicting the brutality and mercilessness of the Will. It's not meaningless that he came to condemn all art, including his own, and it wasn't hyperbole when he did this, though he was among those artists who hated themselves. But the most sublime artworks are those of transcendental value which change reality and overcome evil, regardless if they are ever appreciated by any mortal (though of course they eventually are). Are Tolstoy's works of this kind? Perhaps, but less so than others. When I agree with fp and say he is overrated I mean that I don't view his accomplishment as superhuman, as I do with several others.
Rank them
right mogs I'm afraid. the sensitive white boy look of left just ain't it. and middle is an obvious earcel.
>>24688226Yeats doesn't really fit with the others, though.
>>24688226Yeats is passive and his mainstream appeal to modern liberals (despite being a fascist) is probably a bad sign. His belief in reincarnation as a sentimental affirmation of life is offensive on several levels. Lacks profundity.Eliot is only great in his early work, where he is a Dantescan voice.Pound viewed himself as a failure, though he was only partly. This kind of reflection speaks well to his profundity, but he wasn't as pure and natural a lyric poet as Yeats.The critical consensus putting Yeats at the top is probably correct but I prefer Pound as a personality and would choose to read only him for the rest of my life if made to choose between them
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,I had not thought death had undone so many.I have loved a stream and a shadow.And bending down beside the glowing bars,In vials of ivory and coloured glassO woman of my dreamsGilt turquoise and silver are in the place of thy rest
I give Yeats a slight edge over Pound although it‘s hard to compare someone who mastered traditional poetic forms against someone who blazed new trails. Eliot solidly behind both although The Waste Land is probably the best 400-odd lines from any of them.
