PEAK EditionStubbed >>24776634>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'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24784364Only those who fail to see the value of life would be upset by those who do. Do to others as you'd want them to do to you.
>>24785095yeah that's why the cartel doesn't exist anymorewait...
>>24783884Inability to empathise
>>24785092>it's CURRENT YEAR fantasy edition
>>24785117that's called subtle worldbuilding details bro.
I am writing a short story with my protag being a 36 year old married white woman HS Teacher that fucks her former student and likes driving also her only daughter just went off to college.
>>24784612Hm, okay, I'll consider this, thanks. It's gonna take place in Quebec. Driving is gonna be a big aspect of this so I guess Montreal to Quebec city would e a big aspect of this. I think QC has Laval University so that could be an aspect. Whatever im rambling. Thanks dude.
>>24784633I just made those suggestions because I think it'll help keep the story tight if you have a shorter cast of characters that are playing more roles in the story. Will also give you a lot more time to develop them of course (and because the cucking idea earlier anon suggested was very eroi desu). Anyway best of luck with the writing.
>>24784612This, and also she's a primary school teacher and her daughter just started high school
I just realized Quebec has a weird as fuck school system. They end secondary school at 16 and then from 17-18 they go to a college prep school instead before going to college. Weird. >>24785003I dont have the balls to write /ss/ senpai
>>24784182Isn't this just the plot of the devil in the flesh
War is le… good?
>>24782770I just finished reading On the Marble Cliffs, the prose was nice but I didn't really think there was "anything to it"I haven't yet read "glass bees" but it seems far more interesting
Huh
>That passage just before the Spring Offensive where he talks about the energy in everybody and how they all felt that the fate of the world was to be decided>That passage where his platoon is completely wiped out by artillery and he's left sobbing in a shell hole>The passage where he finds his brother alive>The passage where he walks back to his lines when everyone around him is being captured after being shot through the lung.Absolute fucking kino. As close to a modern Iliad we will ever get.
>>24782635what war did you read it during?
No, it's more like: >All Quiet On the Western Front: war is hell :(vs>Storm of Steel: war is hell :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J86C4IJTaFwThoughts?
>>24782642Not me, retard. Kys. Also, I'm probably lighter than you.
>>24779858You haven’t read Land have you?
>>24783119>faggy insane drug addict larper. Really?
>>24783460>shitskin insecurity
>>24784301I have, you just haven't understood him
Which e-reader do you have /lit/? Are you happy with it? Is it complicated to get books to it?I am thinking about the Kobo Libra but it seems like getting books onto it is an extremely convoluted process that involves Calibre, KOreader, some plugins, and I don't even know what. And then I looked into Calibre and the first thing I see about it is that it doesn't let you put books in your own folders and it copies your entire library according to its folder scheme. Is there a better library program and a better reader or a better overall experience that isn't like installing Linux? At this point from what I've read I think I should just continue buying actual paper books because this all just sounds like an extreme annoyance. Or maybe I just need to install a good reader program on Windows. What's a good Windows program to read books in like ComicRack for comics?
>>24783795The main issue with the later oasis models is that it's not reasonable to replace the battery (you have to cut the back off carefully with an angle grinder without destroying anything), and now they're coming up on 6-8 years of use, most of the batteries are pretty dead.>>24784570Refresh speed is good, but everything else is still pretty slow. If you're the kind of retard who changes font size 20 times a book maybe you're better off with the newer models.>>24784930Maybe you just got a dud. Haven't used Kobo, because I think it's retarded to pay more than 50 bucks for an e-reader, but the people who have them generally seem to like them.
>>24778719The Dying Earth
>>24777830Why would I by a device that imitates a paper book instead reading a paper book?
>>24785068cause it's small and light and you can read at night
>>24777834Can Amazon detect if your shit is pirated?
What does this board think of her?
>>24777273>I'm really not built for this.What is she even built for then?
>>24782415Jews are lower than dogs.
>>24783320>>24784993The back end of a hammer.
What do you think Honor Levy's shits are like?
>>24785112We already have picture proof
Books on how to stop being a narcissist?
>>24784511The New Testament, njkv
>>24784511you can't stop being a narcissist, but the fact that you think you're a narcissist and want to change is proof you're not a narcissist.you're probably just gay or somethihg
>>24784511Dostoevsky
No book, just fall into a crippling deep depression and then crawl back out before you neck.
>>24784511>identify what narcissism is>identify root causes>change them through habit or decisionsIt's really simple OP
Be real with me, I haven't read any of their literature, but the website for the local lodge in my area says they're all about personal development, charity, and friendship That sounds pretty nice, honestly, and I think all their symbolism is really interesting. If I join the Freemasons, will I go to hell? That's what I've been told. What's so bad about joining them? What literature should I read that exposed them for being devil worshippers?
>>24784689Ew the Catholic Church is fucking gay anon
>>24784703Have you read this anon? Tell us more if so
>>24784739Horrendous bait, but unironically this is what masons believe which shows how fucking retarded they all are. Guess it's the jew gene
>>24784712Cut back on masturbation while you're smoking glass anon. For a while you'll feel like you're immortal. It's like being on glass but also being aware of the time.
>>24784736The absolute latest is 1583 based on the grand lodge No. 1 manuscript, but I find the Regius Poem compelling enough evidence to say the Free Masons were around at least since the middle of the 1400s. It doesn't have all of the later features of Free Masonry, but it does have the Egyptian LARP and the occultism, the esotericism, and brushes with Luciferianism.
>be gay hedonist>write definitive story of how being a gay hedonist ruins your life and destroys everything of beauty and value you touch>get your dick cut off and locked in a tower until you die>gay hedonists: "omg hes so based"I feel like the entire situation could have been handled better by all parties involved.
You either die unrecognized or live long enough in the minds of others to be horrendously mischaracterized.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXW6tfl2Y0&ppbased gay selfdestructing aphorist
Which epic poems have you read, anons? And what do you think of the epic? Can epic poetry be written in the modern period? Think ‘A’, Cantos, Paterson, and Omeros.
>>24784751>Divine Comedy>folk talekill yourself
i havent read hesiod but i intend to
>>24780824sell it to me.
What languages should we strive to learn as a lovers of the epic? I feel most modern languages aren’t fit to purpose as all European epics were composed in times of greater morphological complexity
>>24784970>original thing is made >refined version of original is committed to posterity >self-conscious imitation of refined version is made using a fundamentally different mode of production >meta, fourth-wall-breaking imitation of the imitation is made, now the mode of production and the social circumstances of the author are both fundamentally different from the original >the last step in this process becomes the standard of legitimacy for membership in the genre you just fell victim to one of the classic blunders
Delphic charioteer edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24732139>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24782628Yesterday, I read 35 pages of LLPSI. Today, I read zero Latin, but I did 5 write-throughs of the active indicative table. When I am less depressed I will read more.
>>24784223cool, i'll look at some of his videos and maybe try inputting some of the basic latin i've seen on this general.>>24784378do you know italian or are you just going to wing it with your Latin knowledge?I have zero latin knowledge other than 1 year in high school, which i don't remember now. So maybe I start with one of those basic textbooks and work my way up? IDK
>>24784537Winging it with Italian. Plus I’ll probably read Italian by the nature method since it worked so well for Latin.>So maybe I start with one of those basic textbooks and work my way up? IDKIf you want to read for comprehension and sight read quickly LLPSI pars i familia romana is your best bet.But yes overall Latin is lexically similar enough to English that direct vocab work is overrated IMO
Idk how to choose a language bros. I think I am too old!! Couldn't find any books on Latin or old English or Greek in any book store or library.
>>24784869yeah I guess you are out of options then sucks to be you better luck next life
What's the cutoff point before the Dune books start being bad?
>>24783707Yes, but walk me through it anyway. Herbert became a hedonist American? In what way was his prior work a means to an end?
>>24783179Postwar boomer sci-fi is always about broad stroke futurist concepts. Otherwise this: >>24783181 in for a penny, in for a pound.
>>24783181Dilating religitard. You are the cattle the bene gisserit use.
>>24783179The absolute cutoff is when Brian starts writing them, but they progressively get wackier starting with the first one. There are more and more questionable decisions as the books progress. I would say maybe God Emperor is the last one where the interesting and the stupid are still balanced in favor of interesting.
>>24783723No I'm just making a general statement about the degeneration of American culture.
Do anyone else not imagine visuals when they are reading? Like are you supposed to be so cucked that you let your mind create visuals described by another person? When authors describe things, I just take their word for it, and I will not allow an author to control me or tell me what I am supposed to be imagining.
>>24784052I do imagine visuals. I just suck at it.
Sour Rotating Apples: The Thread"Another exhilarating tour-de-force by the foremost faggot of our age"-Neil Gaiman"Definitive nigger"-Stephen King
>>24784052I imagine visuals, but it's like a dream kinda. My conscious mind is focused on reading the text but my unconscious mind is like generating the imagery for the text
>>24784052So picking up a book with somebody else's stories an ideas is somehow not being cucked, only imagining the things described? Idgi
>>24784052I enjoy directing scenes in my mind while reading fiction. It can be hard when I don’t know the setting, but I’ll look up things up or look at fan art if I need to. It helps a lot with remembering small details.This too >>24785093
So it was all in Runciter's head, is that it? And was the real villain Jordy or Pam? And why is reincarnation mentioned so much? What's the point? Help me I'm dumb.
What were /lit/'s favorite books as young boy?
>>24779108Nice, this was one of my favorite books in 8th grade, as well as the WWE Legends and I had some issues of Professional Wrestling Illustrated
>>24783806Oh shit Shiloh, such a sad book.
>>24783950I vividly remember Say Cheese and Die>>24784004Picrel series was my intro to classic lit
>>24778863Percy Jackson
>>24784791>Great Illustrated Classics My nigga I read a ton of those, those were great. The Time Machine and Journey To The Center Of The Earth were my favorites
