Are you part of any literature groups? Book clubs, writer guilds, author-orgy-groups, etc.?If so, do you like them?If not, do you wish you were?
My college's book club is extremely faggy, so I just read classics by myself.
>local bookstore book club>online book club>work book club>poetry club with neighborsMy coworkers usually pick terrible books, but otherwise it's all already. Sometimes others have interesting insights, sometimes not, but it's fun to see how others approach books when taking them seriously, and book clubs always force me to think more critically about what I've read.
>>25173947*otherwise it's all great
>>25173916i post anonymously on 4chan's literature board, /lit/. i share my insights about classic american lit, epic poetry, postwar japanese lit (mostly mishima), spree killer mainfestos, and books of various other kinds. i enjoy the "read/expected/got" threads, the "post a pic, get a rec" threads, and the ms paint threads. i do my best to be informative, persuasive, and, to an extent, civil. i often attatch a picture of a cat to my post, not right now though.
>>25173916>writer guild Writers guild are for film and tv writers. You mean authors guild. Unless you for some reason meant to post this on /tv/
>>25173916I attend some local open mics. There's exposure to different kinds and qualities of works, and on good nights some discussion after. I've used one monthly open mic as an exercise to write a piece on a schedule, with the added constraint that it needs to fit within 5 minutes. That's definitely led to an uptick in my writing, and I feel the time/length constraint has been creatively conducive. Sometimes people will have particular things to say about what I wrote, or maybe tell me they liked it, and I feel having to perform a piece also solidifies my own personal appraisal of it. Figuring out what works or what doesn't or what comes across has been interesting.At any open mic you'll hear dogshit writing, but even that can be useful if you really reflect on why it's bad. And if the series is well run you can have a fun night. Hearing something very good can also be illuminating, and it's just cool. One of the best pieces I heard read last year was a guy at an open mic.From my experience closely discussing writing with people, I think it's best when you have similar approaches and intents. After a certain point critique needs to come from the perspective of servicing your intent, which isn't easy to find from random readers. I've got a penpal with whom I mutually share writing, and whom I respect as a writer, and even though we don't really critique each other, hearing what he notices or likes (and vice versa) is insightful, as we approach or think about writing in similar ways. But we also both have a significant degree of self-sufficiency, which I think is important. Mostly I read his writing because I enjoy it.(Are you the same anon I already said this to?)
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>>25174056sounds interesting anonis this 4chan on the internets by any chance?
>>25173916>author-orgy-groupsWhere can I find these?
>>25177468You’re not a writer, are you? Real writers know about the pineapple bowls.
>>25177468step 1: be an authorstep 2: set up intricate procedures in order to filter out the fatties and smartasses, without scaring away anybody else (this is the fun part, probably)step 3: ???step 4: do not end up like DFW
Sadly, no. I did try joining my friends book club, the girls voted only for the smut and fucked my recommendation. Will never join another club with women again.
I've been going to my small towns book club for about a year now, it's usually a group of about 25 women, I'm the only man there, it fucking sucks, I wish one of them would bring their husband or something so I can actually try to make a friend which was the whole point of me starting to go in the first placealso holy fucking shit the books they pick are always hellishly miserable, literally the last five books have all had characters with insanely fucked up parental figures, nobody else seems to have noticed it yet. I think the next book is oryx and crake which looks like a right mood killersomeone please put a shotgun to my head and shoot me
>>25173916I tried to be part of one when I joined a diploma program, but there must be something wrong with me because even among people with the same interests, it was impossible for me to form friendships and continue reading together.
>>25177971have they let you choose a book? what do you like?
>>25178060nope the books are all chosen strictly by the sole woman running the show and she's already scheduled the books for the next 10 months
>>25177459yes, the proper address is 4chan.org/lit/
>>25173916>solo sportBars count, I suppose.
>>25178072thank you, let me get a pencil
>>25178214>Bars count, I suppose.Would not go to stand-up comedy, but would go to see a cute girl lead stuff aloud (and enjoy a beer at the same time).
>>25173916I once joined some local book club on discord but the the discussion there was very cringe so I didn't participate much.
I'm part of two writer's groups. One is super cool and chill, and has one professional author. It's a small group. But there's some really awful writers sharing their novels and I'm tired of reading them. Recently some autistic girl who overshares has been trying to get her book critiqued but she doesn't read anyone else's stuff. She gives fake critique, says nothing specific, and just parrots whatever someone else said. When she doesn't just openly admit she "didn't have time" to read it. The other group is larger and worse. There are two guys I like. They write good stuff. There's also a professional author in this group, but she's an SJW who thinks rape jokes are off limit. None of them understand what prose is. They just talk about trigger warnings. And half of them never say anything. Sometimes I've gotten my story returned, where they printed it out and wrote nothing on it. Last year some girl wrote some really heinous Chuck Palahanuik torture porn type shit, with rape, vivisection, domestic abuse, pedophilia, bind break, etc. Really dark shit, but it was a good story. This gets a pass from everyone. But if you make a joke about roofying a girl-- oh boy, no, no, no, that triggers me.
>>25180552>They just talk about trigger warnings.>Sometimes I've gotten my story returned, where they printed it out and wrote nothing on it.they are just fishing for a high value idea that will be their golden ticket to a position of poweronce they get it, they will forward it to a committee (most probably linked to China because there is nobody else left, the Democratic party has other priorities...), that will refine it and get one of their stooges to write (or at least will try to write, as they basically shot themselves in the foot with hyper-nepotism) a top-selling novel out of itit's how writing science fiction worked in the Soviet Union e.g. Stanislaw Lemit's obvious that they can't do anything with "politically incorrect" stuff... actually it reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut who got a letter from a young writer-wannabe who did not know what to write about, and he threw him like three dozen GREAT ideas (as judged by me, they all sounded incredible... much better than Vonnegut's novels in fact lol) and said that he had thousandsno, I could not find said list, I saw it in a documentary about the dude, and they read out only a few / showed the first page of the letteryes you may use my "idea" about the chicom harvesting authors, if you want to, I don't mind
