/literature — bitchan

Is it out of the question that the Ancient Egyptians simply looked at the stars, and planned their Pyramid formations in the image of a constellation? Has anyone ever thought of that?+

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It's exactly the other way around (under the condition that you don't engage in degenerate masturbatory habits in wich case having sex is obviously better) and there's plenty of proof for that. For example, a book from the 17th Century explains how the inhabitants of Ragusa are exceptionally strong, handsome and sexy because they marry around the age of 25 on average for both sexes. Tacitus gives the same reason for the exceptional vigour of the ancient German nations. In fact male virginity ca…+

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"There's no such thing as a banned book" edition >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg >Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg >Thread questions: What's the last book you read? What's the current book you're reading? What do you plan to read next?⬆↩ 34

>What's the last book you read? The City of Dreaming Books. Very good shit, highly recommend. >What's the current book you're reading? The Amber Spyglass. I love His Dark Materials but this last book is such an acid trip. >What do you plan to read next? Moby-Dick most likely. But in terms of fantasy probably something King Arthur related like The Once and Future King.+

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>it's a count Fenring chapter+

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>kind of lame Dunno what you mean, not the word I'd use to describe ultra extreme viking warrior sentiment. They did turn Mercury into their own private Valhalla which is kind of dickish to the mortals still living there.+ 1

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then why not just wish for valhallla+

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Dialis editio >τὸ πρότερον νῆμα· >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 FAQ https://rentry dot co/n8nrko All Classical languages are welcome.⬆↩ 28

any of you bros ever try writing a book or translating one into your TL? if so, how did it go?+

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Take heart. Chapter XLV is a step up in difficulty even from that, and the rape of Lucretia episode is IIRC where the book transitions to unadapted Latin. After that, you've more or less reached the peak of the book's difficulty. Some parts are more difficult than others, but the difference in difficulty is no longer due to graded writing. If the book is really excruciating, then that might be a signal to take a break and spend some time with something easier or something of special interest to…+

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hiatus Edition Stubbed >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! ##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 rentry.co/d2yvczro Anon's guide to success rentry.co/RRBasicGuide FAQ rentry.co/pytefpxn⬆↩ 28

25616686 retard bumping the thread with his ritual phrases like a wired up lab monkey, trying to keep the general alive while not realizing he's one of the biggest reasons it died.+

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>MC is an adult salaryman who happens to get turned into a little girl >immediately mentally regresses into a child and becomes addicted to roblox Who is this written for+

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I can’t read or write normally anymore. The years of reading Japanese and Korean novels have completely fried my brain. I can't focus on long paragraphs. Heck, I find moving my eyes away from the left side of the screen to be exhausting. I want to be able to fix my sight on a certain point and read from top to bottom in one continuous scroll. That can't be healthy. But damn… It feels natural. It feels like home. Fuck.+

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american muscle ed. / overinvested op ed. / first kiss edition prev⬆↩ 32

Culture at its deepest level ceases to be something you venerate, it’s just the language you use to think. People who say (for example) ‘/lit/ is a classical board’ will never really be ‘refined’. They can be assumed on the spot to be barred from anything you might dignify with the name of culture. Real depth, real cultural literacy, tends to come with a shift in disposition, not just in taste. Picasso said >I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these…+

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Thanks for the link chatgpt+

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any news?+

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no harem Edition Stubbed >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! ##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 rentry.co/d2yvczro Anon's guide to success rentry.co/RRBasicGuide FAQ rentry.co/pytefpxn⬆↩ 25

What is the point of all that? If I want to read a progression story why would I give a fuck about which roastie "wins" in the end?+

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Over 100 novels release on amazon alone EACH DAY. About 700 novels in the week around your release. Webnovel release? Successful litrpg isekai or xianxia cultivation, in your genre? BOOM you are done. Also, not only are you competing with other new releases, but the entire backlog of novels on every website or e-reader a reader uses. :) Take all the "indie success stories" you can think of in the past 10 years and divide it by the number of writers in that time who have tried (again, 100 novels a day, 3000 a month) and there's your historical likelihood of "making it." Patreon cut, publisher cuts, higher self-employment taxes, no benefits, no retirement, AND to top it all off: Your sales diminish over time, so even if you hit this "mediocrity lottery" you'll have to do it all over again in a couple years. >He thinks that indie writing can provide a sustainable primary income in 2026 Hahahahaha H O B B Y O B B Y+ 1

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Who the fuck is trying to do this as a job unless they're a thirdie. Even the successful authors are generally only getting 1-2k a month on patreon. 4k or more can be counted on one hand. If you're in a western country this was always a side hustle thing.+

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I found a Japanese thread for low level webnovel writers! What do you think, anons? Do great minds think alike? https://itest.5ch.io/mevius/test/read.cgi/bookall/1788998851+

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Are there any Marxist books or write-ups about the ongoing AI revolution?⬆↩ 24

>Automation disproves Marx Laughably stupid, but what the LessWrong crowd actually believes is >AI Agents are human beings, which disproves Marx Which is far more retarded because it's also an illiterate take on Marx but also signals you read some ugly pervert's Harry Potter fanfic before you read Capital or any other work of Western philosophy. If you're on LessWrong it's because you saw picrel and decided he was more worth your time than Aristotle, and following that got groomed into some biz…+

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What the fuck are you babbling about I never mentioned any bison-hunting machines It's just a fact that one guy can be smarter at hunting bison and the other isn't, and thus that guy is more productive and should be rewarded more so that he continues to be extra productive for the good of the community This is what Marx and Engels (pretended?) not to understand, probably because they were useless trust fundie NEETs searching for a theory that explained why they weren't actually useless fucks an…+

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Excuse me, did you just suggest the USA isn't dominated by government control? I've attached another maxim from Smith, and it applies just as much today as back then, the apparatus that merchants and masters use to protect their own interests is government. It's always one big club that the normal man ain't a part of.+

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How good are the later Harry Potter books really? In terms of prose and worldbuilding. I know that the early books are comfy and whimsical children's books (or supposedly so, I have never read them) but what about the ones that are aimed at the older reader as they grew?⬆↩ 19

They're pretty simple. It's clear she (and her ghost writers) had no plan and was just making up shit for each individual book. There's lots of retcons and plot holes.+

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>3. Grossly overrated I think the movie version boosts the reputation of this one. And the time travel gimmick is well-executed (even if it is retarded from a world-building perspective) I knew what you meant, I think, I'm just a pedant nitpicking the choice of words.+ 1

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I recently reread the book and the movie basically changed all the characters for the worse and lost a lot of the atmosphere in the book. I lost all interest after book five, which is frustrating but quite good. Although I was close to the character ages when I read the last two books, I found the romantic subplots in HBP incredibly annoying and DH too was in desperate need of editing. What do you mean introducing the title artefacts out of nowhere when you already have horcruxes? Absolute bull…+

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Harry Potter lacks important female characters Malfoid fixes that a bit+

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"Thesaurus attack" edition /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC Please limit excerpts to one post. Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability. Discuss the written works below 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. Expect critique, not praise. Shitposters should be ignored and reported. >Beginner guides on writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRM (Improve your Writing: Show, Not Tell) [6:08] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPnobbck9s (George Orwell's 4 Tips For Speaking Clearly) [23:00] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKcbvioxFk (How to Show, Not Tell: The Complete Writing Guide) [27:19] >Intermediate guides on writing: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48654.Story https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3097766-borges-on-writing https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23056.Image_Music_Text >Advanced guide on writing: Just do it.⬆↩ 22

My concentration has been a bit messed up due to a cold. Thankfully the last 3 chapters I have worked on are more or less re-writes, so I still made a ton of progress despite being sick. Still, I can't wait until my full focus returns and I am able to write with full mental effort again. How have your projects been going lately?+

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I'm more concerned how, according to "Story", every scene (at a a minimum) has to show one of the protagonist's values go from one extreme to the other. I try to keep that going, but I have no idea how to do that for every scene without sounding pretty artificial. I'm just really tired of going through all this work, only for nothing to happen, and am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.+

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This female Malfoy stuff got me thinking How WOULD a female willingly desire and want someone who she considers of an inferior blood or race?+

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a surge of r*dditors Edition Stubbed >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 i…⬆↩ 25

I notice that I can't take certain works seriously, particularly those where the "Hand of the Author" is moving the pieces around too obviously, without bothering to "cover them with the curtains first" so to speak. I notice that with Chinese works, this is usually in the way the author openly allows all the patterns to show, making no effort to hide that this is the fifth "young master shows up, causes trouble for MC, and gets face slapped" loop of filler. Whereas in Japanese works, it's more…+

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Is the genre situation really so bad you have to "recommend" some bottom of the barrel dregs from novelpia?+

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Holy kek pooist and turdfucianism ""scholars""" btfo they will never recover+

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Unpleasant professions edition >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg >Banned Authors: Joe Abercrombie A.A. Attanasio R. Scott Bakker C.J. Cherryh Glen Cook Steven Erikson R.A. Lafferty Mark Lawrence George R.R. Martin Patrick Rothfuss Gene Wolfe >Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg Previous:⬆↩ 25

It does not feel worth it. I have better scifi I can rerereread for weird shit and abstract manipulation of maths/physics without the bizarre likely longnose-influenced snuff on like page 2. I am CRAVING CRAVING CRAVING scifantasy at the moment.+

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Quick, someone write a book called Jesus is Back... But he's PISSED! so I can read it.+

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>desperately want to write >so in love with the idea of what I'm going for, I keep plotting out weird shit and adding stuff to a world irrelevant to the plot itself help me+

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Ron wondered whether his life had meaning⬆↩ 21

after he read through Arthur Schopenhauer's essays.+

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continued from story so far: https://litter.catbox.moe/f6inqoma2vz81bj7.pdf+

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Ron gazed pensively into the open fridge.+

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(Continued from ) Craig was practicing his alternative comedy routine⬆↩ 15

Story so far: https://litter.catbox.moe/mxutj6xuvdwxi9np.pdf how does it end??+

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jewish jewish jewish yarmulke man+

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Prissy, cunty, Veronica Pump pled guilty to+ 1

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having murdered Simon of Trent in 1475+

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Wordcount determined by last digit of post your continuing Be sure to quote the post your responding to Michael Smith looked up into the sky and⬆↩ 19

saw a flock of birds, but they were all+ 1

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And the end.+

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PSA: a persistent anon who unironically describes himself as "trollmaster" (lmao) has taken to flooding the thread with unusable word salad. You'll recognize his posts when you see them. Ignore or incorporate them at your own discretion. Catbox is down, here's the full story so far in jpg. Thanks for making the thread for me bud, you forgot "continued from "+

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Juan too?+

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I have read and analyzed some 500 romance novels in order to complete the other half of Campbell's work. The archetypes herein are encoded into the female brain by evolution and can be observed even in simple high school social dynamics. Understand this and you understand women.⬆↩ 16

>all this incel schizobabble to rationalize why you’re still a virgin at 28+ 3

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>someone insinuated there might be patterns to how women behave >ecod! I must prevent anyone from discussing this!+ 2

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He's right though, the "pattern" here strongly suggests you're a poorly socialized adult male virgin and this suggests your opinions aren't to be taken very seriously. People with emotional development problems aren't likely to be correct about anything other than by accident. No, you're not Nikola Tesla preserving your mental purity alone in your cave, you're just, statistically given this website and the material you think is clever, another dopamine-addicted coward. I'll be nice and let you in on (one) massive flaw in your work: you suggest that "because there are patterns", this must suggest a truth, but you **have failed to established that the patterns you claim occur actually exist**. As opposed to just your stunted, internet-addicted adult virgin perceptions of how you think the proverbial fairer sex acts.+ 1

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A woman wrote this.+

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You might want to compare your notes with Murdock's book+

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Name 1 story+ 1

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Not OP, but Beauty and the Beast.+

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Why do right-wing grifters like pensandpoison and that Joon girl complain endlessly about “Marxism” and “wokeness” allegedly killing the artistry of modern literature when right-wing conservatives were pumping out all sorts of slop novels in the 90s and 2000s? Picrel, for instance, was about a state governor covering up his daughter’s death from a botched abortion because he needed support from abortion rights orgs to win his re-election and is later exposed by a Christian news anchor with prophetic powers; this crap is no different from a Sally Rooney novel or “Yesteryear” just neocon/Evangelical in orientation with the same dogshit writing style. Tons of hypocrisy and ignorance on the part of the “anti-work” literary critic crowd.⬆↩ 17

Right wingers don't have control of the culture industry and can't effectively elevate someone like Peretti to the point of high social standing. Rooney is a Trinity College graduate and has received numerous highly prestigious awards for merely appealing to the urban liberal-left bourgeois worldview. Understanding the right wing critique as nothing more than "leftists write slop" is bad faith to the extreme. You're missing the entire point about the intersection between institutions and culture construction. Which is surely performative because leftists are totally fine with these critiques when it was postmodernist philosophers making them. It really goes back to that tweet about leftists pretending to not understand anything thereby making discourse impossible.+ 4

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The entire corporate nexus supports the right-wing. If you’re a socialist seeking to publish a novel with an explicitly anti-capitalist message you’ll face an extreme amount of difficulty.+

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Interesting how conservatives have been calling out this very exact issue of liberal mediocrity in culture and academia for a while now.+ 2

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>tfw the first person to warn about wokeness in American schools was a gay Jew who died from AIDS Fucking Kek. >inb4 “Straussian cabal” Doesn’t exist.+

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Surprised modern conservative politicians don’t cite this book more when talking about the evils of wokeness.+

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Nobody knows right wing "art" exists. For one, it's trash and nobody enjoys it. Second, even if a right wing artist did exist, they would have to quit and find a day job because his stingy people won't support him. Look at that sad italian that put himself into 100k of debt to build a Charlie Kirk statue just to find no buyers and for his gofundme to get a sad 3k.+ 2

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Right-wingers have no ability to feel or express empathy (if they did they’d be leftists). You can’t make worthwhile art without a strong sense of empathy.+

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Then they blame us poor Jews. It's tiresome bros. If right-wingers made things that could sell we would be happy to sell it.+

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The problem I have with people like PaP and her ilk is that she seems hellbent on the idea that only conservatives can create literature that reveals a moral message or grand commentary on human existence. Anyone can look at conservatives today and see that's not the case at all. As it is, 99% of the right-wing MO consists of bullying the left (communists, queer people, feminists, anti-racist activists, etc.). Just look at podcasters or right-wing YouTubers to see clear examples of this notion. What "profound moral message" is this supposed to be? A novel written by a conservative where the message is "queer people are crazy, only cishets are mentally balanced, only a society that promotes heteronormativity can ever be stable" is not something that would ever make for meaningful art.+

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