/lit/ - Literature

His ideas for stories are pretty good, but his books are trash. I think he's the only writer who consistently has screen adaptations made that are better than the book they're based on

He has a couple I like:

The Gunslinger (Dark Tower through book 3-4 is alright)

The Stand

Salem's Lot

Firestarter

Cycle of the Werewolf, but it's not really a standard novella

>>13555

IIRC, The Gunslinger started out as short stories that he ended up joining together into a novel. The second book came out like a decade after the first short story was published, so he probably didn't envision it as a series to begin with.

>>13999

I actually like the magic because it amplifies the Good vs. Evil aspect and isn't widespread. The Stand's main issue is that it suffers from serious bloat, mostly because there are more characters than King knows what to do with.

>>14603 No, the first Gunslinger was touted right from the start to be an epic continuing series. I vaguely remember from the first edition introduction that his inspiration was The Good the Bad and the Ugly, and he wanted to create his own magnum opus.

He wrote the same book over and over again. He's a best-selling asshole. It all deoends on wheter you like bestsellers or not.

Carrie was "decent" but I wouldn't call it good

>>15818

>I wrote one awhile ago, so I can say this without being hypocritical. In a month, after I read more, I plan on actually working on my writing skills, so that I'm not just a consumer.

Are you the faggot with the 30K+ word fanfiction of some 90s hentai?

>>15819

It was about a guy who woke up with a head injury, so no thats not me.

Is anyone else sick of looking at threads opened with a wojak edit picture?

>>15909

>They weren't all that interesting to begin with but what can one do? Them's western imgageboard culture, such as it is.

No, it's halfchan garbage.

>>12418

A lot of Byzantine literature falls into a few categories, one that I remember is histories. Those fuckers loved to write histories. From wikipedia, the categories:

1. Histori(es/ans) and annal(ist)s

2. Encyclopedias and essays

3.Secular Poetry

3.1. Epigram

3.2. Panegyrics

3.3. Satires

3.4. Didactics

3.5. Begging Poem

3.6. Romance Novel

4. Ecclesiastical and theological literature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_literature

Sage for double post.

>>12243

sorry to show my ignorance but this is the only byzantine"literature" i know of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Juris_Civilis

does this count?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Consolation_of_Philosophy

>>12418

Yeah, I knew about those. I was just wondering if there was some other more obscure stuff that Google and Wikipedia didn't mention.

>>12419

>Romance Novel

It's strange that they wrote so few novels. I wonder if there were more and they just got destroyed when the Turks took over. I've heard that they had a habit of destroying any non-Muslim literature that wasn't purely scholarly when they conquered civilizations.

>>12422

I'll check these out, thanks.

Read the Alexiad.

It's fucking good.

It is an epic about the accomplishments of Alexios Komnenos.

Nice both for the historic and literally value imho.

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Book request

>>12139

Yes, but there more preserved* in reality than in data.

*Besides fires, of course

>>12141

*they are

>>12141

Yes, that, only the precise opposite, for obvious reasons regarding what information is (noting "reality" and "data" as being false distinctions) and in how it may most simply be distributed.

>>12141

>>12144

Alternatively: I can assure you that M-Discs are cheaper per megabyte than ink on parchment.

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>>12747

this is the first time i hear about this, sorry.

I never really read those books as a kid, even though I had 3 different ones. I don't know if I still have them or if I donated them to the library.

>>12747

i'd prefer the 1978 version, just cause its the version i read, not because it's more visually appealing or whatever

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Why not forgo the numbering and just write the scenes you feel like writing? Eventually you'll have enough material to make it easy to write the scenes you don't really feel like writing. You might even find that many scenes weren't really that important at all for the overall story.

And if you don't feel like writing at all, why bother?

…

I liked lord of the flies to the point where i pretty much memorized it in high school while writing the essay we had to do.

>>15950

I hated House on Mango Street when I read it in high school. I never gave a fuck about spics. The fact that it was about some minority living in modern US whining turned me off to it immediately because it had nothing to do with things I cared for at that time: heroism and glory although I still care about those things, I have found others. Great Gatsby was nicely written but wasted on mundane, trivial things in my opinion.

DR SEUSS IS GODLY LITERATURE

Timm Thaler, or the Traded Laughter

>12950

You know, I really enjoyed the Martian Chronicles. We had the choice between Slaughterhouse 5, Martian Chronicles and one other book I can't remember. I decided on the scifi one, and honestly while I don't remember any of the specifics, I do remember it being an enjoyable read.

Also have to agree with >12972 that Lord of the Flies was amazing, hands down.

>>13987

This. Saint Elliot proved in his Manifesto that this book is clear gibberish bullshit.

>taking reading recommendations from women

>>13948

>If you want something enough and if you actually work towards getting it enough and keep a position expectation that you will receive it, then yes you'll get it. That's what happens.

That's complete and utter horseshit.

The fact women are recommending it is testament enough that it should be avoided. Do you not have a fucking brain?

>>13871

>All women I've talked to.

Shit, my deepest commiseration and sorrow man.

>if you're not my brand of retard you must be this other brand of retard

Go read the Alchemist.

>>15768

back to >>>/trannypol/

>>15746

fuck off, medcuck

I started with 'A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson' and did not continue.

>>15956

That's not a helpful answer.

You'd think /lit/ would be filled with classy, well-read and helpful people.

>>15957

Laconic though it be, it ain't wrong.

>>15955

Depends on the kind of writer you are. Outliner writers may consider all those tools a godsend. Discovery writers find it constraining. I favor Michael Crichton's take on computer aided whatever software. At best it may aid you, but it may not do even that. What software cannot do is to do the writing for you.

"Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it." –Michael Crichton

From an organizational standpoint, one of my favorite writing anecdotes was from Gore Vidal on his last successful attempt to write a murder mystery. "Halfway through the last one I forgot who the murderer was and had to find a substitute." It worked for him. So much for organization.

I would suggest you learn a bit about typesetting or, in today's world, web page design. The point is not to become a typesetter. The point is to learn what you should not be spending time on. Writing is not typesetting.

Grammar checkers won't teach you grammar. The traditional fuckup detector is to pay someone else to look at your writing, or being blessed with a professional editor. Leaving your work sit for a month and coming back to give it a read can do wonders in a pinch.

I use Emacs. As an all encompassing monster of feature bloat on par with Microsoft Office it will try very hard to get in your way of writing. A blank page, cut, paste, spellcheck, and file save. That's the whole of the feature set I use from Emacs. To be fair, one may successfully use this method with any word processor. I like having a Mediawiki installation available as well. What organization I may apply (character notes, plot outline, reference artwork, etc) fits the wiki model. I also use an online grammar checker as a finished productPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>15955

Zettelkasten. It's an idea incubation chamber.

>>15957

You don’t come here often, do you?

>>15961

I am quite aware, I often end up re-writing a single chapter or part several times and still think is sucks.

But rather than have all these thing in a hunderd documents over a dozen windows, it would be more efficient to use a tool that helps with that.

As you say your time should be spent WISELY, and wasting time because I have to shuffle trough a dozen documents to a find a name of a character is quite simply bad.

This is partially why I was asking. Campfire looks OK, but I don't want to shell out 50$ if there are better tools out there.

Basically this:

https://www.campfiretechnology.com/features.html

(no, I'm not a shill, just want to ask if there is something similar you guys are aware of)

>>15964

This isn't /b/.

>People try to make conversation and are interested enough in you to try and relate to one of your

>"wtf poser fags fuck off"

Imagine being this autistic

>>16001

Interests*

Regarding 8chan, I've heard rumors of various people running archives at various times and places. I say rumor as I've not had any interest in them.

Regarding 8chan /lit/ specifically, the board staff/BO were not aware of any.

There are a handful of threads manually saved that were of interest to the current BO. That is hardly an archive though.