/lit/ - literature

Currently trying to finish the first book in a series of six books about the inevitable evil surrounding all of us and how it will always be there long after man is gone and how during his time here, man can learn to be greater than what he suffers

>>35
>>35
Im writing a couple of essays about the history of British Columbia, and the PNW more generally.

Currently the one I'm writing is about the Hamatsa societies, and how that relates to secret societies in western culture like freemasonry and skull and bones, and how those relate to intelligence agencies and what exactly was John Meares doing in 1788 shuttling a bunch of indiginous noblemen around and trafficking uns for Kamehameha I? Then if anthropology reveals some deeper truth about the human condition, what does it mean that all these societies existed where the aristocracy would act out this theatrics of ritual murder as a way of solidifying their power? Could the same thing be said for, idk, 9-11 for example? Thats certainly the conspiritorial view of it, so whether or not such conspiracies exist we can say that it speaks to something innate in the way power structures are viewed.

Then I want to write a series of essays on the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Hawaii, because its an epic story full of pathos and doomed aristocrats struggling to survive in a world that no longer has a place for them, and also because its a great metaphore for Canada now and how inviting a bunch of foriegners with dual loyalties into your country will inevitably cause its downfall and the subjegation of your race.

>>35
I wrote a substack article analyzing 100 Years of Solitude.

Also thank God someone made a /lit/ board, I missed you guys

>>49
Missed you too fren

>>49
Want to post it here? As is, this board is pretty small, and as long as you don't have any personal information on there, I feel like the exchange would profit all of us –
also I'd like to read it.

I recently finished an historical fiction short story after taking a break from my novel. I have another short story in mind, so I might finish that before I return to my novel. Still have a lot of research to do.

>>35
I'm reading collection of stories by Tokarczuk. They are OK but that's about it. I need to get back to reading "Idiot".

>>61
Are you fucking illiterate, you idiot? OP was asking what you are currently writing, not what you are reading

>>57

Try this link:
https://open.substack.com/pub/basantirose/p/a-sikh-analysis-of-the-five-thieves?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=post%20viewer

I’ll admit it’s a clumsy piece, but my intention was to try and analyze the events of the novel through a Sikh lenses

I am writing a small book on an early 20th century South European essayist, focused on aesthetics and the connection between nationhood and the natural environment. But I am having a hard time procuring old sources, and my workhours make access to a library difficult.

>>35
I'm writing about an abstract feeling I got thrifting books and finding one written by a teacher/parents to the students of a school.

If you think about it, a book is always the same, but old books may carry a story more than the ones in their pages. One such book was the one I found at a thrift store a couple of weeks ago, written by S.G., a teacher at A. school. The cover's written by hand, in golden marker. The first page is a message to her best friend, proclaiming all the love she's had for them during the years.
The stories are just generic children's stories, but each is directed towards one of her students, and it sends me down a strange spiral of thought.

On the other hand, I'm trying to finally finish a piece of fucking fanfiction that I began writing around 4 years ago, and just couldn't find a way to end in a satisfactory way. I've literally blueballed dozens of Anons (Some of which are incredibly skilled writers themselves) for almost four years, and now that I rewrote it from the ground up, I still get stuck on the same parts.
I won a short-story competition at my university that gave me less trouble to write than this. Fanfiction is serious business!

>>71
If you can find relevant microfilms, librarians will sometimes digitalize them for you and send them as a pdf. Its worth a shot

Dr.Stone x Breaking Bad AU fanfic.

>>45
Didn't know Tolkien's ghost posted here.

>>35
Why do you feel the need to use so many commas? Half the commas in your OP are not needed.

>>108
I'm ESL. I don't get English punctuation. Some people use a lot of commas, some people don't use commas at all.
My native language (Brazilian portuguese) uses a lot of commas.
I try to - pepper and salt them, everywhere, to seem intellectual;

>>109

Oh, hola, hermano americano. La literatura latinoamericana requiere más individuos como tú. Yo, por otro lado, todavía me mantengo como un pasivo consumidor de literatura, pero en mí se gesta el instinto de crear.
¿Algún consejo? (Por cierto, perdón por comunicarme en español.)

>>109
Your comma usage was actually perfect, which, ironically, offends a lot of younger English speakers, particularly Americans, who no longer understand clauses and the syntax thereof.