ITT: how to tell if a writer is bad
They quote themselves in their own book.
ITT: how to tell if a writer is bad
They quote themselves in their own book.
>protagonist is a young hip writer who's misunderstood by society
bonus points if they have the same drug problems as the author did
Retarded frogposter.
>They're not published
>Nobody reads their work
>They can't make a living from their writing
Kek
They insert a lot of pretentious words to sound cultured and sophisticated.
Distorting facts to fit their view and book subject in their favour.
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nabokov does this
go fuck yourself frogman!!
borges does this
when a male author writes a female protagonist
it's gender appropriation, and thus sexism
WHEW!! someone's just started skirting 'round corners, burlap-sacked & knife-at-the-read, twin holes where a head would be, a big juicy question mark? hanging heavy and sweating up above.
keep it on keep it up
i don't understand this post, and i won't respond to it.
Nietzsche??????
If they wrote a YA novel.
their name is john green
What if it's that they wish they were born as a qt grill?
LMAO
Oedipa Maas tho innit bruv
pretentious and sophisticated are pretentious words to sound cultured and sophisticated.
Mentioning math or science of any kind.
itt: you idiots managed to to rule out every relevant author
Oh yeah, that's a good one.
>being a relevant author
what's the story on this pic? i love it
hey, come here for a second user, i swear i won't Pynch you
No m8, you're doing it wrong:
>being an author
Who the hell writes that?
Steven King
le umberto eco
King does, in like half of his books. Most blatantly was the shitshow the penultimate arc of The Dark Tower miscarriage.
Heh, never was much of a King fan, but now that you mention it.
Don't recognise it in eco, tho.
What about quoting your pseudonym?
That doesn't count, r-right?
Asking for a friend.
Tao Lin
DFW, Malcolm Lowry, the most boring postmodernist and modernist respectively
For you Americans, yes.