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Liberate tuteme ex Excelsior!

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 No.6712

The most time I spend in this place, the firmer 2 certainties become:

1. /lit/ is full of frustrated writers.

This is objectively provable by the number of threads discussing writing tips, writing instruments, critique of anons' work and such stuff. I would say that a very high percentage (of the very low number) of visitors on this forum have the dream of—someday—publish something.

That's all fine and dandy. Now to certainty number 2:

2. All e/lit/ists actually believe that they are real elitists.

What I mean by this is that lurkers and posters actually believe that they are (somehow) better than the drivel and shit being pumped out of modern publishing houses. This is objectively provable by the number of threads mocking and destroying well renown modern authors for the sake of it. More often than not qualifying them as 'degeneracy' (oh, /pol/!…)

So, with this two certainties I'm proposing two premises, coded trough an 'or' logical operator:

Regular posters on this forum, although well read and cult individuals, will never publish anything. This frustration will amplify the social angst that drove their users to become chan culture consumers, thus making it even harder for any of them to publish anything, ever.

Or

If they publish something, they would have to resort to the same ugly tactics they call degeneracy. They would whore their asses on a series of youtube vids about history and then write a novel about the semi-plagiarized biography of a young woman fighting cancer and call it art.

What I think I'm saying is that everyone here would sell their soul and their mothers' ass for a publishing contract. No matter how e/lit/ist you feel.

Discuss, if you may, fine fellas.

 No.6713

I agree with you but if I ever publish anything, I will do the exact opposite of "degeneracy". Preferably under a pseudonym and if anyone is interested, good.


 No.6714

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Your rant sounds more in tune with halfchan.

As cute a term as e/lit/ists may be, I believe it to be misappropriated. If anything, we here aim for the vulgarisateurs of literature.

And we are better for it.

As for writers and writing, we have two problems. The first is that we have no means to cultivate the would be practitioners. From the beginning, imageboards and imageboard culture was all about the artists and the visual arts. All else was a one off, and we are even further off than that.

Second, there are a host of sites dedicated to writers and writing of various skill levels, from beginner to intermediate. After that the real market awaits.

What have we to offer a beginner?

The closest thing I've seen are draw quests, and here the real draw remains with the visual art.

I hate to dwell on the lands of you-know-where, but there are lessons to be learned from from their past and current state. I firmly believe one fundamental mistake made early on was the banning of fan-fiction discussion. All this accomplished was to enshrine a phantom of short term quality for short term gain, altogether an attitude ensuring of long term stagnation. No matter, with the proliferation of dedicated fan-fiction sites even that is now an opportunity forever lost.

All that remains to us is our own offbeat approach as a guide and general resource. I wish we could be more, but we are in competition with better sites and services. We are not in competition with other imageboards, though.

Not that it matters.

For your second to last, we remain one avatar of that superlative waster of time chans were always meant to be. Lest you forget: time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

And – or? – lastly, no need to be sellan' momma's ass if you are hell bent on publication. Stick with that time honored path via the means of so called degeneracy, and your boiling pot shall never run out.

Write a bit of soft-core pornography.


 No.6718

iunno i just come here cuz i like fucking books and shit 'hough i am an elitest fuck so u got that right cocksucker


 No.6720

>>6712

Eh. Your argument us based off a few misleading notions. First that because a writer is published and/or writer, that that makes them a good writer or at least better than us. Second that considering filth writing to be filth writer as a sign of elitism. If we are elitist under these standards then I shudder to wonder who is not. Finally that the point of writing is to get published or make money. I would say that literature is chiefly this: Writing what deserves to be written and reading what deserves to be read.


 No.6726

>>6712

>1. /lit/ is full of frustrated writers.

we are probably ten assiduous user and i'm not one.

>This is objectively provable by the number of threads discussing writing tips, writing instruments, critique of anons' work and such stuff. I would say that a very high percentage (of the very low number) of visitors on this forum have the dream of—someday—publish something.

they are very old threads in a very slow board.

and considering the kind of site hatechan is. it's not that strange.

i haven't been on cuckchan for a long time but as i remember it there was no history board, no pdf, board, no philosophy board…

2. All e/lit/ists actually believe that they are real elitists.

beside the fact that we are indeed few around here. there is very little snobism in this board, as you would see if lurked a little bit.


 No.6730

I am one, but I think there are some others who occasionally post and regularly lurk who are only interested in reading.


 No.6741

>>6730

I just want a place to shitpost about books.




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