#literary genre

[sironstuff]

#polls #furry #literary genre #writing #questions

[readwithmeonline-blog]

#bildungsroman #genre #literary genre #coming of age #Instagram

[cendrineartist]

If you like literary fiction and/or poetry, you may enjoy reading these books

- What Will Happen Next? A Short Story https://creativeramblings.com/happen-next/

- In Her Own Words

- The Train: A Short Story https://creativeramblings.com/train-short-story/

- Wanderlust: Poetry & Photography https://creativeramblings.com/wanderlust/

#books #bookstoread #booksbooksbooks #bookshelf #photography books #literary genre #literary #fiction

[teachingmycattoread]

Unveiling Literary Genres: A Comprehensive Book Lover's Guide

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#Book Recommendations #Literary Genre #Reading Community #Reading Tips

[harrison-abbott]

UK-based friends. There’s a copy available for £0.20 if you’re interested. Don’t know how long it will be there for ...

#a trade of grace #novels #my novel #literature #literary genre

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Charles-Amable Lenoir (1860-1926) "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time") Oil on canvas

#paintings #art #artwork #genre painting #female portrait #charles amable lenoir #oil on canvas #fine art #french artist #portrait of a woman #red hair #book #books #literary painting #french literature #blue dress #dresses #clothing #clothes #1k #2k

[randimason]

EDITED TO ADD: St. Louis University posted the 2023 St. Louis Literary Award ceremony; Neil’s talk starts about 40 minutes in. (Thanks DanGuyF)

In an interview before the event [Neil] Gaiman said that when he started writing comics, he “wasn’t even in the gutter.”

He said: “I used to look up and admire the people in the gutter. The science-fiction people were in the gutter, the children’s literature people were in the gutter, too, and I was so far down, I was in the storm drain.”

Great writeup by Jane Henderson from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sharing highlights of Neil’s talk at the St. Louis Literary Award!

#neil gaiman #comics #st louis #st louis literary award #it does look like a fountain pen #writing #genre #quotes #book talk #fantasy #with love from florida #Youtube

[feralandmoonstruck]

I just learned the phrase/genre "Gentle Fantasy" and I think I need to go cry about it. That sounds so fucking wholesome 🥺

#gentle fantasy #writeblr community #literary genre

[fromriches-tosin]

I found a game!

Bingo! Let it be known that all my fics are unbeta’d and extremely self-indulgent.

The template:

No pressure tag:

@marleysfinest @oxygenbefore1775 @pisspope @wyvernslovecake @honeybleed @moonspirit @lokiheart135 @hjemne and anyone else who would like to take part ✨

#personal #I do think that fanfic is a literary genre btw #I just read that the center field is considered automatically filled so I didn’t bother doing it again 😭

[thenighttrain]

#literary fiction isn’t a separate genre stop tagging that 🙅‍♀️ #fantasy is the best btw #books

[haveyoureadthispoll]

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in a ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.  Full of Ozeki's signature humour and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.

#book: a tale for the time being #author: ruth ozeki #gene: japanese literature #genre: magical realism #genre: historical fiction #genre: literary

[cosmic-coleoptera]

what genre is homestuck Actually

is it science fiction? is it fantasy? is it film noir? is it a thriller? is it paranormal erotica? is it lovecraftian horror? is it coming-of-age? is it nonfiction? Who Knows

#homestuck #literary genres #my patron troll is karkat #judge how you wish #i first read homestuck to impress a boy #the sad part is #it worked?

[no-where-new-hero]

omg I need your thoughts on the terminally o line author culture bc ngl it makes my eye TWITCH, there are authors I deliberately avoid even tho I've heard their stuff is good bc they're like that 🙈

HHHHH oh good lord, okay, from how I see it, there are two angles on this, both aggravating and sad: the official decree one and the spontaneous ecosystem one.

The officious one is that the nature of publishing nowadays demands an author have an online presence. You need Twitter/X. You need to let every potential reader know your book is coming out. You need engagement through reviews and pre-orders incentives (if you buy now you’ll get a special keychain!!) and word of mouth assurances from your peers that yes your book is as cool as you say it is. You need a newsletter with links (more buying! more voting on lists that are simply popularity contests!) and promises you’re still working on the next thing, don’t forget about me in the morass of everyone else doing the same thing. You need an Instagram and TikTok now to post pretty pictures and videos because one or two authors made it big off this kind of promotion and now everyone thinks it’s the ticket to the bestseller list (sadly, it seems to be working). You need an OnlyFans (a joke but I do recall a twt spat that was a joke/not joke about how rupi kaur will always be more beautiful than her critics and people who took issue with the conflation of beauty with talent). At the end of all this, you’re basically an influencer, a content creator creating content for the content you should be focusing on creating, the finished novel. And the novel itself seems to be disappearing behind the masks used to promote it (fanfic-style tropes, moodboards, playlists, memes) until I now no longer trust the book that I’ll pick up to have any resemblance to the enticements that brought me here. I’ve seen an author or two complain about the stress all this self-promotion generates, but it’s become such an entrenched part of the industry, I think people just accept it. And thus spend too much time online hoping that if they tweet just a little more, produce just one more reel, maybe that’ll be the difference between a sale and no sale.

The other side of this, distinct but obviously connected, is the ecosystem created by this panic of being perpetually visible coupled with the fact that so many of the new authors came of age during the rise of internet fandom culture. That opinionated community mindset that blurs the line between anonymity and friendship is the lens they bring to their own work. I mean, it makes sense I suppose—if you love yelling about characters and words, why wouldn’t you do that once you start to produce your own? This really came home to me hearing about that reviewbombgate “scandal” and how people involved were in reylo circles and that was used to provide receipts. You’re interacting with your readers and peers about your intimate work but they are also all strangers. They will not always give you the benefit of the doubt, and now—as opposed to the past when maybe the worst that could happen was a handful of bad reviews in newspapers—you will either be tagged in hate reviews, sub-tweeted, explicitly called out, demanded to atone for your sins. It’s no longer the morality of consumption but the morality of production. Of course, the easy answer is just log-off, touch some grass. But that can work only when you and everyone else are separated by anonymous accounts or when you have no platform to maintain. As an author trying to make your livelihood from this, suddenly it’s do or die. We’re in a strange moment of authorship bringing the Internet’s echo-chamber and claustrophobic into the real world (this is a lie: publishing now is no longer the real world. But it looks like it) and thus you can kind of no longer escape things.

Will the average reader who isn’t aware of all these machinations care about reviewbombgate? Would a reader browsing at Target think about the controversies around Lightlark? Very likely not. But the impression I’m getting more and more is that the average reader isn’t the one buying all the books. Or shall we say—a bestseller’s status relies on bookstore stock. Bookstore stock is only huge when they know a book will be a good investment. They’ll only know a book is a good investment if it and its author has street cred based on booktokkers, bookstagram, bloggers and reviewers (have you noticed how many books out these last maybe 1-3 years have these kinds of accounts thanked in the acknowledgments? Yeah), and THESE are also chronically online people who will Know. And decide the cast of fate.

Honestly, @batrachised, I see why you avoid these kinds of writers, though I wonder how long it’ll be before the disease becomes epidemic.

#i’m very doom and gloom about this if you couldn’t tell from my tone lmao #and of course it’s not a perfect formula; i read a decent debut this year by a writer trying to be very active on socials and idk how much #of a splash her book made because literary sff is a dying genre even with an ecological bent compared to the glut of romantasy #also this feels very timely because the goodreads choice awards were just announced and i am seething at seeing d*vine r*vals #get another accolade to its name #blake’s last braincell #blake talks shit #writing life

[mysharona1987]

#Books #fantasy #musicals #literature #literary genres #sci fi #art

[sentiniel]

hbomb's blast of james somerton really makes me think back to other older youtubers who have been doing their good work, performing critical research and analyses into niche fields who then had their work plagiarized from their videos and henceforth wanted to stop making content.

yeah and also they got pushback from the internet saying the degree of plagiarism they'd experienced is a made up problem.

this is a sideways post.

#THIS IS A SIDEWAYS POST #hbomberguy #james somerton #sideways440 #plagiarism #academia #youtube drama #SO IF YOU GUYS DON'T KNOW SIDEWAYS440 #HE DOES VIDEO ESSAYS OF MUSIC ANALYSES FROM GENRES TO SPECIFIC SONGS TO EVEN DISNEY MUSICALS #AND I HAVE BEEN PISSED EVER SINCE I FOUND OUT WHY HE STOPPED MAKING VIDEOS #BECAUSE HE IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO I ENJOY VIDEO ESSAYS FROM GRAVELY #LIKE IDW NO SHADE BUT I COULD NOT RIGHT NOW WITH THE BREADTUBE CLIMATE #I NEED SUBSTANCE ABOUT NON SOCIAL ISSUES I NEED LITERARY ANALYSES ABOUT NOT-BOOKS DESPERATELY #AND NOT-GAMES AND NOT-MOVIES I AM THAT PICKY

[lionofchaeronea]

I Know a Maiden Fair to See, Take Care, Charles Edward Perugini, 1868

#art #art history #Charles Edward Perugini #portrait #portrait painting #genre painting #literary painting #illustration #British art #English art #Italian art #Anglo-Italian art #Victorian period #Victorian art #19th century art #oil on paper #Minneapolis Institute of Art