Lettow writes a novel!

[Lettow77]

I *LOVE* Confederacy of Dunces.

I'm not emotionally prepared to write about my own experiences. It'd be unpleasant. I feel my existence and identity as a Southerner are a heavy burden. I feel as if the South is an unhappy, benighted place, and taking up the Confederacy as a cross makes me an unhappy, benighted person. I think that was what my first sonnet was about. I try not to think about it, and focus on other things that make me happy. Japanese culture makes me happy. My experiences as a Southerner and Confederate nationalist inform my writing topic, word choice and the ideas through which I perceive Japanese culture, and that is enough for me.

What languish is asking me to do, regardless of the quality of the work that would emerge, would drive me into a terrible place I don't want to be in. I can't write the South.

Edit: Those who like Confederacy of Dunces should read Cry of the Sloth, which is a similar and wonderful work.

[The Brain]

Do you know what it is like to be a white man who can summon fire from the sky?

[Drakken]

Do you know what it is like to be a white man who can summon fire from the sky?

You mean like Curtis LeMay? Wish I could. 

[Ideologue]

I agree.  You should write about what you know, as the cliche goes.

Or write about shit that's completely made up.  One of these days maybe I should revisit my version of the Trojan War myths recast with modern weapons and nation-states (a lot like Loncraine's Richard III, but with 100% more homosexual main characters, and about 1000% more rape--not my fault, blame the source material).

[Razgovory]

So, how many people here have aspirations to write a novel?  Oh and Confederacy of Dunces is a great novel.  It's like meeting Raz in person.  Except for the jerking off to dogs part.  I don't do that.

[Ideologue]

So, how many people here have aspirations to write a novel?  Oh and Confederacy of Dunces is a great novel.  It's like meeting Raz in person.  Except for the jerking off to dogs part.  I don't do that.

Does a comic book count?

[Razgovory]

Sure.

[Eddie Teach]

Lettuce: have you read Confederacy of Dunces?

Is it one you'd recommend in general or just to lettow?

[Syt]

So, how many people here have aspirations to write a novel?

[Razgovory]

Lettuce: have you read Confederacy of Dunces?

Is it one you'd recommend in general or just to lettow?

In general.  It's hilarious.

[Lettow77]

 As said, I've already read it. it takes pride of place in my top ten, i'm sure. Raz, I am not quite Ignatius J. Reilly, fortunately. I think I used to resemble him more.

I would recommend, again, The Cry of the Sloth, if maybe only to you. I don't think the others here can appreciate it properly.

[Josquius]

I'd second the write about the south idea. At least drop the visual novel sillyness. You'll never manage that.

Haven't y'all heard enough about the South from me in one lifetime? Why is the peanut gallery not sick of that one? The South makes *me* sick. I don't like to think about it. It's a horrible, conflicting thing i've shoved deep into the recesses of my being and would rather have be something that unconsciously effects everything I do rather than something I openly consider.

That seems exactly what a self-loathing, crazed Japanese otaku thinking America is like the world of Superman and Spiderman would say about Japan and Japanese society.

Hey, they don't even have to be that otakuy. There's quite a lot of the grass is greener on the other side of the pacificism amongst the general pop here.
To be born Japanese is a pretty grim fate.

[DontSayBanana]

Writing a novel?  Shouldn't be hard, since most of your posts probably qualify as novellas.

[Eddie Teach]

And he can just publish it on the web without convincing some editor that it's any good.

[Razgovory]

As said, I've already read it. it takes pride of place in my top ten, i'm sure. Raz, I am not quite Ignatius J. Reilly, fortunately. I think I used to resemble him more.

I would recommend, again, The Cry of the Sloth, if maybe only to you. I don't think the others here can appreciate it properly.

I'll pick it up.