How BookTok Can Create A Literary Renaissance
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
- How can BookTok help revive literature? How can bestselling books like "Song of Achilles" and "A Court of Thorns and Roses" provide frameworks for literary fiction authors to become better authors and grow their audience? Well, in today's video, I will break down what we can learn from BookTok and how it can kick off a literary renaissance.
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As an author, I post videos on TikTok and on UA-cam. In fact, I’ve posted over a thousand. I feel like I’m the only one on TikTok who talks about literature in a serious way. I will say that my book sales increased significantly after I joined TikTok, although they have died down somewhat in the last few months. I primarily use UA-cam as a backup out of the fear that TikTok will be banned in January. I think TikTok has been both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, I’ve been able to reach more people than I’ve ever reached before. The author community on TikTok is also quite convivial. I have certainly made friends on the site. UA-cam doesn’t provide the same sense of community. At the same time, however, there’s no question that the books that succeed on TikTok are mostly written by women and for women. I would not consider them to be high quality literary novels. I personally do not want to dumb down my writing to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I want to write like the literary heroes of the past. If that means I only have a small audience, so be it. I don’t believe we can transform culture by bending to it. We have to ultimately transcend it.
So cam you recommend me a top 100 list i know a herculean task
Blood Meridian fanfic where Judge Holden is a judge and he says "order in the court" and everyone is dancing and there is not order in the court.
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“That’s the problem with logic, that it’s a beautiful frame-BUT-if it’s the only frame you can function in THEN YOU ARE A LOSER!” I’m getting this tattooed on my forehead ASAP
I submitted a request on skool... can't wait.
One of your best mate awesome video. I'm fuckin inspired for real
I made my recurring detective character dumb partly just to keep my Piled Higher and Deeper PhD-lingo from ruining everything. I still haven't weeded out all the academese from my procedural memory almost two decades after graduating...
Fun to keep grinding it out of the system by writing so-called "potboilers" though!
Great video! I’m fired up🔥What are some good online outlets to post short stories and poems?
Substack and Substack only.
@@WriteConscious Thank you, Ian 🙏
I agree that communication is the ultimate goal of writing. When writers say they 'write for themselves' they're really saying 'I am my own ideal reader.' They are writing for an audience that they themselves are part of. Because there are diverse tastes. Not every reader wants to read the same books, just as writers want to write different things.
Someone who likes Madeline Miller probably doesn't want to read Homer, and vise versa. I hated Song of Achilles. I found it flat, whiny, and lacking in beauty and weight. That's fine. For its audience, the end product is more enjoyable than the dense and long Iliad. It wasn't so for me.
But what we, as writers, feel compelled to write is what we will write. I don't want to write like Madeline Miller because I don't want to read stories like hers.
In this modern world there is room for pluralism. We do not need to cynically appeal to the YA-booktok algorithm. Write what you want to write.
But yes, you are correct, we are not monks privately composing in a mountain cave, we want our stories to be read and affect the world. And to do that, write the best possible version of your story as you can.
Vegeta Reading Diogenes For 10 hours UA-cam Loop
Didn't realize you were in Tucson! I'm in Tucson as well and love Bookmans! I have a friend that has read Infinite Jest here. Do you do local metups?
You speak and move your hands like a pentecostal preacher!
You mean like your mother? I’m sorry, that was aggressive.
@@TheTruthIsOutThurr actually exactly like my mother lol.
I have a question (unrelated to this video). What are your thoughts on Mark Z. Danielewski? I don’t think I’ve seen any commentary from you yet on his writing; writing which I think is masterful, by the way. I just reread the Whalestoe Letters and man, that boy can sing. What your thoughts?
Great energy :)
Also, I think another author you should speak of is Alexander Theroux.
1:54 “Ermm, actually Ian.” ☝️🤓
You can hear Ben Shapiro if you close your eyes.
@@Vincent_Law Pls never say that to me
Lol lol dude I love listening to you! 😂
Only students of the occult can start a Renaissance - not people who manage Tik Tok, UA-cam or any such social medium. The Renaissance has to be started solely by those who research the occult, just like Newtonian Mechanism did centuries before Tik Tok. Thanks for the video!!
Good advice.
Ngl I read circe last year and I liked it
if it's for the literary renaissance i shall get a BBL and thirst trap Blood Meridian, Inshallah
please tell the name of the girl for reseaerch purposes
11:47 by irony 11:59 12:02 I've seen the Future, brother, it is murder
Did you cancel or take down your can you were canceled video because it was hard to follow who canceled you why and what the issue was?
Calm down take your time
found song of achilles boring, not interested in the story of a young gay boy, maybe it got better but i dnf
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Why would you ever recommend the song of Achilles, a gay fan fiction of the Illiad. Just stick to the original.
Man, I had to stop reading Infinite Jest. Wasn't really getting much out of it. Seems like a bunch of gobbldygook. The way he constructs some of his sentences had me thinking differently throughout the day though. Maybe I didn't give it enough time. Made it to about page 200.
No... you are not alone! Move along something better. He's good but he ain't all that.
I'm at about 250. Ian talks about payoff for effort! Will push forth for now!