Laika Lee

This is the story of a failed pursuit of a #Hollywood #screenwriting dream 👇 open.substack.com/pub/thekitschi… — and this is my novel. 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GY1V4KNK Free on Kindle until May 27. #writingcommunity #amwriting #screenwriter #writerlife #WGA

@mubarakdynova No, not now. Thank you!

@TheKitschist I can really see the potential in your brand. But having a functional website would make a big difference.... I'd love to help if you're planning to get one

It seems like churning out promotional novels is my eternal cycle of reincarnation! 😭

@Croissant0712 嗯，久闻大名，有空我去读读。

@TheKitschist 确实 严肃文学创作与很多东西都挂钩 不过我对这些没什么刻板印象 就像石黑一雄虽然有个日本名 但写的东西也没刻板印象里那么日本文学，，

Honest question: Can readers really detect a writer’s nationality? If I gave you a novel with no author name attached, would you know whether it was written by an American, a Russian, or an Asian writer? Or are we all just telling human stories in different accents?

@Phil_to_you thank you🤣

@TheKitschist Thank you

@Croissant0712 东德西德也不会一样吧？ 制度也是很重要的一部分。

@TheKitschist 或许有可能是中国占地面积很大 虽然是同一个国家但是孕育了不一样的文化 所以才有这种地域性的差异？再看更南边一点的就更不一样了 同一时代各个地区都在发生不一样的事情

@Cerno_Nunley 啊！我好痛苦啊😓！ 是这样么？

@TheKitschist If they write in patois like Zora Neale Hurston did it's a bit of a give away. The classic Russians you could probably pick out because of their plodding snowy miserableness 😆

@Croissant0712 东北、西北都不一样呢！

@TheKitschist 我觉得部分是可以的 日本作家韩国作家虽然都是亚洲的 但写的东西真的不一样捏

@Morindacil Good point!

@TheKitschist It depends if I can pick up the societal and cultural cues that are shown or written about. Like for example, with my Filipino culture, the younger generation often take the hand of an elder and ask them for a blessing, and we use honorifics like kuya (big brother).

@wistfuwisteria Hope you wanna try mine. What if your life is someone else’s #story ? What if your #author is being #written too? What if your #characters are #writing your #author ? amazon.com/dp/B0GY1V4KNK

In need of a book to get me back to my groove

@AuthorErwin 那就是如果一个泰国作家可以骗过你，假装是一个中国作家。 但法国作家假装德国作家就骗不过你。 但是大概率能骗过中国作家和泰国作家。

I would be able to tell by what they focus on, but it wouldn't be super accurate. At the most I could tell the difference between French and German writers, but not Irish vs English. Thai vs Chinese is an interesting distinction, since you'd think they would be similar.

@BroJoeChiRho @nihiofkdi 如果是我他妈的怎么活去下啊！ 就是中国文学。🤣

@nihiofkdi You can tell if literature is Russian because two characters literally just met will just start telling each other their life story and how miserable they are.

Different ethnicities do have different writing styles, though I think the time period a story was written in comes out a lot more in the text than the writer's ethnicity.

@nihiofkdi @BroJoeChiRho 那 普鲁斯特的饼马德莱娜小蛋糕呢？ 🤣

@BroJoeChiRho You can easily tell with something like the Japanese, though. If they devote a couple pages to telling you how much the character enjoys eating cucumber with soy sauce, they're probably Japanese. Or if they call Boy George a fat gay boy who can't sing.

@BroJoeChiRho 当然！ 而且即便是同一时代，不同制度也是，所以我特别好奇东德和西德同时代的文学。

@DaddyWarpig 那亚洲嘞？

Russians are depressing in immense detail. Frenchmen are frivolously depressing or miserable with more adultery. British used to be witty. No idea if they’re allowed to be witty anymore. Americans are either greatly optimistic and inventive or bad copies of Frenchmen.

@Lola_lmao7 Mine!

I need to select a book for my workplace's next book club session... What should I pick?

@jer_gib Are you referring to the novel, Sir?

I keep reading comments from colleagues to the effect that, if a work is good, why should it matter whether that work was produced by a human or by a machine? Let the words speak for themselves!

@ComleaApp 对的，有着同样的回答。 但至少我写东西时，已经读过罗伯特麦基的《故事》，两次了。

@TheKitschist We tell the same human stories, but our layouts are different. Western books focus on a three-act conflict framework. East Asian traditions like Kishōtenketsu focus on an unexpected twist without using a central antagonist. The plot blueprint is the giveaway.

@jaananieminen8 @EmmaRSotomayor 感谢回答。 我比较喜欢东欧那些故事，像是 生命中不能承受之轻。 所以，也尝试着写了自己的。 其实相比较于法国和美国或者其他欧洲国家，我觉得可能更有意思的是有没有人比对过东德和西德的小说。

@TheKitschist @EmmaRSotomayor Have you read modern French, especially by women, books? I am a Finn and reading those makes me short of breath...so intense. I think the national 'vibe' comes through sometimes. Americans ( Steinbeck for instance) writes about surviving so beautifully.

@bhvtterfly 所以，人还是制度和文化下的产物，很难伪装🥸。

i can detect it if I'm familiar with the country's culture of that author so i won't be able to detect every nationalities. i remember my experience in this situation but on a wattpad novel and i don't remember the title anymore. i could guess the author is from india because of how they wrote about "one night stand" being a very taboo incident. in that plot, the parents actually caught the main leads accidentally having ons in a club but actually they're being framed by a villain. they all gone hella mad and with over exaggerated reactions from the characters in that story and the "villain" in question stirring things up on the spot😭 those are exactly how an India's drama would look like. and makes it even funnier is the fact that the author actually wrote it as a story happening in south korea😭 I'm not indian, i just oftenly saw videos of India's tv drama i know how over dramatic the scenes on those shows are and how the characters will behaves in such circumstances is exactly like that😭

@dedunlop okay

@TheKitschist If the reader knew enough about those cultures then yes.

@doseofpurple_ Maybe this #novel isn’t looking for #readers. Maybe it’s looking for #writers. What if your life is someone else’s #story ? What if your #author is being #written too? What if your #characters are #writing your #author ? amazon.com/dp/B0GY1V4KNK

if you're seeing this, please recommend me a good book to read. any genre.