If I learn art I learn the fundamentals like perspective, anatomy, color theory etc...

This person, my friend.

Non-meme answers:
>grammar
>prosody (assonance, consonance, meter, rhyme)
>syntax (the impact of punctuation on how a sentence is scanned)
>plot (3- and 5-act structures, conflict, etc.)
>character (motivation, flaws, virtues, relationships)
>dialog (metapragmatics, verbal tics, etc.)
>theme (good luck defining this one)
>revision
>reading comprehension
Best of luck if you're learning, my friend.

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Prose and rhetoric.

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Do you have any recommendations for reading material/lectures to learn about this stuff?

This kid, this baby.

Gass' "Finding a Form" is a great read if you're interested in how to read & write complex sentences. It touches on prosody and syntax without assuming a lot of prior knowledge, so it's a good novice-level text.

If you're a total beginner, "The Poem's Heartbeat" is a solid intro to prosody. The examples are all chosen from pretty big names, and the writing is the clearest I've read on the technical aspects of poetry.

In terms of the larger-scale stuff (plot, character, theme), check out Aristotle's "Poetics." It's one of his best books, and it's still frequently cited by contemporary authors.

All this is gonna be a bit more dry than fiction, but it's worth it if you can really digest the ideas and apply them in your own work.

This lad, my comrade

Are you from /ic/ too? I wanted to get into writing and was wondering the exact same thing

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This man—betrays himself.

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Yes. Where's my literary Loomis goddammit

Thanks

>this spelling of "dialogue"
are you by chance Eastern European?

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>ueueueueaeioux
why do the French ruin everything?

Read The Trivium.

See.

Hey, I didn't mean to be hateful. I was just wondering if that's the case, because Eastern Europe bros are the most helpful posters on Yea Forums.

Start with pic related. Ton's of theories and critical schools have cropped up since then, but Aristotle's general model still remains largely intact.

Intro level:
>Narrative Structure
>Character(s)
>Dialogue
>Theme(s)
>Reader-Response Criticism

Mid-Tier:
>Syntax
>Prosody
>Structuralist Criticism

High-Tier:
>Para/Anataxis
>Meta-texuality (applies primarily to modernist and post-modernist works)
>Deconstruction Theory (A meme, but one which should be studied, if only to debunk it).

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I butted into your conversation to shit on the French, sorry for the confusion. I do agree with you, there's a good chance that guy is Eastern European. Language should be 1 letter for 1 sound, so once again, fuck the French.

Aristotle isn't what I expected to hear but okay, can't go wrong with that if that's what schools are using

Nabokov. Vladimir. American novelist and literature professor who once had something like the following conversation with twenty students at Cornell University:
'Mr. Nabokov, we want to be writers.' Nabokov looks up from his reading he points to a tree outside his office window.
'What kind of tree is that?' he asks the students.
'What?'
'What is the name of that tree?' asks Nabokov. 'The one outside my window.'
'Bananera' says the first student.
'You'll be a great writer.' says Nabokov.
The student was Gabriel García Márquez.
'What kind of tree is that?' he asked the second student.
'What?'
'What is the name of that tree?' asks Nabokov.
'Bananera too, female. But the other trees are really good...' says the student.
'You'll be a great writer.' says Nabokov.
The student was Isabel Allende.
'What kind of tree is that?' he asks the third student.
'A tree from Maine haunted by the ghosts of writers, they're planting a different tree every year while I enjoy the fruits and Hollywood sucks my dick' says the third student.
'You'll be a writer.' says Nabokov.
The student was Stephen King.
what kind of tree is that he asks another student what what is the name of that tree asks nabokov the one outside my window i dont know says the student youll never be a writer says nabokov the student name was saramago
'What kind of tree is that?' he asks another student.
'A few short trees from Babylon.' says the student.
Nabokov: 'You'll be an amazing writer.'
The student was Jorge Luis Borges.
'What kind of tree is that?' he asks another student.
'Craúba, stronger than iron.' says the student.
'You'll be a good and forgotten writer.' says Nabokov.
'What is the name of that tree?' asks Nabokov to the last one.
'How many students?' asks Fernando Pessoa.

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>'How many students?' asks Fernando Pessoa.
Noice.

Actually from burgerland, been living in Chicago a few years now. In hindsight, it does strike me as odd that I wrote "dialogue" instead of "dialog." I went over a bit of my old writing, and noticed that I tend to say "dialogue" when I mean something written to be read (novels, short stories, etc.) but "dialog" when I mean something written to be recited (plays, screenplays, etc.). Not sure if anyone else does this, just something I picked up on.