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Journals? Do you Journal entry daily? I've come to realize that Journals and daily entries are helpful to get to writing.
I'm using a standard word processor, but I'm wondering if there is a specific Journal program for the computer. I use GNU/Lunix and while the standard word proecesor is fine, I can only wonder what /lit uses.
I wish there was a console Journal app that would give me a black background and a green text so that I may write in the dark without straining my eyes. It would be nice if it created a search of the entries and automatically...
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use focus writer
you can change the backroung and the text
Use paper
>>7648538
No, fuck that shit. If I'm going to waste my time anyway, I'd rather write a shitty poem than a journal entry.
how important is setting? how do you guys handle it?
i find my short stories often have a pretty clear setting in my mind, but I go sparse on descriptive detail in my writing, it's not only that I find writing location descriptions as tough and a little awkward, but I often feel like it may be extraneous.
the other problem I have is writing a story in some vague imaginary new york, but I have trouble describing it because I've never really been to new york. I give some barebones literary description of the big mean city, but I feel I probably don't...
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Its only as important as its needed to understand the story. To fully grasp Tolkien's work you need to know about his setting, not so much with say a Borges story.
My philosophy is that a story arises from its setting. A setting is crucial to characterization, especially in a cultural and regional context.
Sup,/lit/ bros? Broke college student here. Do you know where u can download pdf files of books for free? Shitty to ask, but i can't pay 100 dollars for 1 book. Can you help?
Get a job you lazy piece of shit.
sage
google the name of the book you're looking for followed by pdf and occasionally either include the word blog or google docs
>>7645945
I'm a non traditional student. I'm already paying rent, car, bills, internet.. But internships don't pay much.
ITT: Meme books you are allowed to like
>>7645298
You're allowed to like any book. Why would we care what you like?
He rapes his sister
>>7645304
Who is this "we" you are talking about?
What was his best book, /lit/?
it
I liked Misery. Haven't read any of his other works.
The Stand.
Even *he* thinks it's his best work.
Though if we're including the Bachman books, then the correct answer is The Long Walk.
Holy shit. Can we please talk about this book? I don't think I'll ever read a more emotional book than Stoner.To W.S.
>>7643303
dude weed lmao
I really enjoyed the Young Thug song of the same title.
>>7643303
If you read the sticky it'd tell you to use the fucking archive, dude, this thread has been done to death
>Christianity robbed us of the harvest of the culture of the ancient world, it later went on to rob us of the harvest of the culture of Islam. The wonderful Moorish cultural world of Spain, more closely related to us at bottom, speaking more directly to our senses and taste, than Greece and Rome, was trampled down (—I do not say by what kind of feet—): why? because it was noble, because it owed its origin to manly instincts, because it said Yes to life even in the rare and exquisite treasures of Moorish life!… Later on, the Crusaders fought against...
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>>7642392
it's like frogposters on /r9k/ having a hardon for ISIS because it's the closest thing to a beta uprising they can get
>>7642412
If you're equating Christians with normies, you fundamentally misunderstand Nietzsche.
>>7642426
Yeah, Jesus was all about the meek losers of the world, chastity, and people give their money to NEETs. Hell, monks were a bunch of voluntary celibate losers with autism who did nothing but sperg out about the bible and hate on normies and the rest of society.
Jesus started the original beta uprising
"Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." - Henry James
Kipling, Rudyard. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15. Nobody takes his utilitarian moralism seriously. A genius.
The Jungle Book. Incomparable prose artistry. The supreme masterpiece of 19th-century literature. - Nabokov
The actual quotation, as far as I can find - Kipling, Rudyard. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Romantic in the large sense.
Read Plain Tales. You'll understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sww5kXwTFYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRzw27ewc6M
Am I a pleb for thinking this is shit?
it's ok
don't know why it's "shit" it's at worst mediocre
Why is it shit exactly ?
Is it because /lit/ told you ?
Then yes
no. it really is shit
happy birthday IJ :^)
>"yeah just make sure you get the encyclopedia in the shot ok?"
>>7649058
Today, the NY Times published a pretty good piece about Infinite Jest: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/books/review/everything-about-everything-david-foster-wallaces-infinite-jest-at-20.html?_r=0
>tfw you die at 60 and your son reads your diary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjuk8f02yQc
Why would he record and post this ?
The internet is fucked up
>>7648845
He must be a lonely dude.
>>7648861
I feel bad for him actually.
Why was tragedy considered a higher art form than comedy?
Tragedy managed to revive the consideration of the object which the protagonist had aimed at.
>>7648816
Will you explain this more please?
Can anyone think of a Greek comedy that is a farce? Like Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice?
