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What are some general thoughts on greentext prose?
Obviously 4chan has developed a particular style of writing (pic related).
It's practical for an image board. There's nothing else to it.
Fragmentary phrases in a storyteller format. Nothing new.
Is an extensive vocabulary really all that important for a work to be considered good? I feel as if the only thing that matters is that the author clearly illustrates to the reader what he intends to express. If drawing dicks all over the page is the best way to do that, is it really bad? I see alot of readers get anal about this. Yeah, its nice when its there but is it NECESSARY. What do you think?
>>7613420
My idea is that choosing one word over another is style, anon.
Do you think literature, or Art in general, was made to illustrate something? (genuine question)
Hemingway.
>>7613420
It's not the most important, no. But the English language ought to be used, and if you can recall a word that saves you a couple of words, use it. Just don't be grandiloquent. :)
What good books take place in a snowy setting? I want to get them finished before its spring again
snow country
top comfy
>>7613233
I can only repeat this OP. It's probably exactly what you're looking for.
farthest north by fridtjof nansen
it's the captain's memoir of this
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen%27s_Fram_expedition
Have any of you read the Verity translation of the Iliad? If so, what did you think of it?
I've only read Fagles before, but a few people have recommended it to me over the last couple of weeks
It's very concrete and clear but not poetic. Though maybe it has a kind of deadpan poetry.
>>7613080
literally prose shaped like verse.
literally.
just read Lattimore OP.
Or Peter Green's new version.
Is there any sort of computer program that's good at creating randomized prose based on text you input? I've been looking for a less time consuming way of using the cut-up technique.
oh wait did it turn out that of those christ hating fedora atheists turned out to be an undercover kike?
my diary tbhdesuwa
>>7612315
I'll read it anon
it's okay
What's going to happen to sci-fi if the liberal media embraces the expunging of books where potential political analyses can be elucidated
academic liberals scour literary works
genre fiction is not in the realm of "liberal" panderers
>>7612201
That is a big question for that you would have to ask anyone who could become a potential author or lover of literature. besides liberals don't allow the destruction of art....
>>7612257
Yeah, only the conformity of it.
Hey /lit/,
I can't fucking write a story. Like, I can not literally write a fucking story. Whenever I try, I find that the story is basically worthless. I just started trying to write them. Unfortunately, they suck.
My goal is to eventually write a 60 page screenplay.
Do you have any good books to read or any websites or things that you have personally used that have helped you become a better writer?
I am currently watching the videos at this link: http://filmmakeriq.com/2011/03/free-complete-screenwriting-course-from-university-college-falmouth/
however, I am having trouble with seeing how these exercises will help me tell a story. The first exercise is weird, then the person decides to show me this thing about David Lynch and how he gets ideas, but I swear that the guy is mentally unstable and the only reason that he gets ideas is because he is so fucked up in the head, which I am not. I do not think that I am as fucked as he is.
So yeah... can you help out?
>>7612121
She looks better when she's dirty to be honest.
Read more, work on capturing what you're trying to say, work on your voice, and write constantly.
Just fucking practice. Practice for literally 10 years, then you might get good.
You have enough taste to recognize that you're currently shit, this is the only reason you may, potentially, get good.
Is it possible to read when on acid? Have you done it? If so how was it?
>>7611518
I have not done acid, but I would imagine it's nigh impossible.
While I did not try reading, when I took an eighth of shrooms I looked for a documentary and watched about an hour and a half of a movie before I realized it was a completely different movie from the one I originally wanted and it took me that long to figure it out.
The only thing they had in common was the title, and I'd seen the documentary before.
So my guess, is even if you could focus on reading, which I doubt, you probably...
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Once. It was fantastic, but I think it depends on what you're reading.
First I was looking at an illustrated book on different types of horses. There was a brief description of each horse with a picture on the opposite page. I was mostly looking at the pictures and it was nice.
Then I read the entirety of Vonnegut's Timequake in one go. That was amazing, but I think because the book lent itself well to an acid trip. The premise was that the world had suddenly gone back some number of years in time and everything was happening a second time. Everyone was...
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>>7611524
ignore this lightweight
ive read on shrooms
![Italo-Calvino[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lsTETiW.jpg "Italo-Calvino[1].jpg")
I've been reading a lot of Calvino. Like, a lot. A book a day almost. I can't stop. I'm reading and re-reading. I've never done this with an author before.
Any advice? Any other authors I may like in this sort of way? It's hard to explain. Something about the way he crafts stories is overwhelmingly appealing to me. His stories aren't overly complicated, they aren't hard to read, but in some way they all seem to inspire feelings deep inside of me that I just haven't gotten from most literature.
I mostly read old books. Calvino...
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If you feel that way about Calvino I have nothing to suggest.
Borges and the oulipo movement have obvious similarities to his work. I'd also recommend some Dino Buzzati and maybe some folktales. ETA Hoffman also wrote a buncha fairy tales but also some meta fiction so you might enjoy that
>>7610729
Thank you. I hadn't heard of Buzzati, and I have Labyrinths sitting on my shelf but haven't yet read.
Hello friends,
Ideology is dead. You worked hard to win that prize. Pinecone burns forth. We will accept your admissions from Ideology Heat for Pinecone Heat. Prize included. That's right. We will reanimate the corpse of Ideology.
Submissions are accepted at: pineconemagazine at gmail
But they are also accepted at our website. Just google 'pinecone magazine wix'. You can submit there anonymously.
So submit yr Heat stuff (for the prize) or just make something up (also for the prize).Those of y'all that submitted already,...
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re-submitted thank fucking god
what the fuck is a heat issue
are all the stories about being warm
>>7607298
That was Ideology's idea. No one knows.
Shouldn't all poetic translations be literal? If the music of the poetry can't be maintained anyways, then why not at least maintain the words? Why am I reading the music of the translator?
>>7613518
There are many poetic works that can't or shouldn't be translated.
What a translator of poetry should do is "remake" the poem in the language he wants it to be translated.
Practically, creating another poem.
Translations can be many things. They can be interpretations which are different on purpose.
They can be literal, which can work, but it can't in all languages. They can be semi-literal, in that they aim for accuracy, but have a slight licence to change things to make them suit the language.
>>7613532
drop trip faggot
Apologies in advance, I wouldn't usually ask this here but I can't find anything helpful.
I recently bought the editions of Anna Karenina shown in the pic - it is translated by Rochelle S. Townsend. Just wondering whether this is a decent translation and if it's not then what's better?
Also what translation to read general
The books are nice.
But I would try one of the new translations, Rosamund Bartlett, or Marian Schwartz. There is also a revised Maude's I think. I read the P&V version. It was still an incredible book so I don't think you can go too wrong.
So I'm writing this novel and could use some insight into women hygienical habits, do they still use bidets? You know, to wash down there? How often do they need to do that?
I need my novel to be as realistic as possible please help.
I don't know where else to ask, I don't talk to women much, was even raised motherless.
>>7613178
Go to /soc/ they will tell you all the disgusting things girls do.
The guys here don't know and the girls are civilized enough not to talk about it.
>>7613178
pretty sure they slap some bleach on a toothbrush and scrub the crust out of their vagine with it
I get my toyboy to eat me out.
