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I'm going to do it, /lit/.
50 pages a day, minimum. Non-fiction and literature exclusively.
How many pages do you read a day on average?
Around 50 too. Also non-fiction. Just finished Outsiders by Howard S Becker. Will finish the Capital now.
You'll notice pages have fewer or more words from book to book. Just stick to 50 and you're fine. If you feel you can go for 75 on special days after you've done them, don't hesitate.
I don't count pages but generally I do an hour in the afternoon and an hour or two in bed at night.
>>7599028
300-500 pages/week
>tfw been since december reading exclusively short stories
I noticed you posted DFW
I noticed that you greentexted
I noticed that you admitted to something
I noticed that you feel
I noticed that you are a mirror
I noticed
I will always notice.
Nice OP, can you recommend me some writers?
>>7598981
What have you liked the most?
Write what's on your mind
I think it rained outside as we
drank until the cigarettes ran out
and the two girls in front of Whole Foods
kissed
while I watched and felt some sadness as I do
usually
this post was typed for the sole purpose of taking up space
>>7595371
It kind of resembles your existence, doesn't it?
![tumblr_inline_moxcabCzyP1qz4rgp[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/X7ZykgV.jpg "tumblr_inline_moxcabCzyP1qz4rgp[1].jpg")
Why haven't you read it yet?
inb4 shitposting
same to u, bitch
>>7594895
>he literally thinks that the price/value of commodities can entirely be broken down into rent, profit, and wages
>he fucks up the only true advancement made by classic political economy--Quesnay
>can't distinguish between fixed capital, circulating capital, constant capital, and variable capital
>fails completely to account for constant capital in the reproduction of total social capital
Does anyone know any gut-wrenching/morbid literature/essays worth reading?
Something like Guts by Chuck Palahniuk.
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts
Transgressive fiction is for chumps. Surrealist, absurdist, and existentialist fiction is where the real morbidity and gut-wrenching lies.
Guts is for teenagers. In fact, all of Palahniuk is.
I used to own a copy of Apocalypse Culture, that was fun. Lots of essays/interviews with "outsiders", some shit, some great (like that interview with the guy who hangs his skin on hooks to be closer to God)
Did you enjoy this /lit/? Why is ol' Hubert so angry?
>>7603653
Because he had a shit life?
I did enjoy it btw. Very visceral.
And cheers for inspiring one of, if not the, best simpsons episodes of all time
It's really fucking good. And insane that he developed his style essentially in a bubble.
Any of you read his other stuff? I heard other than requiem the rest is mediocre.
free verse
>>7603661
Walt Whitman, and then I stopped.
Is it worth to write an autobiography if I lived in Russia then England, Europe and then in middle east? I would like to write another autobiography when I'm in Mexico, U.S.A and then Canada.
>>7603549
Why you moving around so much?
>>7603556
I enjoy sucking penises in many different locales.
Hey guys I'm new here at /lit/ (been about 4 years on /g/ and /fa/ occasionally) and I don't know how things work around here but here we go.
I've been wanting to read pic related for a long time but I've read some reviews saying that it was gimmicky and it put me off a little. Can you recommend me books that deal with the same theme?
As always, lurk moar.
What is the theme anyway?
>>7603489
generation x
>>7603494
Was about to give you some naughty recommendations but that's just bad attitude kid
What do you think of Max Brooks and his book World War Z?
>>7603426
Is he hispanic? Also the book is fine if you like zombie shit.
>>7603436
Maybe a little hispanic
>>7603426
It is for teenagers and man-children. Adults should read real literature
Just got this translation from a used book store. Did I fuck up?
Nope, you did not.
>>7603456
Got it for $4.75
Also bought P&V Demons. I have McDuff's TBK but only halfway through so far.
If you're reading Brother Karamazov before C&P you've really done goofed.
I don't write much fiction, but I'm currently in my college's "Advanced Creative Writing" this semester.
The whole class is to compose a "major work" - be it a collection of poems or a memoir - and draft it throughout the whole semester. The end goal is to get it published in an undergrad journal nobody will ever read except your mom because now their kid is "published."
Right now, I'm still doing pre-writing and research, so I am doing character write-ups. I was wondering what you guys do to develop characters...
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>>7603366
If it's poems, it doesn't matter
>>7603383
I should have clarified, but I didn't want it to sound like I was asking people to write them for me:
I am writing a play. It's about a 4-member band (all male) in Portland, Maine. Scenes will jump around to all the different members of the band at various points in the day before they all converge on a show. They're all going to be in various stages of disarray.
Uh....you just develop the character without directly projecting people from your lives.
![51-GDauZ7GL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/okai9jU.jpg "51-GDauZ7GL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg")
I know none of you fucks have read this book. I know this book will strike home with too many of you not to post it.
Friend gave it to me and still haunts my thoughts almost daily 6 months later.
![5876098[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bXrbhx6.jpg "5876098[1].jpg")
>>7602128
>this guy wrote it
Read it? How about 'no'.
>>7602135
I wish i judged everything by one picture too
Why does it haunt you
Can anyone recommend some good books on the heresiarchs & their beliefs?
Looking for something like Hillaire Belloc, but more definitive.
>>7600749
that pic is fucking crazy, man
>>7600749
The kingdom of God is within you by Tolstoy.
The 30 years war by dame wedgwood
The gnostic gospels by Elaine pagels
>>7600850
agreed what the fuck why yellow
Who is your favourite poet/poem?
Display thy breasts, my Julia, there let me
Behold that circummortal purity;
Between whose glories, there my lips I’ll lay,
Ravished in that fairVia Lactea.
the Great Improvisation part of Mickiewicz's Forefather's Eve III
Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174659
