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So /lit/, how's the novel comming along?
i gave up
I'm an incompetent writer and had no business ever trying. I don't know how to express what I want to say or how to write decent prose.
>>7540967
how can you not write prose? Its literally word diarrhea. just spew out meaningless redundant bullshit and BAM amazing prose. Its bottom of the barrel writing.
Even bad prose deserves an award for being good in its own right Just for being bad prose. because again, all prose is bad.
Oh shit it just arrived.
So, incoming masterpiece or /lit/ meme of the year?
I hope you elitist jerks can at least write well.
>>7540190
Read the first page online then flicked to the 100 and something page.
It's FULL OF QUOTATIONS!!!
>>7540190
Is it finally on sale somewhere?
Link?
>>7540242
I literally just Googled it. And I'm not helping you.
I'm growing more interested. Might blow some Xmas money on this. Was Totalitarianism in A Tundra any good? Or am I in for some meme shit?
>diagnosed autistic as a child
>read a lot of scifi and fantasy from the library
>developed an obsessive fixation on dune
>decided that LSD was the closest approximation to melange
>decided to attempt to become Paul Atreides
>decided to major in philosophy and do tons of acid in college
>spent four years in a psychedelic schizo coma
>now...
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>>7539081
>>spent four years in a psychedelic schizo coma
well, what was that like?
>>7539105
yeah please elaborate that sounds raw as fuck my guy
>>7539081
If you actually got enough real LSD to stay lit for four years, I'm jealous and would guess that you went to Brown. That was pretty stupid though. I think very occasional moderate trips on shrooms (like annually) can be productive if your expectations are in the right place. Sorry about your brain.
They helped make me reflective so that I couldn't take my own will to power seriously. Fortunately I still make good money, but I could have been so much more ambitious if I didn't overthink such things.
Book holding thread.
What is your preferred hand configuration.
In b4
>muh kindle
>muh hardback
Paper back master race
Smoking while reading master race.
>>7535009
Like yours, but I'm a leftie and hence hold the book with my left hand. Right hand is in contact with the book too, though, as my index finger will be on the bottom right ready to turn to next page while my right hand thumb is resting on the bottom of the page and my fuck-finger is supporting the book so it's not only my left hand
>>7535018
That is, my index finger will be always-already on the next page.
Regards,
a real man
I know you fucks can read, but can you write? Tell us a little about what youre writing. Why aren't you writing about the rise of communism? r8 without h8 is appreciated
>>7529358
I wrote this.
>>7529358
I've written maybe four things, all of them awful, two of them NaNoWriMo attempts.
I wrote a short story about Socrates vs the Grand Inquisitor.
I wrote a transcription of a series of four dreams I had about an evil interdimensional-wandering Scythian Enaree.
I wrote a novella about a complete idiot who joins an anarchist club after his lover is murdered by police, falls out with them, and somehow winds up involved in intrigue about a sentient AI just by virtue of bumbling through life...
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>>7529381
woah fucking nice one.
TALK SHIT, POST LIT
Excerpts edition.
Post excerpts from what you are currently writing and get roasted by other /lit/erary gentlemen.
Try to critique one before you post one.
Wrote this 4 years ago when I knew nothing about literature or writing.
The man stood on top of the hill watching his home burning. Shadowy figures danced around in the glow of the flames below. The figures took turns tossing liquid into the fire and for each splash the fire grew and erupted outwards in horrible cascades of shining flares. He could hear the sounds of cheering, laughing even. Tears streamed down his cheeks - but it was his own fault that he didn’t pack up and leave. As the flames turned into smoke a brilliant plume of ashes flew upwards.
The...
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>>7530811
It's six sentences, but for something that's six sentences long it's far from bad.
>>7530811
More pls
>writer believes using fancy words is good writing
>a frogposter who hasn't killed himself yet
>>7540100
This is a good point, but there's a difference between an author stroking their ego with gratuitous purple prose, versus the incidental usage of less common phrases or adjectives because it's necessary to provide a vivid and accurate image of whatever the novel is trying to impress upon the reader. The distinction should be clear.
>>7540100
?
Has there been a bigger blunder in the history of literature?
He's figuratively being cucked/spoiled by a tv show about his own source material.
>>7538270
>GRRM
>literature
>>7538270
I was wondering the same thing in 2005. Now I think he is just a slovenly lazy old man. Just because the new internet outrage culture is screaming for him to shit out content now doesn't mean he hadn't been doing this for more than a decade.
>>7538280
This.
Also, fuck Neil Gaiman for covering Martin's enormous ass. He may not be my bitch, Neil, but he's still a lazy sack of shit.
What's your single favourite line from a book, /lit/?
>Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.
It's simple, and it sets the tone of the book well.
>>7538111
I know saying this is really beating a dead horse, but
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
This never fails to give me chills, I always feel melancholic after reading it.
Y a veces me sucedĂa que cuando yo pasaba frente a una de mis ventanas ella estaba esperándome muda y ansiosa (Âżpor quĂ© esperándome? Âży por quĂ© muda y ansiosa?); pero a veces sucedĂa que ella no llegaba a tiempo o se olvidaba de este pobre ser encajonado, y entonces yo, con la cara apretada contra el muro de vidrio, la veĂa a los lejos sonreĂr o bailar despreocupadamente o, lo que era peor, no la veĂa en absoluto y la imaginaba en lugares inaccesibles o torpes. Y entonces sentĂa que mi destino era infinitamente más solitario que lo que habĂa imaginado.
Haven't had one in a whileShitposters: "No book should ever be adapted! Cinema is a terrible medium!" There, I said it for you.
Surely someone can format better than I can.
post the template mate
Describe to me from a third person perspective a day in the life of an ideal you. The person you strive to be.
Anon arrived home late that day, exhausted by a non-stop shift of non-existence. Normally he barely even noticed that he was not a living being anymore but, perhaps due to a strange planetary alignment, that day drained him so thoroughly he did not even eat supper before passing out on the divan. He dreamed he had a song stuck in his ear and he could not get rid of it; he tried listening to the end of the song, to drown it out with other kinds music, and shooting himself up his jaw, but nothing quite did the trick. He was grateful when he woke late the next day, for he did not...
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He didn't wake up.
He wakes up not because of a jarring alarm, but because gradually his hormones have brought him to a state of wakefulness. He writes down what he can recall of the dream world below the given date. He changes the pillowcase and makes the bed. He does something physical which further wakes him, whether it be running on a trail or sets of chin ups and planks. He uses this time to reflect on the dream, present goals, and his relationships with others. Sweaty, he now takes a shower and while feeling relaxed, practices gratitude for his various fortunes. He throws on a fashionable...
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Would I be missing out on anything if I skipped The Part About the Crimes?
Obviously, you fucking pleb
Would I be missing out on stuff if I skipped stuff?
You tell me, mate
>>7536354
not much, just the whole experience of reading this book
best order in which to starting reading the greeks?
>>7538929
>to starting reading the
Start at the beginning. With the Greeks.
start with the greeks
>favorite meme
>favorite book
>job
>Infinite Jest
>Infinite Jest
>Student
>Infinite Jest
>Infinite Jest
>Home Depot
>infinite jest
>infinite jest
>NEET
What's your favorite /lit meme?
>>7537524
DFW posting.
Tricking people into thinking Dostoevsky is worth reading.
>>7537563
Seriously?
