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This has been me for the last 3 months. I have a deadline of 12 months to write another novel and have it ready to send out to my publisher, but I'm completely out of ideas.
What do you guys do to help you get through writer's block?
I've always written for fun, now that it's a career I can't seem to get started
>hike across united states for 11 months
>have one month left to finish novel
>???
>profit
Neil Gaiman suggests writing a short story after each novel to refresh the palatte, so to speak.
Don't you have notebooks full of little ideas you've jotted down over the years? Go through that and find something fun to write about.
>>7530873
This
Write a short story about anything and everything that strikes your fancy. You will have more short stories than you can turn to novels.
This piece of shit book.... Never in my life have i felt such an urge to completely destroy a book. I fucking hate this book and i hate myself for buying it. All the russian name dropping, the short and choppy dialogue... This book needs to be banned from everywhere and people who read it need to be flogged publicly. How has it made me this fucking mad /lit/? I was only able to force myself to read about 130 pages. I stopped when i actually punched the book... I fucking punched the book /lit/
>>7536712
Perhaps John Green would be more up your alley?
>>7536715
tell me you enjoyed this overrated bullshit rambling. go ahead. tell me.
>>7536712
Sorry to hear that anon. So, what exactly was it about the names that you disliked so much?
New year Goodreads Thread!
Post how many books you want to read this year and find new friends!
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2408134-sebastian
Guess who ;)
i have a very positive feeling about this
>>7530788
I am going to read Woman and Men soon and Zettels Traum later this year, but I have many shorter books lined up, too, like novellas by Stefan Zweig and many <200 pages books by Arno Schmidt before I read Zettel. I think I can make it.
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Is pic related a meme book?
The often quoted passage of "oh my enemy isn't as wise" seems to be a pretty classic case of inversion of morals/fedora tippers feeding their sense of superiority.
However, I'm not sure if it's all just senseless compliments to how powerful and superior you are and whether it contains actual advise.
Meditations went right over your head, mate. Do you understand Stoicism at all?
>>7534566
DESU I haven't read it, but checked out at a few pages a while back when I was in a bookstore.
It seems like a normie accessible stoic text that effectively if curtly conveys a spirit of Rome which is, I think, far more interestingly conveyed through Livy.
The difference being that Meditations is like 100 pages, and Livy's surviving 35 books span about 2000.
>>7534584
Since fucking when has t .b h changed to desu
Why is /lit/ so filled with shitposting these days?
The /his/ split killed /lit/. Just admit it. Just compare both boards, find out /his/ is leagues better even with its own problems, and acknowledge that /lit/ is dead.
>>7530712
/his/ is trash. It's just christ/fedoraposting, viking baiting, and /pol/baiting.
If you think it's better at all, then you can go back into the high road to Reddit.
>>7530712
/his/ sucks LOL, and /lit/ is exactly the same as it's always been
does /lit/ like the hobbit and lotr?
>>7530639
mum read them to me as a young boy. Made for a pretty good childhood involving home-made swords and invisible dragons. Haven't read them in about a decade
>>7530714
you're mum was a good mum
as a children/teenage novel you can't go wrong with it. Reading it for relevance/fun is fine too.
Proposing a new meme here
Use at your own discretion
>>7530588
>Christians have difficulty reading
And a tip for you, gentlesir
>>7530588
That is the most pathetic looking right hand I have ever seen. Why not just start the painting over.
>>7530588
>heretics
Why he still hasn't got Nobel Prize?
How is Umberto Eco? Seems very interesting, I know he's a professor of semiotics which makes me think his writing would be quite good.
because he's italian dan brown
>>7530336
this makes me think his writing would be quite bad
Just read On Women, fantastic stuff. Anymore /r9k/-core literature?
I'd ask /r9k/ desu senpai
Notes from Underground
>>7530206
Both Mishima volumes in pic related are as r9k as they come.
recommend some good historical fiction pls
My diary desu
>>7530095
Here's a good book on porn. Strictly non fiction, but you had me thinking of boobs
>Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985
>>7530095
The Three Musketeers and its sequels, obviously.
What have people said about your writing?
>>7531343
nice one
"Symptomatic of something terrifying, probably sociopathy."
I've been compared to Salinger and Kafka, told that my writing has a surrealist dreamlike quality. I've also been told that my writing is plane, sparse, lifeless, devoid of imagery. I've also been told that my writing is overwritten, stuffed with purple prose, filled with the unnecessary personalization of the environment.
I guess what I'm saying is I don't really have a style yet, but I suck. I'm pretty sure the complements were just from people who wanted to fuck me.
>>7531358
>I've been compared to Salinger and Kafka
>Kafka
You realize his works have been translated into english, right? Goddamn, kill yourself.
rate my cart
17 year old US-American / 10
Maybe learning can be fun / 10
You're on your way, kid.
![devils-dostoevsky-f-m-paperback-cover-art[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/KdqadiW.jpg "devils-dostoevsky-f-m-paperback-cover-art[1].jpg")
>tfw you learn your favorite book was just written as filler for the author to cover some gambling debts
>tfw you realize your favorite author wrote insincerely during the entire second half of his life just to keep the government from killing him
>>7529995
Is it still worth reading though? I love Dostoyevsky and I've never read it.
>tfw you learn your favorite book was written just to impress mary karr
>tfw you realize your favorite author wrote insincerely his entire life just to get audience pussy
I read an article somewhere about Constance Garnett and attempts at English translations of the Russians. It said Dostoevsky wrote with a "sloppiness" that is almost impossible to convey in English, and then went on to list a number of rhymes and plays-on-words that had been butchered in attempts to translate them. It just made me depressed.
http://www.matthewjockers.net/2015/02/02/syuzhet/
> "digital humanities"
This guy claims he can discern the emotional trajectory of the plot of any book using sentence-by-sentence sentiment analysis.
Pic related is the emotional trajectory of Portrait of the Artist...things start out ok, get good, go bad, go really bad, then get steadily better and end on a high note
If you're so into literature, why haven't you learned how to program yet in order to discover the underlying statistical emotional patterns...
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lol the idea that you would need to know how to program to make these basic plot graphs is laughable
>>7529922
Pic related is the emotional trajectory of Portrait of the Artist...things start out ok, get good, go bad, go really bad, then get steadily better and end on a high note
thanks for clarifying that incredibly complicated graph tho bro, i thought we'd need a computer for that
>>7529932
don't you know that :^) is the universal troll smilie?
Any reason to watch this? Or is it going to feel gross? I really liked The Social Network, if that's worth anything
its pretty shit i watched it twice
if you want to you want to i guess go for it if you're curious not like you got anything better to do but its not great
It's well made and mostly enjoyable. could have been a lot cringier
sucks dick
