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>have a decent idea for a book
>can't write decent prose
How do I die?
>>8224455
>How do I die?
By dying of exhaustion due to endless soul-crushing training of your prose skills.
>>8224455
we're all dead inside already
Write anyway.
Is there any inherent value in achievement? Also, what's the point of publishing a novel? What's the point of releasing any piece of art? Does other people reading something you've made somehow add value to your life? Is it nothing but vanity?
Take the black pill
>>8224416
Vanitas vanitatum, yes. I write because it makes life less unbearable, as I knowingly partake with others into the shared lie of meaning.
>>8224416
>Is there any inherent value in achievement?
there's no such thing
>Also, what's the point of publishing a novel? What's the point of releasing any piece of art?
there's no such thing as 'points', get rid of illusionary teleologies.
> Does other people reading something you've made somehow add value to your life?
if you want it to.
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What are some of the best female characters in literature who's NOT (!) a Manic Pixie Dream Girl™ or a shallow cliché in other ways (like the Whore™, Madonna™, etc)?
I'm looking for the female Raskolnikov, sort of.
>>8224413
gee™ bro™ i™ don't™ know™
>>8224413
The Waves has good female characterisation.
A lot of front that masks deep insecurity and jealousy.
ITT: Everybody gives his understanding of what a SPOOK is.
I'm tired of all the threads where one anon gives an explanation and two anons will say "that's not it" without improvong upon it
Ideology subsumed concepts.
>>8224406
"higher causes"
What haunts the universe, and has its occult, “incomprehensible” being there, is precisely the mysterious
spook that we call highest essence. And to get to the bottom of this spook, to comprehend it, to
discover reality in it (to prove “the existence of God”) — this task men set to themselves for thousands
of years; with the horrible impossibility, the endless Danaid-labor, of transforming the spook into a
non-spook, the unreal into something real, the spirit into an entire and corporeal person — with this
they tormented themselves to death. Behind...
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What are the essential stoic books?
>>8224357
start with the greeks
>>8224362
and resume with the romans
Is this a good read? Worth getting?
>>8224356
Yes, it's a great book.
>>8224356
good shit, op. peep it
>>8224356
Really great book. Get it.
Hey /lit/, I'm writing a post-apocalyptic tragedy. What cliches should I avoid?
I'd advise not making it overtly grim. The character(s) should have something to strive towards, even if they only ever get fleeting glimpses of it over the course of the story.
It's possible to write unending grinding grimness, but generally you have to be Cormac McCarthy if you really want to pull it off.
>>8224297
avoid explaining the fucking reason it went to shit
avoid making your character the center of the universe
does your character NEED a love interest?
avoid stupid technology as a way to fix a plot problem
avoid a "heh... nothin personal kid" person
>>8224308
All good advice.
is atheism intellectually shallow?
Define atheism.
Idunno.
>>8224267
Fuck you.
DUDE BOOKS LMAO
>>8224236
Are your parents proud of you?
>>8224236
He looks a bit like a shaved and showered Bukowski.
>>8224236
DUDE INFINITE LABYRINTHS OF AN ETERNAL POEM COMPOSED BY ALL AND NO MEN WHO ARE MERELY INDIVIDUAL ORGANS PROJECTED BY THE DEITY TO PERCEIVE HIS CREATION LMAO
Magnificently beautiful sentences, style and wittyness with deep thoughts that makes you wanna cry:
name me other writers who are capable of achieving this level of perfection of form and substance.
Proust
>>8224230
Vladimir Nabokov
>>8224230
Peter Butfield
I'm really not liking this book. I can't get into it at all. It made me feel overwhelmed yet bored at the same time. Is it just me?
I'm 50 pages in but it keeps getting worse. It reminds me of the attic or closet of an elderly person close to death. Nothing inside is appealing or interesting and it all feels a little gross. The items inside weren't saved for any particular reason, they just ended up staying there.
>>8224164
>1 unique IP
you started this thread just to samefag that shitty little comparison didn't you? you're such an affected poet anoooonnnnnnnnn, old peoplee are sooo saaad
>>8224172
I just wanted to give a description of the feeling I felt when reading it. It seemed pretty clear it was a samefag but I'm
glad you care enough to check.
What's the most problematic book you've read?
your diary desu. anon your mother would like to have a talk with you.
my dairy duse
>>8224140
my mother would like to have a talk with you
Wrote some untraditional free verse poems, just want to hear what people think.
First poem:
A hallowed death by a withering tree,
A falling of leaves that brings upon tranquility.
The soul made boundless from the shackles of mortality,
And carried aloft by wings of peace.
Only through death is there true life,
So please, do go gently into that good night.
Second poem:
A link made eternal will not sever,
As a mind tormented will always snap,
One at war with body and mind,
For a cause unsure,
But a link everlasting clutches to the...
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If you're too stupid to find the crit thread then there's no point in even bothering to read your poems.
>>8224073
>free verse
D R O P P E D
Fuckin beautiful mate
american 'philosophy'
>>8223946
goddammit everytime I see this picture I laugh. I swear it's been around more than 10 years. gets me every time.
>anglo 'philosophy'
ft4u
>greek 'philosophy'
I'm new to this. Fell in love with ann Rand right away. I feel she got a lot of things right but not everything. I'm inspired by Kierkegaard and am about to read fear and trembling, but what should I read next to continue my journey down this cosmic rabbit hole?
>>8223940
Probably tylo be chillin
>>8223943
16 bars is my time to shine
>>8223940
Breed da breeks
