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How do I get into writing erotica for women.
It sadly seems as the only way to make money nowadays :(
Any books that are considered erotica "classics" I can learn from?
>>8100414
step 1: be a woman
step 2: insist you write "contemporary fiction"
I'm picturing a fat neckbeard asking this question.
>>8100511
the true keeper of the keys to the women's erotic dreams
IwriteLike Thread?
Just got this
>>8100147
This thing is a joke. I've gotten vastly different results by putting in different things that I've written that were all in basically the same style. Even different sections of the same text.
>>8100147
>I put a fragment of my novel written in spanish and got Joyce
what did he mean by this?
Who wrote the Quran?
Muhammed or something
King Mudbeard
>>8099785
some paki
ITT: post tier lists of (somewhat) popular literature
>>8099748
I can't wait for people to fall for this.
The original maker of this chart might be dead now, but his creations will always successfully troll newfags.
>>8099748
Put 1984 and Brave New World into God-Tier.
>>8099748
I was not mentally prepared for bait of this magnitude
How the fuck are we supposed to read the Western Canon and write our works while being so bogged down by "real life?!"
>parental expectations
>school
>work
Etc. How do you combat this? I have to study and work and I am too tired all the time.
Is it just a lack of self-confidence? I.e.
>I could just be a barista or something and make small money and have an easy "real life" with lots of time/mental energy, but...
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caffeine
>>8099579
You literally just said it. Be a barista and enjoy the free time. People will call you a loser, but who cares? Live with roommates or your parents, get used to spending little money, and read as much as you can.
I'm a NEET and moved back in with my parents after college. No job. Read 6-9 hours a day. Basically live $10 at a time, and occasionally am stuck home with no money to even go out for coffee. And I fucking love it.
>>8099579
Well you could be doing either right now but you're using that time to shitpost here instead.
Thinking about tackling this behemoth /lit/. The question is: Would I enjoy it without the help of any other text? Did Joyce want it to be confusing and uncomprehensible for the most? Would reading it aloud help me savour at least the musicality of it?
I read everything else from Joyce btw, if that is of any help.
>>8099090
Dude just fucking read it already and stop making these threads
>>8099096
By ''dude'' you mean the whole of /lit/? I barely post here.
I dont want to go into a 600 pages book I know I won't get anything from.
>>8099110
you can read any piece of literature and not get anything out of it. what you pull is from your own ability to close read, extrapolate, and comprehend what the letters on the pages mean.
finnegans has a 'skeleton key' online. read the book with it if you like. make a decision. safety is overrated. go into it.
Which book changed your life?
>>8098481
Starting with the obvious
>>8098481
Mein Kampf by Hitler
Art of the Deal by Trump
The Moral Landscape by Harris
On Women by Schopenhauer
Decline of the West by Spengler
Ride the Tiger by Evola
Took me from brainwashed sheeple to redpilled philosopher-King
Deus vult
>>8098496
>No Culture of Decline
>No Crippled America
>No Latin Bible
Step it up, senpai.
I've finally gotten around to buying the first book. I've heard lots of good things about the Wheel of Time series. Had it recommended to me from friends who knew other authors I liked.
Shall I be pleased in the reading to come?
post a picture of the first page, and i'll read it with you
i'll tell you when im done
I've read the Eye of the World. It never becomes the story you're expecting. It's like Eragon, but worse.
>>8097597
I loved it when I read it. But that was back in 7th grade. If you like epic fantasy this should make you happy
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This is blowing my mind. I've tried reading Levi-Strauss as he is pretty much identified with 20th century anthropology but I didn't get him.
What would you consider a comprehensive next read?
I think I'm falling for the thick description as it has analytical roots and seems more spot on to me.
no?
oh i remember that feel. it blew me too when i found it. specially his essay on religion. and you could read his further essays, local knowledge. or you could try symbolic anthropology, such as victor turner or mary douglas.
his essay anti-antirelativism is a particularly good one, i dont remember if it is in LK or in available light.
also, anthropology is too much for lit so dont expect much answers.
ah and dont give up on levi strauss. he is worth the effort even if of course he is not good as a start. as a hint i can tell you that reading structural linguistics helps, cause he is basicalle doing the same but exchanging language for culture. jakobson, troubetzkoy and the prague cirlce in general. saussure and benvniste too if the others are too abstract.
Any good books to learn about Libertarianism? (please none from the American point of view, just neutral ones)
>>8096971
same fucking thread as yesterday.
The declaration of independence
Anything by Ron Paul
Any economics by milton friedman
Fountainhead by ayn rand
Might is right by Ragnar redbeard
>>8096971
Peter Vallentyne: "The origins of left-libertarianism: an anthology of historical writings"
best books for starting theology and moving up afterwards? like from beginner to expert
C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity.
>>8096114
the Bible permeates all levels of Abrahamic religious study, so don't be intimidated by it thinking you need to read something else first
Im looking for somethig romantic.
Any recomendation?
>>8095563
Wordsworth or Goethe are good starts
my diary desu
Home fuck.
I just realized I already lived out my fetish, but after the fact.
English, philosophy, art history, and film studies are interesting to me but I'm also weeaboo trash into East Asian cultural studies.
What the fuck do I choose, /lit/. Any essential texts in any of these subjects that'd give a better picture of the field?
(Doing STEMfag double major ftr.)
Also what are your major(s) and what are you doing now?
>>8091864
English here. But I have enough room in my schedule to take classes in creative writing, film, East Asian studies, and anthropology as well.
smbc is even worse than xkcd
>>8091864
Post your word processor.
word on default settings other than autocorrect being turned off
Uh, yeah, *chuckles at OP*, I use ACTUAL software meant for published writers like MasterWriter and Writer's Blocks.
Currently I'm testing Power Structure WriteItNow. ; )
Write the edgiest possible sentence, /lit/.
>>8084234
No.
>>8084234
>I read Evola
>I didn't understand most of the book but I read it so I could brag
