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How do I go about writing? I have a fantastic story idea, but I want to go through with it to the end and not fuck it up/give up midway.
What's some good prep/motivator to do it?
Story ideas (plot) don't really matter tb h
>>8000838
What matters then?
>>8001047
How the story is told. Which includes prose and other things. Despite what other anons tell you it isn't just prose.
Is there a book about the author writing the same book and we're reading it?
And its called the Song of Eternity
That's genius
Things They Carried experiments with this to an extent, but not as far as you're thinking OP
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Hello /lit/ I am new to the board and I keep reading how Camus is shit. What's so shit about him? I really enjoyed the Plague and the Stranger as well as his short stories.
Are those bad and I just didn't realize it?
Please halp.
>>7999037
bump
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why can't I bump ;___;
this is actually a serious question for me. He is one of my favourite authors.
>>7999088
Ay I love aesop
And /lit/ is hyper elitist so they hate any existentialist philosopher, don't take it seriously, most of the people here seriously have not even read any of their work or even the work of the people they praise.
Recommend me a nice hardcover edition of Moby Dick
I want to dick moby.
>>7998495
>Muh whales, the book
I don't get the love.
Not hardcover, but this is a great edition I'm currently reading.
How do you deal with amount of violence and horrible things God did to non-believers?
would you rather God destroyed us all after we fucked up?yes
Starts with Teleological and ends with Ethical.
I select what is convenient for me.
Hey, /lit/. Newly qualified English teacher here.
I've accepted a post at a high school and, incredibly, they've allowed me to pick my own texts for the students to study.
I can pick 3 books, one for each term (semester). Which should I pick?
The Recognitions
Men and Women
The Tunnel
>>7997600
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
>>7997600
Make sure you get 1984 in there so we can stop these socialism is good meme
Post them
Have you no shame, OP?
I want people to post works to critique.
There is a current poetry crit thread, this is for fiction and nonfiction
No story fragments.
The first post will not be mine, and I'm going to critique every story under 3,000 words in this threadformatting stuff
put your story in a paste bin with a 2 week deletion time to preserve first publication rights.
Don't post story fragments or erotic fiction. Use of sexuality in stories is good. There is literally nothing I can do to stop you from doing either, just a suggestion because...
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>>7994243
Augury
http://pastebin.com/qsshzDgx
I stopped writing during my psychotic break. This is the first thing I've written since. I'm kindaproud of it
ok, i'll bite. It's 5k words though.
"Toy Soldiers"
http://pastebin.com/ZWCMpcuh
It's just a juxtaposistion of determinism/fatalism and war. I thought that was an interesting/scary way to look at destiny, so to speak.
short story excerpt
http://pastebin.com/WKPAfunu
if *everything* you have to say is negative, i probably don't want to hear it
Spinozo
>Proved the existence of God, defined as an infinite predetermined substance machine called the universe
>BTFO Plato's logic
>instead based his philosophy off of the Jewish ideal of God being beyond comprehension and following the eternal.
>Axiom 7 in the Ethics literally destroys the Hegelian dialectic
How can one man be so based?
>>7994206
>Spinozo
Everything I write is more or less connected to this guy's writings.Can't wait to read what Deleuze has to say about him
>>7994206
Spinoza was an atheist.
I haven't been here in a while, is Nick Land a meme?
Yes, there are threads about him every once in a while.
>>7983883
Do you think he gets lonely sometimes?
>>7983984
He's probably on the level of Autism that he only need to shitpost for a minutes each day to get al the social interaction he needs.
Post your latest pickups, /lit/!
>>7978555
I forgot to add that I bought this shirt today, can't wait for it to be delivered!
https://readingfury.com/products/do-you-even-read-bro
Us readers, huh?
Why did they change the name of the first Harry Potter book for the US market?
Questions that don't deserve their own thread
And
Casual Literature discussion
Any good books on writing novels? I read a lot of books but I just need something on the craft to help me.
What's the best book you have read this year, anon?
I'm curious.
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