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I'm losing interest in my biggest project only one chapter in. It's taking too long to write but I don't want to give up all the hard work I put in, but if I stop now I'll probably never finish it.
what do I do?
Take your time with it, take a break if need be and write something else? Or maybe it's just not good, and your boredom is telling you that you are approaching it wrong.
>tfw you know you can finish this novel but you keep skirting around the main characters primary motivation that carries him through it, its like its refusing to be found
>with any other story its not a problem
>>7786255
I RECOGNIZE THAT IMAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMVfnIhtWD0
http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/AuthorityAndAmericanUsage.pdf
What are /lit/'s thoughts on Authority and American Usage by pic related?
Really good.
Didn't Franzen suggest they had intercourse at one point
this is less of an eye sore
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html
here's a response, though I don't really think it's that good
http://languagehat.com/david-foster-wallace-demolished/
So I just found about this book, what can you tell me about it /lit/?? Should I buy it?
>>7785927
i want plebbit to leave.
>>7785927
it's the book of reddit, ask to them and delete this thread
>>7785927
I can happily say I didn't contribute to this trainwreck.
In your opinion, what would you consider a list of study to make one 'educated?'
In the past, it was expected for the educated upper class to have a grasp of a number of notable authors(Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch) and an understand of religious text like the King James Bible as well as cultural knowledge of music and theater. For our modern period, what would you expect to be a decent background for an individual to be considered well educated?
start with the Greeks
>>7785764
All those same things
Minus "dated" activities like horseback riding and fencing
Plus more technical/scientific knowledge
Pretty much anything. Most educated people barely earned their degrees and couldn't speak on the topic of their major with any authority. So if you actual do basic shit like read the Greeks and the bible you'll be further ahead than 99% of people.
so /lit/, Im looking for some essays of "sound" in film. Is there an easy way to find writers who have theorized about it?
>>7785186
google you fucking mongoloid
>>7785214
Im looking for work by scholars or specialists.
The question is aimed at people who have studied film.
>>7785186
There's a great deal of film theory regarding sound. Early theorists typically regarded sound as a detriment to the artform. Sound was kind of a novelty with the "talkies" back in the early 1900s.
Everybody say it's really good, but the summary makes it look gay as fuck.
Would I like it even if I'm not gay?
Also, on its wiki page:
>It was a bestseller within the gay community.
What would people think if I read this in public spaces? I don't want them to think I'm gay.
Women writing about civilisation generally doesn't work out well.
>>7785572
>le women can't write meme xD
I suggest you to read Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar.
>>7785043
Mary Renault writes a lot of gay shit mang. Generally it's good shit I hear.
80% of my way through his short stories. Very hit and miss, but when it's good, it's fucking good.
A few favorites : AtMoM, Dexter Ward, The Mound, Better Call Chtulhu,
basically anything long-ish that isn't named The Bore-Fest of Sleep Kadath.
I see where Stephen King got his biggest influence, those guys basically made sure I will never step foot in New England long as I live.
I'm interested in your opinions and experiences with this bad boy.
What are your favorite short stories?
>>7784947
i like call of cthulhu, dunwich horror and haunter of the dark the most. mountains of madness is alright. havent read charles dexter ward yet.
>>7784947
my friend made me read this guy a few years ago.
the only things i remember that were even worth reading were
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shadow Out of Time
The Mound was ok
Charles Dexter Ward was ok
I think his best and my personal favorite was The Colour Out of Space
>>7784947
It's called the "Dream Quest" because it will put you to sleep.
Post childhood photos of your favourite author
>>7784342
Hungry Elliot
>>7784342
not lit
He's the one on the right
let's share some good images for book covers
>>7784200
>Le corner of the room of that resembles a pair of girl's legs and some panties
The best Lolita cover has a photograph of a little girl on it. Also I would suggest that a good choice for a Lolita cover would be a Balthus painting; one of the portraits of Therese. I am currently writing a work of pedophilic fiction, I think the aesthetic of little girls is very important. OP, your cover is shite.
>>7784230
yeah the balthus is the way to go.
What books should I read during my cross country travel through the south of the States?
Just read The Game and The Mystery Method beforehand then you can get essentially any and all girls to accompany you on the trip.
If you're driving you can use NLP to get one girl to drive you while you have sex in the back seat.
If walking you can use NLP to get one girl to carry you and another to blow you or eat your ass dependent on the style of carrying you get the first to use.
That's what I did
Blood Meridian desu
So, about a year ago, I decided to step into writing. I loved reading, albeit I'm not very cultured in literature. Especially English, since I've only used it as a second language. Still don't know why I picked English to start writing, but who cares?
Recently, I found this site: iwl.me, which analyzes your text and tells you to whose writing your writing they found similar. I took some excerpts from my book I'm currently still in the process of writing, and got lots of results, but mainly Dan Brown.
Now, from what I can gather, people hate...
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It's a dud site. Change the words around a little and it'll say Herman Melville. Sites like this provide basic meme software and make their money on ads and pageviews. Literally delete this thread and then yourself.
>>7784071
It's a good feel.
I'll wear this badge with pride.
>>7784079
Makes sense. Still doesn't answer my question on literary pitfalls, though. I'll commit honorable sudoku once I've gotten my answer, senpai.
Any OCDfags here? How does it affect your reading and writing?
I have to reread lines that describe bad things several times, thinking "it will never happen", in fear that these unwanted events will happen to a person close to me. I also look at the page number every time before I turn to the next one.
In writing, I'm over conscious to usage of words, and when narrating in first-person, for example, I'm really annoyed by all the "I"s. In general I find myself caring more about the aesthetic appearance of sentences, rather than the substance...
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>>7783955
I've got it. Not as bad as it was when I was younger, but some days it still gets me.
I've had the page number experience. Not the aesthetics thing, that was never really mytrigger. Bad things fear not quite, but similar stuff.
Some people have bad experiences, but SSRIs have helped me a lot. SOme people say they feel flattened or dead when on them, for me it's exactly the opposite, I feel like I've finally come to life. Give them a try if you haven't, just to see which group you are.
Reading Lolita as a 14 year old with untreated P-OCD made me believe I was a pedophile for many years
>>7784661
>P-OCD
Woah, I learned something today.
What should I name the dog I'm getting soon /lit/? I need /lit/ approved names. Since it will be a Siberian Husky and I love the Russians I'm thinking something like Mishka.
What do?
Muad'dib
Or
Chani
>>7783498
>I love the Russians
cultural appropriation
When I get a dog I plan on naming him Agamemnon, Lord of Men.
Bad book thread. I'll start.
>read it in high school so it sucks
ebin thread. upboated.
Do you have purpose?
>>7782191
nope
>>7782191
maybe.
i don't. nope.
