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Hey /lit I need your advice.
A few months ago I sent a bunch of emails to editorials and publishers, and I recently was contacted by one.
They asked me for a few "Microcuentos" (Microfictions, short short fictions, short stories and the sort) to see my style, so I sent them some, after that they answered me that they were interested and they sent me a copy of the contract.
BUT when I googles the editorial I found some bad reviews and complaints about it, that they never pay and that the editor is a theft.
And now I dont know what to do,...
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>>7739098
que editorial wey
>>7739127
Una editorial española que se llama Corona Boralis
>>7739098
Date un balazo.
Si ni siquiera puedes discernir por ti mismo si es buena o mala idea darle tu manuscrito a una editorial de mala.muerte, no entiendo como puedes articular microficcion. Autismo, seguramente.
charles dickens is a bad writer
if you like dickens fuck you
Sweet.
dumb drake poster
>>7739094
tale of two shitties is more like it
dense dreck
dickens can rot in hell
Currently on page 154 of struggling to understand why is pic related a thing. The prose is horribly melodramatic, the characters are monochrome as fuck, the ideology behind the book is literally being skull-fucked into you every reading moment...I'm oscilating between finding the piece so bad its funny and/or being bored out of my mind. Should I just let this one go, /lit/bros?
PS: As a psychology undergrad, I am becoming more and more convinced that Rand actually did have ASD.
never read AS as your first rand, I wish everyone knew this fact
>>7739061
I find it hard to imagine that a subjective quality of this book would change for me in any way, have I read any of her other stuff before. It just seems to be so hillariously bad to me. I should declare that I have an ideological bias though - objectivism is basically a complete inverse of what I 'believe' in. That's why I'm reading it. Still, judging the book on purely technical merits, it's still seems really bad. Harry Potter is written more eloquently.
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>MUH FEELINGS
>NIHILISM
>MUH DESTINY
>THE HUMANS ARE BAD
>MUH ZODIAC METAPHORS
That movie was horrible Spike Jonze is a little queer.
I like that book but I unfortunately lent it to an old lover and she never returned it.
Loved it, I guess you didn't op?
The part when he talks to the Dragon is great. Also that guy who was keeps trying to get Grendel to kill him was funny as fuck.
Guys I'm looking for a 5 page essay on Elvin Hayes and the NAACP. (Pic related)
I need help please!!
>>7739007
Post a picture of your very own meme trilogy and I'll help you
>>7739011
>story is told from the perspective of a child
>the kid has limited vocabulary and uses childish nicknames for things they don't know
>>7738960
Numero uno: dont care if they do that
Number 2: 100% agree
>>7738960
Are you talking about Room, anon?
Is this the best sci fi novel of this decade??
I'm going with yes.
That's not The Dark Forest/Death's End senpai.
No, and some of the themes don't really make sense without a broad view alongside Iain Banks and LeGuin.
Ann Leckie is a forced meme.
>>7738959
Liu Cixin says lol.
inb4 not this decade, published 8 years ago in China doesnt count.
This man is the greatest man to translate homer and virgil.
>inb4 "fagles watered down for plebs version is the best"
I found Fitzgerald to be the easier version
Pope is the best for Homer though.
>>7738965
Nice meme
I don't know if it's the translation of this book that's shit or if it's the book itself, but holy shit some parts of this are very painful to read. She jumps from one thing to another, adds things that aren't relevent to the main story mid-sentence, it's hard to keep track of what's really important. I know she mixed many stories from different authors together and that might be why everything is so noncoherent, but damn this is pretty bad.
it's a fun reference book, not a direct translation of stories. the jumping about is to give a sense of the interconnectedness of the world
>>7738929
Yeah I know. Thankfully I'm familiar with some of the stories so it's more of a reminder for me, but I don't know if I'd recommend this book to someone that wanted to get started with Mythology.
I don't like how much of a greekaboo she is.
I remember in the first chapter or so she was talking about how the greeks were the first people to have human gods and everyone before them just worshiped rocks and stuff.
/lit/
I have a problem and I need your help. I want to go to law school. The only problem with that is, I can't fucking right. Not creatively though, I can write fiction with no problem, but when it comes to research papers, I'm fucked. I can't seem to get my ideas together and put them down on paper so they resemble coherent logical thinking. I feel like sometimes I'm overthinking what I'm trying to say. Does anyone else have this problem? How screwed am I? Most importantly, what can I do to improve my writing abilities?
>>7738828
> I can't fucking right.
Yeah.
Take a class in it. They will teach you how to write papers
>>7738834
shit
>Meet cutie English major
>Her favorite author is Chuck Palahniuk
NOPE He's done about two or three really good novels, everything else is "meh" and "Limp Bizkit" on paper.
Oh picture totally unrelated.
>>7738789
>Chuck Palanhiuk
>2 or 3 really good novels
pick one
>>7738789
>He's done about two or three really good novels
And so did Joyce. Your point?
Don't be like me and verbally assault anyone who shows the barest interest in topics you like, just to demonstrate your superiority in said topics. Especially when pussy is on the line.
Which non-fiction books are a most-read to get a good general knowledge?
Can you repeat the question
Commence with the Hellenes.
>>7738735
david tume
>/lit/ tells me a book is shit
>It's actually pretty fucking good
Every single time.
>>7738662
>reading a book /lit/ tells you not to
why even ask, pleb?
what else did you expect from a polynesian farming image board
Most books people talk about a lot are likely to be pretty well-regarded, if not here than elsewhere, so there's a fair chance of you enjoying them.
I guess the exception is the kind of book that people only talk about because it's shit, but those are pretty rare really.
My proposed reading list:
>Atlas Shrugged
>The Art of War
>The Republic
>The Prince
>Beyond Good and Evil
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History
>How to Win Friends and Influence People
>Influence: Psychology and Persuasion
Other books...
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>>7738595
Meme Kampf
>>7738595
Hey, that's a pretty pretentious list of books you've got there. What's the goal, to feel superior to everyone else in the world?
you should read some proper Nietzsche before you read also sprache
I dont usually dream.
Yesterday I did.
The dream was so bright and sad and touching that I had to write something down.
Do you know what is really cruel and funny?
Meeting a person that is really nice and you feel attracted to but not just lust or shared interests and comradery.
Im talking about liking each centimeter of their existence.
'Worshiping the ground they walk on'
Now this person would be ideal for you but here comes the funny part:
this person gets introduced into your life at a really bad moment.
Bad as in you have no experience...
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>>7738593
what
>>7738593
maybe you should go back to not dreaming.
I don't wanna read all that shit but Red Desert is great
