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Check my shit out (trying to write and boared). I have 3-4 ideas for 3-4 books and this is one of them so i need a feedback.
Here we go:
Hi. My name is Tom Marhsal. I'm 26 years old guy, recently divorced and tryig to start my new company\life\situation(underline what you like). Oh, i almost forgot, i'm a whore. Yea, kind of a cheap whore, with a great variety of services. Not exactly that kind of a hooker you can meet on a street but very close.
I work as a bank manager and for my new clients i can give the best BalanceJob they ever had. For our...
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>>7737135
Please never write again.
>>7737135
It's shit.
Don't give up, though. I'm sure you can eventually make a meemsterpiece if you devote yourself to the craft with true discipline. Practice erry day.
is it really that bad?
When I read I struggle between focusing on what's actually going on, and visualising what's being described: I can only really do one or the other. Will my ability to process both of these at the same time improve as I read more?
>>7737111
At least you're conscious about that. Try reading the text twice: first time focus on what's going on, verbally, the next time visualize it and then synthesize them into something you can both understand and have a mental picture of. After a time your comprehension of texts will improve.
>>7737111
whats the difference?
I typically find two or three dozen editorial mistakes in a book-length publication. I notice things like a missing parenthesis or an unitalicized letter in italics, a missing period, a spelling error (usually vowels in the wrong place).
How do these things make it past multiple editors? I'm curious about the editing process for publication, can anyone explain it? Does anyone else notice these types of mistakes?
>>7737105
>Does anyone else notice these types of mistakes?
Yes. It's worse with ebooks. Yes, commercial, supposedly quality non-Amazon ebooks.
>How do these things make it past multiple editors?
They're humans. They half-ass it.
I can only assume that they don't even bother proof-reading anymore when they republish old texts.
>>7737105
What multiple editors? Today its got to be fast, it's got to be cheap, so whatever gets past the spell chequer goes into print. After all, computers never make mistakes, don't they.
>>7737105
What do you expect with all that Chinese immigration, OP?
/lit/
I have a short story due in a couple of days.
The stimulus is supposed to be pic related
and the story is about a journey.
So i decided to make a story about a kid who dreams too much to escape reality
because the picture reminded me of a dream.
I'm worried i went to meaningful or deep and whether the story is shit.
i'm in senior year of high school.
I need help. I can post it if you want.
Here:
http://pastebin.com/4HQhPGYe
It isn't finished yet.
where do I need to improve? or do I need to scrap the whole thing?
>>7737093
>So i decided to make a story about a kid who dreams too much to escape reality because the picture reminded me of a dream.
That's probably the most easiest thing to derive from that picture, and i'm sure many of your classmates write about the same subject.
>I'm worried i went to meaningful or deep and whether the story is shit.
Odd's are you're neither meaningful or deep so don't worry about it.
>>7737144
That's what i mean.
I tried to make it meaningful but i probably failed.
deep was probably the wrong word to use.
I need help /Lit/. I am writing a book, and I have a hard time whether or not, I should include a prologue. Do modern writers still write prologues, or are they just archaic?
the prologue was just a sort-of stylistic choice. with the way novels are written now, labeling a chapter 'the prologue' is a bit silly. unless you're going for an archaic feel.
write an overture, like in Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's cat
This a good series my niggas?
maybe on reddit
>>7737068
I liked it when I was a teenager. Better than most young adult novels. I remember the later books in the series had long boring essays on religion.
>>7737068
If you like StarCraft commentary.
Chinese language major here. I've been reading a lot of Chinese literature recently for reading practice and would like some recommendations on any Chinese books you like.
>>7737012
Sorry I have nothing to contribute, but quick question.
I am really interested in learning chinese since I want to move to Taiwan, but with a major in Chinese what types of jobs can you get? Does that basically mean you are going to be an English teacher in Asia? Is your plan to move there? Thanks
>>7737079
You can do translation/interpretation, or you can use your language skills to supplement another career like computer programming, financial analysis, journalism, etc.
I'm doing a double major in computer science and Chinese, and I plan to go on to get a master's degree in conference interpretation and hopefully end up living in China and interpreting there. I've lived in China previously and really like it there. I haven't been to Taiwan, but my friends who have say they really liked it.
>>7737012
Your pic related is magnificent. Aside from the classics of Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Red Chamber, and Water Margin, books by Luxun are also apparently good. I've read a bit of Wives and Concubines (or Raise the Red Lantern) by Su Tong as well, in translation, and quite enjoyed it.
/Lit/ bros, I come to you needing a bit of help. Yes, I've used every search engine I could, and yes, I'm forgetful. Pardon me on those aspects. Anyways, I need help finding the title of a book. The basic premise is that it's mocking the United States in the most offensive way ever. It..Actually offends everyone. How it begins, I cant remember. From what I remember, the main character receives his food/drink through his toilet in his apartment, and there's a homeless guy that lives there or something along those lines. People are fat and ride mobility scooters...
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>>7736941
its called real life, americunt.
You've been incredibly helpful.
>>7736947
Just remembered- the title was spelled sort of awkwardly. Shit, what's the fucking name?
Tried to post this on music but obtained nothing, not sure what the right board would be.
I'd be interested in Jim Morrison' s paper on the sexual neuroses of crowds. Is there any possible way that a poor fellow can get ahold of it, or is it lost forever in the pages of time?
Google searches delivered nothing.
>>7736938
>Jim Morrison' s paper on the sexual neuroses of crowds
I wasn't aware that such thing ever existed, I hope someone can post it.
To keep the thread from dying, we may discuss the poetry of Jim Morrison. Is it /lit/-worthy? Shall I read him in english?Once I bought a book of his poems at the train station but it was a really crappy translation, yet the themes were interesting
>>7736963
I personally think that if one is able to poetry should always be read in original language. If in general writers choose words accurately, poets basically do that and little more, so knowing the precise terms they used might be fundamental to appreciate them.
I tend to be kind of autistic about poetry, in that usually Morrison-like free form annoys me. But after loving his songs in came quite natural to like his verses too. Definitely advise to give him an honest try, especially if you're more open minded than me.
>>7737013
>poetry should always be read in original language
I couldn't agree more. Although, if a poem is translated by a worthy translator (like another poet), the result can be enjoyable, there are good examples.
JM once recorded a couple of his poems, later, after his death the Doors recorded some music with it and released an album. I know and like these poems (in English ofc).
I was wondering if he ever published a book of his poems, maybe with verses that was not meant...
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i just started night flight
should i buy all the antoine de saint expiry books
As well as learn to spell his name.
>>7736951
.... what did you said??
So /lit/, what are your thoughts about this masterpiece?
inflate the sentence, try to make it burst
Didn't go into enough detail for my liking.
I liked it but I liked The Old Man and the Bench better. Both great at language deconstruction tho. "Bilingual edition" always gets a chuckle out of me.
what were his initial thoughts?
>This is a comfy vaginer
White or blue?
>>7736870
>mom cunt is so sad and banal
Looking for books critical of socialism outside of Orwell
You know Orwell was a socialist, right?
How do you think he knew it so well
>>7736840
That always confused me. When I read Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm I was under the impression that Orwell was indeed anti-socialist. Obviously the facts state otherwise though.
Why are book covers generally so unartistic and fashionable in contrast to album covers?
pic related seems like one of the few exceptions.
>tfw you figure out why the book cover is what it is
Penguin is really good at making it somewhat challenging. It's like the /lit/ version of a maze on the back of a cereal box
You gotta pull people in. Music you can just turn on and listen for a minute to see what it's like, books are a mental commitment
>>7736755
because literature takes much more effort to derive satisfaction from, and is therefore a little bit more resistant to bourgeois commodity fetishism such as the kind flagrantly displayed in your post. only a little bit, though; and in an era defined by the double-edged sword of minimalism and irony, books can be reified as "les objets d'arts" not only because of their often simple designs, but in fact because of it.
>the author is the narrator
>he's also a character within the universe of the story
Breakfast of Champions was actually pretty good.
>>7736747
>smug reddit atheist liberal hack
>"""""good""""
>>7736749
>Muh immortal soul is too pure to stop existing
Knee-jerk elitist contrarian filth.
