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Do you try when possible to read from your local area, or even just your country? Do you think it's important to immerse yourself, or possibly even contribute towards the authorship of where you are from, rather than focusing purely on places elsewhere?
I ask this personally because I live in NZ, and I've noticed through the selection of books I've read here that there are plenty of well-written pieces created by NZ authors. Yet when I discuss with Kiwis about the writing scene they always emphasis looking overseas to find success, which I feel is a shame...
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Hey, that's cool. I'm from New Zealand as well. I love going to book stores on Cuba or whatever and finding random local history books for sale. And we do indeed have some good poets and authors and I always look forward to their releases.
There are, what, 4.5m of us? The overwhelming majority don't buy books. Writers congregate on those shitty university magazines which function mostly as academic echo-chambers. If you want to make a living writing it's pretty hard just because there's so few people here.
Is there any valid refutation of stirners concept of the "spook" or "fixed idea"? After fully understanding him I feel as if im speechless in refuting him. The fixed idea of me wanting to be a "virtuious" or "honorable" man means I would go out of the way of my own desires to subscribe the the concept of virtue/honor. Stirner was right when he said our minds are haunted!
>>7710705
virtuous* sorry
I require assistance finding the name of a book
- It was about a man moving into a new house and finding a crazed old mans diary
- The book itself is covered in foot notes and drawings
- It contains a mantra about running away from a predator, waiting patiently and then hunting the predator
Thank you in advance.
House of Leaves
>>7710642
this picture is the essence of "I'm not mad, I'm actually laughing."
>>7710642
>I don't compare myself to other people
>I'm the coolest motherfucker on the planet
>-est
HMM
Why doesn't /lit/ have a guide to Philosophy yet? It would clear up half the shitty threads here
"Start with the Greeks." <<<<
>>7710554
Right, but its needs to be a bit more than that, like, which Greeks, and what after the Greeks
>>7710554
the Greeks is a meme author. literally genre tier fiction. no discernible talent.
What does it mean to give your characters unique voices? Developing specific speech patterns? Accents?
Granted, the person then cited Joss Whedon as having stellar dialogue, so I don't know ...
>>7710476
Yes, all of the above.
Also just character. But it seems like it often just comes down to quirks
Giving the reader the impression that they are convincingly someone with their own worldview and perspective. This perspective may conflict with the author's, and if you want it to be very obvious to the reader that this character is thought out that's one of the best ways to do it.
>>7710476
>Joss Whedon
what...like..i don't even...
I haven't read any of my favorite novels or seen any of my favorite films. Yet I hold entire conversations with professors about these sort of things. All I do is throw out vague notions on influence and bring up modernism frequently.
>>7710456
why would you do this
what's the point
>>7710568
....I don't know
>>7710589
you should delete the thread then
i will say your profs are probably 90% sure you're full of shit but are just too polite to test you
what's modernism all about
?
History
DotA
It's like, an ideology, or something
What writing software do you use and what are some of the pros and cons that you face while using said software?
WordPad
LaTex
Microsoft Works 2000
What is some good /his/ literature? I'm looking for something about the crusades in particular.
Not about the crusades, but your pic tells me you might like Salammbo.
Great historical piece by Flaubert taking place in Carthage between the two first Punic wars.
>>7710375
Thanks.
What do you thing of David Eddings books?
Im thinking mostly about the Belgariad and Malorian.
I really like his world building and I really need help with that in my own work if anyone could give me some help?
>>7710336
his stories seem unoriginal,contrived and overall shit to modern people, mostly because he died before some of them were old enough to read.He has structural cohesion which is rare these days
>>7710336
David Eddings is a meme author. literally genre tier fiction. no discernible talent.
The Belgariad is a very comfy series, a nice fantasy read for young teenagers, and also nice to reread once you're an adult. The Malloreon, which directly follows it, is also entertaining, but it is more of the same.
Just picked these fuckers up at a book sale at my local library. Total cost: 7 bucks.
What have you guys picked up lately? Share and be judged.
a few years ago a friend told me he was amazed that The Book Thief got published the way it did. Tried rereading it the other day and i finally get what he meant
>>7710298
fuckface
>Poe used to believe that the death of a beautiful woman was true beauty
>mfw I have been fapping to cute dead girls for years
>had never read Poe up until recently
>tfw I am basically a literary genius by my own influence rather than following in the foot steps of other great people
I always knew I was special. I always knew that I was better than a lot of people. I am just misunderstood. Now this finally confirms it, that I am crazy but I...
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I think you're just crazy, man.
>>7710272
yes I take that as a compliment, thanks!!!
>>7710252
>thinks that beauty=sexual appeal
Pleb.
>sit down to write
>literally slave over it for what feels like a long, long time
>come out with only two or three good sentences
Be a poet desu
>>7710242
>sit down to write
>literally sit there for a long time like most people who write books do
>don't instantly generate an award winning novel and win over my peers with the raw intellect I believe I have
itsalmostlikewritingabookisnteasy.jpg
>complain on a japenese image board
you'd probably feel better if you just killed yourself
>praises communism
>slanders christianity
>one of the most well-known pieces of the american literature
HOW?
actually thats a p gud question bro if i ever teach a lit class ima stump dudes with that
Read it a year or two ago, loved it but it stagnated after awhile which I know is the point but that doesn't make me enjoy it. Don't know if I ever actually finished it but I feel like I did
>>7710183
Because it's one of the best books in american literature
>praises communism
not true - praises aspects of it, sure, but not as a whole
Kafka's parable in Trial
You have exactly 5 minutes to prove to me that this isnt the greatest piece of /lit/ ever
>Protip
I dont think you can but lets try
>>7710071
I never understood that story desu. He was allowed to go in the door but he wasn't? What?
>>7710086
This door... it was meant for me!
>>7710071
Befoe the Law is good but Kafkas The Castle or The Metamorphosis are much better OP!
