Is writing short stories about paranormal considered clichéd ?
>>7655380
I do it all the time. Are they good enough for others to read? No.
Still, in my deepest fantasies I sometimes dream of publishing my book of short stories.
>>7655385
Shit I submitted one for college creative writing course rip
no it's lazy writing.
What fonts best fit different moods in books?
For instance, Blood Meridian's (it looks sort of like Georgia but I know it isn't) perfectly mirrors the bleak, biblical, 1800s feel.
How do I choose the greatest font?
>>7655356
Comic Sans because your work is a joke.
Times New Roman is the only viable choice.
>>7655377
I can water your vanilla ice cream down a bit if it's too intense for you
Is there a word that describes someone being cryptic but needlessly so or in an obnoxious and bullshit sort of way?
Obscurantist?
Abbotting.
"His entire budget speech was wall-to-wall Abbotting, but at least he didn't try to Howard us."
>>7655355
Obfuscate?
Am I the only one with an increasing anxiety caused by the fact that it is possible that you've already read what could be the best books you'll read in your life time?
>>7655113
It is possible that you've read the best books for people of your age, but ten years from now, the chances of you still admiring the same authors are very low.
>>7655122
Last line of this is moronic. Either phrase it better or be less wrong.
>>7655113
I don't feel anxiety at all
critique my oc poem /lit/ :)
>>7654872
that's like crispin glover in back to the future.
he's like, i never show anyone my writing. what if they didn't think it was any good. boy that crispin fucked up his career asking for too much money for part 2.
>>7654872
so beautiful ! :p
i Can really Identify
>>7654872
But that's not poetry.
Inspirational and or funny quotes about life
>>7654760
plebbiest comic alive
literally >lel women amirite the comic
>>7655936
He makes some excellent points on women though. Nothing new to a patrician who reads Schopenhauer, but good stuff to get out to the public.
This is the first books that's really interested me in some time. Has anyone on /lit/ read it? If so would you recommend it? I love Ulillillia
>>7654689
I know Ulillillia has autism. That's partly why he has such a fascinating mind.
It's one of the first pieces of 21st century literature that I've found truly interesting. At least since House of Leaves.
What does /lit/ think about this?
>>7654567
This is a very useful pronoun
>>7654567
I guess most of /lit/ doesn't want to think about it at all, cause /lit/ doesn't really wanna bother with the shit it, itself, is in.
>>7654567
It is a dream that will never be realized
How much respect would you lose for a Nietzsche if it was discovered that he had a side project death metal band with songs called "god is dead" "the superman" etc?
His compositions are actually pretty good unfortunately
I'd respect him even more
>>7654060
>lose
you lost methough tbqh i don't particularly respect nietzche, or any artist. I like aesthetics, I don't really care who's responsible
I've recently been toying with the idea of switching from buying physical copies of books to taking the dive and buying an e-reader. The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, specifically. I'm just looking for some opinions on the matter of e-readers, especially from those who have made the switch. Is it terribly difficult to adjust to reading everything off of a screen or is it not that hard? I don't browse /lit/ often, but I've recently rediscovered my passion for reading and I'd like to get back into it. Again, any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
>>7653887
kindles use a sort of magnetic ink system, they aren't like reading on a computer screen at all. They don't produce light either, so in terms of what your eyes are doing they're pretty much the same as reading a book.
I personally don't mind reading on a screen, but if you don't like it due to eyestrain or whatever I can't imagine a Kindle would bother you at all.
I've only had a few days with my paperwhite, and I like it.
It's nothing like reading off a screen. e-ink was developed specifically for that purpose.
the only annoyance with e-ink is that it has a slow refresh rate. so it can take about a second to turn a page. Frustrating if you're in a section with a lot of short dialog.
But the piracy and storage of them more than makes up for their downsides.
I got mine on craigslist for 40 bucks.
>>7653887
Every single day the same thread.
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Post what books you're currently reading and which ones you will read after.
Currently:
- Euclid - Elements
- Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- Homer - Iliad
After:
- The Works of Archimedes translated by T.L. Heath
- Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Homer - Odyssey
- Johannes Kepler - Mysterium cosmographicum
Currently: huckleberry Finn; a confederacy of dunces
After: the sun also rises; the sound and the fury; stoner
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- The Tunnel
- The Lime Twig
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- The Beetle Leg
- A Frolic of His Own
- 2666
- Mason & Dixon
- Omensetter's Luck.
>Johannes Kepler - Mysterium cosmographicum
Sorry I'm actually reading On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Copernicus
Opinions? Is it better than IJ?
>>7653340
They're both memes. They only appeal to 20 year old white upper middle class male college students.
>>7653344
Go back to tumblr faggot
>>7653340
Yes.
Which is a low bar, but yea, GR > IJ.
How do I learn to write better?
Could you recommend maybe a first year textbook (or maybe even highschool) or upper year textbook you were assigned that really helped you out, or perhaps a website or video series?
I'm not so interested in learning how to write good characters or a good story, I'm interested in learning the technical things about grammar, syntax, structure, types sentences, types of words, punctuation and so on. I'm interested in stuff as basic as learning what a predicate and subject are in a sentence, up to the most advanced ideas professional editors use.
thanks!
>>7653290
I think Cormac McCarthy is good place to start.
>>7654660
Think again.
>>7653290
How Fiction Works
my name is Glenn and you can thank me later
There is no libertarian free will (from this point on, when I say "free will", I mean libertarian free will unless otherwise specified).
The idea of free will is incompatible with both causality (everything having a cause) and acausality (some things having no cause).
If everything is caused, then all our thoughts and feelings are the result of prior causes, meaning every action we do, every thought we had, etc. is the inevitable result of what happened before.
If some things aren't caused, then our wills can't cause them (because then they wouldn't be uncaused). So that also means no free will.
Beyond that, we have proof that chemicals can CAUSE (i.e., MAKE) people have thoughts they wouldn't otherwise have and do things they wouldn't otherwise do. Antidepressants can make you feel better, or they can make you kill yourself. Amphetamines can cause you to compulsively masturbate, or cause you to do well in school when you were sucking.
We don't even "experience" free will. Thoughts just pop into our heads. When you're jacking off and you think of your mom all of a sudden, did you "choose" to have that thought? No--it just popped into your head. You didn't select it. It just came to you. That's how thoughts work.
There's also tons of evidence that our personalities come from our genetics and how we were raised. So that kills free will too.
Free will is incompatible with reality and we don't even experience it. It's a meme.
>>7653219
haha get yourself fucked statist
to yourself your will will always appear free. you can't change that, try as you might.
anyways, go read some buddhistic or some vedic stuff. not even joking.
>When you're jacking off and you think of your mom all of a sudden, did you "choose" to have that thought?
