Is it recommended to read everything by your lecturer in order to better 'calibrate' your semester paper?
General tips?
yes.
this goes for any subject.
>be in engineering class
>doing first year fluid modelling
>told we can solve the problem any way we want
>actually only allowed to use Bernoulli
>not told this
>just ask past students, they give us the answer because the question was bullshit and due to marking criteria could not possibly have allowed for self directed learning, only presenting all the work in a way expected by the lecturer.
you're not allowed to have an opinion different from your lecturer. it's called expectancy breaching and it leads to ad hominem as an ego protection device on their behalf.
>>7650963
>you're not allowed to have an opinion different from your lecturer.
>law prof lecturer is also my tutor
>innaclass going over homework questions
>have a different answer to everyone else
>explain why i'm right and everyone else is wrong
>he agrees with me
Just don't go to shit institutions famalam
>>7650934
If you're an undergrad you'll get a passing grade but it will be hollow and you won't feel like you've done anything.
If you're a grad student prepare to get kicked out for plagiarism unless your professor is literally Zizek tier.
Anyone here who likes to write?, what can you recommend me to improve my creativity?
Just go out and experience things, observe yourself and your surroundings. Do shit that challenges you. That will give you your own unique perspective and therefore content to write about.
Just dont fall into the trap of thinking the best & only way to creativity is by reading a shitload of books. Sure they can be a very good jumping point and provide good ideas to play with, and its good to read widely, but if you base your whole approach around absorbing other peoples work and ignoring your own life then you'll just be a lumbering memehive.
Read more. Read different things in between reading. Do other different things that are different from what you usually do and experience things differently. This means branching out to music you've never heard, especially things your exgf considered "weird" and past that. You can be a spaz and read ten pages of one book then go to another of a different field or form of writing. Learn another language(highly recommend doing this, has all sorts of internal entertainment quality aside from the practical application. Try to get deeper into a math or science you're interested in. Be more attentive to the people around you. Don't let your mind stagnate. Like if you're waiting for the bus, form shapes in clouds, recite poetry, lip read the old man listening to an audiobook next to you. There's so much shit you can do mate.don't listen to drug peddlers
>>7650938
seconding that last line, too fucking important
Thought niggies?
I (as a reactionary) possess a preference for cyclic rather than linear-progressive socio-historical conceptualizations.
>Fuck the Anglo-Viking Menace. Marx was an Englishman!
-Oswald Spengler
>>7650467
Me too desu.
What are the best short stories in the English language /lit/?
>2016
>people still publishing standalone versions of the dead
>people still treating the dead as a short story
jfc plebs
>>7650054
Saka desu
>>7650054
The dead isn't that much of a short story, it needs to be read with the rest of the stories of Dubliners
Are there any good books out there for getting started with the writings of Epicurus?
Epicurus
The Essential Epicurus
>>7649825
Can't beat this answer: Epicurus.
I thought we could try out something new. Instead of having a bunch of separate posts about writing, we could have a single post for writing discussion. A place for critiques, writing tips, questions, feedback, etc. If this goes well, I'll post another one.
>>7646808
This is already a thread. Critique threads contain the exact same shit that you're describing.
What do you guys use for inspiration and research and shit? I look at paintings and listen to music to get the creative juices flowing.
Is it really worth the effort? Or just a pseudo-meme at best?
less than 10 people (if even that) on this board have read it
it's a meme.
it may or may not also be good, two separate issues really.
>>7643032
less than 10 people in the world have actually read it t b h
I own a copy that I bought because I managed to find it cheap and wanted to be able to say I own a copy but I havent read more than ten pages.
The writing is weird as fuck.
Okay, pretty much every trashy novel for teenagers talks about how you "should never give up" and "hold on tight to your dreams".
Are there some out there that suggest that perhaps "giving up" might be the correct life strategy sometimes?
Anything Kafka. Especially "Give it Up!". Not even Kidding.
>>7649641
None of his characters give up until the very end.
>>7649641
you don't understand kafka :)
Screw literature, I wanna write some best seller genre fiction. I'm sick of being a penniless bum 10 years after graduating. Help me out /lit/, what are some novel ideas that will draw in the plebs?
housewife porn
rich powerful attractive man falls in love with some mediocrity of a woman and makes her safe, adored, wet and loved
and maybe spanks her ass like daddy used to from time to time
>>7648560
Pseudo rape literature masquerading under some vague notion of a story aimed at the 14-70 year old female market in which the reader can easily self-insert themselves into the story.
I wish I wasn't trolling.
It will sell
>>7648560
Write like you are writing a video game, like Sanderson.
Have complex artificial systems that don't enhance anything thematically, but are 'cool'.
Gay rights and them being oppressed is also the way to go. All the rest of liberal dogmas are welcome too.
Power fantasy, so having an amazing at everything bland katana wielding protagonist with a dark past.
References to pleb shit people like.
Avoid complex prose, but make it forcefully flowery.
Make teenage girls feel like they are far more special than they actually are.
Aphorisms like John Green or Nietzsche.
Just finished White Teeth.
Such a good book. Why have I neglected Zadie for so long? Anyone else a fan of her writing?
It's a shit-tier DFW knock-off. It's 500 pages of trying to prove that you're clever. It's a needy, "clever" novel intended to make you feel both stupid and clever simultaneously despite being neither. Don't bother replying to this post. Sage. Hidden.
shes cute
>>7648469
This guy replies to every book the same way. Nice pasta though.
Critique thread anyone? The other one, which was never even specified to be a critique thread, is pretty much dead. Post some stuff and I'll tell you what I think of it.
Please don't post poetry if there is already a poetry critique thread in the catalog.
An Untimely Death
The lawyer has just been told of his client’s death. The prison bus had overturned and his head had been milled against the cement in abstract art technique.
>>7644815
Is this an excerpt of something or a complete story?
At night he chews at the same barley and thinks about one of his father’s stories. And many a week ago the farmer took his wife to a doctor where she died. Direct. No happy endings in his stories. He watches the buttes standing against the brisk air and the looming blue like the survivors in Hawaii. Another one of his father’s stories. They had strapped themselves against the palm trees during a hurricane. The barley is wilted and damp and he spits it into the fire and watches as its spirit in the embers rises into the night only to be pushed away by the wind.
Well, I reckon one oughta do unto others exactly what has been done unto him, that's what my beloved late grandpappy used to say before he kicked the bucket. Thus I gathered my guns and other useful contraptions and went out to meet that mean son of a bitch Jackson.
Imagine my surprise when I entered the fucker's porch and kicked his door open only to see him having a go at my wife, again. Lord Almighty, I told myself I won't be vengeful. I was to geld that rascal plain and straight, stuff his balls right in his mangy kisser and go about my business. Good Lord, him fucking my wife again was the last straw.
Weeks later I still pondered whether I did the right thing, see. When he and my old Nellie were getting it on, I sorta hid and watched. Seeing the glistening sweat running down my wife's back made my blood curl in a manner less and less familiar these days, since she met that bastard Jackson.
So I started jacking off nice and slow listening to their endeavours. Boy, he was good. Damn good, better than I ever were. I admired his technique and stamina as he fucked my wife, dick still in hand. Did I cum once he came? Hell yes I did.
Now I kind of rue what I did next. I entered the room with my fly still open and threatened to shoot both them rascals if she doesn't blow him right there, before my own eyes. And she did, more than eager to do so.
Did it make me mad? Son, I don't get mad. You won't get by in the prairie if you get mad at things. Now hop off and fetch me Ma, Daddy feels he has to call good mister Jackson right now.
Checkmate.
>all that mccarthy
embarrassing
So you admit you're checking me out and you want to mate.
We saw you had all the memes last time you posted them, why are you so eager for attention?
Been thinking of getting an e-reader. Does anyone on /lit/ have one? What's the model, how are you feeling about it, would you recommend it?
>>7631519
use it for stuff you don't want to think too much about and don't remember, perfect for entertainment literature.
Just get a bluelight filter for your smartphone and read there.
I do this for poetry and read non fiction on my computer. I pay for nothing now.
>>7631519
I have a semi old kindle 3 with wifi I never use. I've gotten a decent library of ebooks on my computer to be read in the future but already have put some 300 books onto it. Its pretty handy since I have to move a lot, like every 6 months, which hinders me from buying books for now.
The trick with using an e-reader is to keep it organized. I keep mine divided into categories like Poetry, <Language> Literature, Philosophy, History, Biographies, etc... and try to read one book of every category up to 5 books at a time to not lose all track of my progress. Its a challenge to keep reading the same long book for the same time and not start a new smaller novelle or something but its doable. I do read though from both paper and my e-reader but I find that I find it clearer to read from the e-reader than some books, since I can change the letter sizing and words-per-line which can sometimes be annoying if you get a book that has been printed with too many words in one line. It just makes for more attentions being needed to follow the text, which some people here on this board tend to find more patrician.
I am a high school student (18+, mods please no ban) who has two very distinct passions which are thankfully reflected on two boards in this fine taiwanese cement manufacturing blog.
The first is literature - specifically writing - represented here on /lit/.
The other is fashion represented on /fa/.
Within these two interests I have both a problem and a solution. I am too poor to afford nice clothes but why not employ my interest in writing to gain money in the pursuit of fashion!
I am asking you people for any high school essay contests that you know of - preferably with cash prizes although I can see writing as satisfaction within itself.
Thank you very much famiglio
There's currently a world-wide contest that all major publishing companies are doing where if you give them a book you've written and they think would be profitable to sell it, they'll publish it. The more the book sells, the more contest prize money you get because they actually give you some of the money from each sale, which is pretty cool.
>>7651526
Thanks, I'll look into that! :^)
>>7651530
No problem! Apparently there's an easter egg in the fine print where it's much easier to win the contest if you're a straight white female, hope that tip helps!
Gimme the best translation of the Holy Koran (pbui)
>>7651281
owc bretty gud family
>>7651281
It's utter trash. While a lot of great works came out of the islamic golden age, their holy book just aint that great.
>>7651324
Wow that's pretty offensive, I hope Islamophobic opinions like that bar you from ever getting a job
