Journals? Do you Journal entry daily? I've come to realize that Journals and daily entries are helpful to get to writing.
I'm using a standard word processor, but I'm wondering if there is a specific Journal program for the computer. I use GNU/Lunix and while the standard word proecesor is fine, I can only wonder what /lit uses.
I wish there was a console Journal app that would give me a black background and a green text so that I may write in the dark without straining my eyes. It would be nice if it created a search of the entries and automatically time stamped the entries.
use focus writer
you can change the backroung and the text
Use paper
>>7648538
No, fuck that shit. If I'm going to waste my time anyway, I'd rather write a shitty poem than a journal entry.
how important is setting? how do you guys handle it?
i find my short stories often have a pretty clear setting in my mind, but I go sparse on descriptive detail in my writing, it's not only that I find writing location descriptions as tough and a little awkward, but I often feel like it may be extraneous.
the other problem I have is writing a story in some vague imaginary new york, but I have trouble describing it because I've never really been to new york. I give some barebones literary description of the big mean city, but I feel I probably don't communicate it much.
so?
Its only as important as its needed to understand the story. To fully grasp Tolkien's work you need to know about his setting, not so much with say a Borges story.
My philosophy is that a story arises from its setting. A setting is crucial to characterization, especially in a cultural and regional context.
Sup,/lit/ bros? Broke college student here. Do you know where u can download pdf files of books for free? Shitty to ask, but i can't pay 100 dollars for 1 book. Can you help?
Get a job you lazy piece of shit.
sage
google the name of the book you're looking for followed by pdf and occasionally either include the word blog or google docs
>>7645945
I'm a non traditional student. I'm already paying rent, car, bills, internet.. But internships don't pay much.
ITT: Meme books you are allowed to like
>>7645298
You're allowed to like any book. Why would we care what you like?
He rapes his sister
>>7645304
Who is this "we" you are talking about?
What was his best book, /lit/?
it
I liked Misery. Haven't read any of his other works.
The Stand.
Even *he* thinks it's his best work.
Though if we're including the Bachman books, then the correct answer is The Long Walk.
Holy shit. Can we please talk about this book? I don't think I'll ever read a more emotional book than Stoner.To W.S.
>>7643303
dude weed lmao
I really enjoyed the Young Thug song of the same title.
>>7643303
If you read the sticky it'd tell you to use the fucking archive, dude, this thread has been done to death
>Christianity robbed us of the harvest of the culture of the ancient world, it later went on to rob us of the harvest of the culture of Islam. The wonderful Moorish cultural world of Spain, more closely related to us at bottom, speaking more directly to our senses and taste, than Greece and Rome, was trampled down (—I do not say by what kind of feet—): why? because it was noble, because it owed its origin to manly instincts, because it said Yes to life even in the rare and exquisite treasures of Moorish life!… Later on, the Crusaders fought against something they would have done better to lie down in the dust before—a culture compared with which even our nineteenth century may well think itself very impoverished and very ‘late.’—They wanted booty, to be sure: the Orient was rich…. But let us not be prejudiced! The Crusades—higher piracy, that is all! German knighthood, Viking Knighthood at bottom, was there in its element: the Church knew only too well what German knighthood can be had for…. The German knights, always the ‘Switzers’ of the Church, always in the service of all the bad instincts of the Church—but well paid…. That it is precisely with the aid of German swords, German blood and courage, that the Church has carried on its deadly war against everything noble on earth! A host of painful questions arises at this point. The German aristocracy is virtually missing in the history of higher culture: one can guess the reason…. Christianity, alcohol—the two great means of corruption.
Safe to say Nietzsche was the most profound philosopher who ever lived? You can't even comprehend him without reading him dozens of times.
>>7642392
it's like frogposters on /r9k/ having a hardon for ISIS because it's the closest thing to a beta uprising they can get
>>7642412
If you're equating Christians with normies, you fundamentally misunderstand Nietzsche.
>>7642426
Yeah, Jesus was all about the meek losers of the world, chastity, and people give their money to NEETs. Hell, monks were a bunch of voluntary celibate losers with autism who did nothing but sperg out about the bible and hate on normies and the rest of society.
Jesus started the original beta uprising
"Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." - Henry James
Kipling, Rudyard. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15. Nobody takes his utilitarian moralism seriously. A genius.
The Jungle Book. Incomparable prose artistry. The supreme masterpiece of 19th-century literature. - Nabokov
The actual quotation, as far as I can find - Kipling, Rudyard. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Romantic in the large sense.
Read Plain Tales. You'll understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sww5kXwTFYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRzw27ewc6M
Am I a pleb for thinking this is shit?
it's ok
don't know why it's "shit" it's at worst mediocre
Why is it shit exactly ?
Is it because /lit/ told you ?
Then yes
no. it really is shit
happy birthday IJ :^)
>"yeah just make sure you get the encyclopedia in the shot ok?"
>>7649058
Today, the NY Times published a pretty good piece about Infinite Jest: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/books/review/everything-about-everything-david-foster-wallaces-infinite-jest-at-20.html?_r=0
>tfw you die at 60 and your son reads your diary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjuk8f02yQc
Why would he record and post this ?
The internet is fucked up
>>7648845
He must be a lonely dude.
>>7648861
I feel bad for him actually.
Why was tragedy considered a higher art form than comedy?
Tragedy managed to revive the consideration of the object which the protagonist had aimed at.
>>7648816
Will you explain this more please?
Can anyone think of a Greek comedy that is a farce? Like Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice?
English is not my native language, so this explains everything.
I'm looking for (I searched for some time) a short novel or a story by, I guess, a French author I readed long time ago. As I remember, the main visible argument is as follows:
>A dissident political activist has the possibility to travel to the future.
>The time travel is occasional, unique and can not be repeated.
>Members of his group decided to use the occasion for a political purpose.
>The time traveler will kill the tyrant in the future.
>The plan fails because the tyrant knows the plans of the plotters.
>In the future, they were waiting for the time traveler.
>Alone, defeated, the last member of the group writes the chronicle of his teammates and the failed plot in a library.
>Save the manuscript into a book.
>He wonders who was the snitch.
>Bitch don't realise is he himself.
what's /lit/'s opinion on chingiz aitmatov? the day lasts more than a hundred years is one of my favorite books
That book shows up from time to time as a recommendation, but I've never seen actual discussion. I haven't read it. You should start. Godspeed.
