What's the literary equivalent of John Darnielle/The Mountain Goats? Besides John Darnielle ofcourse.
By that I mean, what writers have solidly constructed, consistent, well written output with lots of pathos and a diehard fanbase?
Tao Lin
jn Green
Why is Tolstoy so much greater than Dostoevsky?
>>7473379
Because they're both worse than Turgenev.
Um nah breh. Dosto is fucking epic and deals with themes like depression, death, life, and existentialism. Tolstoy is just posh people in love and other boring shit.
>>7473400
nonsense, tolstoy was the greatest novelist to ever live, anon.
I HAVE NO INSPIRATION OR IDEAS TO WRITE ABOUT
Writer's block is bullshit. I've been writing for close to a decade now, and have not the faintest notion of the thing; it's merely a euphemism for slaves who want to make a living out of scribbling because they are too lazy to do anything else. If a writer has something to say, it comes out by itself, if he doesn't, then what's the point in WANTING to write? — Money, of course.
Wreite a poem about htis
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0vBbVfVdt6L
>>7473101
Write about a space raptor that gets marooned on a hostile planet and needs to escape.
Write about a guitarist who makes a deal with the devil to play better and eventually goes on a downward spiral.
Write about 6 exiled knights returning home from their exile to take back their homeland.
Write about the busy life of a raven on a Sunday afternoon.
Write about anything anon.
What's the biggest problem in literature today?
What's holding authors back from creating masterpieces like our ancestors did?
memes, insincerity, political correctness, pop culture.
>>7472138
pic not related
>>7472149
>"political correctness"
what did he mean by this?
>>7472151
it is related, honey
How do you reach a state of non-attachment, /lit/?
Where every situation is the best possible situation?
seems impossible 2bh even though so there's so many spiritual traditions that advocate it.
You haven't factored in time.
>>7471269
elaborate
interest bump
Is Nietzsche actually the worst philosopher? He's an epiphenomenalist spastic who couldn't make a single clear argument. He jumps to ridiculous conclusions, such as his stance that there is no "self", that there's a cosmic "world will", etc. without providing any substantial reason to believe anything that he says. He's all about making statements, most of them contrary to common sense or any serious philosophy, and never makes an argument. He fails to keep the reader's attention and serves only as an example of a bad philosopher. Is anyone actually worse than him?
>>7471241
>Is anyone actually worse than him?
Yes, and he's pretty much /lit/'s favorite philosopher.
YOU'RE MISUNDERSTANDING NIETZSCHE
>>7471247
He's not even a real philosopher. At most he's a critic.
So are metamodernism, post-postmodernism et al basically just "movements" founded by people desperate to be considered important but without any creativity, hence their extreme sense of self-importance despite relying on trite and anachronistic ideas and lacking anything interesting to say?
>>7471225
Yes.
>>7471225
nice b8 m8
>>7471227
It would be bait if there was anyone here who gave a shit about those, besides Tao
>Thinking about some matter
>Getting to the point
>shitthisiscoolmane.gif
>realizing pic related bastard has already written about it
>>7469735
so do it anyway fag, shits been going on for centuries. why stop now?
>>7469735
nigga predicted 11/9 in 3 separate novels, as early as 77
just rip him off anyway, be open about it
>>7470036
Nigga be way better than David Fausters Walden desu
This year I read 3 Palahniuk books out of curiosity, cos theyr small
What r your opinions about his books?
They where fight club, invisible monsters n rant
well i for one consider a really great source ofmeh
Fight Club was okay
Invisible Monsters was so bad. I couldn't finish it.
>>7468168
I'm lukewarm when it comes to Palahniuk, but I loved Rant.
What does /lit/ think of these two?
I quite like le morality lad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHoAQW_DBI4
>>7465409
HOW
>>7465404
meme brothers
Can we get a "Lovecraftian" thread going?
The H.P. Lovecraft Archive:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/
Biography:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
Bibliography:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft_bibliography
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Howard_Phillips_Lovecraft
Documentary:
https://youtu.be/17tj18qpJf0
Public Domain Audiobooks:
http://librivox.org/author/424
Weird fiction general? I just started on "The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories". Dug the excerpt of The Other Side, not so much The Screaming Skull. Also currently reading Laird Barron's Imago Sequence. I don't know why he doesn't get mentioned more around here.
racist shit
Thomas Ligotti thread? I'm just about to read "The Shadow, The Darkness". The last story in the "Teatro Grottesco" collection.
''In 500 years, they’re going to talk about rap the same way they talk about Shakespeare.''
Well, are they right /lit/?
>>7473456
No, it's shit.
No. A few rappers have the lyrical and musical talent to be recognized down the line. On the same level as shakespeare? Not even close. The genre is only so popular right now because the corporations can make money off of muh urban cultures. Welcome to America, home of moral decay.
Wu-Tang forever
ITT: Secondary characters that should have been written more about.
>Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky from Demons by Dosto
>>7473426
I always wondered what became of that theater director in Master and Margarita who got teleported to Yalta.
Jesus. and yes, he was a secondary character.
Souvarine Germinal
Hey, what do you guys think of this basic idea I have for a novel?
> 18 year old guy molests his younger half sister
> gets kicked out after she tells CYFD and couch surfs for a while
> tries to hold an apartment while working at Wal-Mart for a while (his mom helps him a bit)
> starts to date date girl with BPD
> loses his apartment and moves in with his friend's family
> his mom ends up letting him and BPD girl live there illegally
> dude encourages BPD girl to go off her meds so she can do acid and other drugs with him
> has fight with BPD girl one night which results in them quitting their jobs
> girl becomes a prostitute to support them
> guy continues to molest his sister while BPD girl is out doing sessions
> they do a lot of heroin together throughout all this
> they get their own apartment after his mom gets everyone kicked out because she won't pay all the rent
> both of them get really strung out on heroin and a little meth
> BPD girl has nervous breakdown and has to stop prostituting because she gets busted
> they temporarily move in with his grandparents until they get fed up with the couple's erratic behavior
> BPD girl ends up in hospital and her family takes her back
> dude becomes homeless and turns to intravenous drugs instead of smoking them
> dude sleeps with random girls he meets at punk shows
> dude catches AIDS
then the rest of the story is him dying of AIDS as he reflects on his life and continues to lose his already feeble mind
(I might cut out the Wal-Mart part of the plot and just skip to him being homeless...idk yet.)
What makes you think that anybody would want to read your autobiography?
>>7472826
Don't really like the ending.
what if you end it when he gets kicked out of his grandparents house?
Like, all this terrible shit happens and his grand parents are still willing to take him in. and it almost seems like things might be good again. cause crazy girl is gone and someone kind of believes in him. but then he fucks it all up, again, and realizes that he's burned his last bridge. and that's the end.
>>7472829
....what do you mean?
Do you think I am the prostitute or AIDS guy? lol
Halp /lit/.
>I studied last year, bachelor of arts, fuck that shit. Waste of money. I learn more reading alone.
>This year spent time overseas and working etc, hoping to go back to uni next year for something more employable.
>Can't think of anything to study. It all sucks. Considered secondary arts teaching, but have to move ages away to expensive place.
>Hoping to just move to a nearby city which is affordable, but what can I do in my spare time to pursue something akin to a career.
>Want that /lit/ lifestyle though. I want to be able to read a lot still, and write in my spare time. I want to be a writer. Yeah, probably wont happen but whatever.
>Thinking of learning to code or do a teaching english as first language degree online to teach overseas.
>I need halp, please. Give me options cuz i've fucking fucked right now and I have no idea what to do.
*TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) or a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
>>7472631
Commission yourself to write weird fetish porn for people on the internet.
i love my english degree with a writing emphasis. but if i didn't have that, i'd have studied ornithology or geology or something along those lines of outdoor science.
