How do I get better at convincing myself just to read?
I love to read and whenever I actually pick up my kindle and just read but I never have the motivation.
It's always so much easier to dick around on 4chan after a day of work, how do I motivate myself /lit/?
You don't actually like to read. You like the idea of being a guy who reads a lot.
Look at the calibre of posting here and make your choice. Farrrrrrtttttttttttttttt
>>7363979
I was expecting this a reply like this.
No I don't like the idea of being "a guy who reads". If I did I'd be one those faggots who made a rate my bookshelf post everyday and who lug around their copy of uselessyses for every train ride or just sit in a public park.
I have a kindle and I read mostly in bed or sometimes at my home desk.
I hurt my leg and fell off the porch. I can't even walk anymore! How am I supposed to write the next great American novel?
>>7363953
Is he...
>>7363953
Step 1: Stop appropriating my european heritage.
Step 2: There never was and there'll never be a great american novel.
>>7363953
Translate your suffering and angst into art. Write a novella about a man who breaks his leg and, at the same time... his spirit. However, he finds God and marries a beautiful Christian girl. However, she cheats on him and he kills hers and himself.
For too long I have been redpilled by the filth that is /pol/...
I want to go back to being an obedient worker class subordinate again so that I can stop being an edgy NEET and get a real job.
Any books I can read that can help with that? How do I convince myself to accept the fact I will be a low paid wageslave for the rest of my life and its not the fault of the jews?
Not only will reading this book bluepill you, it will also lower your IQ a few points and make you insufferable to be around.
I think the first step is learning how to use real words again, OP.
>muh bluepill/redpill dichotomy
Just go the fuck outside and live life jesus christ.
I feel I have a good understanding of female sexuality. Should I write smutty romance novels? I think I could give it a good go, and not make them trash.
Is there money to be made?
>>7363656
Who is this pretty city dweller? ;)
I write fetish fiction and make a few hundred bucks a year off of it. It's not much, but it's nice have money specifically bookmarked for drugs.
I think normie romance novels would be a lot harder to make money off of though, my market is an oligopoly, yours would be incredibly competitive.
Where to buy cheap books online? I'm in Europe.
bump for same question, i could also use a good resource
bookdepository? alibris?
Bump.
I use bookdepository for new books and ebay for used ones. Anyone knows anything better?
Where do I start with Sartre?
Le mur
>>7363630At the startre
>>7363630
the greeks
Hey /lit/. Is this a good way to learn english? I've picked this script, and I'm trying to memorize all the words that I don't understand.
>>7363593
What's your original language? I speak English, so I might give this a twirl.
>>7363599
I'm guessing French.
>>7363593
i learned english shitposting here.
me cannot fail
Please tell me your strategies of bullshitting a lit essay. We're you good at it?
>tfw you have to write an essay that's longer than the story itself
>>7363568
Steal NotPynchon's ideas.
>>7363568
Think of a one sentence answer to the brief > copy and paste quotes that support that answer > put in sentences to link the quotes
Congrats you have bullshitted an essay/Done it how everyone else does it anyway
Bump only cuz that face is priceless
honestly, what does this quote mean?
>"What be 'Be'? You cain't say that 'Be' be, cause you saying 'be' to talk about 'Be', and it don't mean nothing to say that 'Be' be dis or 'Be' be dat. 'Be' be 'Be' to begin wit'. So don't you be saying 'Be' be 'Be'. You wanna talk about 'Be', you gotta talk about what ain't be nothin' at all. You gotta say 'Be' be what ain't 'ain't-Be'. Now when you ain't be nothing at all? Dat be when you be daid. When you daid you ain't be nothing, you just be daid. So 'Be' be somewhere between where you be and where you ain't be, dat is, when you be daid. Any time you say 'Be' you is also saying 'ain't-Be', and dat make you think about being daid."
dying to the self is not something that is done once and over with.
life and death are of supreme importance. time swiftly passes and opportunity is lost.
honestly, what does this quote mean?
What are some bad books that idiots think are profound?
>"Wow it's totally like the cold war!"
>"We're all like, totally just the same underneath, man. We're just separated by a wall!"
Forget complicated ideologies and cultures, we just have different customs that the other side thinks is silly!
Fuck this book.
>>7363216
all of coelho
is this bait or are you really that upset about a Seuss book?
>>7363216
I don't get pop culture's obsession with Dr. Seuss. I mean they were OK books in preschool and kindergarten but why are they so popular and why do adults discuss them?
How much reading one have to do to be able to write a great novel? I am always feeling paralyzed to write because i think i didn't read enough.
Essentially, yes.
>>7363131
I'd like to point out that storytelling as an art form existed long before written language. The art of creating engaging characters, gripping stories, and profound meaning is a very broad, general concept that transcends medium. Movies, books, theatre, etc; these are all ways of exploring the same basic concept of story. Therefore, I find it more useful to focus on what makes stories work rather than what makes books work.
I will agree that reading books is always a good thing for a writer, as it broadens the mind and exposes the author to new storytelling techniques. But the same can be said of movies, comics, and even video games. To reiterate my previous point, storytelling transcends medium. I find it more helpful to understand stories in the abstract rather than focus on writing mechanics. You can have the strongest mechanics in the world, but still fail to tell a story because you didn't have a grasp of tropes and their application.
TL;DR storytelling skill > writing skill.
>>7363891
maybe if you want to be a storyteller
but if you want to write, particularly today, you need to read
who /anagrama master race/ here?
>>7363116
>Anagrama
>No Gredos
Mátate.
>>7363296
This
>>7363296
>Anagrama
>No Editores Mexicanos Unidos
>Mátate.
Where are all the fucking quotation marks!
Here they are:
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You may pepper and salt them as you please
>>7363108
>quotation marks
>>7363120
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This is a practice thread. Prompts can either be generic or genuinely insightful. There are no serious rules, if you write something completely off base, that is acceptable, as long as you reference something previous in the thread. You can also reference other threads, within reason, like so >>7362789
The first prompt is: "What country, friends, is this?"
>>7363002
>>>/reddit/
Interesting concept
Trump -- that damnable chump -- with his clumpy hair and general frumpy plump, lectern trumped up to hide his slump -- a slump indicative of both grump and growing need to dump (or perhaps merely rump-trump; for which he couldn't plum or plump) -- bumbling and bumping, and plummeted with a flump to pump his lumps, so that they rumbled and crumped against the lectern trunk, and then, knees numb and head spun -- having succumbed to the rum he'd drunk -- proceeded to trump -- Trump, the fiscal monk, trumping and trumpeting his tired grump:
"What country, friends, is this?"
The assembled crowd was still.
And then louder, grumpier -- and, he thought to himself, picturing himself rampant before the lectern, as though dispersing, one wispy lock at a time, into an out of body experience -- Trumpier:
"WHAT COUNTRY, FRIENDS, IS THIS?"
And then someone, a hick, or a shill, or someone with an automatic rifle in their pants -- but not a Mexican; eh eh, no way esse -- in an event not recorded since before the civil war, managed -- perhaps from the sheer Trumpy nature of the question (Trumpitude; Trumpbit) -- to pull their metaphorical head out of their ass, and see beyond their own skin, an act reminiscent, almost, but not quite, of the Golden Trump and his/their omniscience, and shouted back, self-attuned reverie abandoned, broken, cunted:
"THIS IS GOD DAMN FUCKING AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
who's your /lit/ daddy? pic related
inb4 Hemingway
>>7362927 Mah /lit/ dadday is Dostoevsky
>>7362927
Burroughs he might not be around OFTEN but he gets the job done.
Papa Pinecohen
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