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I'm a bad writer. Most of the time when I plot out a story it feels original but once I begin writing it's some really lame ripoff-DFW kind of thing.
Should I make a point of not copying others' styles? or is the experience of writing in an unoriginal fashion - writing anything at all - worthwhile for the experience?
>>8134183
truth is, most people start off copying their favorite writer- look at Beckett. The good writers evolve their own style
You probably just need to write more. You'll find your voice if you stick at it for long enough.
>>8134192
the thing is I don't even particularly like DFW. I definetely don't like the pseudo-DFW I produce.
Anyone else realizing they won't make it as a writer?
>>8134150
If you ever seriously thought in terms of "making it" or not "making it" you were doomed from the start.
>>8134150
I realized that a long time ago, when I was young and believed I would be the next big literary genius. But I was awful, admitted it to myself, and moved on.
No reason to let that make you stop though.
>>8134150
I'm the favorite in the english department at my uni...I hang out and drink with all the professors and we trade stories. I'm in a semi-relationship with a 45 year old professor. She's divorced and she likes my company. We sleep together, actually sleep, sometimes and others we just fuck.
She can deepthroat. I am a successful writer.
/lit/izens who write short forms (stories, essays, poems): what are some places where you've been published? I'd like to check out the publications we write for, in addition to what we read.
arxiv.org
>>8134057
>implying published writers browse /lit/
don't be cute
I'm not telling you because the two creative works I've published are merely ok. My best work is always rejected.
Non-fiction work, I'd consider revealing here. Maybe.
>he dies
>zero threads on /lit/
further proof /lit/ is a bunch of pseuds who don't read.
>>8133959
is that roger ebert?
>>8133959
>reading plays
>>8133959
I make it a moral principle not to read writers who attended Oxbridge or an Ivy
What do you think of him, /lit/?
I've read Animal Farm and 1984 and they're my personal favorites, something about his literature is simply beautiful.
Open for discussion.
>>8133864
/r/books class of 2016
>>8133864
>>8133864
I know you're the one making all these 1984 threads and it needs to stop.
I get it. Welcome to literature.
Surgeon here,
Any good medical related books? Like Frankenstein?
>>8133827
Which type of surgeon?
What school?
>>8133827
fiction or non fiction?
>>8133834
Tree surgeon
are there any books that make remotely convincing arguments in favor of free will?
thinking of checking out Dennett's "Freedom Evolves". can anyone vouch for it, or recommend something better?
>>8133741
Why do you want free will to exist? If you end up finding a convincing argument, what is to be gained?
>>8133930
really mostly just looking to round out my understanding of the the issue. i'm not afraid of the truth.
although i'd be lying if i told you that i don't find the idea of determinism tremendously sad.
>>8133958
Reality is actually indeterministic, but that makes no difference to the issue of free will.
In this thread, some of us post our handwriting, and everyone else makes fun of them for posting their handwriting.
Post excerpts, memes, dreams, etc. etc. Anything that involves your handwriting. Go.
is it really cute though?
>>8133725
nah, it's a bit ugly desu but it's more legible than mine
>>8133725
Everyone who does enough mathematics ends up with handwriting exactly like that
Have you pre-ordered your copy of the #1 best selling book in America?
I don't need to read a book to know how fucked up the Clintons are. I read /r/politics daily.
This book is going to seal the nomination for Sanders. Feel the Bern!
>>8133602
Are you a masochist or something?
Do good pirate books exist? Nonfiction? Fiction?
I just want to go on an adventure on the seas and sing shanties.
Howard Pyle, the guy who wrote Robin Hood, wrote a book about pirates.
RL Stevenson has Treasure Island and Master of Ballantrae.
There's lots of good pirate books from when they were a thing on more seas, because the other sea captains would write about them.
"Captain Charles Johnson" one of the more famous of these, is hard to find records on, and some people think is Defoe, but he's a classic if you can get over the English style of the time. If you gave up on Defoe before though, it'll have more pirates at least this time?
>>8133605
Thanks, anonymous.
>>8133615
np m80, they all good fun but i like stevenson the best.
I'm looking for something very abstract, like creative writing that speaks directly from the sub conscious, like a bizarre dream.
Finnegans Wake.
>>8133432
The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
>>8133432
Milkbottle H by Gil Orlovitz
Are there any English Victorian writers that don't have completely sterile prose?
>>8133259
is there anyone on /lit/ who has an attention span longer than a fruit fly?
>>8133259
that one dude that wrote Middlemarch.
>>8133259
Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King is very powerful.
He was a poet though. Victorian prose is universally shite.
Writers of /lit/. Did you already realize it's easier to write a bunch of novels for yourself than being published and read all around and that most of us will die without being acknowledged even by a small group of friends (if any)?
I had a huge let down last week and I don't think I'll spend anytime trying to get published anymore. Actually, I don't even know whether I should keep writing or not.
Let's face it. Nowadays the only way to be read is being known before publication. So, if you're like, a youtuber or some shit like that,...
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sorry you're bad at writing m8
>>8133225
If you're writing for "acknowledgement" then you're driven by the same desires as an infant and it's clear why you're no good
>>8133323
I'll give up anyway.
Idk how to ask this, but I'm looking for a philosophical mind fuck of a story. Something that really breaks down reality, makes you question your whole existence, speaks to you in a way which is emotionally bewildering, but not in a way that's indecipherable and incoherent. I want something somber and spooky, something that will shake you out of your cartoon outline of existence and send normies running away faster than they ever thought they could run.
enjoy. i know i did
>>8133172
>>8133172
Just finished The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, seems to fit your description.
Can we have a George Bernard Shaw thread?
What do you guys think of his work?
>>8133164
He's too liberal for me
Agate's says "Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces"
I agree
>>8133164
I find his early struggles to live of writing, to learn, to keep moving forward despite failures to be quite inspirational.
One can read a quick summary in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw
