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How do you break the habit of only reading before sleep?
This is killing me, I only can get in like 20 pages before I start dozing off.
>>8125845
well, you read during the day.
>>8125845
sounds like depression
and you're a frogposter so
>>8125853
well frogposting signifies he's a normalfaggototry, doubt it's depression
maybe he's just "sad"
Is there anything out there similar to the Lovecraft Dream Cycle?
Through The Gates of The Silver Key and Dream Quest nearly broke my brain with the insanity. Or should I just read old school fantasy like a dream sequence and get the same effect?
>>8125771
>poasting roastings
>>8125785
It's a metaphor for life in that if you look too hard at the details, everything turns out disappointing
>>8125785
that picture is a perfect metaphor for /b/ plebs
Anyone else read this gem? It's basically a window into the mind of someone with real OCD and not just 'lol i have a habit im so ocd XDDD'
Got a link to it?
>>8125707
Stop shitposting here nick. No one wants to read your autistic hex codes.
Describing colors as hexadecimal HTML color codes (#FF0000) is a stroke of genius
>wake up from vivid dream in the middle of the night
>"wow, that would make a great plot"
>write it down
>go back to sleep
>wake up
>read it
>it's really stupid
>not respecting your dreams
smhtbh
you write it until it works
Anyone ever have dreams where you're reading? I wish I could remember all the dank prose
that is so amateur
Hello, /lit/.
This is the first time that I have ever visited this board, and it is the first time I have ever posted. I thought it would be best to come here as I knew of its existence, to ask my question which has been nagging me for quite some time regarding an insecurity of my writing competence.
As the title says, I am a Roleplayer on the MMO, World of Warcraft.
I have done so for around - I think - seven years in total and this includes having to learn the general manners and rules which come with Roleplay itself, but also the rules of writing. I openly admit that during the start of the Roleplaying lifestyle my writing was utter shit and was far worse than it is today, but this is beside the point.
The problem I have is that there is a 'blockade' to the creativity and the capability to produce long and descriptive emotes with ease during Roleplay.
>NOTE: The issue does not seep into the generation of ideas for Roleplay scenarios, that is fine. The issue lies in the actual process of reacting, and describing the actions given by my character of choice during the Roleplay session.
This problem is a very recent thing, thus the reason why I have come here.
My initial suspicions were that I had some sort of a writers block, that I have simply Roleplayed for too many days over too many years and finally the ebb and flow of creativity has settled into a still pool of an utterly mundane nature.
The concept of this being the reason why, utterly terrifies me. I want to Roleplay, I have done so for so long and I love doing it, but the situation I appear to be in has put a halt to all of this. Albeit unwillingly.
I need to know if there is a good trick to getting those creative juices flowing again, or if there are methods to increase the quantity of descriptive writing being typed out.
In-game there is a limited size to a block of text, which people call a 'paragraph', even though it is not like your average paragraph, especially not as large. They can be ignored with the use of specific game addons, but the unit of '1.00' is highlighted beside the chat box in order to inform you how many paragraphs are currently written to keep track. Below, I'll give you an example of the paragraph size, and how it would look in-game.
>[Character] Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example Example
Now in Roleplay, anyone who is worth their salt can write up to around four to five - or even more - of these emotes in succession in their turn to write, filled with detail and descriptive goodness which improves and immerses the players in the fantasy setting.
I used to be able to reach such levels, but over time I have lost the touch and at best I can fill around two paragraphs.
TL;DR: I am having trouble with effectively performing descriptive writing.
>>8125643
Read a book
start with the greeks
>>8127218
/thread
Father Brown series is pretty good for what you're looking for, clever and enjoyBle characterisations and descriptions with a range of different characters covered.
under-acknowledged writers.
>>8125629
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpPsAojqcKo
>>8125629
hemmingway*
me desu
How does /lit/ like this stack of books lying next to me that I'm currently reading?
JACK KEROUAC
>>8125568
>reading more than one book
I don't know how anyone could possibly do this
>>8125732
OP here. I'm reading all of those, with the exception of The Subterraneans, Big Sur, and The Religion of the Ancient Celts. I'm also reading Dune. That's it. The Dharma Bums is my main book at the moment.
Who held up the sky before Atlas was punished?
Atheists: 1
Mythologists: 0
>>8125535
Fuck, I remember two guys argued about that ten years ago at a party, and it was witty as shit and really fun, I remember the fact of that conversation but not the content
But I promise it was worth a grin
The golden arches of McDonald's.
>>8125543
that sounds like an anecdote that should have been written during. for shame, anon. you should have written it all down. for shame.
Alright /lit/igants, another salvo has been fired in the debate over the current state of Russian lit in English translation:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/23/socks-translating-anna-karenina/
Interesting to read such a defense of Garnett. Although she is to be credited for introducing the Anglophone world to so much Russian lit, I think the author here lets her off too easily. And then there's P&V...
Garnett is the greatest russian translator in history.
mcduff and briggs are the best
>>8125437
after garnett.
Frogposter raised an interesting question. I know, weird.
Innocence is the only thing unnatainable through self-improvement, a critical but essential flaw, so that life works according to Godel. No book can help you learn unlearning. Or, perhaps, there exists literature somehow capable of returning you to childhood without nostalghic method of approach?
>>8125367
All new age self help repress the ego willful ignorance shite calls for a return to childhood pretty much where you're ruled solely by whims and emotions
>>8125381
Again, there is a method you can't conceal. Say I read a book on how to supress my ego and actually manage to do so; but I have the knowledge that this only happened because I forcefully performed some techniques. There is always an unerasable trace of method, no matter how many layers you conceal it with.
>>8125367
>so that life works according to Godel
Are you drunk?
Things that let you know a book is actually made of slabs of human shit and not pieces of paper
>Author uses similes
>book is in american 'english'
>>8125357
>dialects are written as they're pronounced instead as the actual words
bonus points if it's ebonics
>Author is english, american or german
>hear about pic related for ages
>finally pick it up
>read it in one sitting
>it's fucking amazing
Siddhartha discussion?
>>8125297
I want to talk about it op, i swear.
but i cannot transfer you my wisdom :^)
>>8125297
Same for me OP
I need to go work on a ferry or something now
But really it was amazing. What should I read if I loved this book?
>>8125297
it really would have been better if govinda had whipped out siddhartha's floppy cock and blew it for hours. i felt robbed, honestly.
Is it good?
Should I read it?
>>8125286
No.
Yes.
Is your meme posting good?
Should you meme?
No.
>>8125286
Just read this, is it good?
How does /lit/ feel about Pulp! The Classics editions?
The taglines are bad, and not in the ironic way they're going for.
Wuthering Heights is terrible. That's not a joke. Choosing Humphrey Bogart can maybe be seen as pulpy, since I guess they shared the same era? But then you get that dumb fucking line that's just snowballing off the already bewilderingly unfunny joke. Same problem with the Othello one, which is by far the worst. The jokes have nothing to do with the content.
Pride and Prejudice and Romeo and Juliet are subtle enough and their taglines are generic (like they ought to be for a genre joke) enough that they work.
>>8125279
for what purpose
the fuck is that ryan gosling as dorian gray?
>American book
>it says "Now a Major Motion Picture!" on the cover
>the authors name is bigger than the title
>open up the book
>the letters are about twice as big as normal books
>it's written in first person present tense
>every "chapter" is only a couple pages long, we are literally talking about "chapters" that don't make it to their third page
>lots of grammatical and spelling errors
>product placement out the ass
>any "facts" are poorly researched or not researched at all
Why? What's the point of American "literature"?
>>8125252
By American book you mean American Psycho right?
>product placement out the ass
>this is considered acceptable in america
They should honestly just stop trying (if they ever were)
