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I'm only 8000 words from finishing my 100 thousand words novel. Yet I just can't type. I try to type something in the novel but then I turn on Google Chrome and go check the news or check my opened threads in 4chan.
Please help me, I have no focus anymore. I'm dying. It is been a week I couldn't write. I am unemployed and I need to get this done soon for publishing purposes.
Please, I want to get off the ride.
Please post your best tips!
>>8078757
Just end your novel there. Or you could write the last paragraph, then go back from there. Or you could take a notepad and write in a park or somewhere. Or you could be less of a pussy.
Take a break and don't think about it for a day or two. Come back fresh
>>8078757
Well, I'm going to be blunt. Your post is riddled with grammatical errors so I hope your novel isn't. Another thing, If this is your first draft, oooooh boy. You need to really reread it and have it edited.
Dear /lit/,
anybody here who has read James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake? I read only parts of both and have to write a comparative term paper about them. My problem is that I can't really find a decent topic. The only thing that I find intriguing about Ulysses and Finnegans Wake is to decipher the sentences and words and the philosophical aspects, where I don't even agree with Vico's and Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence (I am more a fan of Milan Kundera's idea that time is linear), though I enjoyed reading Proteus. I would be thankful for some ideas!
>>8078696
>Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence
>relevant to Proteus
Yeah I'd stick away from philosophy of the texts bud
>>8078696
Literally Day and Night, duh. Have you actually read them or are you just memeing?
>>8078696
If you dislike Devir you do not deserve help.
Could it be possible for a book to incorporate sound?
In my dream I was reading Inherent Vice, but it had a built-in soundtrack of rock hits and lounge music that started playing when you turned to a certain page
It was like one of those noisy Birthday cards
One of the worst post that I have ever read, is this one.
They have children's books like that, you press the button on the side and the cow starts mooing
Memes and shitposts aside, is this book pretty good?
if even eyeball was made up by Shakespeare I don't give a hoot anymore
Any words of questionable legitimacy you believe have a place in your writing?
I've found castrophany and vigitant to be useful on occasions in the past. Fiction opens this up much more, but castrophany has certianly found its way into a paper or two I've submitted
Maybe unrelated but I personally feel eachother should be appropriate as one word in certain circumstances
boulderous
There's literally no reason it cant be a word so I use it and dont give a fuck
Desu once you know your Greek/Latin roots making up words is whatever
>>8078579
If its possible for people to understand what people have intended with an utterance, its a word, thats all there is to it
convey meaning and everything is fine,
I have 4 new books and dont know which one pick first.In which order(from best to worst) should i read them?
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice
I, Robot
The Bicentennial Man
I did not read any of these authors before.
>>8078418
Pride and Prejudice
Rest go in the trash if you want to be a serious reader in your life
>>8078418
>Pride and Prejudice
Read it.
>To Kill a Mockingbird
Watch it.
>I, Robot
>The Bicentennial Man
Burn it.
>>8078423
>>8078510
ignore these shitbirds
I've only read the two nonscifi works but:
TKAM
I, Robot
Pride and prejudice
Bicentennial man
desu Pride and prejudice is kind of meticulous, so good luck with that unless you're a huge fan of stately drama.
TKAM is probably my favorite book of all time which is why I put it first. I hope you get as much out of it as I did.
Never read Asimov but the wikipedia summary on I, Robot was pretty interesting.
Just bought this, I've heard it is one of the no nonsense self-help books. Have you read it and what was your opinion?
*sigh*
>>8078278
Great contribution
More or less the worst post I've ever seen here.
>rereading harry potter books since for nostalgias sake and because the entire series takes about two days of casual reading
>harry suddenly turns into a vitriolic argumentative asshole for no good reason
what the fuck is harry's problem? calm the fuck down
I believe it's called bad writing.
>>8078208
>rereading harry potter
>>8078245
>i only have time for GOOD books
the pretentious cancer that killed /lit/
then again I use to be like you until I grew up
A song of Ice and Fire book discussion
Is this a good deal? 39.99$
Never read the books only seen a few seasons from the show but I love reading more, I know the size is quite small from what I've read but the hard cover versions are too expensive, which version do you own?
Even at 0$ this would be a terrible deal, you would have to pay me to completely read them, but we all know this is a bait thread and you got the response you wanted.
>>8078205
Jesus Christ, I'm not OP but your sterile criticism is exactly why Postmodernism failed.
>>8078213
Even more bait, wonderful!
It's my grandads funeral on Thursday and I'm expected to read a poem, I have absolutely no idea what to read, help a brother out and reccomend me some funeral poetry, he was a sailor so something about the sea might work, thanks in advance lads
This is the worst post I've ever seen on /lit/
Tennyson "In Memoriam A.H.H."
VII
Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my heart was used to beat
So quickly, waiting for a hand,
A hand that can be clasp'd no more—
Behold me, for I cannot sleep,
And like a guilty thing I creep
At earliest morning to the door.
He is not here; but far away
The noise of life begins again,
And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain
On the bald street breaks the blank day.
>>8078019
Alfred Lord Tennyson - Ulysses
It's kind of longing and wistful, it involves talk about the sea and sailing, it's fairly epic, it's not 2deep4u, and it was written sort of in memoriam to one of Tennyson's friends who had died.
>Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
What are some other amazing openers?
This is the worst post that I have ever seen on this board.
>>8077997
kek
Ice creaming comes across the sky
Chronicles of Narnia official power ranking. If you disagree with my placements or don't like C.S Lewis then you're a fucking fag.
1. The Horse and His Boy
>This one appears at the top or near the top of any competent reader's list of the Narnias. I can usually tell I won't like someone if they rank this one last or second to last and something like Caspian in first or second. It shows a lot of stupidity.
2. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe
>Comfy af and despite a few kinks it's still the most memorable book in the series.
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
>I almost want to put this one at #2 but a recent rereading of the series has convinced me that the first half of the book is just too slow; the second half is probably the most beautiful in the entire series though.
4. The Silver Chair
>Probably the most underrated book in the series. I won't pass much comment except to say that I think TSC and the following books are at least a tier lesser than the first three I've ranked.
5. The Last Battle
>I could see placing this possibly above The Silver Chair, but I choose not to because I like the journey narratives like Silver Chair and Horse and His Boy over the books which take place entirely in Narnia.
6. The Magician's Nephew
>This one is better than a lot of people say it is, but I'll still own that it's definitely a class below the books I've ranked above it.
7. Prince Caspian
>The most overrated in the series, probably because, after TLWW, Prince Caspian is the book most ripe for film adaptation and can feature a hot prince to appeal to tweens. The book is pretty good but it's the worst in the series by a significant margin.
Well there you have it reddit, an official and completely objective and perfect ranking of the Narnia books. Feel free to ask me any questions about Narnia as I've read the series about 12 times in my life and know everything about it.
Narnia General.
This is one of the worst posts I've ever seen here.
>>8077952
Why? Too deep for you? Or are you just a caspianfag in denial about his plebhood?
>>8077940
C.S Lewis never wrote anything worth reading.
> IN THE AUTUMN OF 1975 Jacques Lacan, the French structuralist psychoanalyst, paid a rare visit to the United States. Convinced that he was world famous, he announced on his arrival in New York that he wanted to make a private visit to the Metropolitan Opera House. 'Tell them I am Lacan,’ he said. His academic hosts were momentarily nonplussed but, knowing the perils of crossing their guest, rapidly found a solution to the problem. They phoned the director of the Metropolitan and told him that Jean-Paul Sartre wanted to visit incognito. Flattered, the director agreed at once. Having been warned not to address the philosopher by name, he received his distinguished French visitor graciously and a memorable day ensued. Lacan was delighted by his welcome.
> Later Lacan scandalised everyone during a lecture at the Massachusetts Instititute of Technology by the way he answered a question about thought put to him by Noam Chomsky. 'We think we think with our brains,' said Lacan. 'But personally I think with my feet. That's the only way I really come into contact with anything solid. I do occasionally think with my forehead, when I bang into something. But I've seen enough electroencephalograms to know there's not the slightest trace of a thought in the brain.' When he heard this, Chomsky concluded that the lecturer must be a madman.
PERFECTLY
SELF
Lets get to know each other, /lit/. Where do you work?, Goals?, Current state?
>Where do you work?
I'm NEET.
>Goals?
I don't establish long-term goals. Finish my way through Italian, I've already got reading proficiency on French, German and English. Read the 15th book of the month. Fuck an ex-classmate at a party tomorrow. Write an exegesis of the philosophy books I've read this month. Cancel Netflix and a magazine subscription.
>Current state?
NEET but comfy, next year I get my life back on the practical track. It has been an enjoyable year.
>>8077647
None of your business, cunt.
None of your business, cunt.
Solid. ;)cunt
>>8077647
>NEET
>increase daily reading hours from 8 to 14 hrs a day
>not bad desu
>tfw youre supposed to talk about films and books on your podcast but all you wanna talk about is le SJWs
>>8077620
>he listens to lit podcasts
you get what you deserve, middlebrow.
>>8077623
whats it like being 2cool4podcasts, anon?
how do you start a podcast?
I was thinking about starting a poetry podcast but I don't know where to start. the only podcasts I've listened to are the Ricky Gervais show and the one with Kevin Smith.
Does anyone know any good books on scansion? Preferably something that uses examples on famous poetry so it's not just a textbook
>>8077608
4chanlit.wikia.com/poetry
The way I know that I'm innately beta, and my phenotype is probably the sad result of some epigenetically activated, normally dormant cluster of genes that makes me a huge fucking pussy so I'll be useful to the tribe and die without having any children, is that every time I see a pretty girl my libido only suggests I do submissive shit.
That picture just makes me want to do things for her and give her things. And that's only the civilized upper layer. Beneath that is all the fetishistic weird shit like "I WANT TO BE HER PANTIES T BH."
That's all that exists in my brain, sexually. I was destined to be a gay bitch. My formal cause is meat, and my final cause is Serve The Hive.
>>8077633
lel, this alpha mentality has just severed so many males's perceptions of masculinity, and more importantly, of femininity.
yes, obviously you want to give her, not just shit, but your fucking shit. your baby shit. you want to do things for her because you know what she wants? she wants you to want her, and you know what youre gonna do if u want her to have your baby? youre gonna give her what she wants.
yep. welcome to the power struggle. shes got the fuckin womb. aint got shit to do with sex, or her vagina, and nothing to do with your cock. it has everything to do with her oven. all the other shit youre putting such importance on, all that "i wanna fuck her, do shit for her, give her shit" etc, thats you already accepting her view of the fucking struggle. that shes the one in control here, shes the one you gotta come to if you wanna have a kid, because guess what. everone wants to bake some cookies and shes got what they need; the fucking oven. you can get eggs, flour, milk, etc, fucking anywhere. but a good oven is hard to find motherfucker.
its so much more than genetic. its in every interaction youve ever had with a woman. the psychological shit theyre doing with everyone, MOSTLY OTHER WOMEN, is fucking bats man. and its to fucking convince you that shes got what you need. but negative girl, that aint the fuckin way man operates. thats the way theyve fucking domesticated "men" into operating. women operate behind the scenes, its in large society theyve always had trouble, because theyre such fucking cunts.
but youve gotta transcend this shit. youve gotta man the fuck up, and you know how you do that? you show her youve got more than just cookie dough. youre not gonna not give her what she wants. youre gonna give her what nobody else has ever given her: coffee, conversation, and cookies in the morning. ie, deep sensual yogic love making. the kind of sex that shouldnt even be called sex because 3 letters aint enough to talk about fucking like this. the "this is way beyond both of us (and the kid) and scares the shit out of our idea of this whole mortality/immortality dichotomy and just fucks us all up on the inside like". youre a fuckin man, and your cock can do a bit more than make her forget her problems and shoot warm shit up in that vaginal cavity. and you can be a bit more than a fucking status object she has to fuck with other women. step up kiddo.
