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>have to write 500 word alternate ending to a short story
>due in 6 hours
>haven't started yet
Just make it about a beam from outer space hitting the earth, giving all metal the properties of rubber, leading to countless deaths at amusement parks. That's what I usually do.
>>8075161
>500 word
>in 6 hours
>alternate ending to a short story
:^)
(insert your own preferred insult)
Hey /lit/, Dreams are amazing things that can often breathe life into people. Well last night I had a dream that re-sparked my interest in writing. I would like some critique so please do not hold back, but please do not say anything unless it actually helps me as a writer.
1/?
It seemed to be the perfect temperature, or rather no temperature at all. Everything seemed exactly where it should be; Except for the people. People dream their whole life, and no, I do not mean their ambitions. I mean that state of mind you enter everytime you feel like you've had enough for the day. Quickly fading out and then back into existence. Only to find yourself laying in the same room you have been for--what feels like seconds, but seconds are just what you feel. Others can change seconds into hours, days, and even weeks. To take this time for granted...
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>>8075036
2/?
The roads were empty, and a soft, nostalgic tone filled the air around me, like a bathtub I could not escape. This was suburbia. Usually filled with the sounds of chatter, cars speeding by, and oddly enough, nature. This time it was silent. One thing seemed off about my quaint little house. The same house I had lived in for 5 years. Another sat next to it of a different variety than normal. I questioned this houses existence due to everything else seeming so perfect. The house was a bright blue, and reached...
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>>8075030
i had a dream that the spirit of an old woman was in my luggage
Rusted blades kissed decisively. The Gnarled Branch Clipping dropped into The Basket and lay briefly exposed before crooked fingers carefully covered The Cutting with purple cloth. The robed man heaved a gentle sigh of relief. No desecration had befallen him. He sank to his knees, facing away from The Basket now, and raised his arms. His mouth moved nearly soundlessly, lips forming vowels and consonants. And then all was silent and still. He rose. He bent to the Basket, hands lifting it skyward with the care given towards a child.
....
Should I continue?
>Rusted blades kissed decisively.
>>8075019
I read "Rustled blades kissed decisively" at first, which made me imagine a slight wind over a meadow. Slightly dissapointed now.
lol
for some reason, at some moment in life, you were lead to having posted that
jesus
![the-deaths-of-david-foster-wallace-1413331857768[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mLRdldB.jpg "the-deaths-of-david-foster-wallace-1413331857768[1].jpg")
>he fell for the philosophy meme
i didnt think people can be this dumb nowadays
i just wanna be smawta
>trust me bro just read the greeks and learn about the arche
lol? Do people still fall for this shit?
>dude reading is good for you i promise
What bollocks.
>just b urself
>as long as u don't use words
>...unlike me right now haha :P xD
Wittgenstein literally said this and people call him a great philosopher...
...how?
>>8074890
That's not what he said at all. He didn't say not to use words, but to use the carefully, and in accordance with what your truly believe, to not be deceptive.
You can talk about what your breakfast tasted like.
You can't talk about the afterlife.
That's as plain as I can put it for a retard like you.
>>8075117
'Gee, I wonder what the afterlife is like'
Did I just btfo philosophy?
>I don't understand it
>therefore analytical philosophy is bad
i don't know what's worse, these threads or the /mu/ tier ones
>just b yourself: the philosophy
>hard to understand
>good
kys OP
>>8074790
I like them desu.
Higher quality than regular /lit/
![last-day-of-summer-unbelievable-beautiful-1001028[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dUyZvKx.jpg "last-day-of-summer-unbelievable-beautiful-1001028[1].jpg")
What are some books that have a summer mood? Need something that would suit the atmosphere of comfy summer evenings.
A Christmas Carol
Ulysses is set on June 16th
>>8074774
Dandelion Wine
How early did /lit/ start writing?
I used to have notebooks and floppy disks full of stories and characters, usually fantasy-style ideas. I wish I knew where all that shit went, it would be a blast to read through some of that and see how it reads now.
I started writing pretty young, before the age of 10, but all my ideas were lifted from cartoons. I didn't get into writing as a teenager because all of the guides I found were for genre fiction or other types, and I still won't start writing until I read enough to find something I'd like to copy.
>>8074688
I wrote a story when I was 8 about a giant bumblebee chasing a little boy through a town because i figured out how to draw a bumblebee and it needed a story.
I won a national poetry competition at 7, stil my most proud achievement...
what is the absolute most horrifying, gut wrenching books I can read? I don't mean like reading fictions that just involve horror of "things that should not be" like zombies or whatever, I mean something very real, and disgusting. I'm looking for something hard to read, because it's so appalling and frightening.
>>8074581
Infinite Jest
>>8074581
Teatro Grotesco - Thomas Ligotti
Doesn't get much realer horror wise unless by that you're just looking for snuff descriptions or whatever.
>>8074581
My diary
Just picked up pick related
Thoughts?
>>8074549
>in modern English
There is no reason to read it in modern english senapi.
>>8074549
>in modern English
Putting that aside
Honestly I found it really dull, Chaucer isn't like Shakespeare in that he has great universal appeal, its mostly only interesting for Historical interests
Hold the door.
Get on the floor.
Can you repeat the question?
BRAVO D&D! PURE PATRICIAN'S KINO POTTERY!
Who is the most beautiful character ever written? What makes him or her beautiful?
Pic related?
Josef Svejk
the lead character of my diary tb h
Was he the most spooked man in all of history?
No. Next question.
>>8074861
Am I gay?
>exploitation
>alienation
>objective value
Best books about this genre, please.
what would that genre be?
>>8074244
Nazism.
>>8074240
I think Turner Diaries and Assassin's Creed Game Tie-In Novellas are up your alley.
How do you think what is the main causes of English being so well-spreaded all across the world? Does it have by any chance anything to do with its primitiveness? So that people could easily learn it to get by when abroad? By the way, I've noticed that in order to be fluent in American English you should have to learn no more than just a few words like: like, you know, kinda, yeah, soooo, right. For example, this is the way those primitive americunts communicate: 'hey, hi, I've just like really had AAAIInal sex, it felt so good, YEAAAH, kinda cool, oh oh my god,...
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I find this thread kinda like pretty cool to be honest, yeah too had anal sex 3 minutes ago
>>8074040
>How do you think what is the main causes of English being so well-spreaded all across the world?
Ever heard of the British Empire?
>>8074054
I think they had chosen this language as a lingua franca on account of its simplicity
