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How do I go about writing? I have a fantastic story idea, but I want to go through with it to the end and not fuck it up/give up midway.

What's some good prep/motivator to do it?
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Story ideas (plot) don't really matter tb h
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>>8000838
What matters then?
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>>8001047
How the story is told. Which includes prose and other things. Despite what other anons tell you it isn't just prose.

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Is there a book about the author writing the same book and we're reading it?
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And its called the Song of Eternity
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That's genius
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Things They Carried experiments with this to an extent, but not as far as you're thinking OP

Hello /lit/ I am new to the board and I keep reading how Camus is shit. What's so shit about him? I really enjoyed the Plague and the Stranger as well as his short stories.
Are those bad and I just didn't realize it?
Please halp.
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>>7999037
bump
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why can't I bump ;___;

this is actually a serious question for me. He is one of my favourite authors.
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>>7999088
Ay I love aesop

And /lit/ is hyper elitist so they hate any existentialist philosopher, don't take it seriously, most of the people here seriously have not even read any of their work or even the work of the people they praise.

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Recommend me a nice hardcover edition of Moby Dick
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I want to dick moby.
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>>7998495
>Muh whales, the book
I don't get the love.
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Not hardcover, but this is a great edition I'm currently reading.

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How do you deal with amount of violence and horrible things God did to non-believers?
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would you rather God destroyed us all after we fucked up?
yes
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Starts with Teleological and ends with Ethical.
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I select what is convenient for me.

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Hey, /lit/. Newly qualified English teacher here.

I've accepted a post at a high school and, incredibly, they've allowed me to pick my own texts for the students to study.

I can pick 3 books, one for each term (semester). Which should I pick?
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The Recognitions
Men and Women
The Tunnel
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>>7997600
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
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>>7997600
Make sure you get 1984 in there so we can stop these socialism is good meme

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Post them
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Have you no shame, OP?
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>>7995787
This (somewhat)

>>7995777
Nice Warriors book, no shame there, although (even though anyone born from 1996-2002 read them) you haven't burned your diary of a wimpy kid books yet.

Nice LotR collection. Although get Return of the King in the same edition for a completion orgasm.
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I want people to post works to critique.

There is a current poetry crit thread, this is for fiction and nonfiction

No story fragments.

The first post will not be mine, and I'm going to critique every story under 3,000 words in this thread

formatting stuff

put your story in a paste bin with a 2 week deletion time to preserve first publication rights.

Don't post story fragments or erotic fiction. Use of sexuality in stories is good. There is literally nothing I can do to stop you from doing either, just a suggestion because I hate experiencing story fragments

Post the title, the link, and a short about the author or about the piece. Use spoiler tags if it's about the piece. We can have conversations outside of just posting things, crit threads unfortunately become people just posting their work. Talk a little bit as you post.
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>>7994243
Augury
http://pastebin.com/qsshzDgx
I stopped writing during my psychotic break. This is the first thing I've written since. I'm kinda proud of it
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ok, i'll bite. It's 5k words though.
"Toy Soldiers"
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It's just a juxtaposistion of determinism/fatalism and war. I thought that was an interesting/scary way to look at destiny, so to speak.
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short story excerpt

http://pastebin.com/WKPAfunu

if *everything* you have to say is negative, i probably don't want to hear it

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Spinozo
>Proved the existence of God, defined as an infinite predetermined substance machine called the universe
>BTFO Plato's logic
>instead based his philosophy off of the Jewish ideal of God being beyond comprehension and following the eternal.
>Axiom 7 in the Ethics literally destroys the Hegelian dialectic

How can one man be so based?
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>>7994206
>Spinozo
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Everything I write is more or less connected to this guy's writings.

Can't wait to read what Deleuze has to say about him
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>>7994206
Spinoza was an atheist.

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I haven't been here in a while, is Nick Land a meme?
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Yes, there are threads about him every once in a while.
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>>7983883
Do you think he gets lonely sometimes?
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>>7983984
He's probably on the level of Autism that he only need to shitpost for a minutes each day to get al the social interaction he needs.

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Post your latest pickups, /lit/!
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>>7978555
I forgot to add that I bought this shirt today, can't wait for it to be delivered!

https://readingfury.com/products/do-you-even-read-bro

Us readers, huh?
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Why did they change the name of the first Harry Potter book for the US market?
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Questions that don't deserve their own thread

And

Casual Literature discussion
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Any good books on writing novels? I read a lot of books but I just need something on the craft to help me.
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What's the best book you have read this year, anon?

I'm curious.
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>>7975430
Made this thread hoping that the huge number of questions that are asked be invaders from other boards without reading the sticky can be contained here. Since by this point, it's quite obvious that the number of people from other boards coming in are increasing, a QTDDTOT thread might help in keeping the catalog slightly cleaner.

Also, it seems as if the number of "beginner-questions" (that can be answered by the sticky) have sort of increased:
>where to begin with x?
>anything like x?
>books like this album x?
>books for this feel?

Not to mention increased frogposting and shitposting.

do people actually ENJOY reading fiction?

jesus christ LMAo
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>frogposters
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excellent thread

not much more I can say, 10/10
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>He reads to find out what happens next

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Daily reminder to learn a new language

Tutti i giorni finché ti piace
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Fotti fuori dai
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>>8005597
>>8005606

Vos gueules!
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Italiano esto por faggottinis desu

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So what do you think it'll be about /lit/?

Will this be the novel that defines our generation?
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It's going to be a shitty wannabe Bukowski confessional
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>>8005586
No haters pls
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It's funny when you realize Tao Lin is the one grooming these. He has like four other Miras and they're all the same person.

Mira probably literally sucked Tao Lin's dick.

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