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Any tips on how to create Evil characters. Not just antagonists, but pure unaltered Evil.
KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU XD
Yeah make em kid diddlers
>>7979203
Make him kick a puppy in the first scene
>Writing habits survey
How long do you write each day?
Where do you write?
Any publications so far?
Age?
Job?
>>7979144
I'll answer first
How long do you write each day?
I try to do 30 minutes each day, but I'll write for a couple hours if I'm on a good run
Where do you write?
Coffee shops, unfortunately. I used to write in my apartment, but since I moved into a 1/1 I get distracted too easily at home.
Any publications so far?
Yeah, two, both online.
Age?
23
Job?
Grad student, tutor, TA
>>7979154
Where and what did you get published?
Bite my knuckles worrying about not writing all day; not worrying about what to write.
I gnaw on my hand pretending to read at Starbucks, sweating profusely, worrying about not writing.
Self published in longhand. 2 mead notebooks.
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NEET
What are your favorite words that you can throw around to sound smart around your friends when you are having discussions? Words with leniency and vague application to many different topics?
Mine's "aesthetics"
>>7978870
>redpill
>cultural marxism
>SJW
>degeneracy
>>7978870
>thinks its ok to do this
>>7978870
>Virtue signalling
>Anarcho -communism
>cishetpatriarchy
>xsplaining
Recommend me /lit/-approved books on history. Both literature and non-fiction are welcome.
Tragedy and Hope by prof Carroll Quigley
>>7978787
Mein Kampf
Decline of the West
>>7978787
Arthur Conan Doyles Boer War and Crime of the Congo also really enjoyable.
Iron Kingdom (Prussia)
And everyone loves Napoleon the Great
Alright /lit/, since Orthodox Easter is coming up, I decided to have a bit of a rebirth myself by working towards a literary lifestyle. I'm not Orthodox, but whatever.
So I was thinking about eliminating most downtime from my daily routine by adding literary activities to better myself and keep away distractions. I'm also taking suggestions. Here's what I have so far:
> While eating I'll listen to interviews, readings, conferences and speeches online (DFW has quite a few of those)
> I'll read at least a poem a day (I'm not big into poetry, any suggestions for a beginner?)
> Since my French is embarrassingly basic, I'll watch/listen to a course everyday (again, taking suggestions on the best ones, I know /lit/ discusses these things from time to time)
> I'll add audiobooks to my tablet rather than my music player since it's difficult to rewind on the latter; I'll look like a sperg carrying my tablet around, but whatever
> I'll keep a dream journal near my bed at all times, just for the fun of it
> Maybe I'll make room for one short story every day, not sure yet
> Go for the "such a nerd" option and learn a new word everyday since most if not all online dictionaries offer this option on their front page
>>7978731
>rebirth
>resurrection
Whatever, you get what I mean.
>>7978731
The most notorious late riser in history, Descartes, really needs to be on this chart.
>That Kafka chart
>Implying he didn't stay up until the early hours of the morning more than a few times
Even then, his diaries are full of complaints how draining it was for him to write full-time and work full-time, I wouldn't try it if it's in a shitty meme pic
Chaucer is the greatest writer of Medieval English.
Shakespeare and Milton are the greatest writers of the English language from the Renaissance period.
Dickens is the greatest Victorian novelist.
So who is (are) the greatest modernist writer(s) of the English language? Try to be as exclusive as possible in your answer.
Why ask questions you already know the answer to?
>>7978712
I think you know the answer. One of them you've posted, the other had breasts.
>>7978716
>the other had breasts.
Never knew that about Faulkner
What do you think about the "dark enlightenment"? Are they really something new?
no one calls it the dark enlightenment anymore
Nick Land is right about everything btw
>microeconomics
lol how exactly? aside from thinking a little bit about transactions and opportunity costs
>freedom
yeah nah, only to act in a way they deem suitable
Ultimately, it's an attempt to provide an ideological basis for the alt-right movement, which, like practically all "political" movements nowadays, is more identitarian than ideological.
Take a seat anon.
In 2 words or more tell me how you get meme'd by /lit/
they told me Wallace was good, Mccarthy was bad, and the whale bits could be excised with no detriment to the text at large
i'm insecure about subvocalising, being monolingual and reading for plot
Where can I find some good hard-boiled fiction? Any recommendations / essential works or authors for a beginner to the genre? I'm new and don't know where to start...
Hammett and Chandler
I would like to know this as well. I love me some good gum shoe books with a noire flair
>>7977882
Dashiell Hammett & Raymond Chandler... got it. Anything by them in particular?
So, is this the most overrated writer of all time?
You guys can't actually like him, right? I mean, postmodernism is bad enough on its own ("oh, maaaaan, look how IRONIC we are, we're sooooo deeeeep, the mainstream just don't GET us"), but Pynchon is especially horrible. Gravity's Rainbow is just basically "10,000 overly-verbose and pretentious ways of saying absolutely nothing".
What a horrible writer. You should honestly, truly feel ashamed for showering unwanted praise on this shameless hack.
just finished mason and Dixon. it wasn't that good.
having never read pynchon, where to start? gravity's rainbow?
wanna see what the fuss is about
>>7977608
lol don't do it man. it's just a meme
What's the point of writing if the best of literature has already been written? Nothing anyone writes today or in the future will ever be better than the classics of the western canon, so why bother?
False. Just look at what the 20th century produced.
>>7976456
Typical retard weeaboo logic
>>7976459
But what has the 21st century produced?
Pound. From that time period, most handsome man alive. Boris p nice though.
Ezra, frank or boris - probably Ezra
Pound and Lispector
Who's the best female novelist?
Virginia Woolf and the Brontes.
>>7976164
Willa cather
>>7976164Me.
Does /lit/ have a mascot? If no, what do you think it should be?
We don't have a tan because we're not children. This, is /lit/.
>>7976146
>tfw mods never made this the image for the sticky
>>7976136
David Foster Wallace, you dip.
just finished this.
it wasn't that good.
a lot of random bar room banter.
seemed more like a collection of short stories.
I enjoyed it most when it stuck with one group of characters for a while.
the best chapters were when the brae read the ghastly fop.
it started off so good on the Cape.
it wasn't as funny as I heard it was.
what are pinecones other books like compared to this?
the writing was great though.
so many good books out there and you read pynchon
ugh
>>7975216
You should not have started with that one. You would of appreciated it more if you had read some of his earlier books first. Then you would have appreciated the book more once you know it's place in Pinecones canon
>>7975224
what should I be reading
