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What creative strategies have you considered as a means of either making your book appealing to publishing houses or in marketing and finding an audience for it?
I have recently completed the sixth and final installment of my debut memoir, and although the editing process will take another two months or so to conclude I am forced to accept that the most important thing for me in the foreseeable future is to identify publishing houses worthy of representing my book and thinking of ways to submit my work to them in a way that will leave them incapable of turning me down.
I am interested to learn what strategies others here have considered in doing so besides the traditional and at-this-point rather boring and ineffective strategy of submitting your work via formal channels (i.e. finding an agent and waiting to see if these individuals are able to correctly market a work that is not their own).
>pretentious post accompanied by cool_pepe.jpeg
Damn
>>7895504
Please articulate what you mean by pretentious.
>>7895507
Is English your first language?
Just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell. Was it any good?
>>7895464
the short answer is no
you tell me, faggo
>>7895464
George Orwell was a communist and the book was protesting authoritarianism as a whole, with a focus on fascism and Stalinism. Don't believe anyone who tells you Orwell was anti-communist.
Good books about love, lost love or longing for love? Something bittersweet, not all negative please.
The Dead by Joyce fits all of those f a m
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion
>>7895426
Looking specifically for a novel, and I've read Joyce, thanks though.
Philosophy pleb here.
How come you can't get an ought from an is?
And if that is the case and is widely accepted how can anyone argue for an objective morality if this is the case?
>>7895379
>how can anyone argue for an objective morality
>objective
yes, you are a pleb
>>7895379
People who argue for objective moralities don't care about the fact that their fundamental moral principle can't be reached using reason.
literally "but muh feelings"
>>7895382
Eh?
Whats the point in the starting to write if the first thing I write is destined to be shit?
writing is only truly done in rewriting
or something some bitch fuck said once lol
it's better for both us and you to just give up before starting.
>>7895340
The better question is why are you afraid of being shit?
New to /lit/
Is this a good book? I am thinking of ordering it on Amazon.
>>7895331
>>>catalog
>>7895331
Absolutely not
I understand the first two Laws, and the "Zeroth Law," but why did the third Law exist? Why should robots be forced to protect their existence as long as it doesn't endanger or conflict with the orders of a human?
because if they gain intelligence, sentience and emotion then they should be granted the rights of humans. ROBOT MARRIAGE IS GOING TO BE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE OF THE NEXT GENERATION.
Because you don't want your shit to break.
Because the worth of a robot is greater than the majority of simple tasks a robot would theoretically be asked to accomplish. A robot may not understand this and complete a low-priority order regardless of a danger to itself.
Telling a robot to go from point A to point B might result in it wading through a swamp that ruins it, but the robot - without the third law - would be programmed to follow all orders without considering that maybe the human might decide the order wasn't worth it after realizing what it would do to the robot
Recommended books on political theory?
Currently, I'm interested in learning more about right wing concepts/ideas, but anything that's suggested will go on my reading list.
Pic is the first thing on my reading list.
https://archive.org/stream/populargovernme00maingoog#page/n254/mode/2up
H.S. Maine - Four Essays on Popular Government
It's a history of the evolution of the various forms of government that are called Democracies.
here you go you great plonker
what is the literature equivalent to black twitter?
>>7895181
Something rather incoherent that has a theme tieing it together.
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.
The Sound and the Fury
it is literature. all written word is
>The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. "Vámonos, amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.
People defend this hack?
He's not a genius but I still read it twice.
Cash is alright, I liked the feel of his prose, but he's not especially a genius or anything
>>7895158
He's the James Joyce of the west
>Hey, Baby, I'm going to make your fantods howl all night long
Is that a dog or one of his victims?
>>7895077
can someone please fucking explain why he wore a bandana
who's /tabletreader/ here?
shit is so convenient, i just threw out my bookcase because i don't need it anymore, all my books are in one spot
>>7895063
inb4 "but I like to feel da pages!" go suck a dick you humongous feminine faggot
they even have manga
i mean if you still use paper at this point it's like you're using a tape player when you could use high quality wav files for music instead
>>7895063
which model
What are the best modern books for writing fiction? Pic may or may not be related.
>>7895046
I don't hate King but I think his writing advice in that is pretty bad. I'll take Vonnegut's rules as a framework over that one any day: https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/04/03/kurt-vonnegut-on-writing-stories/
the art of dramatic writing - lajos egri
the breakout novelist - donald maass
shakespeare for screenwriters - evenson
Monkeys with Typewriters - Scarlet Thomas
Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose.
Hey guys so I'm doing a presentation on existentialism, absurdism, and postmodernism and its i influence on popular media. And I hope we could have a good discussion about it?
>>7895010
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>>7895010
sounds a little broad op
Seinfeld is pretty postmodern desu.
What did you guys think of this book?
Are the philosphical speculations of any worth?
Does it perhaps correspond a bit to anarchism ( for those who have also read goldman, bakunin, proudhon etc) cause it feels like it would provoke thougts of materialism etc.
This all being said by someone who is thinking about buying it and really doesn’t know anything about it.
I despise that book and anarchism so if you like the latter it's possible that you'd like the former.
It's to motorcycle maintenance what Moby Dick is to whale biology.
If you're looking for the Zen, it's like reading trough the entire phone book in order to find one name.
>>7894996
Yeah I’m just 20 years old and am in sort a rebellious face where I kinda want to just live that starving artist lifestyle not caring about possessions etc - but will probably end up a corporate lawyer though - I just really wana enjoy this face while it lasts and try make the most of it you know
