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Do Copywork.
>Before he birthed Gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson cut his writing teeth by copying The Great Gatsby and A Farewell to Arms on a typewriter while working at Time Magazine.
>Robert Louis Stevenson would take a passage from a great writer and carefully read it twice. He’d then turn over the passage and try to reproduce it from memory — word for word and punctuation mark for punctuation mark. At first the exercise was a tremendous struggle and his attempted copies were riddled with errors....
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>implying I care about a glorified children's author or le funny drug man's processes
Interesting. I had heard about Thompson, but not about Stevenson's habit.
Should be a good exercise in concentration as well.
Exactly how long is a 'passage' and a 'huge passage'?
>As long as you don't grow up in legitimately dangerous circumstances you will most likely mature at a normal healthy rate and so will never do anything intentionally mean spirited or cruel from the age of like 14 onwards
>You won't feel the need to give other people a hard time to relieve insecurities and protect an ego
>You won't judge people because it'll seem creepy (rambling about strangers like you've known them for years doesn't become not weird just...
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>>7888637
It's hard to understand what you're saying, anon. It's not very coherent.
If you're really so perplexed as to how homophobia and racism can exist in the developed world, just examine your own attitudes. You're making judgemental statements about other human beings based on their behaviour, saying they act like "petty little children," for instance.
In the same way, a poor white person who grows up around black people might find himself completely fucking perplexed and...
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Being polite is not the same as being a saint. Polite people are cruel and mean spirited in a polite way. These people are not "racist" or "homophobic" because they have learned that these things are impolite, not because they are saints ready to die for their neighbours.
>>7888637
Teach highschool and you will know people are monkeys, as photo shows. My first year teaching highschool out of college a kid spit in my water bottle and gave me mono, teaching me to never, ever leave my water unattended on my desk. These are lik 17, 18 year olds and they suck. Actually makes you want to sterilize most people.
Write a story based on this image.
He applied to art school, being inspired by surrealism, and that night tucked his watercolors carefully into his suitcase for Savannah, Georgia.
>>7888600
Sticky hands reminded him of the razor that slit his arms a few days ago. "Why can't I stop masturbating to her panties" he thought, removing the panties stapled to his head, zipping up his pants.
and the worst thing about it all wasI NEVER LEARNED TO DRAW PERSPECTIVE!
>on the road was written in 3 weeks
it shows
After years of false starts, read the history.
>>7888571
>as i lay dying was written in 6 weeks
Hey /lit/ I've read DFW and some Franzen, but never read Mark Leyner. Is it worthwhile to spend the time finding and reading his books?
He's a period piece.
>>7888585
So he's not worth reading?
>>7888568
try picking up one of his books and looking at the words printed inside. sometimes they mean something that appeals to certain people. you might be one of them
Hey lit, I'm blessed to work a chill job in which I'm free 5 out 8 hours, to do whatever I want until the shift ends. The only rule is that I'm not allowed my laptop. I'm on my phone all day, and I still want to work on my book in the meanwhile.
So my question is, what phone can I buy and which apps can I download to allow me to write while at work?
I'm already reading a book/day ad I want to just write.
>>7888562
I think there's this rad invention called pen and paper.
You literally put a pencil or a pen to paper and just move it about.
>>7888566
I have this quirk that I also like to edit my stuff and I'd rather not rewrite everything on my laptop every day, effectively losing a lot of time. It's all about using the time I got at work, not using the time I got at job and also using my free time to copy the stuff I did at work you feel me familia?
iOS and Ulysses. Write in markdown and sync with mac.
2 > 1 > 3 > 4
So far the first two were the best, then 3 was pretty good, about childhood, was comfy, then 4 isn't bad, but not as good as 3.
What about 5 and 6? Are they a return to form? Or does the decline keep going? I'm still enjoying 4, but man, 1 and 2 were outstanding and it hasn't been that good since.
5 is out in English now. It's fairly mellow and has a similar tone to 4 but I'd say it's the third best.
>>7888547
Not out in America yet. Soon.
Why do people think his book are so good? Reading his first book now, I don't get it
Am I misremembering, or does this gag from The Big Lebowski happen in one of Kafka's novels, where the protagonist goes to read some important document and finds crude drawings?
>>7888522
Now that you reminded me i actually seem to recall something like that from the trial. Don't remember the details though. Should reread and hunt for it. Already knew big lebowski is the patrician masterpiece of cinema though
>>7888543
I'm actually thinking it was The Castle...
Whenabouts do you suppose it happens in The Trial? I
bump?
How did we figure out what the Western Canon is supposed to be composed of?
>>7888399
Bloom wrote a list as a lark, it's been that way ever since.
>>7888399
Elitism and pretentiousness.
>>7888399
Organic unity.
He hasn't uploaded a podcast in a while.
What do you think he is working on instead?
American Psycho: The Musical, I guess. I've been genuinely missing him too, anon, although I'm probably the only one here who will commiserate.
LMAO THIS GUYS NAME IS BEE..I LOVE IT
Infinite Pest: A Rebuttal
"Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.
It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers.
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers—and spirit itself will stink.
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it even becometh populace.
He that writeth in blood...
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There's not much to discuss, I think it's pretty self explanatory. Basically, lazy, friendless shut-ins who do nothing but read in their life have nothing valuable to say and aren't interesting.
>>7889037
Then doesnt that invalidate everything Nietzsche said?
>>7889057
Not quite. He was personal friends with Wagner and stayed at his home pretty often. He traveled Europe, and planned to enlist in the military but couldn't because of his health. He suffered irregular physical ailments most of his life.
He also said that his most valuable thoughts came to him while he was outside, traveling or taking a walk, with one of his first recorded writings ever being a letter where he was hiking in the mountains and had to take shelter at some old person's hut when a thunderstorm...
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Now that the dust has settled and so on. . .
What were the best passages?
>>7888331
You tell me.
>>7888331
I liked the page that just has
>black "people"
printed in massive text.
mine desu
/lit/, I'm trying to do research for a book exploring the arbitrary, short, and somewhat hellish of human existance and I need help. I want to look into the lives of people or groups who have had what one would imagine to be extremely confusing and nightmarish lives. Examples would be the Roman practice of exposure, leaving newborns in the wilderness to die. I imagine that to be a particularly terrifying and short existance
>a book exploring the arbitrary, short, and somewhat hellish of human existance
No, I can't think of any literature about that. Sorry.
Pic unrelated.
>>7888328
In your situation I would, perhaps, worry less about research and focus on getting your spell-checker to catch misspellings like "existance".
Let me guess. You're going to write this on your iPhone.
The man with a shattered world.
You like to read, right, /lit/?
Why didn't you get a Great Books/Great Texts/Liberal Arts undergrad degree?
>Great Books/Great Texts degree
What the fuck do you mean?
I fell for the STEM meme. Was NEET for a year and a half after graduating. Just got a job in a totally unrelated but decent field. Can't wait to have money to(pay back my loans)spend!
>>7888259
Because I can still read all those on my own, but a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics looks way better on a resume.
What's objectively the best dictionary to use when reading a book?
inb4 kindle or any dictionary apps
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The fucking internet you nincompoop.
What's wrong with good ol' Merriam Webster?
