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How's that novel you've been working on?
Good, thanks. I've got all the outlining done and I've made a solid start on the actual writing. The prose is a poetic mess so far so I'll have a lot of fun sorting it out. How's yours?
i wish i were a cute girl's dog i'd lick her in inappropriate places while we were alone together until she relented
>>7828278
You post all over R9K. You use that photo everywhere.
I just got my income check and I want to spend a chunk on books. I haven't written for pleasure in 3 years but in my defense I just graduated form college with a bachelors in Computer Science and I am a single mother of a 2 and 3 year old. I use to read books by rebellious men, and even though I still see myself as a rebel my hearts not into it anymore. I am looking for some fiction that is well written and believable. Something with a female lead? Please nothing patronizing. I'm not into author who pander to hormonal teens and lonely women. I'm a 30 year old recovering alcohol/drug abuser woman; not a dopey, head-in-the-sky, boys-are-pretty prepubescent.
Any recommendation?
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus.
I'm not joking, or meming btw. It's a serious book about a woman and a man named Dick.
Also Djuna Barnes.
>>7827028
>The Journals of Anais Nin
Yes I know you asked for fiction. Too bad.
Dont buy books, you are a single mother. They have these great things now called libraries. The best part is they are free!
The Camomile Lawn. Sat during WW2 in Britain, non-linear, and it shows the lives of the people living in the Southwest.
>>7825621
Either Knausgårds Struggle or The Cossacks by Tolstoy.
Honorable mention to Anne Karenina, White Noise, and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
>>7825621
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
The memoirs of a man who has lived his entire life on Gournsey. Great read.
>google that chick
>doesnt look like that in any other picture
wew
Explain why he isn't the best writer the world has ever seen
>>7825393
>implying I can prove a negative
nice meme
>>7825393
never wrote a single novel
/thread
Every story is a list of names. He's shit.
I'll be going away for a while...
>>7824752
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>7824752
Pic related
>>7824752
if I had the courage I would have taken all of you with me.
When was poetry at the height of its popularity?
probably before it existed
>>7829932
The Greeks
>>7829932
before the written word.
i think the last thread is gone so here
post your poetry
title: c:/user/downloads
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (whole album)
Kendrik Lamar - Good Kid M A.A D.city
Albert Camus (translated by Stuart Gilbert)-The Stranger-Vintage.pdf
Cough syrup - Young giant.mp3
Hentaiporncomics.MS.exe
Jenniferlawrence-nude354.jpg
Jenniferlawrence-nude355.jpg
Jenniferlawrence-nude356.jpg
JimMorrisonGreatestHits40.zip
Kaleidoscope-TangerineDream(1967)(@224).torrent
kurtvonnegutcollections.rar
Little book of String Theory.PDF
Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb.mp3
Sadgreenfrog.jpg
Sasha Grey - The Girlfriend experience.avi
SunnyLeone fucked on a table.mp4
ThatfeelwhenNoGirlfriend.gif
TheFrontBottoms-all3albums.zip
[Bret_Easton_Ellis]_American_Psycho.PDF
[Bret_Easton_Ellis]_The_Rules_of_Attraction.pdf
[Chuck_Palahniuk]_Fightclub.PDF
[Ellis_Bret_Easton]_Lunar_Park.PDF
[Ellis_Bret_Easton]_Less_Than_Zero.PDF
[Ellis_Bret_Easton]_Glamorama.PDF
xvideos.fuhd577436.mp4
xvideos.fh566fh577.mp4
The stench of piss soaks the walls,
the s's broken up on every corner,
torn and twisted beyond recognition
empty cups lined up against the surface
of a desk that once had legs.
Three bottles roll among the breeze
that blows through six glassless windows.
Swollen books tower below the crack on the ceiling.
Drop, drop, drops tick tick tick
R I
O C
P K
S
a wet hole through the paper
wroingdoing words wasted on water
that no roots fed,
that no leaves grew,
that manages somehow to stench of piss and broken bottles
blowing eerie whistlings through the rubble
among which you can see a little arm
and you pray,
you pray that's just a doll under debris.
You move the bricks and dig in
and the blood stains your fingers.
You pick up the purple, swollen body of a baby,
swollen like books, broken like bricks,
purple like curtains in postmodern tales,
and you cry,
(first a sob, then a heaving, then a whimper,
then the tears and the wail and the limpness of knees)
because this,
all this destruction
was not really necessary.
This used to be a house.
Now, it isn't.
>>7828497
and he strikes again
Can someone please read my short story and tell me what you think? Don't mind the grammar, I haven't gone back to edit it yet. I'm looking for critique based on the story and content. Thank you guys.
Here's the link: https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/65520205-a-misguided-arbitration
Nhhhhh
I'm about to go to work so unfortunately don't have time to read and critique your work, but I can tell you that the cover is shit - I really don't like the font and the colour, it looks like it's been done on Paint. I'd re-consider that if I were you.
>>7827656
>writing about an author when you're not published and can barely write a sentence without mistakes in it
Bro...
That aside, using a sort of quasi-second person perspective in the opening paragraph is a questionable choice. It's a clumsy rhetorical device. There's a tense change or two in the second paragraph.
>would of
Ugh. I'm not reading any more of this, life's too short and I can tell this is going to be bad and a waste of time. My apologies. Best of luck, OP. Next time edit it yourself before you ask other peoples' opinions.
Which of the Parts was your favorite?
>>7826868
What is supposed to happen in this book? Single chapters are 5 hours long like why am I still reading?
Favorite part remains to be when Pelletier and Espinoza kick the shit out of a foreign cabbie, compare it to a three-way, and then steal his taxi.
>>7826946
>parts = chapters
ayyyy
>>7826868
>Which of the Parts was your favorite?
anally and vaginally raped
Greentext the plot of that novel you've been working on and r8 others /lit/.
>>7817687
>be president of the united states
>be cocaine addict
>in moment of delirium, jump off a tall building
>lose job and admitted to an asylum
>get out of asylum after few months
>get kidnapped by chinese government
>become leader of china
>defeat capitalism and the world is now communist
>>7817687
>a cuck kills his bull by mistake
>the bull reincarnate as the dog of the cuck
>the are forced in a homo-incest- bestiality relation
>hilarity ensures
part a
>family lives in backwood country town on isolated farm
>weird n wacky stuff happens
>one day they all get brutally murdered except for young daughter
part b
>detective returns to hometown to investigate said murder
>doesn't find shit
>loses his mind over it
part c
>young daughter now in mental institution 15 years later
>suppressed memories n shit
>returns to home town eventually, dunno what happens after that
desu i've not put much thought into what happens after what i've currently written. generally i only write down ideas for the next chapter and that's it. i'm finding part b to be a little cliche, could use some new ideas for it
>>7817701
Overly silly, would be a good comedy (obviously)
>>7817705
2 many meme
ITT: shit plebs, dilletantes and pseudo-intellectuals say
>Heidegger was a Nazi and Nazis were terribad therefore we shouldn't read or try to understand his philosophy
>Judge Holden is the devil
>The chapters about cetology, the color white, ship rigging &c. in Moby Dick were superfluous and boring
>Pynchon is just the literary equivalent of *~-lolsorandum-~*
>Wittgenstein's tractatus is the end of philosophy
>Modern art is shit
>I didn't like Catcher in the Rye because I didn't like Holden as a character
>One must imagine Sisyphus happy
>The state of literature today is awful compared to the state of literature in the past
>I have a problem with the way people use the word 'literally' nowadays
Well yeah people who reference the myth of sisyphus in response to the suicidal are idiots
Its such an utterly void argument
Why didnt Camus give up everything and go live on a hillside to prove his point then?
>>7829180
>>Heidegger was a Nazi and Nazis were terribad therefore we shouldn't read or try to understand his philosophy
That's a prime example of ad hominem, so anyone who says that is an idiot
>Wittgenstein's tractatus is the end of philosophy
wittgenstein disregarded the tractatus later on in life. philosophical investigations is much better
the rest of the statements boil down to subjective taste. we can speak about them from the perspective of aesthetics, but likes and dislikes are a personal preference.
so, i agree with most of what you say.
>Im a relativist
What was your favorite book when you were a teen?
Ulysses
>>7827016
The Cirque DU Freak novels were actually my favourites when I was 13.
>>7827019
sigh i remember being 13
Is there a such thing as science fiction with beautiful prose?
philip k dick has his prose moments. most of them in his realist novels though.
>>7826502
First, I just installed a text-only browser because of you.
Second, ... I want to think so, but all the best ones I can think of I've only read in translation. Bradbury, maybe? Wolfe?
>>7826536
>I just installed a text-only browser because of you.
I don't understand
Is it any good?
>>7825413
Masterpiece
>>7825430
Really? I picked it up at a garage sale the other day lol, I might read it then.
My favourite book so far. It was even better than I expected.
>It is one of "those days" in which you feel strange and "low".
>You can't read, you can't write, yet you feel the drive, just not the energy.
>The hours pass, and the guilt, and the frustration, indicating that you are wasting the day, consume you.
How do you deal with this situation, if you experience it, obviously.
i do pee pee xD
>It is one of "those lives"
>>7828250
Reading Pierre by Melville really helped me snap out of my delusion that you had to work yourself to the bone every day (which ironically was instilled in me by reading Moby Dick about two years earlier). I don't know. I just came to accept that some days I won't be "on", but that I've been doing what I do long enough to know that I'm not going to stop doing it just because I have a bad day.
I believe this process is referred to as "growing up".
