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a story where nothing happens 2017-05-17 10:00:13 Post No.9519394
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a story where nothing happens
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2017-05-17 10:00:13
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I have been writing some short stories with a fairly original premise recently and I thought you might find it interesting. For reasons that will become clear I can't tell anyone I know IRL about it, so I would like to tell 4chan instead.
Each short story takes place in the same location with the same cast of characters. The stories take place in a bar, and centre around the bartender, who I have deliberately given zero personality - he is a selfinsert for the reader.
Nothing really happens in any of the stories, the bartender just cleans the bar, serves drinks to customers, that kind of thing. The point of the stories is the characters who come to the bar and the conversations they have with the bartender and each other.
The characters are either real people I know IRL transposed into the world, fictional people I have imagnied, or a mix of the two. The conversations are split pretty evenly between real conversations I have overheard and conversations I have invented
Each story takes place over a single day, and my intention is that the reader should read one a day too, syncing his weekly routine to that of the storyworld's. The regulars have varying schedules the reader will learn to anticipate. The hope is that the stories form a parallel social life for the reader and take place almost in real time. For example, a reader might think to themselves: "Man, I can't wait until Friday's story - Mark said he'd come to the bar then and tell us how his date with Alice went," or: "I hope Ben is okay, he hasn't been to the bar for weeks", etc etc.
I am enjoying writing and reading back my stories, but because so much of it is just copied from my real conversations with people and because lots of the characters are real people (I even make an appearance myself as a minor side character), if I show it to anybody I know I think they will just call me a plagiariser or get offended by it.
So, I am curious to know - what do you think of the concept?
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Like it. Reminds me of Horace and Pete. Post one op! At least the incipit!
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I feel very selfconscious about sharing them but I am also very curious to find out if anyone else has the same desire for uninteresting but 'comfy' reading i do, so here is today's story:
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRKCEfMe5iPvzru-47FE0lcTRJIWsqmuOULR-OuNcHA/edit?usp=sharing
I really hope you like it - I'm quite nervous about what others think actually
This one is only 7 pages long, but if you don't want to read about the daily chores then the bar's business hours start just before page 3. And the bar gets busier just before page 5 if even that is too much.
And for the *really* lazy, here is a screenshot of just a couple of paragraphs.
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>>9519422
Op, now I can't say I don't like it even I do dislike it. Gonna read it and let you know!
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Hello, lit
Can you please help me to answer the stupid graduation yearbook question - Which fictional character do you most relate to and why? I want somebody from a book and I want it to be a meme answer. I was thinking either Lenin, Moby Dick or Dewey Gland. I also thought of answering sincerely - George from Who´s afraid of Virginia Woolf but i feel like I shouldn´t be answering seriously to a meme question. Thanks for the help in advance
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Hitler
Hitler
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>>9519306
Write Jesus hehehe
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I was thinking Kurtz
Also, what is the name of that made up character a guy on lit kept referencing - something Berrycone
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>his book doesn't even have a magic system!
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/sffg/
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What the fuck is a magic system
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>>9519179
Autists making complicated RPG mechanics to explain anything fantastical. The main reason fantasy books are so cancerous now.
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Has anyone here tried to create a new verse form?
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>>9519068
In English, there's not much room for flexibility in creating new verse forms.
There's already the standard iambs, trochees, dactyls, anapaests, then the other obscure three-stressed feet not much of anyone cares about because if you repeat them you could just as well read them as alternating two-stressed and/or the more common three-stressed feet (anapaests and dactyls) feet most of the time.
So, anyway, you could put these in whatever intentional mixture you want, but it'll probably be too difficult to do consistently for many poems; also there's already quite a repertoire of poems/poets already who mixed dactyls with iambs or whatever and did whatever clever things they wanted with the meter.
Hopkins's sprung rhythm and Coleridge's and other's accentual rhythm are also already taken; and of course free verse has already been taken.
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>>9519148
verse form != metre tho, sonnet is a verse form but not a metre
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I have. It's verse form in free verse and not blankverse that has footnotes and prayers and a vilenelle here and there are also crown of sonnets from all the accidental sonnets and I call it the Big Mac.
Any good Youtube channels for beginner Buddhists?
Currently reading Buddhism for Dummies. Am I wasting my time?
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>youtube
>buddhism for dummies
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>>9519050
That's probably fine for a beginner, yeah. I don't know about youtube channels, but What The Buddha Taught is a good introductory book on Buddhist beliefs.
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>>9519050
suicide is a much faster route to the cessation of suffering
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What's a good research question for an essay on Soren Kierkegaard? Any help is appreciated
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Did he study the Bible and reach his ideas or did he philosophically built them up and tried to place them alongside the Bible?
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>>9519034
Was Kierkegaard secretly a homosexual? Was that his reason for leaving Regine?
What would Kierkegaard think of the modern LGBT movement in light of his newly discovered homosexuality and possible gender dysphoria?
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Would Kierkegaard's concept of "knights of faith" change if he were suddenly dropped into the world circa 2017?
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Which book should I bring to a hypothetical Book Burning event? 2017-05-17 07:21:51 Post No.9518937
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Which book should I bring to a hypothetical Book Burning event?
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Please help, I wouldn't want to make a faux-pas and embarrass myself in front of comrades.
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>>9518937
Start with the greeks
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>>9518940
>fpbp
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>>9518937
The Cuckoldry of the West, by Richard B. Spencer.
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How do I become more interested in reading? Every time I pick up a book it feels like such a huge chore to get through.
Please help me lit, I want to be smart like you...
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>>9518882
get a kindle, commit to reading 5%/day of whatever the book is. stop browsing the internet and refreshing catalogue on 4chan. it fries yer head
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Pick a book you like the sound of and commit to reading at minimum one page a day and when you complete one page consider that a success and go about your day.
Here comes the important bit: There will be times you don't want to stop at the end of the page, you'll want to keep going because you find yourself becoming interested in the writing. You're no longer doing a chore because you've already done your one page, anything beyond that, well, that's enjoyment.
If you want to speed up the process commit to reading five pages a day spread throughout the day. So just one page every three or so hours.
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He was literally right about everything
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What was his opinion?
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>>9518413
After ripping off Guattari.
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>>9518424
"ugh psychoanalysis suuuuuuck so much"
-Gilles Deleuze
If you are, or were a girl, would you date this boy in high school?
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You're gay as FUCK
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>implying we're not all gay titled landed British public school boys
>implying he's not still french
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>>9518337
Qu'impliques-tu ?
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What books should every English major undergrad have read?
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Bible
Ulysses
Sound and the fury
Canterbury tales
Beowulf
Scarlet letter/Moby dick
The cantos
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>>9518270
>Ulysses
even professors dont know wtf is going on it it
What are some good self help books? It's hard to distinguish what's really good versus what's bullshit, I can't trust Amazon reviews blindly
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Bonobo Byronism
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See You At The Top was pretty good.
Whether you believe in it or not I got a lot of motivation to fix my shit just from reading his anecdotes.
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The Meditations.
Any good book that can teach me focus, discipline, dedication, work ethic?
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Nothing can really teach you it, you have to slowly get into the habit of being more and more dedicated and disciplined.
You can try Meditations by Marcus Aurelius or An Iron will by Orson Swett Marden
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>>9517882
Find a mentor.
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No m8, that is not how it works.
Why do normies always believe that reading some book will fix your shit?
Some of the best literature / poetry on this topic? Maybe even some philosophy?
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>>9517869
Almost everything is about love.
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>>9517870
Because of this I'm asking something specific.
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>>9517873
What kind of love?
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hey /lit/, i'm fairly new to this board and reading in general. I just finished Things Fall Apart and currently going through Storm of Steel.
I was wondering if you had any suggestions as to what i should read next. Or even books you found yourself enjoying quite a bit when you started out reading.
>inb4 Infinite Jest
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>>9517794
Slaughterhouse 5
Stoner (Also Augustus)
Lolita
These are a couple of books that I've enjoyed recently.
Beware if you are new. If you get replies, at least one will be about shitting on your reading choices. There will be plenty more shitting on the reading choices of other. Honest and helpful insight is not uncommon here, but is not abundant.
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>>9517803
I was actually recommended Stoner by someone else. I've read Slaughterhouse 5 and I actually did try to give Lolita a shot, but it felt way too dense. I'll definitely give it another shot when I'm a better reader.
And i know people will shit on what I read. I mean, it's 4chan after all. I'm just trying to get a feel for possible reading options and about the board culture. Thanks though.
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>>9517818
Stoner is a great book. He's a real person.
Augustus is similar. But it's told in letters.