>age
>5 favorite writers
And other anons r8.
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Austin
Borges
Carroll
Dostoevsky
Eco
>>9275327
Austin Texas?
What do you do when you've got an idea for a scene, but no story to go with it?
Publicly humiliate yourself as punishment and whip your brain until it submits and never makes that mistake again
How do you think I got famous?
My name is Ted and you have heard of me, I assure you
Write it anyway. Ideas that stay in your head are useless,but getting anything to paper is. This way you can read it and store it away for use in some larger work.
>>9275019
Write it as a short story
>that that
>and but so
James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.dumb frogposter
>>9275188
>missing the opportunity to make Had Had John's name
ya blew it.
Does /lit/ have an opinion? Anything else I should look into?
>When you never left the campus
still trying to articulate exactly what it is about "Embassytown" that irritates me. possibly the almost complete lack of visual references.
>>9274932
I read Perdido and the one about the train about nine years ago. He's got an imagination, I'll give him that. His characters make you feel excluded, however.
So, is this the single best piece of underground satire produced in the 20th Century or not? Discuss.
Also, this copy (pic related) is shit.
>>9274883
i remember seeing this on the net when I was a teenager, maybe a decade a go or more. Is it really satire? I got the impression it was at least partly serious, if having a sense of humor about itself.
>>9274912
When I read it, I took it as quite the satire. There are people who ironically follow it as a sort of religion much like the church of the flying spaghetti monster and then there are just the plain nutters.
it was pretty out there in 1968. today, it comes off as deliberately whacky, a lot like "katie the spork of doom".
it also assumes that you're a typical sixties american robot. i hate it when people play the trickster archetype while assuming you haven't seen it a thousand times before and you might even know the jokes better than them.
Is it necessary for me to know the whole "Der Ring des Nibelungen" to fully enjoy JR? I got 40 pages in and started watching the opera on YT but it's about 10 hours in total.
>>9274880
I just asked my dad and he said you could spend your whole life trying to read the pre-reqs to a Gaddis novel. So I'd yes, it's necessary
>>9274900
>spends whole life misinterpreting his father
>>9274900
T-thanks, anon.
What's the primary philosophical theme of The Fountainhead?
>>9274750
You do you boo
>>9274750
Don't try and make people like you. Do your own thing, treat the world like it's your farm just waiting for you to plow it. Speaking of plowing, if you see a woman who seems interested in you, fck her without her consent.
>>9274750
Like Ingegneri's mediocre man. Just read that
From this year. Get to work idiots
>>9274916
Wealth of Nations, nice.
>>9274916
Hellllloooooo reddit rsrsrsrsrsrsrsrsrsrs
>>9274916
Did you steal that book?
Good introductory book for Kabbalah? Preferably academic in nature. I've read the old testament and Plato's main works too so I think I have the basics from which it was based off of down.
Thanks
>>9274712
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism-- Gershom Sholem
>>9274731
Thanks familia
>>9274731
Scholem is your man, I agree. Origins of the Kabbalah, and if you're still curious, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism and Zohar — The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah.
You'll never be a great writer unless you travel. What, you think you can do it from the bedroom or office desk? No, you must spend your youth meeting all sorts of people and doing all sorts of things. No one is going to praise the work of someone who doesn't know shit about anything.
I traveled with a bunch of my black friends to your mom's house. I'd say that counts.
>>9274889
GOT EEEEM
>>9274885
>tfw many writers says they work and die alone
>tfw vollmann is the only worthwhile travel writer
>Wallace committed suicide on September 12, 2008, at age 46. Wallace's father reported in an interview that his son had suffered from depression for more than 20 years and that antidepressant medication had allowed him to be productive.[44] When Wallace experienced severe side effects from the medication, he attempted to wean himself from his primary antidepressant, phenelzine.[45] On his doctor's advice, Wallace stopped taking the medication in June 2007,[44] then the depression returned. Wallace received other treatments, including electroconvulsive therapy. When he returned to phenelzine, he found that it had lost its effectiveness.[45] His wife kept a watchful eye on him in the following days, but on September 12, Wallace went into the garage, wrote a two-page note, and arranged part of the manuscript for The Pale King before hanging himself from a patio rafter.[51]
Should've called his book Infinite JUST
It's beginning to sadden me that we've reduced a man's life, work, and suicide into a wacky meme
it was the greatest literary career move ever you fucking brainlet
you havent even read his books.
His suicide was deliberate, meaningful and poignant in relation to his work and actually brought about the sincerity he tried and was failing to preach in life
Wouldn't make sense. "Infinite Jest" is from Shakespeare.
Anybody going to get this?
https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Gucci-Mane/dp/1501165321/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1490142067&sr=8-2&keywords=gucci+mane+book
>>9274646
No, but Gucci is still a legend
>>9274667
Indeed he is, probably the most influential figure in hip-hop.
>>9274646
I really like covers with digital text superimposed on an image with depth.
if I ever publish I'd want a cover like that.
How do I learn to write what I want and not what I think other people want?
>>9274591
Microdose DMT
>>9274591
You negotiate; that's half the art.
I'm not being an ironic meme retard and I mean this:
Write by hand or via typewriter in a room without a television while binge drinking whiskey. Meditate, drink, and pray. Only when the act of writing and prayer become indistinguishable will you create something authentic.
What are the greatest plays of all time?
Pic unrelated
>>9274563
Hamlet
Everything else is tied for last.
Waiting for Godot
Everything else is tied for first
Libation Bearers, Oedipus Rex, the Frogs, Girl from Samos, Amphytrion, Shakespeare's Complete Works, Faust, the Robbers, Doll House, some of Strindberg's, Inspector General, Boris Godunov, No Exit, I'm bored now.
Do I have to be depressed to write? You guys are all serious writers and you're all so sad. I feel like I'm too happy to be successful.
Last week I randomly experienced a few days of being happier than I'd been in years, but what you might call my "creative energies" died away almost completely. Normally I feel pretty excited, creatively, whether it's writing or fantasizing in my head or trying to make my friends laugh. Not serious creative work, but the point is that I've always felt flowing in me a "performative" energy. When I became happier, though, I changed; I became very appreciative of other people's work, but lost interest in making my own. Instead of trying to be the funniest person in the room, I was more appreciative of my friends' attempts to be funny, and I noticed they were funnier than I'd given them credit for before. What I was reading became more interesting, and less threatening, because I wasn't comparing it with what I could do. I felt less driven to write fiction, but I think the ideas that did occur to me were better, deeper, than the ideas I normally have. Whereas I'm normally attracted to absurdity and surrealism, while happy I was more attracted to realism. A few days went by, though, and I returned to my normal depressed self. So anyway my personal conclusion from this is that I think there's a connection between depression and creativity, that depression can give you a "charge," sort of possess you, but that you can be carried away by ideas that you would see as naive and mediocre if you were happier and saw them from a higher vantage point.
pain and the fear of death compel me to write, so I will write until I learn to smile at pain and inevitable nothingness.
>You guys are all serious writers
You must be new.