Christ, /lit/, is it just me or is being a playwright and submitting a play even more of an impenetrable circlejerk than finding a literary agent for a novel? I'm currently trying to do both and am starting to get pissed off. It seems like a lot of information about places and contests to submit plays is shrouded in paywall (almost wrote 'painwall', thanks Freud) bullshit. Are there any playwrights on /lit/ who know of good resources with contest listings? Am furiously Googling a bit this morning. There are a handful with slim listings or whose submission requirements hinge on being a member of the website with the listing on it. No bueno. Alguien ayudame por favor.
>>9223035
Try to avoid being white or male.
>>9223035
Become a memeber
plays are the most reddit form of """literature""" in existence
How did the meme "Holy . . . I want more" start on this board?
What are you talking about?
>>9223012
Someone post some (usually terrible) writing and someone responds with " Holy. I want more"
>>9223012
I have seen it happen a lot here and on Wasoru. I was just wondering what it was a reference to.
http://trilema.com/2017/zuleika-dobson-or-an-proper-love-story/
More please!
Dude kicks ass, have you read his rewrite of Disgrace by that South Africak cuck?
>>9223001
Link plox
>>9223009
http://trilema.com/2016/a-novel-once-called-disgrace/
Totally blows the blue pill variant out of the water.
Is it worth going to university with the specific goal of getting into academia, if you're in your late thirties, /lit/?
Or is the process too long and doesn't give you anything substantial at that point in life anymore?
If you haven't already published something by the age of 25 you should end your life.
If you intend to become an academic and don't have a PhD by the age of 27, it's too late.
>>9222958
Not really true about publishing in general, but becoming more true about academia.
You better be really fucking smart and start publishing amazing things right out of the gate or the only place a PhD at that age is going to land you is an adjunct position at a community college.
There is such a glut of post-docs in every discipline. Like no shit I've had professors who've published regularly after PhDing in their twenties and were still teaching as class-or-two-a-semester adjuncts at 40+, increasingly desperate for a tenure promise of any kind from anywhere.
But like anything, if you are sick talented you'll run the fucking game and write your own ticket to wherever. Goodluck.
>>9222928
if you're good all it takes is one seminal work
if you're going to be another professeur why bother
anyone can get a phd
>tfw born in a romance country
>all the academic latinisms germanicucks labor to comprehend are colloquial day-to-day speech over here
>I'm better at English for being born in one of these countries than a below-average vocabulary native speaker of the language
>>9222823
>are
>>9222823
What is the antonym of autistic?
>>9222850
He is correct, you know. His sentence structure is just weird.
He means "Germanicucks labor to comprehend the academic latinisms which in our nation ("over here") ARE day-to-day speech."
>>9222823
So what you're saying OP, is that you are socially, economically, and geographically privileged to have received a better education than most, and for this you give thanks to Circumstance, without which you may have been born a flea.
Could a noble humanity goal be the creation of more intelligent life, via robots?
>>9222738
It would be noble, maybe, but it would be a kind of suicide too.
And there might be no gratitude for it either. Perhaps that's noble.
>robots
>intelligent
>alive
Come the fuck on. Scientism is a fucking religion, you just replaced the Second Coming with robots.
>>9222849
You maybe right, a lot of these singularity fanatics have the same disgust for the human body that is ingrained deep into christianity.
I'm not religious and robots may be more realistic than jesus but I'd still go with jesus.
>finished the most revolutionary work in the history of mankind
>afraid of sharing it with anyone because I don't want my work to get stolen
>>9222724
so what if it gets stolen? are you more important than your work? die
>>9222745
definitely this
>it's in third person
>the narrator is omniscient
Do academics ever have fun? Why are the always so serious about everything? The world would be a better place if we didn't have Ivory Tower intellectuals coming up with ways to radically reform civilization. Like, just calm down.
t. inferior brainlet
>he thinks Philosophy is anything but a practice by which to immortalise yourself through history
ahahahahahahahhahaha
>>9222702
I'm a college professor (okay, just a lecturer, does that count?), and I like drinking beer and playing computer games.
is this male equivalent of YA romance novels ?
i still dont get how can it be so popular
Reading the cover is getting me hard.
No. It's the equivalent of thematic magazines. Like magazines on motorcycles, on a certain genre of music, on a given sports, etc...
>>9222688
but its a books...
God I hate reading this shit.
Me too. Austen is boring as fuck.
stop being sexist
Can anyone rec me some books by female authors that are not insanely boring? I have been disappointed with every one that I've tried.
What do ya'll think of virtue ethics?
>>9222589
I'm a Catholic so I obviously like it. Particularly fond of MacIntyre and Amscombe.
I think it's pretty good, but I'm more in favor of desert-adjusted hedonism.
I'm not sure how you can assess a world's intrinsic value if you accept virtue-based ethics, which is my biggest qualm
only ethics that is both practical and NOT utilitarianism
>he wastes his time reading out of date 'classics'
>>9222548
So you think none of the classics are out of date? Most of them are such because of their influence but have long been superseded.
>>9223112
English sucks. Try learning another language, you will improve.
Is Ulysses by James Joys a disgusting book?
joyce
>>9222524
The quality of posts on /lit/ is really something these days.
>>9222556
I've enjoyed almost every part up until this info dump at the ~270 mark. Do I need to remember all these characters? (the Ennet House residents)
otherwise I still think that Hal is my favourite character so far. The conversation chapter with him and Orin is really good.
also which cover should I get more my hardback? I'm reading an old used copy of pic related
>>9222508
*for not more
>>9222508
Gately is a main character.
Joelle is a main character.
Most other Ennet house residents can screw.
I personally find them all interesting, but if you're looking for who you should pay attention to: Gately and Joelle.
>eppie-tome
>>9222464
What mean he did by this
>>9222464
>>9222478
These second-rate memes are really sparking up the ol' neurons, friends.
>>9222545
What did he mean by this