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The hardest part about writing to me is coming up with names. Sci-fi/Fantasy isn't so hard because you can call your characters whatever the fuckwit you want. But when it comes to modern day, real world stuff, for the life of me, I can't name the characters in my stories for shit. I went as far as googling the most popular names over the last few decades, and still can't pick names that I like.
Anyone else have an issue with this or am I just being way to high spectrum for my own good? How does /lit/ choose names?
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Who gives a shit, call em whatever sounds nice and memorable
Percival Dunhill
Sidney Chambers
Both Copleton
Anton Ambrose
Ronald Drumpf
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I only have trouble with male names.
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I have trouble avoiding cliches when it comes to names that have a significant meaning. No matter what it just sounds like a fake name. My novel's protagonist name is Justin Everyman and it's the only subtle name I have been able to come up with. Please help.
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When you realise it is in fact all about hard work... 2017-03-11 06:24:33 Post No.9221680
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When you realise it is in fact all about hard work...
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>>9221680
And nothing else matters. The destruction of this world is but an after thought to the sentient--and should be so.
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>>9221686
>The destruction of this world is but an after thought to the sentient--and should be so.
What did he mean by this?
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Writing is entirely talent-based.
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I'm trying to write a book, but I have a problem. Maybe /lit/ can help? It's a fantasy book set in the modern day. I need a reason why an Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus would be taken to the United States to study, since I know they're not normally moved around like that anymore.
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Ultra rich dude who fucks little boys funded the move on the qt. He believes the sarcophagus to hold the remains of a little boy.
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>>9221638
To be used as a press campaign to fund archaeology projects.
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>>9221638
A new type of machine based at a US university will be able to shed new light on etc etc
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The aesthetic juxtaposition of form is crucial to the intellectual formation of valid cultural ideas from an ontological perspective.
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>>9221629
Knee-chee?
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>>9221634
Nope. Moi originale
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>>9221629
All the depth of a sandbox with none of the fun.
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is not any inherent vice in man the planned obsolescence of god?
also, say i have a vessel of holy water, and a vessel of ordinary water, i pour a drop of this sanctified liquid into the ordinary vessel, will this ordinary water be rendered holy? if so, could i pour this holy vessel into the ocean, would it render the ocean holy water, if even for an instant before any sort of sinful befoulment?
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what a shame no one has any thoughts on this.
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I poured some of my holy water in your moms butthole last night
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>>9221765
that's a thought i guess.
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How can you write a description of heaven that wouldnt completely fall short. Of course every description would fall short, but I'm failing to convey a description of a 'heavenly area' as coming off as such, or at least something that can pass.
Please help? Really I just need suggestions of how heaven would feel to all senses other than the eyes. To give some background, the MC is just being born and you could say he's in the womb but while in the womb he can 'hear' heaven in the form of appealing, lyrical singing that sort of matches what he would want to hear anyway even though he doesn't firstly have any sort of experience with music. He feels heaven in that it's 'warm,' Or at least by its light he feels as though the embryonic fluid surrounding him is cozier than not (known more by the 'than not' when he comes to reality).
It's not so much a literal heaven to a baby in the womb, but something a bit more supernatural where the MC is a full grown 'thing' experiencing a heaven like feeling in his surroundings in his birthing.
But above all, how do I write what heaven is like?
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Read the Bible
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Imagine you are sat on a ball, a warm ball. Your eyes are closed, and somewhere a calming hum ruminates in the air, in you and in the ball. Imagine the weightlessness of your being. You are just heavier than the air, and much lighter than the ball, the warm ball.
Imagine as the warm ball vibrates it slowly enters your ass and begins ragdolling you as 'Heaven' by Bryan Adams fades in from afar. Everything is slow in time, and your peepee ejaculates for a million years, and the warm ball smiles while it's deep in your ass, almost whispering into your very heart and mind...
"I'm finding it hard to believe... We're in heaven."
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>>9221532
Imagine nothing, yeah it's like that
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What are good Political journals?
Alternatively: what are good literary journals?
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>>9221519
Bump
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>>9221519
This kind of question really depends on where you land on the ideological spectrum.
I'm a big fan of Jacobin, October and Ctheory.
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>>9221519
radix journal
I have read The 48 laws of power, The secrets of the millionaire mind and i just read Rich dad poor dad.
What is the next one?
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>>9221460
now you go out and follow those precepts, anon.
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>>9221463
trying to
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the prince
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Anyone else on /lit/ reading it?
I want some unironic discussion on it. I actually think it's legitimately good.
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>>9221456
The next Knausgård?
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>>9221456
>that cover
Meta af
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how'd she take a picture of herself holding the book when the cover is already a picture of her holding a book with the same cover?
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I''m thinking of wearing a bandanna everywhere a law DFW 2017-03-11 05:05:28 Post No.9221440
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I''m thinking of wearing a bandanna everywhere a law DFW
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Too edgy?
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>>9221440
>a law
kek
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*Allah
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I wear a bandana everyday, to every public place except church. It's not edgy at all.
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Even though the books I read now I think are better, I miss the culture of YA. I was lucky enough to be an early teenager at the height of the Harry Potter craze and right afterwards, so the buzz around various YA series was high. I'd go to midnight sales, book signings, actively anticipate upcoming books, share and talk about books with people at my school. I definitely enjoyed reading them more than now; I have to be conscious now, set aside time, whereas then it was natural.
Maybe I'm just nostalgic for that particular moment in my life. But I kind of feel sad that it's impossible to recapture it.
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i feel sad that your life has been so uneventful that you're nostalgic for reading harry potter
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>>9221382
I miss borders
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I also long for a time when I could pursue an interest I enjoyed within a community of similarly inclined people where I didn't have to feel self-conscious of everything I did
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>She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night.
Can someone tell me what colors he's talking about? What is careless sea foam? What is snow falling on a moonlit night? Does that mean it's not white because you can't see the snow because it's midnight?
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I feel like we're just talking about white slightly brighter white, to be honest.
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probably ikuchan white
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>>9221337
In moonlight snow looks almost blue.
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Why are prosefags so utterly unbearable?
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they're a lesser kind
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>>9221208
Because they think they're getting a deeper understanding of the work than plotfags, when really they're forgetting analysis of prose is only a tool towards being able to analyse the actual phenomenological experience of the text in all its imminence.
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Newb at everything here. What is meant by prose fag? I may be one and want to know the symptoms.
Look how far that pellet went into Naked Lunch!
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cute! he looks like my (late) grandfather <3
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Where should I start with Henry David Thoreau?
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>>9221037
civil disobedience, then walden
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>>9221054
I read Walden then Civil Disobedience, and I would recommend Civil Disobedience first as well. Just be sure Walden has good footnotes if you're not too familiar with Greek and Vedic mythology, as he references it a lot.
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>>9221054
thank you anon.