Why do novelists have middle names?
Is it autism?
My first and last name are generic as fuck. I think I might stand out.
i don't even have a middle name
>>9958030
Google your name. If any even-slightly famous figure has your name, you'd be better off adding your middle name to any public work to avoid confusion (or minimize it).
>>9958030
studies have revealed that persons who use a middle name appear smarter. some people might use it because of a smarter appearance then
http://www.businessinsider.com/middle-initials-make-you-look-smarter-2014-5?IR=T
>write on your book/novel/novella/short story
>Everythings going well
>Sex scene comes up
>Write through it with your beautiful descriptive prose
>Images in your head becomes a little bit too real
>Have to stop and fap
a-anyone else?
I don't tend to include sex scenes. A good one doesn't add all that much to an otherwise good novel, but a bad one will completely fuck it up.
What does /lit/ think of Me and Earl and The Dying Girl?
Judging this book strictly by its cover, I'd say its a shitty piece of genre fiction about le mild mannered MC, le wacky chad, and le love interest, but the TWIST is that the love interest is dyyyiiing!!!!
>>9958021
This is LITERALLY it. It was a nice movie, and I liked the actor who played Earl and the Brian Eno ending.
The title really rolls off the tongue doesn't it
On my first day of intro to philosophy we were assigned to read and discuss DFW's Fish in Water commencement speech.
Is this why he is so popular here? For some reason I assumed he became a meme through some organic process, instead of him being a forced meme by one of our most powerful institutions.
Also, first two days of class, and on both the professor has joked about the stupidity of Trump.
How could he joke about Trump at a time like this. Shame!
>I am schocked, why, scandalized, even, that men of learning might dare to impugn the name of our great President! What manner of country be this where the Executive Office is not held in utmost reverence by all its Christian CItizenry?
>thinking /lit/ is full of autodidacts and free thinkers
As you journey through your liberal arts education, you will come to the unfortunate conclusion that the only unique posts on /lit almost exclusively come from /pol/tards. Everything else is rehashed shit they learned in college
Press F
>>9957945
F.
Why does /lit/ love Fantasy Douglas Adams so much while hating Real Douglas Adams?
I get not wanting them published, and not wanting some shithead descendant doing a Christopher Tolkien/ Herbert thing on them.
But its a shame to destroy something that may be of interest to future writers and biographers. Could have just been kept in an achieve hat the family give specific access to.
>Unable to deal with his son's demands, Grahame wrote... 'Have you heard about the Toad? He was never taken prisoner by brigands at all. It was all a low trick of his...' And in another letter: 'My dearest Mouse, I am very glad to hear you have got rid of your cold and have been able to sail your boat in the pond. Now I dare say, you will want to hear something more of the sad misadventures of Mr Toad...'
>As Gauger points out, 'Instead of a personal response to his son, saying, "Yes, we'll come soon," Grahame just launches right into the Toad narratives without answering the emotional needs of the child.'
>Alastair's heartbreaking letters to his father reveal his anguish. In one, he wrote... 'Can you come down here? Please do.' And: 'What do you mean by not coming down for the weekend to pick a bone with me?' But Grahame ignored his needs, writing: 'No doubt you have met some of the animals and have read about Toad's adventures since he was dragged off to the prison by the constable...'
>Alastair's existence was increasingly miserable and solitary. On May 7, 1920, after dining in college, he lay face down on a railway track leading across Oxford's Port Meadow and was decapitated by a train.
Was it autism?
>>9957916
No it wasn't autism, not everything is autism, he was most likely just a cold person.
>>9958158
But the thing is, if he was just a cold person, I don't think he'd put in the effort to write so much about Toad. It feels like he was genuinely trying to put in the effort, but could only do so in the most bizarre way possible.
>>9957916
In Grahame s defense the kid does sound like a bit of a fag.
Who is the best philosopher and why is it Ludwig Wittgenstein?
The Wittgensteins were an evil family.
>>9957912
Were they? Well I guess they redeemed themselves, since Wittgenstein's siblings kept killing themselves lol.
>>9957898
Reminder that Wittgenstein bullied Hitler in school
>hanging out with my roommates group of friends in our apartment
>they start talking about some new harry potter books that are supposed to come out
>he brings up that I've read Moby Dick
>"Is that book as good as they say Anon? I thought it would be boring like every other old book people talk about."
How do we alleviate the fears of these people who hear how "difficult" certain books are so they avoid the medium altogether?
Pic related is the only way
>>9957887
He read something with "dick" in it. Whatta fag.
Congratulations, Anon, you intellectual titan, Top Notch. Great work. You have successfully elevated yourself above your peers. May I join you in a deep belly laugh as we point our self-congratulatory fingers at the serfs? Oh, God, no, there's a spot in the center of your back that you haven't managed to pat yet, would you like me to pat it for you?
It's funny how you pseud low IQ faggots see writing fiction as some completely assembly line commoditised activity.
>Which degree do I need to be a writer?
>How many years of experience do I need to be a writer?
>Will learning languages make me a better writer?
NEWSFLASH faggots, part of the beauty of art and therefore fiction writing is that there is no system to create great art. As soon as you follow what you perceive to be "the system" you'll create forgettable and boring shit. I guess "the system" today is to go to an ivy league university or Oxbridge and then write boring as fuck half assed barely disguised memoirs that are unbelievably faggy (if the writer is a male; if not then it is typical of women or non whites).
A lot of you also don't realise that all theory in humanities academia is worthless shit. If you don't find everything in this post 100 % obviously true then you are either under 18 or have a very low IQ. For you underagedb&s, start asking questions.
>>9957877
>NEWSFLASH faggots, part of the beauty of art and therefore fiction writing is that there is no system to create great art.
This is the reason art quality has decreased. In the past people spent countless hours perfecting their technique (usually under a master). Once they were themselves master's of the standard techniques they could experiment and create new interesting art.
You think Picasso immediately started painting cubist masterpiece? No he first mastered traditional portrait/landscape/etc. painting.
The poets that wrote great free verse first mastered writing metered poems.
Implying that there isn't a base to create *good* art is ridiculous.
>>9957919
fpbp
OP is a retard.
>>9957919
if Picasso can make goog paintings of horses or people or fruit and shit, then i can say this cubist awful experimentation is good or at least have merit.
in the other hand, if you Paint cubist shit just because you want to Paint cubist shit, with no normal things in it, then you are a shit artist and even a bad person pretentiuous garbage.
What are you guys's thoughts on this book? I know 4chan is generally contrarian by principle, so i'm curious so see what criticisms you guys could conjure up for this
Of course appreciation of this masterpiece is also welcome
>>9957841
This book is generally loved here, we're not /mu/.
>>9957841
>I know 4chan is generally contrarian by principle
/lit/ is one of the reasons this book is popular rn
>>9957841
excellent book, made me cry, but the author is a normie fuck
One thing i am not sure. So after death we come back to life as another person, right? But how this journey exactly looks? So i am dead, rotting under ground, my flesh eaten by maggots, atoms constituting me are sprayed throughout the earth. But how do i (lets say those atoms, particles) get from earth to sperm of my father?
>implying you are your body
I know this is bait though
Spoiler: Man has naively separated himself from nature. You are the universe.
>>9957811
So what am I then?
How did he do /lit/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP3z9h2vRQI
>>9957771
>listen to a book
>world war z
Uhhhhhh
I dislike his phenotype
>>9957771
If you see his interview on the h3h3 podcast his irl persona is way different to his youtube persona. I find it hard to hate people like RWJ and pewdiepie once you realise it's all an act to pander to the highest amount of goys possible.
Just wanted to throw that out there
Why haven't the Mormons produced a Chaucer?
>>9957745
Because there fucking dumb
>>9957745
Why haven't the Mormons produced anything of merit even?
how do you get yourself to continue reading a book you aren't interested in, /lit/? i'm currently reading the grapes of wrath and while i don't dislike it my interest has completely waned at about the halfway point. i can't just stop reading it (it's my friend's copy and i have to finish it so i can return it)
Depends on the book, my friend.
If it's a classic I need to read in order to understand another work or simply because it's a text that is extremely important , I just read it, even if sometimes it's boring. I can think of Hobbes for instance - great book. But then Rosseau was a fucking chore. Just take breaks and gulp it down.
If it's not a classic, then I just stop. Or take a 1 day break to see if it comes back. I can think of Clockwork Orange as an example. 30 pages in and I called it a day.
Thats just how Steinbeck books are
I dropped east of Eden once and came back to it 2 years later to finish the last 200 pages
When I'm losing interest, that's when I break out the pencil and start annotating like an annoying 10 year old brat. It energizes me and lets me have a reaction to sections I might dislike other than "keep reading" or "put the book down out of boredom/hatred".
>Chapter 1- Chapter 22=>177 pages
>Chapter 22- Chapter 23=>110 pages
Why do authors do this?
>3 John - 219 words
>Jeremiah - 24,000 words
>both count as a single "book"