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>>10034311
What's it about

It's good that sodomites are marking themselves now so I know to stay away from their pozzed shit.

>>10034333
it is a work of genius that concerns itself with the everlasting mystery of humanity as it hurtles on a watery stone across the depthscape of the galaxy.

it is a work that eradicates ennui, demolishes pretention and culminates itself in a tour de force that omits mimicry from its lexicon tomsuch an extent that it bears no familiar axioms, while simultaneously emulating the warmth of the womb.
it has stunned me at every word, every page, a climax and triumph of human accomplishment. an ineffable mark of destiny inscribed on the fragile heart of man in his voyage through himself and the torrential seas around him.

>>10034304
Isn't he just a fucking human.

>>10034315
Isn't almost any character in literature just a fucking human?

Is the OP the most retarded poster on 4chan? At least most other anons will have something worthwhile to say once in a while.

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>sublime prose
>proust

Infinite Jest, part with the drunken dad talking about Brando

homer and old testament

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBgcjtE0xrE

Trump was standing 14 fucking feet away to the left. The TV cameras framed and focused the shot to create a narrative.

It's a "right for the wrong reasons" kind of situation. Of course the story is entirely a fabrication of the ghost candidate's ghost writer, but the reviewer here is correct, Clinton is not fit to rule and it shows. Now, if she, as advertised, is the best the female sex can offer, it doesn't look like we're getting a Madam President any time soon.

>>10034052
>Try thinking up a million dollar screenplay
No matter what pseud think, if this was easy, it wouldn't be worth a million dollars.

>>10034064
I agree but not because it requires a lot of artistic talent

Hollywood seems to have contrived this "secret formula" for screenplay that seems to consistently make millions despite the movies all seeming similar.
It's something I can't quite put my finger on since I haven't tried properly analysing any films but every time I go to the movies I always feel like there's something that never seems to change in the plot.

To relate this back to OP I think it's impossible to write a screenplay that can compete with the writers who have all sorts of help in knowing what exactly makes people go see a movie so you're better off just writing a book.

Write a horror script about a haunted house or some shit. That's the fastest way to a million dollars for unproven screenwriters

>>10033977
Write books people want to read. Then get them to read them.

>>10034017
Def a good idea..

>>10034017
This is generally considered the easiest way, I think. Scope out the market, see what's selling, and without copying it whatsoever try and write something with a vaguely similar premise. No need to reinvent the wheel. If hamburgers are selling extremely well, then experimenting with spaghetti-O sloppy Joe's is quite a risky maneuver and probably won't go well, so make your own burgers but with different amounts and types of condiments. Personally, I just write what I want. It just so happens my writing is fairly good quality and what I enjoy writing does indeed have a market of sorts so I've made a few hundred dollars so far.

>>10033977
There's different ways you can approach it depending on what you want to write. With erotica, I hear that basically going with short stories and novelettes is extremely popular. Sit down, open it up, and it can be read in a short amount of time. A quick fix of smut. Come up with different locations, different people, consensual or rapey, romantic or manipulative, raunchy or clean, etc.

One of my books that have been met with a degree of popularity is an action novelette with lots of firearms, less than 17k words that a fast reader can definitely finish in one setting. At only $0.99 per sale ($0.35 royalty) there's not much money in it, in fact I make more from KENP so going with KDP Select via Kindle is crucial. That puts the book on Kindle Unlimited for readers to check out for free, but every single page earns you money. I think for August there was $19,000,000 for KENP, and thus it was divided amongst all the KENP that all the books got, resulting in 42% of a penny per page. 200 pages is $0.84 (over $1.00 in Canadian or Australian)

So just keep writing and self-publishing, but if you don't do any marketing then don't be surprised if you barely make any money whatsoever in your first year. If you get $100 you'll be lucky, but hey, you're doing what you love and it's $100 of profit, who's going to say 'no' to that? Spend a year playing videogames and you're spending money, not making it, unless you have some kind of super-successful Youtube or Twitch channel perhaps. Going to need a likeable personality though.

The bible

>>10033927
Only 3 of them were once books and only one of those is actually good.

J.R.R Tolkien absolutely shits on everyone else in that pic. It's not even a competition. If we're going to forget Tolkien is in it because it's just so outrageously unfair then probably Star Trek.

Post it here so I can determine whether it has any value

Just flex yr muscles, mate.

>>10033853
Have the characters come together and write a chapter-long orgy.

Invisible Cities was so comfy

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>>10033818
Comfy, dreamy, sometimes funny, beautiful and catches you by surprise with its depth. If you like Calvino, Sebald will probably interest you.

The English translation is great, by one of the better English translators of German (Michael Hulse).

>>10033818
Winnie the Pooh

What do you think it's like on the other side of the Door of Night

I feel bad for Morgoth

my novel

200 Years Together

I bought a book with them without really realizing. When I got home and started to read the book, I couldn't stand the edges and I haven't touched the book in a year.

it seems like somehow deckled edges allow the pages to be thinner yet feeling full, i had a gravity's rainbow with the deckled edges and it was like the size of a 300 pages book despite actually being like 700, neat trick

I don't particularly care for them

Dangling participles are a meme made up by perscriptivists.

>>10033726
yeah, i was gonna say don't hand in a freshmen year essay with that shit but otherwise do what you want

>>10033726
>>10033731
The fact that you condone and tolerate the degeneration of grammatical rules is sad, and enraging, but regardless, you're not helping with my conundrum —I actually care about grammar, which is why I am asking this.

>>10033586
all you need to know is that there is a cabal of jews undermining white interests

>>10033592
can I just join the jews

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>>10033592

New York, London, Paris

That's it, choose one

>>10033471
All of those cities are terrible now. Maybe 90 years ago you would have been right

>>10033473

heh

Give me your alternatives, nerd, or hand over your lunch money

Bottom's Dream

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