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The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

>>9692011
Forgot to mention in the OP: no cuck shit. Anything that expresses pity for the inferior and resentment for the superior can't be posted in this thread

>>9692011
great book desu

Start by imitating what you like. If you work at it, and have talent, you will discover what you can make work, what you can make live, and what you can't.

Frankly, I like some of the Lovecraft pastiches I've read better than the original.

Beyond that, Stephen King's book On Writing will give you the basics - although most people on this board hate the guy - and Anne Lamott's book, Bird by Bird, is also good.

It all depends on the presence, or absence, of talent. Which you will not know whether you have, or the scope of, until you conscientiously try to exercise it.

Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Comforts of Home" is about a young, aspiring writer. You might find that inspiring.

>>9701581
OP here. I've done a story in Lovecraft's style, and did one in a Stephen Kingish sort of style from what I gathered by reading a lot of his books. What other kinds of horror are there besides the ones I mentioned though?

You realize this is kind of a retarded question? Although I suppose I'm retarded to be answering your troll.

King's Danse Macabre is lit crit on various types of horror.

Lovecraft wrote a nonfiction essay on the subject, too.

Go to r/horror or r/horrorlit and scroll through. Google "types of horror." There are as many kinds and possibilities of horror story as you can imagine (although you seem to be having a difficult time on that front).

>>9701495
they always were.

>>9701495
Intellectualism is dead. Literature is dead. Art is dead. Philosophy is dead. Morality is dead. Heroism is dead. Religion is dead. People are dead. Dead is dead. De dis ded. De da de. Da da da. Dadada. Daaaa. AAAAA. AAVVVVVVVVVVVV

>>9701511
this but unironically

For example, reading a poem out loud is always upsetting because I am never sure if this is the way the poem was meant to sound. Does it matter more, should I just find a way I find beautiful to recite the poem than worry if it adheres to metre (you can only stray so far I imagine, if the poem is written well) or follow the mechanics of enjambents and linebreaks?

>>9701321
Don't worry about it, in the modern education system full of philistine masses, meter is overemphasized. Yes, the poet composed according to meter. Yes, analyzing meter can reveal something about the poem. But no poet wanted YOU to READ their WORKS like THIS. Just read it naturally.

>>9701346
Okay. This is sort of what I suspected to a degree. I still feel like I could learn something about metre to help me, but I don't need to be so frustrated.

>>9701227
The book of the new sun, if that don't cure your retarded ass nothing will do.

>>9701227
unironically? read genre fiction, fuck the bullshit pleb shit and read what you can to get back in the swing of things. don't turn your nose up at shit, you can't afford to.
read douglas adams or asimov or vonnegut, depending on what you can tolerate.

>>9701227
Hegel's Phrenology of Spirit

>>9701193
>portrait of an artist is dogshit
okay, look. you're wrong. objectively fucking wrong. it's not what you want to read. just read more nabokov. why force yourself to read shit you don't like? Joyce is the greatest living author, and before you stop me, he is immortal. His works transcend mortality and the dichotomy of art and soul.
Nabokov? Just read Pale Fire, and Ada.

>>9701193

These threads are always stupid because OP never offers any real points other than "I don't get it," and so there's really nothing to say in response other than to call you a pleb.

There's a wealth of resources available for you for exploring and understanding literature and shitposting on /lit/ is not one of them.

>>9701221
fuck OP
isn't joyce great?
>Deal with him, Hemingway!

>>9701064
I can't play the piano. all the good ideas come to me when I am away from a piano and whenever I actually play a piano its as if I have no discernible talent and should not be playing the piano because at best I have a velleity of being a pianist.

>>9701064
You have to force yourself to just start typing. It doesn't matter what comes out. You will be surprised what you can accomplish if you just start typing as opposed to looking at a blank page.

That's because all great ideas come from the subconscious

Nabby

Joyce.

your mom fag

I actually have no idea how you got any of that out of what I said because none of what you said has anything to do with my post

>>9700938
You literally said it word for word you dumb fuck cunt, go fuck yourself. Reported

>>9700933
>Has anyone here personally identified the elements of good prose
A certain flow and even the ability (though not necessarily the abuse of) to make longer-than-normal sentences. Bad prose is typically choppy, the authors prefer particularly short or normal-length sentence. The words are themselves assonant. Alliteration, consonance, and assonance all go a long way to making prose sound pretty. There's parallel structure and use of a lot of rhetorical devices like metaphors and similes.

REAL NIGGAS ONLY

Any anthology of the western canon is limited to about 3000 pages per volume, you've got to make so many concessions it renders it completely fucking useless.

>>9700936
utter trash, copping out, you little shit?

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>>9700482
He barely focused on any of that stuff though. When did he write details about tax policies in his books? Not that medieval ones were that complex but when did he do such a thing?
Plus, he still can't write for shit. He really needs a person to closely edit his books. Many of the descriptions he makes about characters and scenes and situations are pretty immature.

>>9700482
>autistic micromanaging
how would describe the task of creating multiple languages and alphabets as well as reams of mythical and historical texts which are still being edited through today?

I'm not a defender of Tolkien's prose nor a fan of fantasy in general, but no one has ever worked so hard to create the trappings of a real fantasy world than our guy

>>9700479
We are talking about compassion as Schopenhauer defined it, not about the traditional understanding of the word.
He admired great people not because of their success but because of their will to power.
He didn't care about society. He cared only about the individual. Predator vs. prey is individual vs. society. Society wants to rob the individual of his will to power. The will to power is not necessarily a desire for violence.
Yes, it's childish, but smart people are not necessarily mature and he is self-aware and makes valid points.

>>9700479
>Will someone please explain to me the appeal of this man?
He writes as a free spirit and he appeals to those who share that with him. Textbook thinkers have a field day with him, but they also aren't of the free spirited type.

>>9700479
Proto-postmodernist relativist 'cant know nuffin' perspectival cuck, who was against anti-semitism and nationalism and all identity thinking

>>9700343
>and was able to grasp Kant no problem
Debatable

You've read Second Alcibiades little faggot? You've read Rival Lovers you piece of shit?

>>9700351
Prove these are by Plato, faggot

>>9700332
Can someone post this site which shows certain passages of the japanese translation? You know the one

sounds like a fun way to get stronger in another language for sure op good idea

My german teacher recommended it. She said the grammar and the vocabulary is simple enough.
A nice place to establish a "beachhead" into a language.

whom art thou emeraldwording

>>9700277
Nice afro

>>9700287
Typical Portuguese hairstyle tbqh