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Greetings, anons! What books are you gifting your dads for Father's Day? Pic related was my choice as he's always been into the Greeks, Julius Caesar, etc and went on a cruise from Athens to Montenegro and back via some islands and Khios. Thought the voyage Aeneas takes through the first half could be a nice reminder of my old man's own voyage.
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Good choice, Aeneid is oft overlooked, and that Fagles translation is enjoyable.
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Death
Abandonment
Divorce
Maybe I'll buy him "how to fucking show up on time without being high." Is that a book?
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Let me let /lit/ in on a few secrets:
To be published;
EASY MODE
>be a minority (just don't be a white male)
>write about feminism, life stories (you can make them up)
>be enrolled at an ivy school
>publish a book in high school (leads to a lot of doors later in life)
MEDIUM-this is where things can get tricky
>have a MFA
>network extensively, don't worry about what but more so who
>patterns (make your poem guilloche, make it shine and be weird)
>mental illness (LGBT, palsy, autism)
>be a veteran
>be old
HARD MODE
>be good
>win at least 20 writing contests
>STEM
>right-wing views
>form
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>>9632556
>form
What do you mean
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>>9632574
structure and rhyme in the poem.
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>>9632574
Found the slam poet
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What's better, prose or poetry? Personally, I prefer prose, but I don't know many poets. What's the best? Pic not related, obviously.
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Both require lots of skill to be good.
I'm biased, but I like poetry a lot more. To be able to say in 3 words what prose says in 300 is awesome to me.
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>>9632535
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/fallacy-prose-poetry-extension-eliots-reflections-vers-libre
Might be interesting and applicable.
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Goodreads thread.
What are you reading? How's your current year's progress? Are you as pleb as the one-star reviewers of classic literature?
Share your page, make cool guy internet buds, etc.
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https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/40786105-oliver-bagshaw
i'm open to recommendations and friendo requests, just please no bully
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>>9632460
Is this a genuine recommendation or am I getting memed on right now?
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>>9632476
>Not realizing that Elmo Says Achoo is based on the book of Revelations
Get a load of this pleb
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Anyone take the LSAT yesterday? I got three LR sections which was the best I could hope for
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>>9632407
Realistically what are you shooting for, scorewise?
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>>9632419
This was my first try. I'll be disappointed below a 165 but I'm gonna take it again no matter what I get. The test is definitely perfectable though. I got through every section with like 3-5 minutes to spare but my logic games is weak because I'm a brainlet.
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how do you write a good tweet?
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Is he saving western philosophy?
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Yeah, Col. Sanders is single handedly saving civilization as we know it.
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Could you point the instances where Nietzsche makes a parody of the New Testament in Thus Spoke Zarathustra?
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Can we talk about Amazon's data fees for its kindle platform?
I've put up with them for years, but it's started really pissing me off lately looking at my income sheets and seeing up to 50% of my sales go directly to Amazon, before I get taxed. The delivery fee for eBooks is extortionate.
>15c per MB
>A rate of $150 per GB
Now, considering that expense is taken directly from the sale, it's effectively charging YOU that rate to sell your books on their platform.So who in their right mind would take a data plan for $150 per GB of data? According to Amazon... Amazon. They "pay" those rates and then hand you the bill for their generosity. Now, what I wasnt to know is, if they are charging these "base" rates for data, then how the hell are they not bankrupt beyond belief for their S3 data sharing platform, which has rates of 0.02 cents per GB?
I'm willing to bet that their Kindle platform is ran by their S3 data servers and THAT is they cost they are incurring for their data... 0.02-0.1 cents per GB.
So what they are doing is charging you their 30% "sales fee" and then on top of that, charging you an extortionate data transfer rate and fraudulently lining their pockets with huge chunks of distribution. How is this not criminal, and how are more people not insanely pissed about it?
I'm willing to bet Amazon makes more money from their data free (which is supposed to be "at cost") than they do from their sales free.
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> The delivery fee for eBooks is extortionate.
1) Compress your shit so it's under the limit
2) Charge more
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What the actual fuck is this?
I use the Kobo website and I've never seen any shit like this.
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I can't wait until Bezos pushes Trump an inch too far and ends up getting his shit kicked in. Keep spreading CIA fake news through the Washington Post and see what happens you cucked bastard.
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fitlit is back at the other one
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>>9632055
Any books about setting goals and staying motivated? Not lifting related but in general.
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>>9632070
Yeah, we have some, hoping to get more. It's not just about lifting, but self-improvement of all kinds. Really, just fully utilizing yourself.
One's I've recommended are Gorilla Mindset, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, and Models Attract Women Through Honesty.
I have pdf of the last one posted over at 8ch dot net slash fitlit slash res slash 12 dot html, if you wanna pop over there and check 'er out.
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how do i form/come up with a compelling/high concept/exciting plot?
whenever i ask for my plot ideas to be critiqued, people say they're boring :(
im trying to write YA
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>>9632039
When you have an honest story idea you know is good without trying to be high concept or exciting.
Just fucking write what you know or want to know, and it'll either be good or bad. Then, if writing really is your passion, you'll try again and again until you get it right or strike gold.
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Find a newspaper article you find exciting and fictionalize it. Plot is just a device for exploring characters and themes, no one cares if yours is très original.
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Watch this course, OP. He covers plot in later lectures but do not miss the early ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ZDBOc2tX8&index=1&list=PLH3mK1NZn9QqOSj3ObrP3xL8tEJQ12-vL
And as a bonus here's a segment on YA from an earlier series of lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo5nZI1iCh0
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Post your best savage quotes!
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>>9631974
always came on cat, even though she would always hiss at penis.
What is the best (English) translation of One Thousand and One Nights?
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What are your thoughts on these two?
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