What was the best advice you ever got on 4chan? I got mine on

To fuck as much fresh pussy as I can because I wont be able to soon

Live life
Talk to someone's face as if you would behind their back (warning: can cause rage)

>>17547263
>nonstick spray

Fucking gross dude use another fat that shits just aerosol margarine

Made a post here about my ex girlfriend way back in 2012, the usual ranting and raving about how I can't forget all the good times and I keep feeling like I need to win her back etc etc. Someone simply replied "She's not fucking thinking this much about you" or something to that extent. Only reply, thread sank and 404'd soon after.

Felt harsh at the time, but I realized how dumb I was being and how little I was getting in return from her, left her behind to focus on self improvement and am now dating someone much more beautiful and selfless. Now I give the same advice to anyone hung up over a (possibly manipulative) ex, except for extenuating circumstances where she clearly is thinking about it a lot, every relationship is different yadda yadda.

Wherever you are anon, thanks, you really gave me a better perspective with a simple harsh sentence.

Gave me confidence to ask a girl out. Got rejected but I gained plenty of experience ever since. Thanks anons

>>17548252
Share the experience fucker

It's funny because i don't remember.
I just know it helped me a lot.

To read Marcus Aurelius: the meditations

And to just "git gud" in general.

>>17548253

To keep it short,
> We went home together
> We passed by our usual route where it is quiet and chill
> I stopped, she looked back at me surprised
> I told her,
> "I can't help contain what I'm feeling anymore. Before anyone else tells you, I'd rather be the one to tell you first. I like you."
> she smiled, hugged me, and said,
> "thank you, anon. But I'm not yet ready and I don't want to destroy our friendship that we have."
> i smiled, and said,
> "thanks for being honest with me"

We're still good friends today.

Do her right in da pucci

>>17548264
>To read Marcus Aurelius: the meditations
What would you say you've gained from that?

>>17548280
Did you at least made clear that you were interested in her sexualy? Maybe she saw you as some insecure androgynous guy.

>>17548469
Wouldn't count on that. We were really close with one another and I guess she was starting to feel that I like her as a guy. We both embraced each other's faults as if it were our own, but she just wasn't ready.

"Don't do it"

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Most recent piece of advice I decided to take note of to help me with writing.

>>17549005

Eh... yes and no. Mostly no.

Depending on the significance of the thing, it may not need elaboration or it may demand it.

Unexplained details may be far more distracting than over-explained ones. We might take for granted that the demon has three eyes if it pops up in one scene, gets gutted by the hero, and isn't mentioned again. I mean, now it's just some gross dead thing, so sure, let's move on. But if you bring up legends about its strangely particular habit of TGIF fortnight murder-snacking, conservation of detail now requires that that idea actually matters and we will learn more about it. No, we don't need a full Wikipedia article on the thing and its migration patterns and mating habits, but don't tease us with an intriguing detail and then leave it a mystery to the reader because it's just normal to the characters.

Any time you bring up something that doesn't exist in our world, it attracts the reader's attention. So minimize unnecessary fantastic elements that you, as the writer, don't really think are actually important. If the protagonist walks under a tree that has nothing to do with the story, have it be an oak, or an elm, or just a fucking tree, rather than an enigmatic lunarbor pine with violet needles that shimmer in the moonlight. If your character looks out the window and sees a wibblesnout, and the wibblesnout likes to climb trees and gather acorns, just call it a fucking squirrel.

And yeah, you don't have to explain oaks and squirrels and you shouldn't. But glossing over the fantastic that YOU introduced to the story is just baffling.

I honestly can't think of a single time I was reading a work of speculative fiction and had my immersion broken by explained fantasy and unexplained mundane.