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>you will never be a hardworking farmer in rural scandinavia
why must life be so cruel, lads?
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>your wife will never cuck you and create hair-lipped babies and leave their corpses out to be discovered by authorities resulting in her being imprison for years leaving you to take care of the farm and kids by yourself.
fuckin' bitch
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Mysteries, Hunger (and maybe even Pan) are better than Growth.
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>>9265588
>what is wwoofing
How the fuck do I maintain a schedule of reading & writing daily if I have to work a cuck job 9-5 and I'm always exhausted after it, especially with the 1 hour+ commute
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you knuckle under and give up on your dreams
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Quit your cuck job, mooch off your friends and relatives, get a sugar daddy/momma to support you, and live cheaply.
This is more or less how most writers have managed it.
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>>9265543
My parents are both dead and my friends would never let me mooch
My city is one of the most expensive in the world
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So I'm trying to become a writer, but while working two jobs so that I can support myself and my fiance at the same time since she has a disease that causes her to fall ill nearly every other day or so which makes her unable to work due to the unpredictability. Every day while I'm at work I think about the world that I want to create and how certain things will progress and what all will actually happen as well as what I need to actually include in the text. At first I had an overly ambitious idea that I would have never finished, and since have downsized. I've already completed the majority of the major plot points in my outline, but there remains a few spots for character growth within that I had hoped to introduce some of the creatures of this fantasy world with.
Every day I come home from work and sit down for roughly thirty minutes while trying to figure out what kind of creatures I actually want to include in my story, but more often than not I come up with a blank. A while back I'd had an idea for some beings named 'The Unsung', who are basically the memories of fallen men and women who appear as ghostly versions of themselves and either stalk the lands searching for something that they could slay or accomplish that would grant them a mark of heroism and make their names sung in stories. I have were-beasts that vary by the regions of the world, I have vampyrs that come in two varieties which are the blood drinkers and the emotion eaters. Trees exist which hunger for flesh and have the souls and bodies of the dead stored in them.
I want more, but every time that I attempt to think of something I come up blank. I don't want to just reuse things found in other media. I'm hoping to create something as original as I possibly can, but it consistenlty proves more than I can handle and it's been tearing me up inside. Every time I sit down to finish creating my world, my thoughts are drawn towards actually starting my story and having my MC experience this world for his second time - since I'd attempted to write this once before and had fallen short with my story falling apart due to my lack of planning.
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>>9265415
maybe you should just write about cans
that's some abstract schit bro.
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>>9265415
ask the authors you love for advice about these things
if you don't know what I mean by that then good luck
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hi there, i'm your next original character
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I have read Lot 49 and now I am about to start this.
Is this a wise move? Should I acquaint myself with other Pynchon before this or will I be fine?
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>>9265412
You will be fine. That was my first pynch. It's a novel your grandfather would like.
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>>9265425
What is this like compared to GR?
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poo
Mason & Dixon > Against the Day > Gravity's Rainbow > V > The Crying of Lot 49 > Vineland > Slow Learner > Inherent Vice > Bleeding Edge
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Not a terrible list, not terrible at all.
I approve.
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MD > GR > Vineland > IV > Against the Day > V. > Bleeding Edge > Crying of Lot 49 > Slow Learner
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Come on, douches, help out the cause
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>hated hedonism
>while also hating ascetism
???
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>hated hedonism
???
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That's a perfectly viable, non-contradictory position to take. Hedonism saw pleasure as life-maximizing, while asceticism saw it as life-minimizing. Nietzsche simply does not view the affirmation of life as a simple function of pleasure.
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surely there's a good balance of both
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Are spirit and mind one in the same? If not what's the difference?
What did Hegel mean by "geist"?
Are there any good critical works that deal with this topic?
My STEM friends roll their eyes if I speak of a spirit being seperate from the brain, but if i ise the word 'mind' they understand what I'm getting at.
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The mind is the fourth dimensional apparatus of our consciousness.
Spirit is breath.
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>>9265139
At any given moment, the entirety of linear existence is occurring simultaneously, only not simultanesouly apprehended. Awareness as a divine selection process, there are different vechilces to narrow down the fullness of the cosmos. The individual human body organism construct is a very profitable way for consciousness to explore itself in detail. God does not live in detail, needs us for that. There are other vehicles for awareness to explore in detail, vehicles that don't "bump" into anything, are fluid in a sense. Geist might be that, the spiritual world has no newtonian physics on the level of force as non-poetic, as purely cause effect phenomenon
Idk wtf im saying mang
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>>9265139
The mind is embodied spirit (soul). Spirit depends on context but I think you are referring to an individual soul??
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What are the most /lit/ approved words?
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Pococurante, bird, sinister, and soufflé are the only /lit/ approved words.
All others are rejected.
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>>9264928
fuckface
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>>9264928
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwXJsWHupg
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is this book supposed to turn you into a pedophile?
asking for a friend
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>>9264926
please leave (this mortal plane)
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this book is actually supposed to teach about how to be really good at convincing people that you're not that bad even though you're a monster
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>>9264973
this makes sense.
but here are the facts:
>before reading this book, any sort of sexual relations with a girl under the age of 16 disgusted me
>I got a raging hard erection at multiple points while reading this book (one was in class, which was really awkward when the bell rung)
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I can't find many title apologizing:
>Eugenics
>Ethno-state
>Fascism
>Anti-Semitism
Anyone has authors other than Plato and Hitler?
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>>9264861
my diary desu
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>>9264861
Kill yourself.
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Canterbury Tales
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>In Search of Lost Time
>its called that because after you finish it you look back at all of the time you wasted reading it
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>>9264662
>reading
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>>9264662
Good one, OP.
I liked it overall but I found his clinginess to his mother really insufferable a lot of the time.
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>>9264662
As opposed to what? Shopping? Eating? Playing games? Running your mouth? Staring at your phone?
I've read it twice.
Who are /writers/ here? Been published in a literary magazine? Or are you currently submitting?
Tell us your stories.
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I'll be published in the summer
Wrote novels for a long time, submitted them around and had no luck.
Never was much of a short story writer, but something clicked and I wrote one a few months ago, first place I sent it to said they loved it and would publish it in their summer edition.
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I write daily on /lit/. It's pretty cool tbqh. Sometimes there's nothing much to say, though. But still I come back. With hopes.
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>>9264617
i write art journalism regularly for a magazine and wrote for a newspaper for a couple years doing art criticism.
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Rules: Write for twenty minutes. Do not edit, do not proofread. Post. Others are allowed to critique -- provided they are constructive in their feedback.
Yes, it will be shitty. That is the point. You may write about anything. Please follow the rules.
I'll begin:
Dorothy's name incited an urge within me to rape her. Not animalistic by nature, I was confounded by this sudden urge that crept along my chest, up my nostrils, into my cranium, and left me ravenous. It was a silly name, sillier than the kind of name I would like to be associated with mine. It was her voice. The pitch, or her tone, I do not know what it was but it was anomalously delicious, and I could spend an evening being serenaded by her -- even if all she did was read a Buzzfeed post, which as I had come to know, was a not socially acceptable read for someone beyond a certain social class -- someone like me, as I had been taught by the method of regurgitation. Her name, as I first heard it in her own voice, always echoed in my ears whenever someone mentioned her.
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Did you really type that in 20 minutes? I find it rather hard to believe. As a fellow /lit/zen, one who's been shitposting and dfwposting for over five years that is, I must warn you: you do not possess the power to write. You're simply below it. Just forget it. Why do you even bother coming up with a rule if you yourself did not bother to follow it? How many words did you write in 20 minutes? Less than a thousand? Jesus Christ, man. You should feel embarrassed, I'm not exaggerating. I bet my stream of consciousness will be the top 20 of /lit/. People will remember my name and yours will be discarded in the guts of 4chan archives. Don't take me personally, you just don't have what it takes to write. It's better to accept it now before you waste your time with it.
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>>9264577
...is this the birth of a new pasta?
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saved
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Which short stories are your all-time favorites?
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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
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Summa Theologica
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>>9264461
The three before Gibson's Nueromancer: Johnny Mnemonic, New Rose Hotel and Burning Chrome.
Just post your all time favourite novel, lads.
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Memes flushing all over the thread in 3, 2, 1...
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>>9264337
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Come on, douches, help out the cause