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Why do you write?
Serious question, why?
It seems like a lot of effort spent on the medium that lost its potency long time ago. Poetry is dead, philosophy is retarded, fiction is done better in film and videogames, and your life wasn't interesting enough for non-fiction autobiography. You have nothing meaningful or important to say. Whether your goal is vanity or genuine artistic achievement, nobody will ever give a shit about your scribbles. And don't try that 'I write for myself' bullshit, you know it's just an excuse.
Isn't it about time you faced reality?
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>>9209764
>fiction is done better in film and videogames
1/10 thread, I replied.
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>utilitarism
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>>9209764
>I have nothing important to say so you don't either
Stop standing in my sunlight, pleb.
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>tfw I want to write my novel in poetry because that way I'll be automatically superior acording to this board and it will be easier to fill pages after pages of fill material just to write my plot
kek, too good and easy to be true.
but who am I baiting?
this board is too philistine to understand my grandiouse plan.
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Simpson did it.
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>>9209664
Its called an epic poem and ots so difficult to do well that less than ten humans in history have accomplished it and the chances of the public liking it are virtually zero.
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>>9209685
>being a pleb
>write a bunch of poems but do them about the story you're writing, like if you were doing poetrhy
what's so hard about it?
>but yours be crap
people wont care, the nobel committee will suck my brown dick like the cucks the Sven commitee is about my useless race.
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I'm new, as you would have figured out by reading on anyway. I want to start getting into literature and I want to set goals for myself. Post lit infographics, if you have top of genre/year/etc post them too, especially if there's anything beginner related. Also post recommendations, I'd be glad to take them on. I've read some entry-level Shakespeare, some Kafka, and I have access to physical copies of almost any classic.
Also saying "Start with the Greeks" is synonymous with asking me to fuck your girlfriend.
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Use the sticky, then kill yourself for creating this thread, retarded mongoloid.
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>>9209654
Start with the Greeks
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Quick rundown on Roth? 2017-03-08 09:17:19 Post No.9209617
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t. /tv/irgin
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He's a jew and he writes like one.
Only read Sabbath's Theater.
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>>9209625
Can I get a non-/pol/ answer please?
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>>9209617
He's shit
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Thoughts about Jack Urwins first book
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What do you think about it /lit?
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who's jack urwin?
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I don't know and I don't care.
I will never read a book with a title like that.
>dumbass white people make stupid fucking anecdotal autobiographies with cheeky titles.
This genre needs to fucking die.
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>>9209573
some VICE Journalist who now writes about masculinity
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Otto ("auto") is Gaddis's self-insert, right? Why the endless self-flagellation? Is it ironic or something?
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>is it ironic or something
haha ;)
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there's actually a character later called William who is literally the stand in, think of all the characters as a sort of fragmented versions of wyatt
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>>9209522
Otto is literally all of you. Every single one of you who has ever written anything down on paper and thought they could be a writer is otto.
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i have just finished the wasteland and am currently reading murder in the cathedral. if you have any interesting insights about either of those works i would like to hear them. also what of his should i read next, what is his best work.
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His best work is The Four Quartets. My favourite is East Coker; I want it read at my funeral.
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>>9209547
oh ok why do you think it is the best?
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Why so much controversy for a shit book?
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The third world is still convinced of demons.
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because it has satan in the title
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>>9209503
islam a shit
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Writing Software Recommendation
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What writing software do you guys use to write your stuff? I've been using Google Drive but recently have tried Bibisco and it seems very nice but do you guys recommend anything else?
I can use Mac or Windows interchangeably, Thanks ahead of time.
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>>9209488
fadein
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Scrivener seems handy for long format things. Otherwise notepad does enough.
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want to read even more but my local librabries don't have books I would like to read (they have none nietzsche, dostoievski, or goethe per example - don't know what they really have on shelves) and also poorfag
so any recommendations for reader apps on android? free apps if possible (I don't really like to read on my monitor screen with downloaded books)
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Moon Reader+.
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>>9209466
moon+ and aldiko and the best. nook reader had really nice fonts but less features
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>>9209466
Your library might be willing to purchase books if you request them. Lots of libraries have forms or webpages for such requests.
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Do we like this book, /lit/?
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>>9209399
I find it tiresome, but I am in the minority here. This isn't Gogol's only work. He has a good play, some fine shorts, and writes a mean essay.
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>>9209399
>we
Get out.
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I'm about 100 pages into it at the moment. Some funny stuff but a little repetitive so far.
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Is a friend who recommends 1Q84, with the motivation being "[it's] the best book I have read", a friend worth having?
(Or are differing tastes in art/ literature not legitimate reasons for breaking up one's friendship with someone?)
Also, would you recommend me reading 1Q84? *I haven't read anything by Murakami
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>>9209387
Different tastes, and all, but your friend is still a pleb.
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>>9209387
It's literary anime.
Compare the way they speak and act to a typical anime character. You cannot refute me.
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>>9209402
>literary anime
It's funny you mention that... I actually kind of thought the same! The things the taxi driver is talking about in the first chapter about "reality" and whatnot, and the mood of the situation felt a bit anime(-y?).
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adorno, bloom, macdonald, the other bloom, etc.
post some good criticism or the name of a critic you like or what they're on about or your own
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Helen Vendler. Great for Wallace Stevens. A title that I enjoyed, among more than a few: The Music of What Happens.
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>>9209374
Why does this look like a white man photoshopped to look like a black guy
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Is he the only police officer to write anything of note?
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>>9209353
good question desu
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>>9209353
Sure if you're a pleb that ignores the based prose of Rick Ross.
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Depositions I suppose.
In those golden times when repressed individuas turned their head toward literature as this was
only thing that give them hope, they often gathered in gardens or in caffes and they spend days debating art, philosophy, religion, politics. Those discussions gave them fresh, distanced look, after they taked this mental deep breath they could drown in solitude again with a book, or blank page waiting to be filled. Do you think that /lit/ is our age's garden or cafe for intellectual ellite?
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>>9209121
>that picture
wtf dude. stop objectifying women with this smut.
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>>9209121
>Do you think that /lit/ is our age's garden or cafe for intellectual ellite?
Absolutely not
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>>9209121
Had you been here for more than a day, you would have known the answer to your query.