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>>8944711
my diary, desu

My Autobiography

>>8944711
this guy was so smart his brain blew up. literally!!!

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I usually use a guitar.

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This is my instrument of choice.

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hey guys, let's form a band

I have this beautiful pencilphone

Ugly woman.

>>8944556

he's not that good

>>8944556
love him. one of the greats of our time. ice shirt is bomb.

Start with the Greeks

>>8944448
But I don't wanna read about the ultramarines.

Horus Heresy

Acquire an external deadline. Give your stuff to an editor and make yourself required to continue, or join a judgmental writing group who will keep you accountable for your writing. If you don't feel the "need" to write, you won't put in the work.

Finish something as well. Don't get caught into the endless revision process, where you replace an entire nights work with something else that "feels" better. Even if you hate the shit you just finished, just grind on until the end, and submit it. Let editors and alpha readers decide what's worth sending to the chopping block. Most of the things you think that suck, don't actually suck. It's the things you think are awesome, dramatic and cool that are probably going to be the issue.

Another thing, write fucking everything in the world. Even unimportant shit like coffee breaks, character development sphiel, vainglorious descriptions of chairs and fireplaces, why the grass is so soft, the sky being too blue, just fill notepads and word documents to the brim with your writing shit until it feels weird to not be writing. Once you have a massive blob of finished work sitting in front of you, you can begin to pick the best pieces apart and swap them around where they fit best, and push away the others for use in other books, or to simply be deleted.

Do not edit before the chapter's even finished. You can add, but don't start going through deleting things and replacing them with better lines, that will just lock you into the "eternal rewrite" and then you'll end up like 90% of other writers with "Epic Work Version 2,467.5"

>>8944487
Thank you, this is really good advice. I'm going to stop this half finished story thing and see something till the end for once. I'm going to start bringing a notebook to work, on my lunch breaks i usually read in my car but ill start writing everything on my mind and not wait till the end of the night. Again, thank you. This was some real inspirational shit

>would like to start with a short story

Do exactly that. Write several as practice. You'll get a feel for style, pacing, character development, how to edit, etc.

>>8944414
Lovecraft sucks, faggot. Fuck off.

>>8944414
Hmm... I don't remember that one.

Mine is the one where the spooky monsters are metaphors for biggers

>the word "dialectic" doesn't appear once every three sentences
If you're gonna go for something like this, you at least need to try and imitate his style.

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hi

>>8944480
By encouraging social and cultural characteristics (race, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.) through of the use of the Marxist critque, we can add to the complexity of the individual and free them from being one-dimensional men.

Fascinating stuff we have here.

That guy looks familiar, what's his name again?

>>8944409
Delillos later work is his best

>>8944415
Mike "Bash 'Em Straight" Pence

I read Mephisto's Covenant.

Your move.

I have a tattoo of a semicolone on my wrist

I own the meme trilogy, but have never read it. I don't plan on ever reading Infinite Jest.

>>8944286
Wow, that Stratosphere was really tough coming down in one piece like that.

Hey, /sffg/.

What are some good sci-fi or fantasy books that show really intimate (not necessarily in the sense of sex, though it's fine if it is) moments of characters' lives? Things that make them feel human and vulnerable and raw.

Especially if those same characters get to also be badass at other times.

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>>8944292

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The Stand

Different Seasons

Not The Stand.

>>8944139
Smack them upside the head

>>8944139
>"if you're saying that you probably never heard Nietszche*, therefore i can't argue with you, you have no idea what you're talking about"
*pick any mainstream philosopher you're sure you friend never read (its important he recognizes the name you say)

"jung was a fucking hack"

>>8944012
Yes, when I read "On Women" by Schopenhauer.

Never have I seen so much impotent virgin rage.

TNC on 9/11 first responders from BTWAM:
“They were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body.”

>firefighters
>shattering bodies

>>8944012
american gods - the whole plot is a mess, with extremely unrealistic reactions all over the narrative ("hey shadow ur waifu u wasted lots of pages sayan u loved is ded... and she was fuckin ur best buddy "..."whatever")

hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - first book was alright, then he proceeds to fuck everything just because (lol so randub xDD le best novel 4eva)

after these i never read YA ever again

I have, but only in science.

1. Never exaggerate; tell the truth.
2. Sound/seem 'passionate', whatever that means.
3. Keep trying, even if you have to get something else in the meantime.

come on anons, let's help poor OP

disgusting OP pic. saged

Most so-called literary people are awful and I would recommend against seeking something like this out.

No where.

Certainly not in Paris.