How do you all find the emotional wherewithal to write consistently? I used to be able to, but now I've become a depressed pussy-ass little bitch. If anything emotionally-draining happens to me, I can't write for like three or four days, and then when I finally do start again some other shit happens and the cycle repeats. Anyone know how to get out of this?
>>8942279
it's simple. i write everything i have to write when i'm in the frame of mind required to write it.
>Anyone know how to get out of this?
i've been through both phases you describe and i'm not sure you can.
afaik writing either comes to you or it doesn't
my goal is to even when i'm a depressed bitch, to try to retain a perspective on things which not hostile and demeaning but instead rather friendly
people like to read books written from the perspectives of people who are ultimately good so that's what i try to be, even when i can't write.
hope this helps.
If it's too hard why not give up? Turn your answer to that into motivation, or find a different hobby.
The greatest author in the English language read translations. Why can't you?
>>8942104
but i do
>>8942104
But how do you know that Shakespeare couldn't read Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, Hebrew and Spanish?
That's right. You don't.
>>8942184
We know almost for sure he could read Latin and Italian, and he could probably read French too. As for the other languages you mentioned, we have little evidence to show that he knew them.
In any case, your argument is stupid. We know for a fact that Shakespeare read translations.
Whoa...
>I let a guy finger me even though I didn't really want to
that's beautiful
This is deep!
>>8942089
>legit can't tell if real or not
Why is this question given so much attention? Who cares what the "meaning" is? What does that even mean? Life is just there, who is to say there even is a meaning? Just live.
Pic sorta related. This thread is /lit/ bc this is a common trope in literature/philosophy.
It's because you desire what you don't have.
>>8941946
well life feels pointless without meaning.
>>8941946
Because without giving life meaning you cannot live. Life is desires and drives and these come from meaning and belief, even in it's in it's simplest form like, "Satisfying hunger is nice". Just live may sound nice, but doing so is impossible. Living without meaning, in some sense of the word, is like trying to swim on dry land.
What does /lit/ think of this guy?
Many say he's the greatest poet of the 20th century. Bloom says he's not as good as Whitman or Crane.
He got into a fistfight with Hemingway at a bar in the Florida Keys, also.
>>8941682
He's a white male so how bad can he be, really?
>>8941682
He's good, very good.
Whatever Bloom says is cannon.
Wordsworth Classics Appreciation Thread
Post your favorite Wordsworth Classics covers.
If I were your dream literary girl, how would you seduce me with your words, anon?
>>8941478
action > words desu
>>8941483
if you can't do it with words, then I'm afraid you're not worthy of a beautiful literary girl
>>8941478
i'd make you cum buckets with talking about feelings
God, this book is so terrifying to read, I'm somewhere between page 80 and 90 and my mind is picking up the words on the page so fast and my heart is beating out of my chest. This book is stressful as fuck to read, I can't even pick it back up right now.
>>8941428
Suppose you try not being a faggot?is just joke pls don't kill me
>>8941428
>liberal cuck detected
Grow some balls, you fucking fairy
don't worry, after he does the deed it calms back down
Is there any book that is specialized on shittiong out fast and short stories?
The books about books guide is pretty alright but I can't find something specifically about on-the-spot making of stories.
HALPKTNX
>>8941335
it helps not to be a faggot
>>8941335
>>8942082
pleaswe...
Chapters 61 to 65
New chart incoming. Catch up days included.
OP has falled behind and will be marathoning a load of chapters tonight.
>Ebooks and audiobook
https://mega.nz/#F!NIcBwCYL!ZZo5gGqjat1yL_-RkuzZFw
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>>8931619
NEW CHART
Catch up day tomorrow. Then a solid week of reading.
Then a two day catch up period so hopefully we are all ready to reach the end together at the same time.
Opinions welcome.
>>8941288
>>8941234
>OP has falled behind
Fallen, fuck.
The reading for day 16 is B3 Part 2 Chapter 18 through and including Chapter 31, pp. 804-855.
>Ebooks and audiobook
https://mega.nz/#F!4QVj1b4B!BMF7h3um_c5qWHQCP_aw6g
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Reading Schedule
Battle of Borodino (map from OWC)
What point are you guys at? What happened?
"Don Quixote and Sancho get their asses beat LOL"
200 pages in and it's starting to get pretty repetitive. Does it get better /lit/?
>>8941090
superficial reader
The 2nd part is generally considered superior by critics (more profound, etc), but I personally thought the whole book incredible.
>>8941090
I gave up on this repetitive shit when I was at page 100 something. Not funny. I regret wasting my money on this Tom and Jerry tier crap.
How well versed are you in your country's literary tradition? Do you pass it over in favour of exotic foreign lit?
Sometimes I feel like I'm cucking my own culture.
>>8940966
Why would anyone want to read American "literature"
>>8940984
>implying OP is American.
>>8940987
You're an retard
What does /lit/ think about Stoicism?
>>8940854
Whats your alternative
>>8940854
>redpill
>leftist
>cuckery
>muh feels
>nihilism
>commie
>opressed
>feminists
>cultural marxists
>>8940854
I laughed heartily
>Says he loves The Kid as a son
>Kills him in a toilet
What was his fucking problem?
>>8940812
I'm fairly certain the kid/man had been raping and killing children since the begininng of the novel and inside the outhouse was the dead little girl who disappeared. I swear to fucking christ I don't know where that stupid sodomy meme came from. Why would he write about the little girl disappearing for no reason and then switch to the outhouse scene?
>>8940812
>his dad didn't kill him in a toilet
Jealous?
>>8940832
> fairly certain the kid/man had been raping and killing children
Nowhere does it say the kid did any of that.
Side note, that bear death scene killed me. Dancing his way to death, :(