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>>8915509
Walden is simply a mid 1800s critique on American New England culture. You want more of this?

Or do you want the nature feel good aspect vibe? In that case just move into the 20th century with John Muir.

>>8915509
No joke, just go live in a cabin.

>>8915549
I am actually planning to do that in the near future

The greatest writers killed themselves before they got published.

>>8915440
No. If you want to write for fun you should still practice the serious themes you would want to cover when you're writing seriously.

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>>8915440
>>8915450
In my idle periods I write thematic stories about naked teens and I feel they've helped me only because they weren't specifically porn.

I've written porn too, for an occasional dime. It was always stifling, and dangerously capable of pulling you into a dead-end alleyway of no growth or improvement.

If you're going to write porn, push your limits and be creative with it.

Bump for interest.
I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but interest I have nonetheless.

All the Star Wars novelizations are good. Prequel ones are better than the movies, so on a novelization scale that's really good. Even the new one Rogue One is very good. TFA novelization is the worst of the 8.

They're Star Wars, so you get exactly what it says on the tin. Don't expect /lit/, but do expect quality genre fiction.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel, and series of novels, are very enjoyable. Based on the radio play.

>>8915383

become a transsexual

not even memeing you

If you want to make money off art you should just kill yourself. There are too many hacks trying to do the same thing and they're too hackish to fail at hackery.

>>8915383
post a poem you've written and i'll tell you all yoor bad habits in the poem.

>>8915369
I would tell you about it but I'm not very good at it.

>>8915369
>how do you avoid sounding pretentious

Seek the others - Tim Leary

Leary was a colorful guy but I always liked this piece of advice. You'll go mental if you try to avoid sounding pretentious. Pretense is natural, it's part of confidence and growth. The best way is basically just to have conversations with people who think about and are interested in the same things you are, so that you don't get frustrated feeling the need to bring others up to speed.

Pretentiousness comes from loneliness and insecurity. And maybe lack of an appropriate challenge or purpose. But those aren't sins. It's natural to feel that way. If you're doing the right work in a place where there is mutual respect it shouldn't be an issue.

Context is everything. Good luck finding those places anon.

Failing that just wear a party hat or grow some crazy facial hair. Then you can be as pretentious as you like. It worked for Nietzsche. And if he wasn't pretentious we would have lost a great philosopher! Under the right conditions, pretension is very charming...

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>>8915396
Not op but

This is honestly the best comment ive read in a while. Im crossboarding from /his/ and honestly wish more comments like this were to be found on my home board.

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Launch your meme boldly

youtu.be/xXQVHwqgIMM

>>8915357
is this that druggie charlatan

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I found a book on how to be invisible

>>8915325
Here's the link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t9h1JgcTfmgwkcNl3aXy0vpA4mGxuTYpBVlsG4EmImI/edit?usp=sharing

>>8915325

Good luck op, but I wouldn't expect someone to help you.

>>8915401
Yeah.. me neither.
I'm just on a dry spell of writing and want to see something new pop up.

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>>8915322
>>8915333
It's more psychological than philosophical, if you can read this post without cringing. Humans think in terms of measuring things, weighing them, separating them and classifying them. To measure things, we need a standard, a goalpost. If everything is infinitely divisible (Lucretius argues) big and small are entirely relative: there will be no set standard by which we can say, this is big, and this is small. Also, we would have to choose a completely random unit of measurement, and yet that standard unit would itself be impossible to define. This is why he argues that there must be an absolute smallest thing. it just makes things easier for his brain.

>>8915350
I understand what you're saying, but then he is not to be taken literally?

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Beardy men are as much an alien species to me as transies are to straights.
Like Chewbacca. I don't hate 'em, they're just weird.

>>8915307
I hope I start going grey before I get bald, so that I can pull off a PKD-ish look.

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>>8915307
Pynchon was my Dick.

What, exactly, is wrong with this kind of poetry? I myself find it incredibly beautiful. It is brief yet insightful and beautiful. It excels because of its briefness. Tell me, what's so fucking wrong with it?

>>8915294
4/10, got mad for a sec

>>8915294
cuz it doesn't go like this

And then went down to the ship,
Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly seas, and
We set up mast and sail on that swart ship,
Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also
Heavy with weeping, and winds from sternward

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Cause it was written by multiple people

pic unrelated

Tundra is better.

>>8915296
But still, shouldn't the absolutely boring bits be edited out?

It's not like everything is accepted, was it?

>>8915264
drugs

>>8915264
His problem was you

>>8915264
He was a schizo

Winning another Hugo or something

Pringles

>>8915242
Having a sonic character based after him

Via his teeth, yes

>>8915223
Define suffer?

Not really, not a all by an Irish standard at the time, he could of been a rural farmer living as a peasant, he couldn't been shipped off to the western front. His family had money which the father ultimately squandered

He even managed to befriend Ezra Pound, whixh ulitmaley led to him becoming published. Not an easy life by today's standards by he had the chance to go play fuck abouts in Paris as opposed to being in the work house

>>8915223
Yeah, from blindness, and from slowly forgetting how to write a novel.

>>8915178
Clearly he would be browsing /pol/ and be redpilled

Anyone who disagrees is a shill

>>8915178
he didnt really get into specific political ideologies. All of them are wrong in the end, and any mass movement is automatically herd based. Politics is about groups, he really only cares about individuals. An overman could use all sorts of party's behind them, those are kind of unimportant details.

>>8915178
None, Nietzsche was apolitical and thought it to be below the Ubermensch