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I'm a 6.5/10 girl and I'll post my feet and maybe an old picture of my ass before I got kind of fat (since September) if you write something really good.

1. Don't write right now. Forget about it.
2. Read or watch something that you hope will give you ideas for your own project.
3. Make a goal that tomorrow from X PM to Y PM, you will write without distractions and without excuses.
4. Sleep tight.

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>>8797649

>>8797606
>/lit/
>/int/
>/his/
>r/art
>/fa/

Hmm...

>>8797629
>r/art
>not /ic/

wtf anon

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>>8797606
Besides reading, there's tea, quilting, origami and opera. None of those have anything to do with what I write.

>gives valid criticisms of John Green
>everyone in the comments saying meaningless shit like "UR GAY SHUT UP!"
>no actual counter arguments presented
Hes right btw

>>8797577
He really is lit personified

Please stop posting your video here.

>>8797545
It flows well but it is hard to criticize with no context as to the premise of the story

>present tense

Disgusting.

>>8797611
thanks

its sort of going to be a collection of short stories all centered around this one secluded city which has a population of under 1,000

not really sure where exactly im going with it but i thought this would be an okay beginning

I imagine these days it might be difficult to maintain one unless you find a very good location.

Still, if you can pull it off, I think it would be a splendid endeavor.

>>8797488
It's definitely not the most lucrative business. Still, the town I'm living in right now has 3 independent bookstores somehow. I guess Maine is just a great state.

>>8797488
my understanding is that most of the places actually make their money off online sales and the actual brick and mortar store is more just for fun. You gotta keep the books somewhere, so you might as well make it a store.

I also have gotten the impression from every used book store owner I've talked to that there was some other, bigger revenue stream -- either the owned some other business or inherited money or had a wealthy spouse.

I agree it would be a splendid endeavor

OK sort of depends what your taste is ... without a doubt his last four books which are a continuous novel - Sea of Fertility - is one of the greatest works of 20th century. It begins with Spring Snow.

The fag ones are Forbidden Colors and Confessions of a Mask, but the former is really about using power to manipulate others, pretty ugly behavior really. The Mask is about a kid growing up in WW2 Japan lusting for soldiers.

Sound of Waves is a rather soppy but OK straight love story interesting for its local color of lost japan.

rather vague question, anon

I guess I wanted to know whats a good book to start of with to get an understanding of what he is like as a writer.

>>8797575
I started with The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea, and I think that's a good starting point for Mishima.

How many books have you published in the last 7 years?

>>8797411
"So many. Including you"

He's trying to milk out the next release as long as possible since the novels and tv show diverged, it would be smart for him to wait for the show to end then release the rest of the novels instead of releasing one now then confusing normalfags when its different

No.

>>8797414
How bad was it?

>"Is X good?"

This meme needs to die.

He looks like a runway model here.

manslaughter is more accurate.

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he's my hero

No. I'm not a mentally ill NEET weeb though, so there you go.

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>>8797199
I read the savage detectives imagining everyone as animu characters
totally worth it desu

>>8797201
So you imagine 1:1 reality?

good decision senpai

read the recognitions isntead

>>8797196
this

i stopped IJ just after the mental hospital scene. after experiencing them myself six separate times, i was so put off by his inept attempt to convey the scenario, and replaced it with the recognitions, which had such a deafening climax that it outweighed a vast majority of books read before and after.

wasn't that the class on involutions tho

>>8797189
what the hell is that theory
>inb4 le are we living in le matrix meme

>>8797195
That technology became so advanced that pretty much a middle school girl could create millions of universes or "sims" with a device and we are just living in one of those simulations that were created and the chances that we live in the real world is close to zero.

The Simulation Hypothesis was created by a jew to nihilism'd the white race
Take the redpilll, not the blackpill

Bulgakov is the original prankster.

Frankly I enjoy the japes, capering and the hijinks in this book

Whenever people ask me about Bulgakov I always tell them that goofs and gags abound! He's a riot!

>>8797164
grad school

but you're probably too dumb to get in anywhere good if you're making shit posts like this

You can go to Reddit where everyone is constantly pretending to be some cool Internet Man Of Letters and talking like a total faggot despite also being an undergrad or postgrad with the knowledge level of an undergrad

>>8797164
All the real intellectuals here hang out on tinychat's lit room. I'd link you, but we don't want to be inundated with pleb.

>>8797162
>MUH FARTS
nah

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>>8797162
I got some gas for you right here, hot shot

The only thing I've read by Gass is an article and his writing felt really laboured and unconfident. It certainly wasn't anything special. Based on his acclaim round these parts I'm assuming he excels when it comes to fiction.

Here's the article if anyone is interested: http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/01/specials/gass-prizes.html