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You might be better off asking /lit/.

>How do you start writing for money?

type

Research niche fetishes and find where people buy them

Unless you're writing about weird shit getting dicked you're probably not going to make anything writing

>>8795170
Not really, no. Especially that out of date crap from the 19th century.

Are you having trouble dealing with the fact of the matter dawning on you? Or are you just trying to be Absurd, like Papa Albert recommends?

>nihilism
Fathers and Sons. Then Crime and Punishment so you can laugh at nihilists.

>existentialism
Nausea and The Stranger. Then move on to worthwhile books.

>>8795170
notes from underground by dosto

>>8795133
freud obv
>you've read this

nick land, the thirst for annihilation
>you've probably read this

schopenhauer
>patrician af despair

antinatalism: cioran, ligotti
>i find it meh but w/evs

blood meridian
>p much a maymay at this point but still

lovecraft
>more the criticism of him

spec-real philosophy: brassier, meillasoux, harman
>it's ok

warhammer 40k exterminatus pulp memedrek litfap
>mah_nigga.jpg

Gravity's Rainbow. No that's not a meme, it's a huge theme to the point that characters fetishize V2 rockets (which in turn represent the proto-atomic bomb)

>>8795604
Oh, and I mean fetishize in a literal sense.

Try automatic writing so you'll know it has nothing to do with it, you might learn something from the difference

>>8795142
do you mean free writing by any chance? like just writing whatever pops into your head? because i googled automatic writing and its like some /x/-tier spiritual stuff supposedly

Get a dictaphone.

2016: cellphone mic

If it is for a character, first put yourself entirely on the characters'...character. For stream-of-consciousness needs, probably, mimesis of this kind.

32 feet per second, per second. Law of falling bodies.

>>8795057
>har har

>>8795052
"Exposition" is what plebs call content

>>8794886
>feel inspired
>start writing
>give up because my mind is not refined enough to amuse the expensive tastes of the /lit/erates on here

>>8794886
Is there a deadline for submitting work?

R.I.P.
>Ideology
>Pinecone
>The Metric
>The April Reader
>Zine Writer's Guild

If anyone wants to check out /lit/'s previous zines, you can download them from this folder.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aJnaOl7gykaWU5cDBrSGo2WEU

>>8794850
ive said this before: russian lit simply isnt for all of us. certainly, if youre a desensitized generation y'er (such as myself) their not well-suited, mainly because the pathos of the protagonists seems too extravagant to us.

Try reading all of it before starting a fucking shit thread about your premature ejaculation of an opinion

Is this your first Russian book or what? They take 200 pages just to get going. A lot of people like the idiot better than the Karamazov brothers

>>8794650

http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

get to work, lads.

>>8794663
Quality list

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What's reading?

>>8794553
read a book about the history of philosophy, you'll get a grasp about lots of philosophers and what was their ideas

>>8794559
Sophies world?

>>8794553
You've applied to Oxford for PPE, haven't you?

The greatest single work of philosophy

>>8794551
I tried this summer. It would take me a long time to understand each proof, but once everything falls into place it is extremely satisfying. I eventually slacked off for a week and forgot too much to just jump back in.

>>8794555
this is not really such a crazy idea to think about

i can't imagine /lit/ getting budged off the neetch but if they did this would be my pick

good call anon and cheers op, /lit/ delivers

A woman's body will never be as aesthetic as that.

>>8794547
>dicklets
>aesthetic
Pick one and only one.

>>8794601
Not everyone is a sexual deviant

>>8794470
Philosophy forst of all, as a foundation.
Self-help books next if they are focusing on practice.

Philosophy is probably 80% of the deal.

Thinking Fast and Slow
The Power of Habit

Both are science books, first you need to understand how your brain works before anything else

>>8794478
Wrong. You need to understand how your soul works and science is unable to tell you anything about the soul.

You want the Bible and philosophy.

women's main sexual goal is a man who feels dangerous and powerful (cocky/abusive/rich) but also gets society's approval (so an Austen character)

it's why they love Snape in fiction but would never in a million years love anything like Snape in real life. Snape the character has society's approval whereas Snape in real life would be an off-putting alcoholic

>>8794531
And what women are "decent" nowadays? (Not to imply that women were ever "decent").

Show me a woman that does not wield her sexual beauty as a weapon or a bargaining chip. Show me a woman that values a man for the passion in his heart. Show me a woman who believes that restraint is among the highest of human virtues. Show me a woman whose selectiveness is not an act to be played on and off as a tool of spite.

Show me a woman who actually has a shred of respect for herself in an age of vanity, one who has proven her nobility even in freedom or independence.

I will treat that woman like a queen and carry her on my shoulders so that, in her elevation, she might breath purer air than I. She will have the key to my soul without a single thread attached, and the kindest honey from my tongue whenever I'm awake to give it. (I have only met one such girl out of thousands, and even she eventually fell.)

To any other, I will use as I wish to use (and, more troubling, as they tend to wish to be used). They will play their games until their beauty begins to fail them. Most will go unpunished, marrying the desperate and resourced, and some even continue their debauchery well past the white-veiled date of secret salvation.

I don't believe in hell, so if I can punish a whore by simply playing her game and then beating her at it, I will.

>>8794538
>I will treat that woman like a queen and carry her on my shoulders so that, in her elevation, she might breath purer air than I. She will have the key to my soul without a single thread attached, and the kindest honey from my tongue whenever I'm awake to give it.

But women don't want that. I bet no woman cares about the part where Darcy helps Lydia. That's the least of his attractiveness. They don't want someone to treat them right. They want the cocky asshole who seems distant but actually has a heart of gold. Why you'd believe woman would want you to be a gentleman is beyond me.

fuck that second sentence wasn't a question. sorry.

>>8794285
fuck, I forgot to add a coma after "fuck". UGGGGGGGH.

>>8794282
I mean, you've posed the query kind of retardedly but Gödel, Escher, Bach is what you want, OP.

Both reddit :)

Pynchon no doubt

>>8794252
Those are both photos of the same man. Are you making fun of us