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I was going to give you a meme answer but I got bored.

Grammarly is good, but to use all of its features you have to pay a subscription.

Still, it corrects your grammar and has a neat cloud system.

>>8745095
I use paper and pen for as long as I can before typing it out. several drafts by hand, typically.
I use Microsoft Word

Cursive.

Invisible just like your genitals.

>>8745055

Being anon is easier than being a tool.

>>8745055
Guy goes invisible and realizes he can't change back and so he goes crazy and attacks people and then they shoot him and he dies.

>>8744953
Only private trackers, but even they may not have what you want. Also can't you convert PDF's to other formats?

>>8744991
>Also can't you convert PDF's to other formats?
Holy shit, you're right, thanks

>>8744953

What's wrong with PDF? Isn't that the format you'd want it in?

>>8744951
>Frog and Troad
Fuck, I misread that and now I want to read a book about that one pleb at the beginning of the Iliad and his robot REEEEs against Chadeus the Far-Thundering Cock.

I am jealous of frog and toad

would it be weird if they fucked?

>>8744930
kys, you fucking retard.

>>8744935
Excuse me?

>>8744930
Who the fuck cares? kys fag

Dude, it can take months.

Go write another and quit being melodramatic fag.

>>8744919
This.

You'd be lucky if you heard back this year. But, a rejection now isn't better than a rejection in the new year, so look up, OP.

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>post story on critique thread
>still not part of western canon
Didn't expect to take this long

Wow, only male lions?

I guess women don't read, is that it?

>>8744890
Male lions sleep more than lady lions, and are thus "lazy". Female lions also sometimes have a mane, so check the ol privilege cism80.

>>8744858

Lmao I wanna see more.

>>8744858

Henry Flower hahahaha

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>>8744791
But I don't think that OP

>>8744797
Tolstoy is miles ahead of Dostoyevsky, only reason he isn't as popular is because Russians banned his books, while pushing Dostoyevsky's very mediocre literature.
The best way to spot a fool is to find out that he likes Dostoyevsky

>>8744791
Why isn't it?

There were no immortal assholes sulking handsomely, IRRC

>>8744734

reddit.com/r/books

>>8744734
You just want to talk about the eagles dont you?

Fine. What if the Eagles had just taken them to Sauron?

Read the Federalist papers and the Anti-federalist papers

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>>8744696
>the perfect system of governance that we have today.

>>8744696
>the perfect system of governance that we have today
Also hamilton is shit. SHIIIT.

>>8744660
Have the smart characters puppet all your opinions and have the dumb characters provide over emotional and fallacious attempts to disagree with them

>>8744660
i think about what kind of far flung melodramatic dialogue people would have in their heads or wish they would have with people

realistic dialogue is the worst for fiction. filler words constitute like actually 40% of most peoples spoken words (uh, um, like, you know, whatever, etc) and most people repeat themselves if not verbatim than close to it at least once, sometimes three times. people also stop in the middle of sentences, get interrupted and get derailed.

i understand my audience wants to escape reality, so my characters speak in complete sentences without filler words, respond substantively to one another and i try to hand-hold the reader to abstract ideas

Compelling dialogue happens every day and all around you.

Make conversation your study. Savor each sentence and pay attention to cadences, intonations, and word choices. Become an eavesdropper. Pay attention to how people speak and for what reasons. Then mimic it.

>>8744641
Homo Zapiens

American Pyscho

>>8744641
Well, what is it?

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>>8744530

>>8744530
The Bible desu ;)

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I'd post myself if I could

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Yes, it is fine.

It isn't purple first of all.

Do I get a prize?

Straightforward, readable prose. Good writing.

>>8744491
It's typical, and makes me want to go dig out a few red pencils from the 1980s strata of clutter in my library and start slashing away. My compulsive involuntary reaction to nearly every over-stuffed paragraph she put in that over-wrought screed.

First, slash all the adverbs.

Those "remarks ... she could not believe" demand an example which goes begging.

It's a fine enough evocation of the girl's POV, that of being surrounded by encoded language of which she is the target, concealed hostility, etc; but Rand writes women worse than most men because of her petrified (frozen in stone) beliefs about how all women should think.

The book has had a nice run, and will continue to do so, but so many millions who have thrown it against the nearest hard surface could have been spared if Rand had been duct-taped to a park bench while a real editor slashed about 45,000 hammer-blow-to-the-head repeating words out of it.