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It's not much of anything rn, but I'm working my way through a satirical hip hop musical about two white, upper-middle class kids who are personally offended by Hamilton's massive success; "of course," they say, "the first hip hop musical to get so successful is about white people and white history." So these two kids decide to write an "actual" hip hop musical that "properly defines the black struggle in America."

I have difficulty finding enough disicipline to start writing seriously.

I have probably composed some 50 poems this year - mostly sonnets - and yet all of them have been created in a 'nothing-better-to-do' kind of mood. I have never actually seated on a chair to spend 8 hours a day working on a sonnet in order to POLISH it.

I was thinking of doing in on my two-month vacations, but apparently they will be spoiled due to some courses I will have to take. I wish I was a Literature student, so I could dedicate my life do it, but my family has forced me to study Law.

At any rate, by the end of 2017 I hope to have translated the whole of Guido Cavalcanti's Rime into Portuguese.

Been writing seriously since 2013. I had a few failed projects before then but I decided to actually put my mind to it after my honeymoon. I wrote four novellas in order to warm up to the main event. They were four interlinking stories based in a pub. Very sophomoric stuff in retrospect, very purple, very easily influenced by whatever else I was reading at the time.

After that I spent eighteen months writing a bildungsroman. I'm proud of it and I've been submitting it all this year (to praise, but ultimately rejections) but I don't hold out much hope of it getting picked up at this point. Again, I was struggling with purple prose and after a few drafts I ripped out an absolute shitload of what I thought was 'good' writing at the time.

My latest book, which I should have finished next week, strips all of that purple flowery stuff back completely and gets down to the story. The only thing is it feels a little bit flat now. My previous attempts were at literary fiction but this is more of a mainstream, contemporary effort. Iain Banks writes Breaking Bad, only probably a lot worse than that.

>>8672906
Nice set. Although you won't learn much multi-reading.

>>8672990
I keep a journal of musings about what I read and try to explain and sometimes comment on what I've learned. I'll be fine.

>>8672906
currently reading...
>The Road to Serfdom, by Hayek
>The Collected Poems of Ray Bradbury

The bible
My Twisted World
East of Eden

In Search of Lost Time.

>>8686238
>My Twisted World
Yes, this book has a very healthy message about getting over things.

They all relatively convey the same idea as the original title.

>>8686196
Strangers are only kinda bad, in the sort of pedo way, while foreigners are a constant threat at all times, ideologically speaking.

>>8686196
The stranger sounds closer to the original

>>8685900
Can you give your agent my manuscript?

>>8685900
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sekPVKGLzL3qRYYpziiiDeWlbKawtDUEeD9tICgmh2M/edit?usp=sharing
>Sihanoukville
>dangerous
I take it you never hopped the border to Laos

>>8685900

Can you give your agent my manuscript, too, desu?

>>8685898
Yes, also an autist and a fucking pleb

>>8685898
suicide is always an option

>>8685923
But I'm scared...

Sure, we have a whole sticky just for faggots like you

>>8685531
Watership Down

>>8685538
Don't want shit like 'the great gatsby' or 'the kite runner'

Commercial books are usually rather dull. You won't find a Bukowski in a top 100 books to read.

>>8685495
REALLY MAKES YOU THINK LONG AND HARD, THANKS FOR POSTING

Can you even read?

>>8685495
> The Republic (Of Trolls)

>The Republic is Plato’s lulziest and most dramatic copypasta depicting the classical ideal of win.

>The lulz started when Socrates went to the city to ask people a bunch of stupid questions about justice and virtue. He was stopped by some sophists who were aware of what a successful troll Socrates was and demanded to witness his science. When Socrates asked them what justice is, they said justice is whatever the toughest guy in the room says it is because he could just buttsex you until you agree with him. Using questionable logic, Socrates explained that just because you are strong doesn't mean you aren't also a retard. After pwning these sophists with his powers of unwarranted self-importance, Glaucon showed up. Glaucon said virtue is only a glorified way of attention whoring so people will liek you, and the only reason there are laws you should follow was to shut up some butthurt pussies who bawwwed about Team Rocket stealing their pokemans all the time. Glaucon argued that if one could get away with constant acts of injustice without repercussion, it would make more sense to be unjust because one could profit much more from injustice than from justice. Socrates, ever the moralfag, disagreed and said you should be virtuous just cause. However, being obviously intellectually checkmated, he did what any good philosopher would do in the situation. He completely changed the subject and started talking about politics.

>To Socrates, the ideal state is like the ideal man. Since philosophers like Socrates are the best kind of people in society, he naturally appoints himself mod of his fictional country. His first action as mod is to permaban all writers of Greek mythology fanfiction from the city because he’s tired of putting up with all of Zeus’s stupid drama. Reading epic and tragic stories teaches people the wrong values because all Greek heroes and gods are whiny, paedo nutjobs. The ideal state must therefore be completely free of their emo faggotry.

>>8685472
wtf i hate life now

#colormeredpilled

>>8685472
Who is stopping you from living among the cows?

(pro tip: an edgy poetic response would be "le sigh... I already do")

>why do we think humans are better than animals?

Why do we think cars are better than wheelbarrows?

Movement, I recommended this in other threads to anon's because I read business psychology. Literally moving your body to another place like the library or a nice chair and starting to read can quickly make it a habit. As for 'I don't want to's' or 'not now's' you just have to keep removing excuses.
>no time
do it for 3 mins
>not here
find somewhere
>but reading is boring
find a book you actually care about
>it takes too long
set a timer
etc.
Same theory can be applied to addictions or procrastination. Your feelings only last a short amount of actual time in your brain, the rest is just you ruminating and remembering that feeling, so take action right now and get a book and move your ass.
Also, you only have about 3 seconds of actual consciousness that you have to do this for before your brain starts shifting gears. If you can commit for three seconds, you can do it.

As for videogames themselves, they have a huge influence on the subconscious as far as stimulation goes so you will likely get very bored reading. I suggest trying to overwhelm your senses during reading such as imaging the text illustrated in your mind on a white board, trying to keep a sense feeling in your mind as you read, or concentrate on your breathing.
gitgud

>>8685235
Start simple... Try The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Its only about 100 pages.

I have overcome your problem and feel somewhat qualified to give advice, but before that I need to ask this question: Do you want to read? or do you want to want to read? I suppose another way of expressing this is asking why you want to read?

kill yourself, of course

Are you bipolar?

>>8685237
I'm a bit adhd if that means aything.

>>8685068
What is it, retard?

>>8685077
Its a YouTube channel that does 10-15 minute highlight videos, ranging on various topics like philosophy, history, and politics.


I've watched all their YouTube videos on philosophers, they're extremely good gloss-overs of great subjects.

>>8685082
>they're extremely good gloss-overs of great subjects
There is no such thing s a good gloss-over of philosophy.

>>8684974
Funny, for me it's the other way around. I only get most of my reading done in public transport because there's too much shit distracting me at home. The majority of people doesn't really care what you're reading.

>>8684974
Read for an hour before you go to bed, and in the morning after your coffee

>>8684974
>120 days of sodom
Perhaps you should try reading something else then.

>It was a dark and a stormy night.

(short story)

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and The Dead.

>>8684973
", she said"

yes. read barthes' essay on professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is the quintessential American art form

>>8684907
heh, i liked his idea of wrestling being a modern form of greek theatre.