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Cummings
Gass
Celan
Joyce
Melville or Hawkes I guess

>>8659282
Virgin detected

who is daria

>>8659233

It's boring college student 101.

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>>8659240
A lower version of hilary supporter ROry

write an outline
(it helps to start with the three act structure)

>>8659224

I've done the three act structure, although the story is going to span about maybe three books, each with the major arc and little ones in between.

I have the basic three act structure for the main three, but for the first which I'm working on is going very slowly, when I get into the "zone" of just pumping paragraph after paragraph I get new ideas, and jot them down. So many ideas that I lose the majority of them, and it becomes really frustrating. It all becomes clear at a few glimmering moments on and off and I wish I could write faster, and faster, and faster, to the point I would be writing at a god speed. I then get flashes of characters, locations, scenes, dialogue, feelings, color, designs, etc. But I lose all the ideas and am only left with the sweet remnants of what was left.

Then, I am left at where I stopped from. From the grinding process of writing from beginning to end, from my random splurt of inspiration.

I have a pretty good idea of what I want for the main plot points in all three works, but I just get overloaded with ideas and designs to the point I just short-circuit myself out.

>>8659287

Some writer (Eco maybe?) said that he never took jotted down ideas because if he forgot it, then it clearly wasn't worth remembering in the first place

My advice is to just think about the first arc in your story and write that whole thing out first

A story changes while you're writing it and after you've done the first draft - there's no point procrastinating by planning and replanning without having completed the first draft

Never join a bookclub - E. Pound's Teacher

first rule of book club is

meetings are at 6 pm est on mondays wednesdays fridays and sundays :)

>Bring philosophy to the masses

OH

GOD

NO

>>8659184
The money.
So tall.
My Barbie gotta climb it.

>>8659184
>$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

>>8659184
Dolla dolla bills y'all

>>8659178
STEER CLEAR

>>8659185
/thread

>>8659185
Fingerblast and cockpunch her womb first tho

He was a fucking weirdo who shut himself up for 50 years.

What a cuck

>>8659110

Beckett said so himself, I'm with you man.

>>8659110
>greatest

*overrated

>>8659083
>tfw mexican
>no one gives you prizes for writing mediocre shit just for being brown
feel horrible hombre

There's already a /pol/ style chimpout about this here:
>>8658169

>>8659092
Alan Moore was more deserving but of course nigger man gets it

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I have lost complacency in my image; I look in the mirror some days and see myself transparently and empty, when others like my mother and my sister say me: What is wrong? I can only whimper bashfully that I am alright. I am a person of principle and have weaved ideas into others that I do not faithfully believe in and to ruin that image that they've known me by for my entire life is something I do not wish to do.

>>8659112
complacency? you want to change? are you considering gender fluidity and arent't sure how to break it to your family? or are you just confused? if it's the first, i'm sure they'll be cool - just bring it up. if it's the latter, do not seek self-knowledge; hit the gym, clear your mind, and boost your test.

prose was 4/10

>>8659125
My family is Catholic and I hate having these thoughts about wanting to be feminine.

Thank you for the 4/10 score, I don't write.

>>8659055
German.

Just read trash fiction. English authors translated to German are fine for the purpose of maintaining fluency.

Schiller, Goethe, Brecht

>>8659055
Archimboldi

>>8659033
Learn French

Read a good translation and/or learn french

I wish I could get into him if you catch my wind

>>8658989
you shouldnt be here, leave now...


WHAT IS THE PASSWORD? THE PASSWORD AT THE DOOR. AHA THERE WAS NO PASSWORD, GET NAKED.

>>8659046
Take drugs to get smarter like all the cool rich kids.
fidelio

>>8658989
If the references set up the context of your main argument or help you make your argument, then it's fine. But I highly doubt 23 pages of refs all serve to do that.

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Garnett endures.

I feel the same way about Tolstoy. I finally read him this summer ( Anna Karenina) and I was completely blown away. That set me off on reading some other Russian stuff. I read Lermontov which was pretty good, and just finished Fathers and Sons which was spectacular. I felt some of the subplots were a little conventional and maybe the book was modest as a whole, but I loved the delicate prose and the psychological sharpness of Turgenev's writing. Want to read more Tolstoy, was thinking id go with Ivan Ilyich next

>>8659026
Check out Novel with Cocaine (actual title). Forget the author's name (too lazy to check my shelf upstairs). By an older, obscure Russian author. Late 19th/early 20th century. Very, very good. Short, too.

>>8658864
I left a hundred dollar bill in that exact copy of GoW when I returned it to the library today and I'm freaking out right now. Gonna be there first thing in the morning to check and ask after it.

>>8658864
>postmodernism

There's that word again

>>8658864
East of Eden is considerably better than this haul.

Guess I'm a pseud

>>8658845
Seems like it

>>8658839

Honest to God, I've never read him. Can you post some of his excellent prose?