Just read this supposed classic.
Why does anyone care about this? It's just a bunch of clumsy ancient cosmology.
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Some people are interested in ancient cosmology
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>tfw to intelligent for natural philosophy
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>>9929843
Read Parmenides faggot
Plato is one of the greatest ever
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what do you do when you simply don't have any idea where to start with a story? throughout the day i'll have a number of ideas for specific situations, settings, tones, atmospheres etc. i want to write in, but i'm hopeless when it comes to plot and character. and i realize plot matters a little less when you have a realized character to drive the story forward but i struggle with this too.
so basically i'm wondering if there are any exercises you guys use for forcing yourself to write something even if it's not going to come to anything, like prompts or archetypes you'll start from. i don't want to sit around waiting for inspiration to strike, and i think the best way to find it is simply to exercise my writing, but i just don't know where to start and i always trail off super early into every piece of fiction i attempt.
do you any of you experience a similar struggle/know tips to move forward?
sorry for the total mess of a post
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Sometimes I try grinding some pages without a direction and see if it gets me in the mood to actually write. A couple of times I went outside with bad intentions, it was more inspiring.
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>>9929841
Stop typing and write. If (you) write already write with your non-writing hand. This is slow and awkward and ideas will seem to dam up. When you feel the pressure of this switch back to your writing hand or keyboard. Weird. But it sometimes works for me. Feels like I get another part of my brain involved that usually isn't at all.
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What should i expect?
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Teen angst.
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>>9929819
i remember hearing a lot of hype about the book but it just looks like YA trash
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Prince of Fools trilogy was much more interesting desu, it was a lot more funny and the characters were a lot better
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Is there a guide or manual that really helps one to build complex plots? Or can you guys offer me some help?
I was intending to write a comedy (a play), and I would like to have some 3 plots happening at the same time, the main plot, A, a subplot for comic relief, B, and maybe even another subplot, C.
Yet I would like all the plots to converge at the end, like in the plays of Shakespeare or in good movies. The problem is: I do not know exactly how to organize myself to construct the plot. Is there any help you guys may offer me? For example, how do I organize myself to write a complex plot like Twelfth Night or A Midsummer Night Dream?
In other words, how to solve the Rubik's Cube of complex play/movie plotting?
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>>9929806
Start from the end and work your way backwards.
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>>9929810
It makes some sense actually
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Who is the GOAT in fiction and why is it Stephen King?
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>>9929791
Bait harder
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>if you like Stephen King you're a brain dead turbo pleb
>if you hate Stephen King you're a pretentious faggot snob
What's the right opinion to have?
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>>9929816
>What's the right opinion to have?
Unironically liking his short works while simultaneously hating his longer works save for Dark Tower because his character development is trash and his plot lines typically fail to exceed "meh" at best, this proving to be a poor time investment.
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Some thoughts on education and political priorities
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Has anyone read this? It's a 200+ page essay by Dominic Cummings, who ran the Leave campaign in the Brexit referendum.
https://dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/20130825-some-thoughts-on-education-and-political-priorities-version-2-final.pdf
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Hey Dom.
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Doogie Howser ass mufucka
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Was Babbitt gay for Paul Riesling
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Yea
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>>9929702
Oh wow
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just finished the part about fate
what am I in for, fellas?
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fellas?
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>>9929697
Lots of anal and vaginal rape
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Crimes is my favourite part but I read it pretty quickly
I imagine if you're a slow reader the monotony might kill you
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I want to write a research paper on Leviathan. Here I will post covers of interesting books.
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How do drugs affect your writing, /lit/?
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badly
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>>9929641
I've never done a drug I could write to.
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>>9929641
I only write when I'm on benzos and something else. So I almost never write. I don't know why that happens.
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Thoughts on this guy? I think he's pretty great as far as pulp authors go. I met him at a con once, nice guy.
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He isn't a pulp author though and his writing is garbage.
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Read some of his books. I really, really don't get the appeal. Must be a normie thing. I don't think he can write.
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>>9936522
I am halfway through American Gods and I would have thought I was the target fucking audience. Norse pagan, /tg/fag, antimodernity, the whole laundry list.
I'm pretty widely read but not any kind of perfect patrician, and normally writing doesn't distract me from following plot and characterisation, but I keep finding myself watching the wheels turning and seeing the technique clunk and clang its way down the staircase. A bit disappointed desu.
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Book about pomegrenates, kings, and servants 2017-08-23 04:05:13 Post No.9929639
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Book about pomegrenates, kings, and servants
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I remember reading this book as a kid, very vaguely though, that was named 'Pomegrenades something*. I tried googling it but got only Wilde's House of Pomegranatas, which is not the one.
The story is set in a medievel city, which has a large pomegrenade tree. There lives a king in a castle in the city. A man works for the king as a servant and he is thrown out of service. Now the man has a son, whom goes to the castle to talk to the king or work for him.
Anymore I can't remember and I'm not sure I even finished the book. Do you remember any books like this?
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Pomegrenades Butt Orgy
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>>9929643
No, that's not it. Thanks anyways!
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bump
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Do far-left readers of Nietzsche just flat out ignore chapter 9 of BG&E?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCLmEeDTG60
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commit suicide twitterfag
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>>9936494
Plebs like you never realize that Nietzsche is merely describing something, and that in the same chapter he also includes extreme criticism towards those who decide to live under an aristocratic creed, even arriving at doubting of their mental health.
In real life, Nietzsche was an anarchist.
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>going on social media
Absolutely degenerate
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tfw read the space odyssey series and expected something interesting but it was just a long ass memeing...
I am about to start Rendezvous With Rama...
Is it any better?
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What exactly do you expect?
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I liked most of it but the ending was just a big memefest.
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>>9929638
literally nothing happened in book 2 and 3, and 4 was just a "we can destroy the monolith now XD"
I expected SOMETHING... but nothing arrived.
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what did he mean by this?
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What's hilarious is that Thomas Aquinas says very nearly the exact same thing, but about heretics.
And it even manages to make more sense coming from Aquinas, because Aquinas is worried that heretics will lead people into incorrect beliefs and practices, and thereby endanger their immortal souls after death. Aquinas is worried that heretical ideas, and the people who espouse them, will cause people to be damned to Hell for all eternity.
Meanwhile, Harris is just upset that "dangerous beliefs" will make people miserable only for this life.
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>>9936461
Memes are cancer and bullets are chemo.
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>>9936464
Harris always based his arguement on the idea that these things lead to suffering.
So they are the same even there. Between the idiots Harris is a little smarter in that he is concerned with suffering in the real world while the world Thomas cares about only seems real to people with their head up their ass.
The reason both are nenderthals and ultimatly cowards is that what they are really saying is "I want to kill people that disagree with me". There isn't any more profound statement going on. All the moral meandering is just a way for them to hide their true intentions from others and ultimately them-self.