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Summarize the literary scene of our time as if you're writing an article about it in the year 2500.
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写于21世纪初的唯一好的文学作品是中国人
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>>8317478
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>implying we know what people in the year 2500 will accept as readable
>implying i will ever be in touch with my time
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>tfw i hate my inner reading voice
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>>8317296
I just see the words and sort of internalize them.
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>tfw your inner voice is quite common.
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>tfw you love savoring every word
speedreadfags are missing out
Greetings, my name is Ángel David Revilla and I'm a writer.
My book, Moon of Pluto is already available in libraries of all over the world.
Buy it, I know you will going to like it.
Thank you.
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>>8317293
fuck u dross
piece of shit
your book is worse than Miss Prism Three-volume novel
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2016-07-24 23:24:10
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>>8317293
if it's available in libraries, why would i buy it, dross?
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>>8317293
Dross, coño.
No es un buen libro, aprovecho para decírtelo de nuevo. Te mando muchos saludos y de verdad creo en ti como artista y creador, pero Luna de Plutón deja mucho que desear.
Un abrazo desde Venezuela.
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I am not sure where to start my story about a human that gets abducted at a young age and is train to fight Gladiator style in an intergalactic Colosseum, he later escapes and becomes a pirate. Should i start with a prologue chapter explaining the abduction and 15-20 years of training, escaping, and abuse or skip right into the action with a debut fight?
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What do you want to focus on?
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>>8317300
I want it to be a long book and possibly a series of books so I was originally going with the prologue but I wasn't sure how to start the prologue.
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>>8317322
You can probably jump straight into the Debut fight and just let there be little flashbacks of his past as he goes along (that can help as fuel for his rebellion), and say you can end the first book with his escape
How does that sound?
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Any books like this series?
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>>8317269
Clive Barker's Books of Blood, John Dies at the End, Dresden Files. Silence of the Lambs/Manhunter to a degree
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agatha cristie
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What the fuck? Stuff like this is exactly why normal people like myself are so alienated from reading books. A guy turns into an insect and that's the story? Where's the entertainment, the action, and the character development? The absurdity of this story is only a reflection of other books, and through reading this useless book I have learned the truth about books in general, they are boring and without objective or purpose. Fuck books.
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No one cares
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>>8317215
You don't get it. It's the story of how one day, a man becomes a Turk and thus everyone sees him for what he really is.
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Ugggh how the fuck do I focus on a book? I keep getting distracted.
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1. pick something you genuinely want to read
2. read somewhere quiet and away from distracting technology
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What's with all the retarded threads lately?
If you want to read, then read.
If you don't want to read, then don't.
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What did /lit/ read in middle school? 2016-07-24 22:17:16 Post No.8317161
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What did /lit/ read in middle school?
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Pic related for me. Koontz was my favorite author in middle school. I read about half of his books before I grew up. I still enjoy him but realize his books are pulp trash, like most best-sellers these days.
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>>8317161
middle school? thats like 10-13 years old right? some of the novels i think i read around that age:
The Metamorphosis
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Ficciones
some Kant and Nietzsche as well
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>>8317171
You read these for fun you fucking tryhard?
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CHERUB series, Harry Potter, Disney Comic Books
yeah that's pretty much it
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What are some patrician scifi/specfi novels or short stories
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>>8317090
Roadside Picnic
The Dispossessed
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>>8317090
Riddley Walker
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>>8317090
is that Donald
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I've always wanted to write a song/poem.
How do you do start writing one?
I've always enjoyed wordsmithing, so if I had some rough draft, I'm sure I could work something out, but I have no clue how to start. Everything I write makes me feel like an edgy teenager who thinks his problems are Unique™ and that No One Else in the World Understands Him™.
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>>8317047
>an edgy teenager who thinks his problems are Unique™ and that No One Else in the World Understands Him™
write about that
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Don't just write off what you feel then, process your inner world into significant art.
Also read poetry and study the different structures of verse, rhyme, etc.
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>>8317047
That's how you start. Just keep writing and read more.
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What program do you use to write? Pen and paper need not apply.
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>>8316938
Notepad.
>Pen and paper need not apply.
What? But it's a completely different experience when you write on paper.
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>>8316938
I use pen and paper.
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Pencil and paper.
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Is it illegal to copy out the first couple of chapters of once semi-famous but now obscure novels and send them to literary agents to see if they'll be accepted or not?
I recently sent out the first three chapters of John Barth's "The Floating Opera" and it was rejected 7 times.
I then sent out the first three chapters of John Edward Williams's "Nothing But The Night" and had the same result.
Can I get v& for this?
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Probably. If you get caught then "It was just an experiment!" Is going to sound extremely feeble.
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>>8316931
nope, but they're also better read than you and think you're a loser plagiarist
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Did they explain the cause for rejecting it? Because maybe the first thing they check is if it's not a copy of other works.
Also, answering your question, I think it probably is illegal, but you'll hardly get caught as long as you don't actually send the full work as yours if requested.
How do you write something you can't make yourself believe in?
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>>8316891
by getting paid for it
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>>8316891
read more about it.
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>>8316909
where do I read about the existence of active female sexuality?
The concept of a woman actively seeking herself into a sexual situation for any other reason than a subconscious, compulsive urge to hurt herself is just completely fake to me.
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>"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
Did he mean it?
Religious types always bring up that little line against Nietzsche. The context, however, involves it being spoken by Zarathustra's frantic shadow - which is undergoing some sort of existential panic/turmoil on account of having no cause, after which Zarathustra promptly tells it to calm down, go to his cave and rest.
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I'm aware that this is a bait thread, but Alamut is a fantastic novel even if you've played AC.
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>>8316878
KEK
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>>8316878
I think he meant it.
Truest quote I ever stumbled upon.
Read "Illuminatus!" by RAW if you like it.
Thoughts on a setting. A space ship lost adrift that eventually devolves to a late medieval stage with limited understanding of the ships technology
Using only this book I found at Goodwill as my knowledge on the subject
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>>8316856
Oh fuck it's a sequel
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Let us forget about OP.
What do you think of Ken Follet /lit/?
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>>8316856
Go back to /r/WritingPrompts, pleb