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>>8232355
Discourse
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Language
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>Language
>Discourse
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>been offered a job writing for a VERY niche and weird erotic online community
>the pay is good
>I could probably cut down my hours at work significantly
I can use a pseudonym of course so I guess it won't be a problem but I still feel weird
If literally anyone found out what I did I'd be considered a cretin
There's nothing illegal about it, it's just relatively unheard of
Would /lit/ take this offer given the chance?
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no, i am uber paranoid and am always afraid of my writing style being recognized. for example i imagine myself publishing a masterpiece only to have my old 4chan comments found in the archive. for that reason on 4chan i try to post in a different style than i write, sometimes i make sentences more clunky than i need to and use words i don't use regularly like "uber". i still fear an algorithm could find my old posts via neural network and reverse engineering the subconscious elements of my sentence structure.
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>>8232171
you're god damn right i'd take that offer. shut the hell up and do it. make dat money and write dat novel, you god damned idiot. this here is real life, son.
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>>8232192
I have thought about all of that too.
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>love writing as a kid
>teachers wrote on reports that I was gifted
>write bits and pieces all through high school, poems mainly
>our high school exam is high-pressure rote learning, the English course killed any love I had for writing
>unsuccessfully tried to break my writers block in college
>Now 25, feel like I can write again
Any advice for me, /lit/? My style is probably underdeveloped or non-existent at this point. I feel like I'm starting late, what should I do to get myself up to speed?
I know Beckett started his main works quite late, but he's not exactly a typical example.
Thoughts?
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>>8232067
Bump. In the same situation
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>>8232067
For every page you write, read 50.
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For every page you write, read 10.000
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I'm a grill. Can you recommend a book on US history?
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Could be historical fiction too. Just anything with the US and history.
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>>8231944
guns germs and steel and killing reagan.
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Recollections of the Civil War by Charles Anderson Dana
It's important to get a viewpoint from both sides, politically too, so be sure to avoid biased books or school textbooks
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So this is just a shitty 1984 right?
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Sorry, haven't read it, but what an atrocious cover.
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It's much better, tbqh
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>>8231941
nah
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>philosopher describes in detail the thought that has been mortifying you since forever
One of the best feelings
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>>8231745
>philosopher gradually introduces some depressing idea
Tossed right into the fireplace.
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>>8231745
I love this feeling too. What are you referring to in this instance?
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>>8231764
>he bought into the life is good meme
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>tfw since a kid my dream has always been to be a songwriter and have a band
>tfw after one month into /lit/ realize music is pedestrian-tier and im already 18 and havent wrote any 1000+ pages masterpiece
jdimsa ;_;
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>18
>hasn't written over 100 songs laced with literary and historical allusions
Yikes
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>>8231671
They would still be just songs.
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>>8231671
>no philosophical allusions
heh
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How do you shake that feeling of elitism? That there is a huge difference( though not necessarily that you are superior) between you and normies so that you can interact with them without an underlying feeling that the conversation is shallow and unworthy of existence?
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You literally break down every single word they utter and then Turn it deep! idk
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>>8231604
I mean, for doing Heideggerian idle-talk
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I'm not really obsessed with showing off my knowledge in any one thing, so I like to engage people on topics that are mutually interesting.
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>tfw there will never be a federal regulation that will limit the sale of any book to ten thousand copies, thus preventing books like 50 Shades of Grey from selling millions of copies while allowing other works from lesser-known writers to reach the hands of readers, which will make way for an improvement in the overall quality of literature
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commie scum
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>>8231480
Why do you care what's popular
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spam enough and youre bound to get a hit *shrugs*
50 Shades of Grey though... heh heh, HELL yeah... never read it, personally, but good book
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>60 pages in
>A pseudo-rape scene with a 13 year old girl
>The girl gets turned on and starts to like it
What is this pedo shit?
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Would you be gay?
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>>8231417
>13 year old girl
>pedo
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I don't see nothin' wrong with a little bump and grind.
Let's assume for a moment I am going to kill myself. What is the last book I should read before I go?
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Of mice and men
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>>8231362
Haven't read it, any particular reason? Or is it just a damn fine book?
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Death of Ivan Ilyitch or Sound and the Fury desu
who /drinking/ and /reading/ here? what are you drinking and reading?
>pic related
>under the volcano - malcolm lowry
pretty fitting desu
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>>8231328
>pic related
whyna juss drink yr cmen?
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>>8231332
i am pretty fucking gay you're right
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>Chateau Vieux Moulin, Bordeaux
>The Castle
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How did I do?
They had a few other books I wanted but they were tarnished .
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you spent $26 on something you're not even going to read
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>>8231238
Bretty good entry-level meme haul
Not sure why you want the purpose of reading Verne is though.
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>>8231241
Well, yes I am. I do admit Anna Karenina is a bit intimidating but eventually I will get to it after i'm done The Idiot. I just finished reading the Pearl by Steinbeck a few days ago and now i'm in the middle of The Catcher in the Rye . Might read The Great Gatsby before the Idiot.
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Claim your literary waifu.
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Katie
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>>8231167
The fuck are you doing with pics of mai waifu on ur computer?
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>>8231167
Flan
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Why did he do it, why did he fucking do it? was it because >tfw no gf? was it because he smoked weed? was it autism?
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yes. now fuck off
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>>8230622
You write, but he's writer.
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>>8230622
>tfw no gf?
He had a wife and could get pussy anytime he wanted. He even fucked his students a few times