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>>8166928
Wake up early every day, drink water, sit down and force yourself to write. Creativity doesn't come from nowhere, you have to channel it. It's the best feeling.
Usually I get up at around 4:00 and write for four hours a day, or do something. Drinking water, listening to classical music, stretch. By 8:00 and when work starts, I've already written for 4 hours, so at least I've got that going for me.
Good luck anon

>>8166935

I applaud you for being able to wake up that early man. 4 is a little too early for me.

I plan on writing this over a long period of time since I have school and work right now, but I'll definitely try to cut some time out of my week to just sit and write. You're probably write too, earlier the better.

Just break it into parts. A book is just a series of chapters, a chapter a series of pages, a page a series of paragraphs, a paragraph sentences...

You can only work at the level of words, sentences, pages and chapters. So don't get overwhelmed by the big picture. Just make sure to link up each smaller unit so it fits into a greater whole.

>>8166905

Solid Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls is better though imo

So far the only Hemingway I have not enjoyed was The Sun Also Rises. Literally a chore finishing it and I still think it's one of the worst books I've ever read.

This was gonna be a recommendation thread but my gf broke up with me and so I'm just gonna kill myself

>>8167099
do it, faggot

Lydia Davis.
Almost No Memory is my favorite short story collection.

I consider each entry within my diary desu to be a short story desu.

>>8166870
I think Borges took it a bit far, you can count the number of pages in his stories in your fingers, but he's definitely the greatest short-story teller.

Try Flannery O'Connor, she's a southern Gothic short story author and easily one of my favorite authors period.

I'll start:

riverrun past Eve and Adam's, through swerve of shore and bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicous of recirculation to Howth Castle and Environs...

Aujourd'hui, maman est morte

how would anyone come even close

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>>8166802
Only one

i strongly doubt it's a quote of lao tzu though it's possible

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Reade#Attributed

>self help

just a dumbed down philosophy

just read philosophy, thats the true self help.

Watership Down

>>8166732
the razors edge

>>8166741
Seen the animated feature, it was alright, even great at times but I wouldn't read a book now.

>>8166748
Funny, just googled to see what's that and thought of Hesse as soon as I saw the description. I'm not too into spiritual journeys being at the forefront of an actual one.

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>>8166675

>tfw you finally let go and close all 52 tabs you have open and you feel like a new man

It's a great feeling that I have the pleasure of having every month or so

>>8166675
>using the reddit skin

>not using Tree Style Tabs
Why even firefox

I'm thinking of doing it, I got halfway through it a few months back and I sort of put it on pause, I really want to finish it though

No because I'm on a trip and didn't bring it with me, but I do plan to find an Irish pub to celebrate if I can. But I like to think that Bloom lives with me and within me everyday.

I'm going to a public reading tonight with Guinness and music. Was gonna get some kidney and gorgonzola but I forgot.

Anyone else have plans for today?

>>8166517
he was redpilled about SJWs and inferior races

>>8166526
>"You have committed one of the greatest stupidities — for yourself and for me! Your association with an anti-Semitic chief expresses a foreignness to my whole way of life which fills me again and again with ire or melancholy. … It is a matter of honor with me to be absolutely clean and unequivocal in relation to anti-Semitism, namely, opposed to it, as I am in my writings. I have recently been persecuted with letters and Anti-Semitic Correspondence Sheets. My disgust with this party (which would like the benefit of my name only too well!) is as pronounced as possible, but the relation to Förster, as well as the aftereffects of my former publisher, the anti-Semitic Schmeitzner, always brings the adherents of this disagreeable party back to the idea that I must belong to them after all. … It arouses mistrust against my character, as if publicly I condemned something which I have favored secretly — and that I am unable to do anything against it, that the name of Zarathustra is used in every Anti-Semitic Correspondence Sheet, has almost made me sick several times."

Objecting to his sister Elisabeth, about her marriage to the anti-semite Bernhard Förster, in a Christmas letter (1887) in Friedrich Nietzsche's Collected Letters, Vol. V, #479.

Sorry :/

>>8166535
I'm pretty sure that's a forgery.

>>8166500
One cannot learn to write a novel.

One is inspired.

>>8166500

Why do you need a book? You just think of a story and write it down lol

The Portable MFA

The Making of a Story

>>8166563
>muh unique artistry

>>8166412
If you feel like an intellectual and do things intellectuals do, you have good chances of actually being an intellectual.

>>8166412
take the redpill

>>8166412
Thank god for this thread, I thought /lit/ was a boring place not like my maternal /b/ and homely /r9k/.

reddit.com/r/hugeboobshardcore
or
bigboobsfilm.com

both excellent

lacan.com

how many unread emails do you think zizek has in his university inbox
?

>>8166284
Houellebecq makes me chuckle.

Possibility of an Island and Soumission both were pretty funny.

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>>8166300
hmm that doesn't seem to be quite what I'm looking for

I feel like any author who wants to write something people will refer to as "literature" wont spend their time writing something light-hearted.

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>>8165792
>go to goodreads to add it to my to-read
>see this as first (most liked) review

what the fuck us the world turning into?

>>8167613

It's almost as if you shouldn't read hardcore body horror dystopias if people (women) having a bad time is triggering to you.

>>8165792

It's excellent, and I used to consider it my favourite as well. Not so much after reading Gogol and Borges, who I legitimately consider the very GOAT of the medium, but it still ranks highly.

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>>8165220

>>8165220
The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut.