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I'm not looking for poet recommendations, but are there any books on HOW to write poetry? I missed out in college since I didn't take any poetry classes. Now that I have time, I want to learn.
Share any books that helped you/a good starting point.
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>>8054229
If you need a book you'll never know, simple as that. It's not something you are thought
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>>8054231
Ok.
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>>8054229
If you can't learn from reading poetry then why bother? You'll never get good. Just read and try to copy what you like.
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What did he mean by this?
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Books make really good meals.
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>>8054223
He's trying to fool people to stop asking about his writing process to hide he's a lazy lardass
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But all good sausages are pure pork or beef.
I'm thinking about writing a short sci-fi story about bitcoin mining and my character created an amazing algorithm to optimize mining but I can't seem to have ideas for the algorithm. Could someone help me?
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You shouldn't write about topics you are not knowledgeable on.
Somebody with a doctorate in it will inevitably crawl out of the woodwork to personally call you stupid in public.
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>>8054154
You know you don't have to come up with the algorithm itself, right? Just bullshit with technojargon. You're writing a story, not an academic paper.
If you can't even bullshit with technojargon, then you need to do more research else it'll just be NCIS-tier
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>>8054164
It's just for fun so I won't go into details
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Is this an example of a kafkaesque movie?
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>>8054126
mullholland dr
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>>8054126
I wonder if the Big Bang Theory guys ever look over at the careers of the IT Crowd guys and feel jelly
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>>8054126
>literally a Dostoyevsky adaptation
...but yeah, it's actually pretty Kafkaesque tbf.
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http://culture.vg/features/art-theory/on-the-genealogy-of-art-games.html
Nobody will read this but this internet eccentric wrote a really fucking great essay on this subject.
To paraphrase what I remember from it: Has art peaked? No. Have certain art forms peaked? Yes.
How can you look at Shakespeare or Ulysses and compare that to current literature and think anything other than a decline has happened? Or Beethoven and Mozart with current music? I know you'll say that we're comparing the best of the past with the average today, but he gives solid reasons why and how the cultures of art forms decline, meaning that new Shakespeares are not possible within those art forms.
If you are one of those people who insist that Tracey Enim's unmade bed is on par with Michaelangelo's David, you will dislike the essay. If you wonder why an opinion like that could be taken seriously, read the essay.
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>Or Beethoven and Mozart with current music?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te
Classical music (notated for performance by orchestra) has became outdated.
We shouldn't downplay their compositional talent, but we should acknowledge that unless you are making music with the final recording as the piece itself, you are missing out on an entire dimension of musical expression.
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>visual arts peaked with Michelangelo and Rubens
>My Bed doesn't have value
love these memes
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>>8054019
>Has art peaked?
Stopped reading here
Recommend family sagas
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Bellefleur
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>>8053988
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez
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>>8053988
Neapolitan Novels
Bridge on the Drina
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>We Write Together (7 Short or Long Paragraphs Each)
You're waking up to the sound of gulls that squawk up above, in a sky your tired eyes conceal.
A cool breeze passes you, highlighting your front-half is sprinkled wet.
You head feels as light as feather, and your body is floating on water.
“This is the moment that you've all been waiting for!”
A loud male voice is broadcast over speakers some distance ahead, as thousands of people cheer.
Your eyes glint open to blue and yellow, slowly seizing the glare of daylight.
The colours are put in their places, into a sky that shimmers and onto the brilliant Sun that rules there; and they put you in your place as the world becomes clear. You're afloat in an ocean, not so far from land.
You push down your legs to meet sand, and you look across clear water, the way that the cheers came from.
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>>8053974
The purple air rushes clear.
Thin strands propose their contents briefly, but firmly. A soft warm flow begins. Familiar. Yet, not always. A visitor.
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You see over the tops of tropic trees and small, wood shacks, a stadium that's larger-than-life; a sandy beach that's a swim away welcomes you.
A galore of strange, colourful orbs, race to the sky from the open roof of the arena.
You look down at your reflection to your hazel eyes that are adorned with palpitations that look like black branches. Your hair is short black, with a messed-up fringe. Your stern nose is barely broken, and your strawberry lips are apart, as you take in this moment.
You pull your hands above the surface. Your palms are soft and pale, and the tips of your fingers are pink and rounded from nails chewed away. You look at your thin, toned forearms; and the veins that run like rivers across your skin.
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>>8053974
sry but I just had to thank you for posting one of my favorite albums
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Any of yall read this? What's the best translation?
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I GUESS THAT'S A WRAP
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>>8053967
I'm reading Don Quixote and thought reading some chivalry novels after I finish. Are they any good?
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>>8055122
Yes. Orlando Furioso is godly. The Song of Roland is short and sweet. Amadis and Tirant lo Blanch (which Cervantes actually likes) are both nice, too.
Didn't read El Cid yet :( .
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Do I really need to start with the Greeks? Schopenhauer and Nietzsche are much more interesting
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>>8053959
A human being doesn't have to do anything but die.
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>that moment when you realize the four short stories you've written are all part of the same novel
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>>8053901
>that moment when you tell /lit/ pointless information about your life
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>>8053904
Trying to start a thread where everyone shares recent moments in their literary "career"
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>that moment when you started working on keeping a journal of your life and you realise you're hopelessly selfabsorbed
Is T. Hobbes /lit/ approved?
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who cares
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>>8053887
this desu XD
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>marxist board with little tolerance for anything near the right
wht u thnk opie?
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>Keep a notepad filled with short story ideas
>Have a bunch of ideas floating around for longer stories
Should I even bother writing them? I'm not an English major and I'm scared I'll just get laughed at if someone reads my stuff.
I'm a pretty decent writer though, took AP lit in HS and aced both the writing and literature courses my college makes you take.
Any other wannabes that are afraid to apply themselves?
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>I'm a pretty decent writer though
No you aren't.
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>>8053906
You're probably right
Fuck it
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>>8053907
Just do it if you want. Don't overestimate yourself or you're only going to stagnate.
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Using a fake name, of course, which in reality, is part of my hebrew name.
I picked up my 20-somethingson, David,at themetroa few weeks ago. After he got into the car, heput out his hands towards me, and asked:
“Do you likethis color?Kind ofadeep purple. I get a lot of compliments on it.”
YES, DAVID WEARS NAIL POLISH; BRIGHT, GLOSSY, FREQUENTLY CHANGING COLORS, NAIL POLISH. AND IT DOESN’T BOTHER ME. IN FACT,I LIKE THE DEEP PURPLE SHADE.
When David first told us he was gay in his junior year in high school, my husband and I were somewhat surprisedbut when we thought about it, it began to make sense. At first I worriedabout the increased chances that he would develop AIDS and Iwas concerned about problems he would likely face being acceptedas a gay man in the less tolerant world we lived in a decade ago. But the gay part? We had an inkling. O.K., more than an inkling. (and what parent doesn’t?).
As an avid reader and news-watcher, I did havesome knowledge of the evolving gay community.I was aware of the AIDS crisis in the 1980’s, I remember when Barney Frank became the first U.S. congressman to come out as gay in 1987 and when in 1989 a New York Court ruled that it was legally possible for a same-sex couple to constitute a family.
But when our teenage son told us he was gay, my personal knowledgeof what it meant to be a gay man was, unfortunately,tainted by popularmedia stereotypes which told us that most gay men:
* dressed impeccably
* were extremely neat and well organized
* often chose interior design or hair styling as their professions
* had high pitched, effeminate voices
* liked to gossip
* had many women friends
From time to time, in my son’s late teen years, I honestly wondered if maybe he had been mistaken as to his sexual identity. After all, he was incredibly sloppy, his bed room was knee-deep in dirty clothing and he was completely disorganized.Heplanned to major in chemistryand disliked idle chatter.
But the years passed,as he grew into his 20’s,he stayed just as disorganized andmessy, with a fervent dislike for doing laundry–and he remained gay.
He is comfortable with his own identity. And because he is so comfortable, we are too. He has patiently explained that what I first thought I knew about gay men wasall wrong.
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And finally the media has caught upa bit. Wehear about gay football players and (sometimes) see gay men whodon’twear stylishclothing.
Unfortunately, it still makes the news when a gay man isthe first in his field or profession.
Earlier this year, when our synagogue, Temple Sinaiin Washington, DC, hired a new rabbi who happenedto be gay, it became a news story in the WashingtonPost.
“RABBI ADAM ROSENWASSER RECENTLY BECAME THE FIRST RABBI HIRED TO FILL A MAJOR PULPIT IN WASHINGTON WHO IS MARRIED TO SOMEONE OF HIS OWN GENDER. BUT HE DOESN’T LIKE TO FOCUS ON THAT. ‘I’M GAY, BUT I ALSO LIKE TO SCUBA DIVE AND PLAY GUITAR.’“(AUGUST 8, 2014)
Sonow we all know that some men who are football players, some whoare messy and some who are rabbis,can all be gay. And that the fact that they have sexual partners of the same gender is not what defines them.
And there are somemen who wear nail polish. And change colors frequently, and with great pleasure.
But I draw the line at mint green. Adays ago David showed me his latest color, his nails were mint green.Reminded me of medical scrubs, bad memories. Better to go back to the purple or maybe try a new shade, I suggested,how about deep pink?
David looked up at me as if I was crazy, “Mom, I am not that gay”.
O.K., so I don’t totally get the gay male thing yet. But I accept it, and I accept him, purple nail polish yes,mint green no, his color choices don’t define him either.
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thoughts?
Thoughts?
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What's up with the grammar? Can't read that shit.
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OP is a faggot (but not first in your field)
Your mom can't write for shit.
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>he thinks there are logical arguments against suicide
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On a familial or societal level there are.
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>>8053792
ok.
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>logical arguments when context contains human psyche
There are only persuasions
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What a shitty ending
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>>8053710
Hey bitch don't knock my favourite book
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>>8053713was it death that touched his shoulder
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>>8053718Most likely, the same "dark figure" appears in a lot of his work