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Is Stanford's English program good as compared to say, Yale or Columbia's? Does the predominance of STEMfags make the community significantly less helpful/enlightening to the path of a budding fiction writer?
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>>8011779
Also, do any of you guys go here? If so, what are the students like, particularly the English students?
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Yale is a joke tier school after all that SJW bullshit on their campus, the education is laughable, if you go to yale for english you will learn more about how shitty negress writers actually wrote shakespeare
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>>8011804
That's what I kind of feared, seeing as how bloom hated teaching there so much.
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I wrote a short story. What do I do with it? Can I submit it for editing somewhere? Get it published? No idea what I'm doing.
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Edit it yourself. You can submit it to some sort of zine or anthology, even get paid for it depending on how good it is.
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>>8011714
Where? Is there a list? Do I just Google? Don't want to get ripped off. Do I submit to multiple at once?
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You could try submitting it to a contest.
A book about a never ending library? It's supposed to be a classic? Anybody know which book I'm referring to?
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>>8011618
Wasn't it that one episode of Avatar?
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Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Library of Babel"
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It's this good enough to become an elite writer?
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Anyone can write. But to be noticed, you have to have original and creative ideas, and btw most of these are shunned by society
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>>8011467
If you have to ask permission to be a writer, from idiots like us, with the implication that IQ is the determining factor in whether you can produce content, then no, you can't become an elite writer.
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>>8011467
Is IQ even related to creativity or language? I know a few very intelligent people who are really bad at redacting.
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The only good parts of this book are the descriptions of hell
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>>8011386
one could say the same about Portrait of an Artist.
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>>8011386
I might have taken you seriously if you had have said 'Satan's speeches' instead of 'the descriptions of hell.'
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Are we seriously supposed to be rooting for God, cuz he's really boring compared to Satan who's a cool guy imo
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yo /lit/ what are some books on social engineering. I hope to be as good as this man some day .
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>>8011385
How to Win Friends and Influence People
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go away pleb, you're not going to fucking read them and you know it
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>>8011385
plato- the republic
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>search for a book you love (best if read in high school) followed by "book trailer" or "class trailer"
>share your findings with 4chan's /lit/ board
>try not to be too hard on the creators
Catch-22 Book trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRwlNNbUnGk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSmqZYzxBN4
Wow, why the fuck is this a thing?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Z7uS_th-M
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>>8011391
lmao
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What does /lit/ think of this book?
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>>8011339
I imagine lit both likes and dislikes this book due to varying reasons.
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>>8011339
i have literally never heard of this book
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Nice hard SF, cardboard characters
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What does /lit/ think of DH Lawrence?
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>>8011335
P good.
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I like his poems about animals.
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On paper, I ought to hate him. But I like his poems. In spite of being god damned free verse &c.
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Which version is the best? Which English translation?
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The original desu
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>>8011305
The German one
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This is one of the greatest books I've ever read. I'm currently taking a course in Italian just so I can read it the way it was originally written.
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>>8011269
Is it better than If on a winter's night a traveler? I expected to enjoy that one a lot more than I did.
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>>8011277
wow I feel bad for you. that shit was choice man.
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>>8011277
One can't compare them. If The Baron In The Trees is Calvino's most traditional novel, and Winter's Night is his most experimental novel, then Invisible Cities is his most... esoteric? I wouldn't even call it a novel. I sat down and read it as an actual account of Marco Polo's tales to Kublai, even though it's clearly not. Very philosophical. It's very much like Nietzsche's The Gay Science in how one reads it.
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Do female philosophers exist?
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>>8011209
>being this pleb
Stop any time.
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>>8011217
>christian mystic
>french
literally who?
are there any authors that just release stream of consciousness pieces with absolutely no editing?
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>>8011158
anon
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Kerouac, sometimes
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>>8011158
My diary desu
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hey /lit/
i got my first payment for writing. i don't have anyone to tell so i thought i'd post it here
thanks for reading
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>>8010918
What do you do exactly? Do you see yourself supported solely on writing?
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>>8010952
>What do you do exactly?
selling erotica on amazon.
>Do you see yourself supported solely on writing?
maybe. if i put enough time and effort into it. i didn't publish anything for a few months and the sales slowed down to a crawl. but i've started writing them again recently
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>>8010974
Interesting, what's the market in erotica like? Did you self publish or go through an editor?
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Why does he write about food so much?
Is it because he's a fatty?
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It's easy to write about, and he's a lazy writer with little literary creativity.
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>>8010892
Nope, his weight issue is due to a glandular disorder, and his keen interest in food is a completely unrelated matter.
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>>8010919
kek