Good Pen Names Thread.
Useable Pseudonyms only.
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Wolf Blitzer
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Barakka Cherugga
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Clint BEASTwood
Seriously, what *is* 'post-modernism', and why does this place love it so much?
Sum it up, because it mostly just seems like people getting mad over Žižek/Foucault/etc.
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>>7796192
A majority of post modern works came before Foucault and Zizek were publishing. Postmodernism is largely a response to modernism
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>>7796198
And what is modernism?
Why should I be happy about post-modernism?
All the stuff I see about it is entirely divorced from normal political theory/terminology; conservative/liberal/etc.
What's it all about?
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>>7796205
A highly selective tradition that defines itself by what it breaks from.
To break away from it or imagine something different is to endorse it or recognize it and land yourself right in the post
Why can contemporary be contrasted with modernism for its nowness?????
James Joyce now and forever mothefucuke
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Trying to write for a short story contest by university association. price is 2000$
theme is
>Wild
What do you guys think of it ?
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>>7796125
wild as the adjective, not the wild like nature or something although it's related
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>>7796125
Write about how a lvl 20 nub got led into the wildy for a drop party, but then got attacked by a group of lvl 80s wearing rune armor.
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wish my uni had one of those, it would help me to write more
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When does your writing stop improving?
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Hey /lit/.
I've been writing roughly 1000 words a day since i was 15. In total, I've written the first drafts of three novels and four novellas, as well as countless short stories and bits of poetry. I've filled 13 notebooks with first drafts written in my awful handwriting.
I've recently finished the fifth draft of what i hope to be my first novel. I've given it to my English teacher who has been kind enough to read and edit it. I've also given it to a former teacher (now a published author, making a living from his book sales) who tells me it is, with some revision, good enough to get published, and has promised to help me with the process.
My question really is when do you know you're ready to try and get published. I look back on what i wrote even a few months ago and i can see easily how much I've improved. What I'm afraid of is, if i am successful in getting published, that I'll leave something in my name that is both inferior to what i hope my writing ability will be later in life and contradictory to my beliefs and personal philosophy, as i have only recently turned eighteen. In short, I am afraid that i will be seen as immature.
I've gone from imitating Pynchon and Wallace to Faulkner and Kafka to David Markson. Right now i read what i have written and i can't tell whose style it is I'm trying to imitate. I don't know if i've finally developed my own style or am simply too short sighted to see the similarities.
What do you think? My main issue is that i am too young, and i'm not sure if i'm ready to publish something i may look back on as a blemish on my record.
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When you die or they stop writing, duh
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>>7796019
>When does your writing stop improving?
>My question really is when do you know you're ready to try and get published.
These are two different questions.
Your writing will only stop improving when you stop working on improving it, whether that's out of laziness or senility.
You know you're reading to try and get published when you look at a piece of published work and be certain that you're as good as if not better than it, or you've done that and reached a level you're proud of.
Your published author friend will probably help you get something a little sub-par published, do it if you want. Probably best until you're out of school and confident you can get something published without nepotism.
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Stop thinking in a larger or career context, just throw at the wall and see what sticks
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What are some other books like this?
I mean sense of no time or an exact location. Feel like there is no difference between first and last pages.
Feeling like it is a whole organism consisting of same and identical parts.
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Lolita and V. are similar, in that the reader must forgo their sense of 'what's happening' to appreciate the prose
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>>7795930
this recommendation is awful
look it's obvious you don't read a lot you don't need to shoehorn in the few books you have read into everything
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>>7795934
this
Some good architecture books?
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also interested in suggestions for this
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Can architecture be properly written about without the assistance of images?
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There's a shortage of architecture majors in /lit
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What percentage of all novels that are written get published?
What percentage of published novels actually get the writer anything more than $6000 per year?
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>>7795723
>a small percentage
>a very small percentage
But mind you, most novels are shit or written by crazies. The trick is to write something that isn't shit.
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>>7795723
Traditionally published? Very few. But that's because they go off marketing data and hot trends. A lot of users on this board seem younger. If you really want to write and make a living off it, watch/listen to podcasts on writing. Self publishing is a viable option now. There are legit services too that will advertise and review your work. Also podcasts are always looking for new authors to talk to. You could spread your numbers that way.
The day of the old writer who doesn't communicate with the world is gone. You need to be vocal. You need social media. You need to interact to be successful.
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>>7795723
An impossible statistic to know - people write novels and do nothing with them.
Better would be to look at the proportion of slush piles that is binned by agents/ publishers. That would be the vast majority.
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Hey /lit/, it's my first time here and I've never read a book in my life. I'm feeling like I'm missing out in life for not reading one. What books should you recommend to me so that I can slowly get into literature?
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Boku no Rainbow.
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it really depends what youre looking for, but maybe something like brave new world
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Finnegan's Wake
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I'm a russian pleb whose father was always taken to drinking alcohol hitting my mom along the way. So i was pretty much like a lowbrow from my very childhood. 3 years ago i somehow managed to realize that i'd like to be studying English. So by using the internet i'd tackled doing so right away, and of course without resorting to any teacher for i'm probably the poorest man even compared to my peers here in russia. Begging your pardon for my bad grammar in advance cause believe it or not I haven't even tried to learn the grammar yet, all that i learn i do in a context, but eventually i will so don't bug me about that, okay? Given the fact that I have recently got an opportunity to come to france, not to mention about love for french classic literature itself, I felt the necessity to learn the language itself for that reason. What I'm curious about is whether or not it would be any harder than english and what are the main differences between french and the latter? Does french have a freer word order? Are genders of nouns hard to memorize, do you have some rules that could help with defining the right one in a certain noun?
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Harder than english for sure. Many french words in english, fewer the other way around but since you're probably not going to rely on etymology much that doesn't make a difference from your perspective - your knowledge of english will make learning french a bit easier.
Sentence structure is generally speaking looser in english. French is more flexible than it's given credit for, but you'll see little of that in practice.
There's little to no logic behind the genders. Learn through habit or (like many late learners) get them wrong without missing a beat, it can be charming.
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your grammar is pretty fine i'd say
since english is my first language i don't know how it's difficulty compares to french but french isn't too hard to learn especially if you're living in france
in either case good luck with whatever you do
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>>7795614
French is much easier than English, much more regular both with respect to morphology and grammar.
What is the angriest you have ever been in regards to something /lit/ related?
For me, it was when my nieces were telling me about their reading in school. My oldest niece (12) was reading To Kill a Mockingbird.
I told her we were not allowed to read that book because of the use of racial slurs throughout it.
>Oh, they take those out now.
I asked to see her book and saw where the text had been blacked out wherever there were words that would be considered offensive.
I never thought I could be so mad. I don't usually get political, but the censorship of this book and many others is the left at work. It is just as offensive to light the god damned book on fire to me and these fucking, whiny, PC-enabling, half-faggots are the dirty shits in charge of the foundation of American mindsets.
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Probably when I learned Lena Dunham had a NYT best seller.
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ITT: triggered hurtbutt
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>>7795530
>the left at work
Try again, faggot. Neoliberal identity politics are a direct result of centrist conservacuckery.
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Can I trust The Anarchist Library? Isn't it a US government trap?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
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>>7795506
Socialism is part of the government, so yes its a trap but in a different way than you might think. There is no ancap stuff there, so its not anarchist.
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>>7795506
What is this?
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>>7796974
>ancap
>anarchist
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I coded a website on which you can begin a story and let people continue it. 2016-03-10 16:09:26 Post No.7795466
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I coded a website on which you can begin a story and let people continue it.
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Check it out on: www.nessir.com
What do you think about the idea, and do you like the launch video?
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>>7795466
First of all, you need a better logo my man
The video is awkwardly crammed on the bottom of the page, try fixing that.
Also, you need a better video my man. Don't try to save reading or something, just tell people about how your site is about collaborative writing.
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It's Perfect, I Wouldn't Change A Thing!
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Could you guys point me to authors with extremely poetic prose style of writing, filled with metaphors and imagery? A well-known example of what I desire is Nabokov; the ideal of what I desire is the prose parts of William Shakespeare.
I'm not looking for prose poems, as are the final works of Rimbaud. What I want are writers who work on short-stories and novels, in works that have a plot and characters, but whose verbal texture is notoriously poetic.
Other examples (not as extreme as Nabokov) would be Gogol (who some times produces a wonderful succession of metaphors and poetic detail) and Dickens (who alternates dry and direct narrative passages with magnificent passages of verbal color).
tl; dr: short-story writers and novelists who use a prose filled up with poetic metaphors and colorful imagery.
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Joyce
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>>7795323
Could you post more examples of things like:
>“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit."
Or the last paragraph of "The Dead"?
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wallace stevens
herman melville
virginia woolf
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Is *he* the savior we were all waiting for? Is he the hero *we* deserve?
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>>7795252
> Hailed by Jose Saramago as the best writer of his generation
OK, where to start?
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>>7795252
>savior
>hero
>not white
[redpill]tears buddy[/redpill]
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>>7795370
I want Gawker to leave.
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Just finished reading this.
Should I like it?
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you read it, you tell us.
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Well I did but who the fuck am I. I could be Frank Herbert shilling for all you know.
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>>7795045
>I could be Frank Herbert shilling for all you know.
:o