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Ey lit, i have never seen discussed this writer in this board. Have you read anything by him? I got recently a collection of his stories, but i'm not going to read it yet.
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Yeah I read some of his shorts, King in the golden mask is nicely done
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>>7737813
In general, what do you think about him? Is he underrated?
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>>7737833
Why not read him and find out? Why care so much for /lit/'s opinion?
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How do I become a better writer? I am not referring to writing better stories, or novels, or questions that can be answered simply with " Write more". Instead, I am a writer of non-fiction in academia, and I want to be able to better use things like commas, or dashes. For instance, I know that I use commas far too much; I learned English as a second language, and I was taught to put commas when I naturally took a breath. I know now that approaching commas that way is mostly wrong.
Does /lit/ have any advice?
inb4 writemore.
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comma+usage
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>>7737690
Read all your work out loud. If the commas break the flow of the writing, rewrite.
Re-draft your work frequently, or look at it with "fresh" eyes.
Have other people read your work and ask them which parts worked and why. Which parts didn't and why.
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>>7737725
How do you know when the comma is breaking the flow of the writing? Should I breathe when I place a comma?
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How can we purge psykers from science fiction? Why is superstition allowed to go on unchallenged?
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it makes reading more interesting. not everything has to be 100% realistic because thats unreasonable
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>>7737583
Just read hard sci-fi then or move on to the adult genres of literature you fucking manchild.
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"psykers" are suppose to be the counter to techno-anything
The idea is not the mix of genre but the balance of power so that a techno-universe is not without the spiritual or else it would be a nightmare of human-void or some such
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Why is this book so praised? The philosophical content is so simple it hurts. Very tacky book. It reminds me of the cheesy motivational quotes displayed on a photo of the Eiffel Tower with an instagram filter.
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it's for gay people who haven't come out to their parents yet.
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I think Paulo Coehlo or Marcus Aurelius is more your level.
Why doesn't /lit/ ever discuss Atticus Lish's novel "Preparations for the Next Life"?
Anybody here read it?
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>"surprise" "indie" hit
>by the son of über-editor Gordon Lish
uh-uh
waiting for official 4chan approval before falling for shadowmarketing, desu
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>>7737771
jesus christ. i mean i understand your cynicism but you could also like, you know, try a few pages for yourself and decide that way right? honestly just read the first page and tell me that isn't good...
anyway...
i bought this book last year, read 100 pages of it, really enjoyed it, and then fucking LOST IT...looked for it for two days EVERYWHERE. so someone fucking stole it goddamnit...
but yeah. i like lish's style. pretty perfect mix of minimalism/maximalism. he manages to make 3rd person narration more about the WORLD than about the VOICE which is rare nowadays (while keeping the prose complex)...and which is also big gripe for me (i blame notes from underground).
what did you think OP?
PS if anyone has a pirated copy of this that would be sweet, i don't really want to buy a second copy, even though i probably will
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>>7738245
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/foreignfiction/?s=atticus+lish
I just remember being repelled by the summary and not reading it.
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Is it possible to be a good writer and not also a good drinker?
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shit movie. not enough latent homosexuality
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If this was still 1946 maybe
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fucking obviously
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I want to talk about something, but I don't know what it's called, and I'm sure there's a name for it, so just be patient with me.
So to help you understand what I'm talking about, I want you to consider two things.
Thing ONE
It's been a while since I read The History of Sexuality, but two things really stuck with me (vaguely).
First: the relationship between knowledge and pleasure.
Second: incitement to discourse
Thing TWO
Media titled in this style: 12 Common Misconceptions about the Pinky Finger
I hope this makes sense.
This is like a big thing right? It's a genre of writing/formatting pattern for information. But
**what is it called? And has it been studied or written about?**
People LOVE these kinds of things. It like, you don't even have to present anything new. I feel like at this point, many people don't have misconception anymore, if they have the internet. So you can present any banality in this way, as if you're mythbusting and correcting this big wild mistake everyone shares and people LOVE it.
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>>7737364
The only reason rape is illegal is because women know they are completely worthless to society and by making rape illegal they make sure they can use their cunts to get leverage over men or to simply monetize them.
If rape was legal then women would actually have to work in order to get ahead in society,plus there would be a lot less crime since there would be no Elliot Rodgers.
Rape is a social construct,it's how most animals breed but only humans decided that it's wrong.
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How should I spend this month's Audible credit, /lit/? Which author's prose sounds the nicest when read aloud?
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read the sticky
Look upon your past selves from two years past and ask whether things have really changed
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fewer /his/ posts is always a plus in my book.
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>>7737297
>in my book
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Anyone can make the threads they want to see
Hegel vs Schopenhauer
> Hegel, said Schopenhauer, was ‘a commonplace, inane, loathsome, repulsive and ignorant charlatan, who with unparalleled effrontery compiled a system of crazy nonsense that was trumpeted abroad as immortal wisdom by his mercenary followers...’
Now that the dust has settled, who is the better philosopher?
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Obviously the pessimist.
Schopenhauer actually read Kant, unlike Hegel. He could also actually write.
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>>7737142
Please stop posting these comics.
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>>7737142
hegel is a rationalist who think, contrary to the moderns, that the best way to be free is not to gain power and knowledge on nature, but on society.
two centuries later, we end up with the feminists....
hegel never understood life, to the point of rejecting stoicism, empiricism and buddhism.
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Check my shit out (trying to write and boared). I have 3-4 ideas for 3-4 books and this is one of them so i need a feedback.
Here we go:
Hi. My name is Tom Marhsal. I'm 26 years old guy, recently divorced and tryig to start my new company\life\situation(underline what you like). Oh, i almost forgot, i'm a whore. Yea, kind of a cheap whore, with a great variety of services. Not exactly that kind of a hooker you can meet on a street but very close.
I work as a bank manager and for my new clients i can give the best BalanceJob they ever had. For our old customers i even have fresh ANALytics if you like and other SPECIALS. So, i guess my life seems not that good but wait, i get paid. And they pay a lot so i have money, a bit of power and ofcourse, whores.
But when you are a whore, whores are not an object anymore. So, today i try to find some new definitions of my life, to set new goals and resolutions. Oh, i'm such a dumbass! I forgot, today is 31 of December!
And i'm sitting here, watching a bad show with titties(they are good) and some fucks pretending they want to prank people on the busstop. And it makes me seek. I remember an episode from southpark where Stan started to listen music and it happened to be fart sounds. And then people started to fart with their mouthes .
Now i'm wondering how i could drive myself into this shit, when all my entourage is shit, women a sleep with are shit, my friends are dog shit and i'm all over the shit???
I guess it all starten 1 year ago, when i got my bachelor degree...
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>>7737135
Please never write again.
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>>7737135
It's shit.
Don't give up, though. I'm sure you can eventually make a meemsterpiece if you devote yourself to the craft with true discipline. Practice erry day.
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is it really that bad?
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When I read I struggle between focusing on what's actually going on, and visualising what's being described: I can only really do one or the other. Will my ability to process both of these at the same time improve as I read more?
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>>7737111
At least you're conscious about that. Try reading the text twice: first time focus on what's going on, verbally, the next time visualize it and then synthesize them into something you can both understand and have a mental picture of. After a time your comprehension of texts will improve.
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>>7737111
whats the difference?
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I typically find two or three dozen editorial mistakes in a book-length publication. I notice things like a missing parenthesis or an unitalicized letter in italics, a missing period, a spelling error (usually vowels in the wrong place).
How do these things make it past multiple editors? I'm curious about the editing process for publication, can anyone explain it? Does anyone else notice these types of mistakes?
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>>7737105
>Does anyone else notice these types of mistakes?
Yes. It's worse with ebooks. Yes, commercial, supposedly quality non-Amazon ebooks.
>How do these things make it past multiple editors?
They're humans. They half-ass it.
I can only assume that they don't even bother proof-reading anymore when they republish old texts.
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>>7737105
What multiple editors? Today its got to be fast, it's got to be cheap, so whatever gets past the spell chequer goes into print. After all, computers never make mistakes, don't they.
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>>7737105
What do you expect with all that Chinese immigration, OP?
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/lit/
I have a short story due in a couple of days.
The stimulus is supposed to be pic related
and the story is about a journey.
So i decided to make a story about a kid who dreams too much to escape reality
because the picture reminded me of a dream.
I'm worried i went to meaningful or deep and whether the story is shit.
i'm in senior year of high school.
I need help. I can post it if you want.
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Here:
http://pastebin.com/4HQhPGYe
It isn't finished yet.
where do I need to improve? or do I need to scrap the whole thing?
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>>7737093
>So i decided to make a story about a kid who dreams too much to escape reality because the picture reminded me of a dream.
That's probably the most easiest thing to derive from that picture, and i'm sure many of your classmates write about the same subject.
>I'm worried i went to meaningful or deep and whether the story is shit.
Odd's are you're neither meaningful or deep so don't worry about it.
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>>7737144
That's what i mean.
I tried to make it meaningful but i probably failed.
deep was probably the wrong word to use.
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I need help /Lit/. I am writing a book, and I have a hard time whether or not, I should include a prologue. Do modern writers still write prologues, or are they just archaic?
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the prologue was just a sort-of stylistic choice. with the way novels are written now, labeling a chapter 'the prologue' is a bit silly. unless you're going for an archaic feel.
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write an overture, like in Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's cat
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