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Aren't you afraid someone will steal it?

>>7720364
Great hook with the rashes thing, but then you go off rambling about other stuff. Do we really need 3 paragraphs about the minutiae of your character's job? Despite all this info about email services, uniforms, the color of his coworkers' hair, etc. etc there's no mention of what he actually does, where he actually works (intetional?). Mess around with the structure of your sentences; you have a strange style that somehow walks the line between being conversational and overwrought.

I dunno, I was interested at first but you just lost me. Tighten it up a bit.

Here's a poem I wrote:

I slipped out for a little while
The air clung tight
to me
It was dark out, but light
somehow
was in the snow
A lone streetlight shone
a cone of light for the lonely
Bone-white was shown
The absence of presence,
snow melting to the point of
mud
Slime less lonely than you, snow.
Melt away.

>>7716472
Please go back to pol.

I thought my week couldn't get any better desu

Who is dis bitch and why would anyone care

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i kinda like the manga

Sorry about the pic, smartphones are so fucked up sometimes

Infinite Jest wasn't supposed to be funny.

>>7723654
yet it was full of jokes

evelyn waugh

also the unconsoled by ishiguro

You'd be better off just playing D&D and other RPGs, OP

That said, you might enjoy The Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, OP.

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"Go to lit and ask for fantasy recs. they'll get SO mad and chant GENRE FICTION at you!"

Why read when you have ppl to play dnd with?

>how can I become chuck tingle level author

>>7722572
chuck tingle is a major inspiration of mine in this field. The goal is to make easy money on the side, spending very little time on each kindle novel in order to spend the majority of time on real writing

>>7722533
Some guy posted that he collected greentexts from various boards and published them on amazon. No idea how much he made but it seems like easy work

Pizzabox-chan?

>>7721100
I believe in you too, OP. Don't give up.

She's lying to save your self esteem.

>>7720935
>Is he an idiot?

Yes, but he's less of an idiot than Ivan, who can only talk and never face the conscequences of his words. He may be intelligent, this same intelligence makes him unable to act on his thoughts, Smerdyakov is a product of Ivan.

Whatever he is, he's a dick. Bump

>>7721421
What do you expect when you get brought up the way he does

take intermittent walks, eat healthy, drink tea. drugs and alcohol are bad for your health!

Read for 30 minutes
Come to 4chan and shit post
Check if the shit posts you made before have any replies

Repeat.

>>7723705
There's a thread for this but pretty okay desu

>>7723708

Thanks pham, didn't know there was a thread, my apologies.

>>7723705
I don't like the word tangible, but iz pretty gud desu senpai xd

>addicted to 4chan
>asks other 4chan addicts

Take your computer to some experts and have them make it unable to connect to the internet at all.

>>7723565
Oh, and I also can't focus when watching movies or even playing video games. It's terrible

>>7723565
Have you tried AMPHETAMEMES?

>>7723490
the dictionary
the thesaurus

>>7723490
Sign up for a 'Word of the Day' email.

Wake up, read it on your phone, and make it your mission to use that word by thd end of the day.

I need some help with this too.
Whenever I come across a word I don't know I look it up in the dictionary only to discover I've seen it dozens of times.

How do I fix my shit memory?

>>7723233
Thesis antithesis synthesis boi

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>>7723392

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>>7723233
The dialectic is the notion that, to use an example from society, there is a "thesis" (eg, black people deserve to be treated as animals), an "antithesis" (eg, black people deserve a privileged position in society).
Hegel believes society goes from one extreme ideal to another before finally reaching the "synthesis" and idea between the two (eg, black people deserve neither better nor worse treatment than other humans)
Hegel believed in a literal world spirit and that we were all, as a humanity, moving towards to creation of God.
A lot of what he says is unfalsifiable and where it is it has been falsified, I wouldn't take him or his successors (see: continental philosophy which died with Popper and Kuhn) seriously.
P.S Analytic philosophy became the remit of scientists with the dawn of Chomsky so it's just as redundant a school.

Hawthorne

>>7722741
Was thinking the same thing
Young Goodman Brown

>>7722741
So you mean anything by Nathaniel Hawthorne? I'll be honest outside of YA stuff when I was growing up and the occasional classic I haven't read many books.