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What do you think is the most beneficial entry path into writing for a novice? (short stories, poetry, nonfiction essays, novel, letters, etc.)
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what's the saying? something, something, you start with poetry and then in realizing your mediocrity expand the length to short story, novel. and finally epic.
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Write essays about literature.
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I forgot who recommended it, and it's probably a mix of some writers.
Anyway it was:
Write short stories, a lot of short stories. This is supposed to help you understand the basic formula of writing a story (like being able to finish it, which is hard if you're a newb).
Have your stories follow a path, and the path is clear in your head.
The protagonist must desire something and is looking for something, it may be some ephemeral shit or some super important save the world tier shit, but the thing is to write a protagonist who wants something so that he does something (or not) and accomplishes something (or not).
The reason to do that kind of writing is to train yourself in the art of being able to put into words the ideas you have in your mind.
Just like painting is not as easy as imagining it in your head, writing is the same.
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Essays in general are a good idea too.
>mfw relatives used my book collection as fire wood
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>>7585822
Come back home Don Quijote, we miss you and we're worried about you.
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What kind of fucking barbarians do you share blood with?
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little-known european writers? specially poets and philosophers. What works do you recommend /lit/?
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Luigi Pirandello
Carlo Bernari
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Elena Ferrante
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Which writer best captured the city of Petersburg?
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Dosty
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>>7585586
Gogol.
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Nikazander Tolstoevsky
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How good is this book?
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>>7585462
Only okay to be honest Dersu.
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Anyone read this?
I enjoyed 'Lucked Out' by the vanity fair author and his 70s NY.
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I've read interviews with him and he seems like a fraud. Saged and hidden.
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>>7585273
I mean Lucking Out by James Wolcott
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>>7585273
I too want to see what kind of book gets a two-million dollar advance.
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Is it worth reading? Is it better than the amazing film?
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Yea it's fantastic. Got CIA shilled but it's still quite nice.
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Also I'm not usually one to hop on the P&V are shit train but I think they missed the mark on this book, definitely get the older Hayward/Harari translation from the 50s.
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Stelnikov was literally cucked to death
If you get bummed out a second time in a row, are you revastated?
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Who is this trouser arouser?
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>>7585187
some dude
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>>7585162
If your rectum has already been pulled inside out in the fight once, I doubt the second time is going to wrap it back into its former state, no matter how vast the rump -- unless perhaps it constitute the totality of your person.
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>favorite book
>Too biased to see best and worst aspects of this series
Anyone else read this and have some critical opinions?
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It's a pity he can't write, because the dick jokes aren't bad.
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Raskolnikov and Kierkegaard
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So am I the only one who noticed the similarities between Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment's main character, Radio Romanovitch Raskolnikov and Soeren Kierkegaard. I mean both couldn't make any decisions because no matter what decision they picked, they would regret picking that decision. For example, Raskolnikov couldn't choose between going to the police and then regretting it or not going to the police and then regretting it. Kierkegaard couldn't choose between comitting suicide and "regretting it" and not comitting suicide and regretting it. Thoughts?
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No it's called being a self-aware, self-conscious whiteboi. Look at Hamlet and every other beta neurotic throughout the history of literature.
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How do I tell the difference between genuinely good prose and masturbatory purple prose?
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Listen to this song I wrote on the matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNSrP-REuJY
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If you're published and something of a household name it's the former, if it's creative writing class it's the latter
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>>7585081
i just determine if i'm enjoying what i'm reading or not. it's not hard.
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Hey /lit/
I was talking to a fellow academic the other day and he mentioned this place. He mentioned that the colloquial term for a well-read and intelligent individual here is a so-called "patrician",
I said it sounded pretty neat, and then I asked "so I suppose they've all read Leopardi then?" He sort of stood there wide-eyed for a minute before staring at his feet and mumbling something about "meme core" (?). I reminded him that every intelligent person worthy of being labelled a "patrician" has read Zibaldone, otherwise known as Leopardi's greatest work. I laughed a little to soften the mood but I could tell he was flustered. Eventually he walked away saying he had to practice "dee eff doubleyou facial expressions" in his bathroom mirror.
So anyway, is it true you guys haven't read Zibaldone by Giacomo Leopardi, or was the guy just being strange for no reason?
I'm loving your site so far. Thanks!
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I think Zibaldone is standard on most /lit/ starter kits
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>>7585039
>determining patricianhood based on one book
DYEL? Sound like a weak wristed couple of faggots to me. Did you lick his taint afterwards?
The only patricians are /lit/fit/.
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>>7585066
stfu nerd
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Would you do a major in Hitler studies (BA) at College-on-the-Hill?
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inb4 delillo hate
i think many people here would succeed in a position Jack was in
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Yes but I'd drop out to become an artist.
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has there ever been an example in any genre of literature, where a male protagonist falls so deeply in love with an unobtainable female that he obsesses over her and starts to "see" her personality and traits in other women?
i don't know if this particular trope has a name, but i'm just trying to articulate an idea i've been thinking of to just see if it's been done before.
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>>7584518
>malkovich!
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>>7584518
The Collector
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Can I get a Derrida reading guide /lit/?
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>>7584196
Please anyone?
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Start with the SEP: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/
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>>7584223
Thank you.