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The structure is repetitive. How do they do it? Do they think it won't be noticed? It's like each sentence is the same. It really frustrates me, then they think a single comma will resolve the situation.

Guys, I'm writing a story, but I feel like it's more of a script.

There's quite a bit of dialogue, about 10 lines of dialogue on each page, and some pages are entirely dialogue.

How much dialogue is too much dialogue?

What can I do to break up the dialogue? I try to add it as many actions that the characters are doing, but there's only so much I can add. And I'm not so good with being over-descriptive.

>>7501192

eh, just make it a straight up script, then send it to hollywood or something. You'll probably be much more successful doing that then going into writing books.

>people call calvino one of the greatest writers of all time
>always writes semi-boring short stories with little gimmicks
>wouldn't be fit to shine the shoe of Borges in terms of speculative fiction

I'll be reading Mervyn Peake's gormenghast novels

>>7500568
He's not as good as Borges, but his shit is imaginative and easy to read, which is good for that childhood, nostalgic longing during the holidays. Some stories in Invisible Cities were even kinda provocative, but /lit/ does love him more than it should.

>>7500580
>his shit is imaginative

sample please

Schedule

>>7500556
Im pretty decent at time management but holy shit is my time going to be limited now

>reading
>working
>socializing

pick two

Hegel thought that first.

I Think Therefore I am Already Wrong was the title of an essay I wrote critiquing him last month.

>>7500361
What was your critique?
I also wrote a 800 word essay in under an hour and I probably fucked it up hard last week.

>>7499985
>aristocracy
>fascist
lad...

>>7499987
The first book after Justice is going on about how important censorship

>>7499991
>withholding knowledge
>fascist
>necessarily a bad thing

poetry is when
you have line breaks
like this

poetry is when
you cut the flow of a regular
sentence
by adding
line
breaks

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I am awash in blood and pain
tearing
shattering
black roses are strewn in my path
i write in inks of doom
the normals all hate me for they are fools
i cry even as i write
could i find a lonelier place to be
intoxicated with blood
no solace for the unforgiven
i will show the world one day
endless life in the darkness

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Bumping for infinite interest. Can you tell us a little about picrelated OP?

>>7498323

Start with the Mesopotamians

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>>7499132
Yes. This. You boutta learn where the bible got the idea for a big ass flood. (along with plenty of other neolithic founding tropes)

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>brb revolution

>>7496431
Patrician as hell tƅh.
>tfw can't enjoy your healing bath because of damn anti-revolutionaries

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>>7496312
Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Artists." It's the source of most of our knowledge on DaVinci.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNJ4UTo1yCE

>>7497134
How can one read so many books and not one of them look interesting

For OP, you are probably aware of better than food book reviews.

There was once, before anons ruined her.

blaze it

dab it 710

D

I haven't read many but

1. Cannery Row
2. East of Eden
3. Meditations Aurelius
4. The Things They Carried
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. For Whom The Bell Tolls
7. Tom Sawyer
8. Into Thin Air
9. The Sirens Of Titan
10. Island by Huxley

I won't rank them but I can sure name some for you

Candide by Voltaire
Lost Illusions by Balzac
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell
On the Road (original scroll text) / Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Everybody's Autobiography by Gertrude Stein
One Hundred Years of Solitude by GGM
Travels with Charley by Steinbeck
Lit by Mary Karr

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>>7495131
may this imgur invasion you speak of really be the new sincerity?

oh shit a pleb who didn't read nietzsche, the imgur invasion is real

i actually do know about this, only about greek drama.

>Do we know how they acted? Did they act as naturally as possible?

No, they didn't, they had to project their voice quite a lot more than current actors do.

>was it chanted?

No, but some parts were sung. If you read them in greek it might sound more 'chanty' than verse in modern languages but afawk it wasn't chanted.

>ritualistic

wtf no. It was a civil occasion, the whole city paid for it and the males and some women came to watch. It was a very social event.

>did they memorize all their lines? were there stage props?

Yes and yes.

>>7500772

fuck off shitposter

Yes... For you.

>>7500670

I find the Bane Chronicles rather shallow and pedantic.

Every Holocaust denier is worth reading, just like Hugh Trevor-Roper and A.J P. Taylor is worth reading.

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>>7500355
Absolutely.
This book is incredible. Everyone on this board says that it's nihilistic or depressing, but they'd say the same about any author if they were actually to read.

The best way to describe the book is to look at the cover and say what you think of it. Here's my best shot, "What the hell is that it's some kind of depressing thing. What as if the world isn't depressing enough we need another reminder? Fuck off."

>>7500389
>but they'd say the same about any author if they were actually to read.

Very few writers actually manage to write anything that is nihilistic or depressing without sounding like a childish teenager though, so I don't think that's true.

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Ecclesiastes 1:

1 The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.

2 Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes vanity of vanities, and all is vanity.

3 What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?

4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.

5 The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again,

6 Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.

7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.

8 All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

9 What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.

10 Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us.

11 There is no remembrance of former things: nor indeed of those things which hereafter are to come, shall there be any remembrance with them that shall be in the latter end.

Maybe you should stop being a bitch

>>7500133
Do you want to influence empty space or the far reaches of time? Why?