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How do people feel about Borges? In my opinion, he's probably one of the greatest short story writers of all time, if not the best.
What's everyone's favorite story of his?
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>i read
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>>7467017
The Circular Ruins
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Is there any other art with a community as uninviting as Literature?
Drawing, everyone will tell you that anyone can do it, you just have to practice and keep at it.
Music, same thing, every musician tells you it comes down to practice and determination.
But writing? Goddamn if EVERY writer hasn't one time or another said, "You either are a writer or you're not, it's not something you can just work at" or "If you don't do A, B, and C like I do, you're not really a writer, you're just infatuated with the IDEA of writing"
Why is this?
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>you're just infatuated with the IDEA of writing
People don't think you have to work at writing, purely because everyone can write these days. Drawing for example is a skill that people with an interest in have to largely learn from scratch, so there's an understanding that you are going to have to work at. People have less delusion when it comes to drawing for example, because they know not everyone can do it, so they don't need to be told the drawing they crapped out after learning for a few weeks isn't that great.
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>>7466629
>People don't think you have to work at writing, purely because everyone can write these days.
Yeah, and everyone can sketch a little too.
A bad sketch is just as cringe worthy as a bad bit of prose when the creator doesn't realize how bad it is, but it seems that most people would tell the sketcher, "You just need to work at it," while they'll tell the writer, "You're not actually a writer, better try your hand at something else."
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2012/06/12/why-you-shouldnt-be-a-writer/
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I'm beginning to come around to the belief that this guy is the greatest living writer - not just because of his virtuosity in prose fiction (Umbrella is GOAT) but also because of his position in society and his perspective on art, literature, and culture.
He is what a writer should be.
Here he is explaining why art can't change the world (in any significant way) (anymore):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPqlMsyZoug
The Q&A section is great.
Post your favourite Will Self stuff.
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Looks Matter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06fpcgd
Touches on Fat Acceptance and identity politics.
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nah we was one of the "terrorist attacks are bad but maybe we should stop drawing pictures" people after Charlie Hebdo
should be marked for death imo
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Daily reminder that gaskun believes himself a better writer than Will Self.
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Whats TL:DR of your favorite book /lit/ ?
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>>7455877
Briony lied, people died.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
>tl;dr latinos be cray t.b.h.
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>>7455877
my son ate this!
/lit/,
I come to you with a request for some advice. The reason I ask /lit/, and why I hope my thread is not deleted, is that an interest in poetry and fiction tends in my opinion to make one more open-minded to expressions of a "romantic" nature.
There is a girl in the office complex where I work who I am attracted to in a way that overwhelms any pessimism that might otherwise effect my perspective and disposition towards the idea of loving her. We have only traded a few words previously when holding doors open or when she has asked me to locate some stationary. We are both twenty-two years old.
Tomorrow I intend on handing her a handwritten note (pic related), asking her if she would like to meet up this Sunday for a walk along the river in my city.
I realize there may be a temptation to mock me here or respond with insincere advice, all I ask is that those of you in a compassionate mood reply with your genuine advice and opinion. If there are girls here I am especially curious to find out your response to my intention, whether it's to tell me to trash it or to make edits.
I am not trolling, nor have I been diagnosed with autism. I am not trying to sound clever or intelligent in the way I write, I am only attempting to articulate myself in an honest way. If you feel further context is required to provide an accurate response then I will provide further information.
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>>7470428
Oh dear me, no. No. Honey... Just no.
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>>7470440
Could you explain why you think this is a bad idea please?
Or suggest an alternative means of expressing my desire to get to know her?
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Jesus fuck every part of this post is terrible.
Please delete this and save yourself the embarrassment, and if it's bait, then bravo
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ITT: Post a picture, and other anons recommend books based on it.
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>>7452335
Fifty Shades of Grey
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/lit/ humor thread
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>>7452292
Every god damn time
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Someone post the greentext image of an anon turning a homeless man onto Eastern philosophy. Probably one of the funniest things I've read on /lit/.
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ITT: /lit/ ragebait
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>>7430763
uguu~ she's so kawaii!! ^_^ :3
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I wish all my books had qt lolis on the cover, 2bh.
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Cosette is a qt, desu.
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which one should i read first
someone also tell me if they like lord of the flies, not heard alot about it but it was only 50p
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>>7430065
lord of the flies is a good starting place but not nearly as compelling to me as moby dick or crying of lot 49
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You haven't read all of those books already?
Get out of here.
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>>7430065
Read them in chronological order, so I guess that would mean read Pride and Predice first.
Lord of the Flies is fine, but not great. It won't take up much of your time, though, so read it anyway if you want to.
Is Stephen King truly the greatest writer of the last 1000 years?
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No
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>>7473852
TORTOISE
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>>7473852
King is a massive hack. He lets smegma cloud his writing and it messes with the ink in his pen.
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What's the literary equivalent of John Darnielle/The Mountain Goats? Besides John Darnielle ofcourse.
By that I mean, what writers have solidly constructed, consistent, well written output with lots of pathos and a diehard fanbase?
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Tao Lin
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jn Green
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Why is Tolstoy so much greater than Dostoevsky?
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>>7473379
Because they're both worse than Turgenev.
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Um nah breh. Dosto is fucking epic and deals with themes like depression, death, life, and existentialism. Tolstoy is just posh people in love and other boring shit.
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>>7473400
nonsense, tolstoy was the greatest novelist to ever live, anon.
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I HAVE NO INSPIRATION OR IDEAS TO WRITE ABOUT
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Writer's block is bullshit. I've been writing for close to a decade now, and have not the faintest notion of the thing; it's merely a euphemism for slaves who want to make a living out of scribbling because they are too lazy to do anything else. If a writer has something to say, it comes out by itself, if he doesn't, then what's the point in WANTING to write? — Money, of course.
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Wreite a poem about htis
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0vBbVfVdt6L
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>>7473101
Write about a space raptor that gets marooned on a hostile planet and needs to escape.
Write about a guitarist who makes a deal with the devil to play better and eventually goes on a downward spiral.
Write about 6 exiled knights returning home from their exile to take back their homeland.
Write about the busy life of a raven on a Sunday afternoon.
Write about anything anon.
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What's the biggest problem in literature today?
What's holding authors back from creating masterpieces like our ancestors did?
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memes, insincerity, political correctness, pop culture.
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>>7472138
pic not related
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>>7472149
>"political correctness"
what did he mean by this?
>>7472151
it is related, honey
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How do you reach a state of non-attachment, /lit/?
Where every situation is the best possible situation?
seems impossible 2bh even though so there's so many spiritual traditions that advocate it.
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You haven't factored in time.
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>>7471269
elaborate
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interest bump