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>>7412847
>http://www.cosmoetica.com/B1277-DES888.htm
Is this man the greatest troll in academia?

>>7412847
The only thing this arrogant ass-hat is good for is copypasta. I need to dump his shitty writing more often.

>>7412847
This author-worship tribalism is retarded. Keep your shit threads on v

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>>7412806
thriftbooks
bookdepository

Alibris.
composite of many other online bookstores

>>7412633
Out for some milk.

>>7412633

ayy she didnt reciprocate.

BANGING THE DRUM LIKE DUM DE DEE DEYY

>implying this isn't what writing is

welcome to hell family

>>7412593
People talk about having finished manuscripts here. I wish I could like my stuff enough to at least get to that point. The most depressing part is that I love my plots and ideas but hate what they turn into when I try to put them down. I have so much bullshit going on in my head that NEEDS to come out but I don't have the tools. Its really like having no mouth and needing to scream or needing to jerk off but having death grip syndrome. It makes me hate myself and question why I even have this ability to think up things which interest people (when I tell friends about anything I've tried to write they always seem really enticed by it. I know they might just be doing it to be nice but that's not the feeling I get there always like "how the fuck can you come up with all of that shit?")

I know its trivial but it really depresses me

>>7412625
I can relate. You either hone your craft to the point you can do your ideas justice or you give up. Nothing else to it man. That's life, what're you gonna do? You weren't born with the talent for white hot prose, neither was I, neither was 99% of this yahoo board. Write the best shit you can, that's all you can do

>25
>no job (anymore)
>currently living out of my savings account and living in countries where I can't get a visa
I like to read literature but I hate writing. Is that /lit/?

>>7412572
>22
>STUDENT
>create a visual novel

>>7412572
>your age
21
>your job
Medical student
>your /lit/ related ambitions
Write my two novel ideas, try to read all the books on my backlog, become more adept at Arabic so I can read more advanced works, learn Farsi to read Persian lit

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Here

>>7412548

It's over, baby.

what's alive? poetry seems to be dead besides a few outliers in South America, the novel is dying, everyone is just writing memoirs. what do we do

>>7412478
vonnegut fucking sucks

>>7412478
>>7412809
what controversial and unique opinions!

vonnegut fucking is pretty good

>>7412224
Off the top of my head I think We (yevgeny zamyatin) took place in a circular city-state.

>>7412300
Thanks for the reply, but i don't think that's it!

The only thing i remember vividly is the fact that there were many zones grey slums. blue poor. orange middle class. etc etc.

Man this is doing my head in.

I guess it doesn't really matter. What does matter is Infinite Jest. Have you read Infinite Jest yet, OP?

Let's ignore the fact that LoTR came first, and is a major inspiration of almost EVERY fantasy series after it.

Do you know the shit JR Tolkien did to make Lord of the Rings? He made THE ELVISH FUCKING LANGUAGE

A NUANCED LANGUAGE

WITH FUCKING PARTIAL IMPERFECT TENSE

A GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT, COHERENT LANGUAGE

AND ON THE BASIS OF THAT LANGUAGE, AND SEVERAL OTHER FUCKING LANGUAGES, HE MADE THE HOBBIT

YES

HE WROTE THE LANGUAGE BEFORE THE FUCKING STORY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_constructed_by_J._R._R._Tolkien

BEFORE THE FUCKING PREQUEL STORY TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS, HE WROTE A LANGUAGE

HE WROTE A FUCKING GIGANTIC BACKSTORY, TOO

WITH GODS, AND DEMONS, AND ANGELS, AND SHIT THAT MAKES THE THEOGENY LOOK LIKE AMATEUR HOUR

AND ONLY THEN

ONLY AFTER CREATING SEVERAL FUCKING LANGUAGES

DID HE WRITE THE PREQUEL

YES

THE FUCKING PREQUEL

TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS

AND HERE YOU ARE

YOU FILTHY, FUCKING PLEBIAN

TRYING TO TELL ME THAT TENZIN INFO DUMPING A CORNY COMIC BOOK VILLAIN BACKSTORY

IS THE SAME CALIBER OF WRITING

AS THE MAN

WHO MADE

SEVERAL

FUCKING

LANGUAGES

KILL YOURSELF

SERIOUSLY

KILL YOUR FUCKING SELF

SOMEONE PUTS EFFORT INTO SOMETHING AND CREATES A MASTERPIECE, AND YOU SEE IT THE SAME AS THE SHIT A 9-5ER SPEWED OUT IN A WRITER'S ROOM

>>7411934
tl;dr: tolkien was an autist about his made up bullshit therefore he is better

not very compelling

>>7411906
no, because there's no sex in it

>>7411587
He's a serial-killer who butchers his victims and keeps the remains in his office.

that he was seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.

great thread.

>>7411587
He's at a medical professor's office who teaches skeletal anatomy.

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>>7411289
my diary to be honest

>>7411289
I think you're spot on OP. born in 1990 here. I was the last of my friends to get a cell phone. That was freshman year. I still only have vague memories of life when all you knew was what your parents knew and you could win arguments by making shit up.

French. Take classes, learn grammar, use Anki and read.

Latin

>>7411277
What language do you already know?

>>7410947
that's a good place to start? not by sartre himself i suppose right

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Smoke dmt, Bismarck.

>>7410708
retarded

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Well even in /TV land its bull. The best villian are villians who have an inexplicable and incomprehensible desire for evil. They corrupt those around them, and although they are easily identifiable as evil psychopaths, hold such demonic control over the masses that questioning the motives is pointless

>Hitler was reluctant and only did things because of the situation he found himself in
Really? He just 'found himself' chancellor of Germany? Just 'found himself' invading Poland and Anschlussing Austria?

its pretty sweet but i won't tell you because you will steal it

>>7410542
>book
get out you piece of shit it's a work of art

>>7410542
It's a series of different stories taking place in the same town that all revolve around the absurd and ridiculous legislation of the government, which, as it turns out, doesn't exist. All the laws come from nowhere other than the minds of the paranoid and accusatory citizens, who diffuse them in such a way that they change constantly, becoming more ridiculous or radical depending on the citizen. To give it some spice, I plan on making them spawn as some way to cope with the strange and supernatural events that occur in the town.