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/lit/ writes a book - A Boy called Wolf 2015-11-27 11:25:47 Post No.7396056
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/lit/ writes a book - A Boy called Wolf
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/lit/ is writing an awesome book, just get in the doc and write, write, write!
Original doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S8m2khM4VLInh87azaQi702LYPXuSmoxlE_kxY-Z2jE/edit?pli=1#
What we have so far:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntfk1PTsiD2E3KabYXS2q4XmgX7f3o7htzkIxsaDGVs/edit?usp=sharing
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The David Foster Wallace jr story is amazing
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Why rehash TLOTIAT... Again? It's not even as good as that. I really did read this one. It's really bad, guys. Step it up or let it die.
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>>7396145
why not? It is pretty funny imo
What do you think /lit/?
Should this book be moved from the children's section or are the CIS White parents wrong to complain?
>[Author] James Dawson criticises parents who attacked his LGBT guide [titled 'This Book Is Gay'] for children
>The book has been challenged in Wasilla, Alaska, after a 10-year-old boy picked it up from the juvenile non-fiction shelf of the public library, and his mother was “shocked to find it contained frank drawings and descriptions of gay sex acts inside”
Excerpt:
"“As with hand jobs and breakfast eggs, all men like their blowjobs differently.”
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/26/james-dawson-criticises-parents-who-attacked-his-lgbt-guide-for-children
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>>7395875
No opinion but this guy looks a little bit retarded, no? Got any photos with him more expressive, meme material namean?
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I definitely think it should be removed. Children shouldn't be taught stuff like that.
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>>7395976
Bigot detected. Literally LingMAO at your ignorance.
#lovewins
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Are there any articles like this, but about some author instead?
It's about Kubrick's daily routine and habits. This type of stuff is fascinating to me. I'd love to read first-hand accounts of how famous writers spend their time.
http://www.krusch.com/kubrick/dayinlife.html
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>>7395848
https://www.google.ro/search?q=authors+habits&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=v09YVr-tG8P2PprvjNAL
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Most biographies have things like this: Benjamin Franklin's is an example.
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>>7395848
Hunter S. Thompson's daily routine
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvsoVgc5rGs
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>>7395815
>"MAX SSTURNER".
IT IS "MAX SCHTIRNER".
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I guess Cecil's videos are known on /lit/ but what about
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>>7395852
Dr Sadler I'm CIA
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I'm new to this board but I've been trying to write a psychological romance lately. It's about a guy with an imaginary girlfriend. I don't plan on making it a big hit so I don't mind showing the ending. Any feedback on my writing style, word choices and things like that would be appreciated.
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>>7395682
Plus I've never ended a story before so I want to know if you'd be satisfied with this at the end of a book
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>>7395682
its shit
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>>7395727
Why?
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>live in a very upper middle class environment
>consume like madmen in dat sanctified gated community
>mother and father ignore problems until on the verge of divorce
>alcoholic father with bad cardiovascular has a stroke
>mother put into the throes of alchoholism because she's now stuck with somebody she wants to leave as well as by an internal emptiness she doesn't have the know-how to fill.
>family assets and happiness slowly degrade
>continued "those who know but do not care" disposition
I really need a book that, in some way, explores the cause of vapidity and emptiness on a non-pejorative basis i.e "Wow look at how ungiving these plebz are. Lol Satire!!".
Or at least get to some deeper level of the consumption of the prototypical middle/upper middle class on the personal level, and have something i can identifydisposWwith what you can assume from the aforementioned). If that doesn't exist then I'll just make it, but I really need a book to not feel alone with this, and I doubt I am.
Inb4 Too much info, or /r9k/
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My phone fucked up one part.
Should be: or something i can identify with (with what you can assume from the aforementioned)
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>>7395648
You should try putting your thoughts down on the page and doing some constructive self-expression unless you want to end up as the /lit/ version of Elliot Rodgers to be honest family.
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>>7395655
Been writing small vignettes and shitty T.S Eliot wannabe poetry since junior year of highschool and in the past 2 years I've dedicated to more long form. It does really help with getting the the heart of the personal, but also external issues, in a non-edgelord way. No worries, I may plan on ol' suicide if things never get better, but I don't ever want to hurt anybody or externalize in the way that kid did.
All i want is a book about familial polarization that isn't an angsty manifesto on "nobody understanding" or "my daddy never loved me" cliches, but an actual plain-face take on something like "I do not have a vestige of belonging in my family."
or anything about family that isn't Karamzov
Alll this ust so that i can fuel my non-objective and irrational feelings for a little and also not feel 100% alone.
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You could be reading right now
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Oh shit! You're right
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Probably, but I'm about to go to bed
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Anything in mind?
>tfw you study enough to realize that ~92% of what normalfags say about life is the truth
>tfw you realize that just being a generally solid dude with good moral values and a good social circle is worth infinitely more than any amount of interesting knowledge or intelligence
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yea like i care what some fucjkign n ormie has to say
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Being a normal person is much more fulfilling and productive than being a beta scholar fag. If you really want to be a scholar fag, at least get a spouse and some friends, or your life is pointless and your work is shit.
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>>7395502
Why is it worth infinitely more?1
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anybody else ever feel like you read a solid amount but are still overwhelmed by the books, essays, and texts you don't have time to read, or should have already read, or /need/ to read, or the ones that soak up dust on your shelf after you bought them and only flipped through them. this shit haunts me.
what do you do
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>>7395454
i'm thinking not just of the classics, the canon, 'world lit,' etc., but recommendations, reading lists, introductory texts to topics you are interested in, etc., etc.
it never ends and it towers
and the worst thing is, i feel like this fear ruins my time reading. especially with works that have an argument, theoretical texts, nonfiction texts, etc., it feels like it's not worth reading anything that's been disputed, or not worth reading anything if i won't have time to properly contextualize it, etc.
it's a spiral
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>>7395454
no
being smart is for faggots
just go drink and party with your friends, and maybe listen to some cool tunes as well
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>>7395461
i am a faggot tho i jerk to twink vintage
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What's the best translation of Notes from the Underground?
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P&V you fag
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>>7395376
I was told p&v was absolute trash for the brother's K, is that not the case here?
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Dostoevsky translation.
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I am looking for novels in which the protagonist has been rejected by society, hates society and all it's people generally or just feels very disconnected from everything. I liked Perfume but I like the free flowing rage of Henry Miller too despite his joy for life. I don't mind if there is misogyny or misandry. I like sadness, despair, bleakness, isolation and melancholy. I don't care what the story is about and I don't care how it ends. Violence is welcome. If there is a random act of kindness that may throw me emotionally, I'm ok with that too. Occasional hope is also acceptable.
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Not a novel but Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware. Isolated 30-something dead inside shut-in travels cross-country to meet his estranged father and learns he's descended from a long line of timid, sad men.
beautifully illustrated and captures all the little details of rejection and awkward conversation like no other comic before it.
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You should look into growing up instead of books.
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>>7395245
this
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Magazines you guys read 2015-11-27 02:49:28 Post No.7395226
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I was browsing through the magazine section at Barnes & Noble today and I stumbled upon this New Philosopher magazine. Has any one picked it up/read it before? Is it worth getting it?
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>>7395226
>smiley in a black turban
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any interesting philosophy magazines that one can buy in the States?
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>>7395279
Philosophy Now is a great one. I'd also look at New Philosopher. It's fairly new but what I looked at in the issue I picked up was pretty engaging and stimulating to be honest with you family.
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I'm a literary pleb, because I have a pretty bad attention span for reading, yet I would like to spend more time with books. Can /lit/ recommend me some novels or short story collections that move at a blazingly fast pace? I enjoy abstract imagery and I'm mostly a sci-fi short story fan (e.g. Dangerous Visions, Ballard's works), but other genres are also acceptable.
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>>7395195
fanfiction.net
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>>7395199
niceme.me
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>>7395195
Lovecraft
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Is it a bad a idea to write a fantasy novel with a setting in which non of the sentient races are human, human-like or even mammalian?
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>Is it a bad a idea to write a fantasy novel
yes
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The only thing you're gonna change from writing a book featuring humans is descriptions. Whatever you write is gonna end up having basically human sentiments and thoughts in a different body.
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Readers will relate to men.
That's why the hero is John Carter and not Tharrs Tharkass.
If you want to learn how to write an alien psychology, read Vance. He writes a lot of aliens or races of men with very different thinking patterns, and those stories are often very droll.
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Is it possible to write about a city without having actually been there? Writing is no more than a hobby and I don't feel like packing up and moving to NYC or Paris just to write a novel.
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>>7395161
yes, as long as you don't presume to talk much about the city itself, no one will notice.
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>>7395161
no. the police come around and cut off your hands if you try.
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>>7395202
dude, we need to found the Patrician State, with a brutal legal system to punish shitty writers