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Rasism be bad.

excellent

I loved the part about the lily or whatever flower it is.

Man decides to be a movie star before he decides what local play to audition.

Man decides to be author before he decides what kind of books he likes.

etc.

Write a book about kids with superpowers

>>7333278
Do a lot of stupid crazy shit with low-lifes and then write about how some 43yo skank threw up on your dick while deepthroating it. Go full Bukowski.

Just City of Glass, for a class freshman year. It was fun but I didn't get around to reading the rest of the trilogy. I just googled him the other day and apparently there's a published correspondence between him and Coetzee

I enjoyed the New York trilogy and The Music of Chance. I didn't care for In the Country of Last Things.

>>7333256
I've only read The Brooklyn Follies.

That's the book that made me check reviews before even opening one. It was the worst shit I've ever read.

Fuck that guy.

>>7333183
>have to learn
No... you don't... you just need to pass the tests.

German. Always German.

>>7333183
German would be useful

Why not something more remarkable and uncommon? Arabic, Russian, Mandarine... I think one of those would be worthwhile to learn.

Bare titties are awesome though. What are you a faggot?

>>7333144
shaved pussies and bare titties are great

Every metaphor King makes makes me feel embarrassed for him. I'd rather read the result of him throwing his keyboard at a wall.

>>7333126
>no Goosebumps
Ultimate pleb.

What's the book on top of the Bible?

>>7333126
So when are you going to start reading them? :^)

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>>7333126
>unironically exchanging real money for books

A man in full is dope

>>7333110
Discipline and Punish

Panzram

>>7333089
it just turned into the catholik church

>>7333089

YOU MEAN "END", NOT "ENDED"; LEARN BASIC GRAMMAR.

If we wanted writed anything we shoulded wrote it anyway. Grammer is for losers, I mean loosers

midsummer's night dream doesn't rely on everyone dies for complexity.

>>7333079
Neither does hamlet. What's your point?

>>7333076
Oh all his plays this is the one that sticks the most with me. The themes of death, decay, and the ghost just interest me

I would also like to know.

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I enjoyed his novels but I don't think his philosophy is anything special.

His writing is shit his books are shit and if you disagree fight me

Don't *try* and say it. Just say it.

>>7332956
We need more details. Emotions you should show not tell. Plot events you should show not tell. Background information you should tell.

>>7332969
Background information should be a flashback where you show, not tell.

racist

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You can't restrain the Twain.

>>7332941

i am a clueless surface reader and he used the word nigger in one of his books he is clearly worse than hitler

Try 'Owen'

Other people reading your book won't care much about what you name your character, as long as it isn't something really crazy and distracting. Giving a normal Irish name to a person of Irish descent isn't cringe-worthy, it's perfectly fine. Unless you intend for your character's name to have some literary meaning, then naming him something simple sounds like a good idea. You want his personality to be the thing that draws your reader in, the name doesn't really matter.

Use a pet's name for the first name and the street you grew up on as the last name.

>>7332868

Why not read poetry by an actually good poet as inspiration

Read shakespeare's sonnets or something kek

I have won over 30 poetry competitions

I won a poetry competition for Mabinogi. I think it was supposed to be a love poem about an NPC. I wrote about Ruairi and I won a mousepad. I was pretty young and I was so proud of myself.

or just use pseudonym idiot

Make the character a black female, but otherwise tell the same story.

>>7332843
Make it of people from a different country or culture. Use a pseudonym if and when you publish it.