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>he reads any version of the Bible other than king james's
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I suddenly got a whim of inspiration to start writing a book about fighting games (mainly about learning to understand and play them better). I slapped out around 1000 words before going to sleep.
What Im wondering is, what exactly will I be able to do without possible copyright issues? Is namedropping franchises under fair use? What about specific examples from said franchises?
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>>9650903
If you're interested in content go to
>>/v/ or /vg/
If you want marketing and general business inquiries try
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Worry about people liking your stuff before you worry about legal protection.
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>>9650919
Im probably going to release this thing for free or for a few cents online, Im not writing this with the intention of getting a publisher for it since this isnt my main work.
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Why would I go to either of those when my question was about fair use in writing? I can only assume some people around here have tangled with the issue before
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There is no dividing line between genre fiction and "literary" fiction that holds up historically.
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I feel most writers at the top of their genres are adequate reading- Doyle, Chandler, LeGuin, O'Brian\Forester, etc. Have read them all.
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Genre fiction is stuff you don't like that sells more than you
Good genre fiction is better than bad literary fiction.
Carrie has aged a lot better than The Rachel Papers
Who still reads AS Byatt?
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I was just wondering what his next novel going to be and hadn't even realised he died last year
truly the most intelligent novelist of our times
posthumous RIP ;____;
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I cried when he died, no joke.
I credit him for my love for literature and philosophy, injecting into my teenage self a craving for knowledge.
Also, most importantly he taught me that literature can be both smart and fun, without sacrificing one quality to the other. There's always an element of play in his works, something I never found anywhere else (not even Pynchon) you can tell he was having fun writing every line of his books,
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it's really amazing how he can make extremely serious scholarly references funny
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Did you read his last book?
>>9650858
I agree, the dream chapter in Name of the Rose is the funniest shit I've read in years.
How many of you journal?
What do you write on/with?
What do you write about?
How long have you been keeping a journal for?
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i've journaled for a while now. Recently started doing some video journaling to improve my speaking
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I only have a technical notebook with facts and ideas
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>>9650744
Social media and smartphones have made journals obsolete
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Does anyone have tips for writing scenes of unsettling screams?
I have a scene in mind that focuses on some poor sod going through intense body horror and I quite like some examples of it done well to avoid sounding trite
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Prompt I suppose not exactly "scene"
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>>9650705
Infinite Jest, even though it's comedy
Just go for detail
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Being plagued by the paranoia of being caught for a murder while in the middle of eating dinner with family with the news on in the background.
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>supported rational and ethical egoism
>condemned the initiation of force as immoral
How can one person have so incompatible opinions at the same time? Was she a proto-SJW?
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What's your favorite poem?
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Mine is The Lie by Sir Walter Raleigh
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Good books that fuck with your mind? I haven't read a book all the way through in a while so I'd prefer if it wasn't a hard/long read.
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Ficciones
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The Double - Dostoyevsky
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Depends. Once I was reading John Dies at the End, and I was walking home in the dark, and stepped on a rotted pear. I jumped, immediately assuming it was a rotted body part.
So. You know. Any book you get really involved in.
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Just read animal farm for the first time... I have put off Orwell for a long time because I felt like I had already internalized the stories via cultural osmosis.
It's a pretty funny satire to start off, I laughed out loud at the description of the Marx pig having overgrown tusks, but the depiction of the Jews involved in the Russian Revolution and subsequent years as pigs and their complete betrayal and destruction of Christian farmers (Boxer the Horse) seems a tad anti-semitic.
I might go ahead and read 1984 as well...I heard there is a certain nefarious character coincidently named Goldstein. Was Orwell an anti-semite?
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>landaman
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bursar
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Cork
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i'll begin
a falling eucalyptus leaf
spinning through weak lines of light.
there is nothing that we need:
there is nothing left to find.
Another covers floor of the bush;
like thousands beneath it.
The quiet rustling of a million leaves.
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Yesterday I had a wet dream involving my 3rd grade teacher reading to me. It was just me and her in the classroom. She faced the book towards me and was reading it while looking down. It is upside down from her perspective. In the dream I was just as impressed as I was back in 1981.
>anon, how about you read the next paragraph to the class
she says
>but teacher we are all alone
I quip
>start reading paragraph
>realize it is maya angelou's 4th autobiography
A strange dream to be sure, but my third grade teacher was attractive, so I feel fine.
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Books that JUST fucked your shit up family
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ITT: post books that had a lasting negative impact on you
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wouldn't u feel better about urself after reading that
like if u get skipped for a raise and u find out a guy u hate got fired, u feel a little better about urself right
isnt reading about how much cioran hates himself kind of the same deal
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I can't say negatively, but it certainly fucked my shit up: So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell.
It has permanently affected my writing, which I can say it was a positive effect.
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Gotta say, five floors up is a pretty nice view for despair.
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Whats the best way to start reading Jung?
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Man and His Symbols, written by him and his pupils literally as a "where do i start with jung book".
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Thank you