Reading out loud

>>8498106
>seems very logically.
logical*

also pic unrelated, just a writer in my town who recently released a novel

http://memecucker.tumblr.com/post/144587721433/i-remember-in-my-medieval-philosophy-class-my

>>8498110
>also pic unrelated, just a writer in my town who recently released a novel
NO FUCK OFF NONONONONO

>>8498127
That's a cool history but it doesn't answer my question. Also, I don't see the point in reading fast if it diminishes retention.

>>8498127
very interesting indeed, thanks for sharing anon. Do you have any further literature on medieval libraries and the such?

>>8498132
What's the matter?

>>8498162
He probably thinks the author is OP shilling her book here through trickery or something.

>>8498127
what's this
http://memecucker.tumblr.com/post/150265686583/have-you-ever-heard-of-melanin-theory-its-this

>>8498385
I'd shill her book, if you know what I mean.
(and if you don't, what I mean is I'd shill her book if, as gratification or through some other relation, it implied the performance of sexual acts with/on the author)

>>8498428
Huh. Poor albinos are literally not human.

>>8498435
HA,HA!
HA,HA,HAA!

>>8498458
HAAAAA

>>8498463
cute

>>8498106
I don't know, OP. Sometimes reading out loud can help. But usually when I read out loud I find it hard to focus on what I'm saying. Maybe just because I'm not used to reading that way? Like in high school when a teacher called on me to read a passage out loud, I always hoped that the teacher wouldn't ask me questions about what we were reading because if I was reading it out loud I didn't have any comprehension

It's the same with artists, although flukes do happen, it took poets literally hundreds of years to come to where they were in keats or shellys time. Creativity is not something you just will into existence without further influence. If for some reason you decided to be a poet and didn't read a drop of literature you'd be like all the kids memed about tumblr, who even happened to get published.

>>8498106
>who read the most
No. The best writers are the ones who have the most interesting experiences to draw from for inspiration.

>>8498146
> Also, I don't see the point in reading fast if it diminishes retention.

Because if you can read three times as fast but only retend half as much information it becomes more efficient

>>8498507

This is one of the best memes for people who can't create.

>>8498507
Not really. Any account of these experiences will more likely be pilferred by a book industrial and/or someone who can actually write.

>>8498507
You can have interesting experiences vicariously though. i.e. thru books

>>8498507
Fuck, this is some pretty good bait. It's so good that half of me thinks you're serious.

Good experiences don't magically give you talent and skill at writing. Most of the greatest writers actually lived some of the most boring, uneventful lives, and generally died before their work even gained recognition, so they didn't even have that going for them.

Please, by all means, go out and live the craziest, or most depressing life ever--enjoy yourself, or want to kill yourself; but when you sit down at your desk and write it all down, and find that you can't write for shit, you'll know.

>>8498507
>No. The best writers are the ones who have the most interesting experiences to draw from for inspiration.
Not really Kerouac did that and he's dogshit

Meanwhile Turgenev lived in the spare rooms of the woman he beta orbited and "amazingly" managed to actually have loads of fantastic stories about people from all walks of life.
Austen was a fucking spinster and yet she defined the society novel.
Kafka was autistic as fuck and we worship him.

>>8498906
>.
lovecraft and philip larkin come to mind as well. quiet lives.

>>8498106
I caved in and ordered her book. top kek

>>8498918
tbf lovecraft's the absolute case of someone who'd be much better if he got out more and actually spoke to people

>>8498929
>>8498906
>>8498843
What about Melville? Or Camus? Transcendentalists come to mind. Novel frame of mind will give you the color you need.

>>8498920
if this is a thought provoking book, and not just folksy home-spun observations and whimsy, i will be surprised. besides, they're giving dozens away, you could get it by asking, probably.

>>8498965
Nah, it's a story of a woman who marries a dull husband and then an eccentric ex returns into her life and she has to choose between being humble or being rich/famous. It's the ultimate 30 year old stay at home mom's power fantasy. I'm only gonna read it because I'm a little fucking lesbian for older women, heh.

>>8498966
so there is cucking, you say?

>>8498843
It's the best bait because it's so simple anon.

>>8498970
I don't know if she bangs the dude or not. I'm gonna have to read it to find out for sure. I'm gonna assume she doesn't though because if her fanbase is gonna be a bunch of moms, then she can;t have her fucking rich dudes considering that they wouldnt be able to relate to that.

>>8498127
jesus christ this fags writing is terrible

>>8498963
melville was an incredibly focused auto-didact who studied the bible, shakespeare, his contemporaries and the classics of philosophy. this, moreso than his experience, would be the reason for his skill. on one of his voyages, he was travelling with a philosopher, and the two would discourse on the stoics, spinoza, plato, descartes, etc. while stuck in the hulls of his ships for long hours. while his travels were important influences, he devoured literature.

looking specifically at moby dick, you can see in the preludes to the first page his sources for whales. "and god created great whales" and so on and so on. melville maybe could have written moby dick without these intensely literary influences, but it wouldn't be the Great American Novel if he hadn't. breadth of knowledge about writing and reading trumps experience. who knew?

I suffer from a severe stutter. I routinely read aloud to myself. Most recently The Call of The Wild. Lasted me a few weeks. I've read the constitution of the US several times out loud to myself. As well as the entire book of Mormon. Which is particularly odd considering my non religious status. The only people who know I do this for this reason are my Dr, speech coach. And my sister and her fiancee.. I'm 24 btw

>>8499893
Neat, I don't read aloud because my accent is too brutish to enunciate words properly (Lancashire, UK)