Hey /lit/, /v/ here. I'm looking for some books on becoming

>>8600345
>ways of increasing my vocabulary without just studying a dictionary
it's called reading. read the starter kit, read the top 100, read.

>>8600345
>>8600375
Most importantly, read the sticky.

>>8600375
Alright. The only books I really read currently are workout and kinesiology books. Health and wellness type stuff, you know?

Is fiction or non-fiction more suited to increasing my vocab?

>>8600381
Sorry about that.

>>8600381
Is there a reason the starter kit is all Greek?

>>8600434
The starter kit isn't greek, the fuck are you talking about?

>>8600345
Don't read nonfiction or basically anything contemporary. It tends to be written to be "accessible" so you won't get too many new words out of it.

Read Shakespeare, The Bible (kjv), Joyce, Dickens, Swift, Milton, Tennyson, Melville, Hawthorne, Nabokov, Faulkner, etc.

DFW uses some obscure words too but he's less essential.

>>8600455
Oh, I'm retarded. I thought it was a single continuous hyperlink in the wiki.

>>8600504
Thanks for the help.

>>8600504
There is nothing wrong with nonfiction. Take Woolf, for instance, but really most nonfiction written before the modern era is stylistically at least acceptable.
>DFW
DFW doesn't "write well" in the standard acceptation of writing well in the English language. Even if his use of obscure words is something you may find ways to consider acceptable in his case, anyone learning from it would come out awkward at best.
>less essential
There is nothing essential about DFW.

Same goes for KJV and Shakespeare btw. If you don't know how to write and try to take their example, you're setting yourself up for results comical.