/lit/ - Literature

>>23321601
Seconded. Boethius has helped me through some very dark periods of my life.

>this entire thread
Even after close to 14 years on this fucking site, there's still quality to find.

>>16784126

>>15922360

I don't have it, sorry anon.

>>14470582
>tfw haven't had sex in 1 second
life's too hard, anon

>>13026544
You will come to realize that most women will not bother to give you the time of day. She seems to try and read every book you give her. There is more to life than some one who shares specific interests. Be glad you get along so well and don't give up unless she starts to prove to be a drain on your life.

>another book for feel for the west civilization thread
>hundreds of reply arguing about IQ
Does any "book for this feel" thread expect a book recommendation? Have you ever searched a book you recommended from here?

>>12705306
>hey, we are all going to make it anon
I sure hope so man.

>>12671348
that's really good anon, keep going, we're all gonna make it.

>>12581435
>got chem eng degree
>get high paying job
>time and flexibility to read, write, lift, cook, live an active out doors life

Truly blessed. I feel sorry for humanities majors, they can't do stem but stem can do humanities no problem.

>>12532656
Thanks for being sincere but the asterisk isnt coming off for a long time

Death is the reward for a life well lived. To finally rest knowing you worked hard.

>>12431972
Fuck man, except for the woman I’m in the same boat. I’m even talking to a Marine recruiter to see if I can get away from this shit. My greatest fear is becoming like Ryuji except that I can’t see myself falling for a woman since I can’t really stand female company for more than 10 minutes.

>>12132863

Evola

>>12129975
I could say something like if you improve yourself and work on your self other gfs will come your way. Or I could say the one true red pill is that everyone is born alone and will die alone and you must not get your value and reason to live from the outside. But those are just things I heard. Things I’m parotting because this is what I saw or read or consumed in some other way. Is everything just a cope? Is everyone just larping?

>>11981528

>>11852611
knowing that Emily was an introverted pure NEET waifu who just wrote Wuthering Heights to show her sisters how easy it was to write a novel (and with such insight at 19) who died and was buried in my hometown makes me love her

tfw no Emily Bronte waifu

>>11762025
First draft will always be shit but you just have to get it written down and finished. Don't edit as you go along because you'll never get it finished and you'll go around in circles.

Finish your first draft, take as long as you need, some days are slower than others.

Have a few days to recuperate but don't just get lazy, do something related to writing like read a little more or find places that can give some good advice (not your friends or 4chan, but there are actually good communities out there, especially via social media, where writers share their work for feedback, or look into getting a professional reader to read your work).

Afterwards, proof read your work. Focus on getting rid of typos and grammatical mistakes while creating a list of things that are most apparent to you that need tweaking, improving, cutting, re-writing, etc.


Focus on that list and how you'll start your re-writing. Be as critical as possible.


Lather, rinse and repeat. There's only so far you can do this on your own, so try and get a professional second opinion. You can literally pay people something like $40 to read, critique and feedback constructively on your work, which is a good step to take instead of submitting it to competitions or pestering agents so early on.


Keep at it. Keep yourself motivated. Some days you'll feel that slump which then you need to take a little time for yourself - watch a movie, treat yourself, go for a walk, get a snack, etc - but make sure you come back to your work the next day. Paul Haggis the writer-director said that he would write every day on top of caring for his family and his job, and somedays it would be as little as writing for thirty minutes a day.


If you can fit it into your day, push yourself to do a little.


You can do it <3

>>11743798

books for this feel

>>11567277
So it's almost over for me. I will ascend, brothers.

Ernest Shackleton's South: The Endurance Expedition
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Las Casas' A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Nice dogs only zone

>Abbasid Library