/lit/ - Literature

>>7554170
I like you too, anon. Stay strong.

Most history books are heavily marked by fictionalization of random data, turning it into stories that make logical sense. So you are currently exposed to heavy amounts of narratives. RPing can be a good improv excercise, that's as far as it goes but it's better than nothing. It could help you with your story teller dreams, depending on how much emphasis your group puts there. I like Harmontown and they have a great DM, the way he does "freestyle dming" (comming up with scenarios for creatures they throw at him) made it easier for me to identify certain structures that are quick to pull out and effective. Not great stuff but good for a start.

The test of fire is just sitting down and writing, do it, there's nothing to lose. The comment and critique threads can be pretty solid if you're lucky, so when you ahve something post it there.

I'm not well read on your topics, but I have a few generic recommendations with your writing.
>try to streamline your thoughts

In the first paragraph you first mention the feelings of the author, then why he was doing the work, and then finish describing the scene. I'm not saying you can't order shit however you want, but if you're going to be judged they'll assume most weird style choices are mistakes.

If this was to get in a basic level of a college you should try to show you understand the basic form of an argumentative text. First introduce the topic and your topic, then your hipothesis, justify it and give it a conclusion. You know, show that you actually went to HS before showing off.

>taking stuff for granted
This might just be me, but I feel this kind of essays look better when you make it clear that you're standing from your opinion and experience. Saying things like "it's clear that", "it becomes evident", defining things beyond academic definitons and so on are turning opinions into absolutes. It's very common in people starting, they feel they need to sound like a scientific article or something, but right now you are presenting an interpretation and it should sound like one.
Unless, of course, you are quoting someone else.

>make sure your conclusion isn't a new argument in itself
While you're taking back ideas you brought up before there is no connection between your introduction and the conclusion. I'd suggest rewriting the begining to acomodate the final ideas you closed with, or at least to make them more evident if you feel they are there.

Hope some of that helps

>>7525940
I feel you have either a much more calmer style in people like Naomi Kawase o something much more depressing in something like Sion Sono's Noriko's Dinner Table. No one does that weird introspection with sudden bursts of comedy that Kitano did.

>>7280710
>I like a complex story
>where all the characters are defined for their role in limited possible interactions

>>6492161
>first part
When he plans the evolution of society he fails to consider the mechanism the new system would make to perpetuate itself. That State is, and has always been, a tool of the powerful to justify their position. It maintains a discourse of being formed by the people for the people but 85% of all politians are sons of elites and they have always kept a very close relationship with economic powers. The US constitution even openly declares its interest to protect the few against the many.

>second part
How do you jsutify the millions Sillicon Valley moves? How do you justify companies make more money than ever while reducing jobs?
Part of it is the transplantation of a local work force for an international workforce, true. But it also is a sign of changes in the ways power and wealth is generated and distributed. Just like monarchies changed through the centuries they lasted so will states mutate beyond what Marx studied. His ideas aren't wrong, they are just too tied to his time and many author have expanded on them. They are so good, actually, that they can be expanded by dozens of authors and remain tied to the original concepts.

I'm not a leftists, I'm not afiliated with anything. I like historical materialism and my formal education has been heavily tied to it. I doubt that I'll be able to understand and incorporate other ways of analyzing history before I die. But I would go around calling me a leftists, are a center or a right winger. Even less in a US site considering how that country has no grasp or what left is.

>>6492182
Unless someone is using his name greek dude is pretty well versed in all the Capital books and some later theories. Don't worry too much.

I think Heidegger looks bad in our modern society because he tries to stay in a metaphysical level to explain non material issues. A lot of his work influenced (in one way or another) later authors who take this in a more psychological route (like Pierce or Metz), a more metaphysical one (like Derrida) or a more antropological one, sort of finding a middle ground with materialism (like Gadamer).
But I'm not too well read in him and I might be seeing connections that aren't there. Still, like many continental authors, it's important to consider him with his legacy and not just his stand alone work. It's like judging a big family.

>>6366827
I really liked some of Siono's work. Love Exposure and Noriko's Dinner Table were amazing. But from Coldfish onwards I didn't get the same feeling, the same catharsis and self-disgust. Even Coldfish felt a little evident in things, as if some producer had called him to do that knowing it's his "thing". Land of Hope was cool with the idea that no one was right or wrong in the end, but it felt like a tv drama. I haven't been interested in anything since from him since watching that, although I have Himizu already downloaded.
How do you feel about him? Any recs?

>>6345596
Linda lista!
>Onetti y Felisberto
Son los únicos escritore que tiene Uruguay? Al menos son los únicos que he oido nombrar, es peor que Argentina con Cortazar y Borges.

Okay /lit/, tell me what do you think about this idea:
>A more or less long suicide note
>Divided in 100 fragments
>Printed twice (200 small scraps of paper)
>Numbered in order from 1/100 to 100/100
>Put in tiny tubes (like the ones for films but much smaller)
>Spread through the city.
Will someone care enough to inform the internet of this? Will I ever know if anyone apreciated it? Will people collect more than one?

>>6078280
Seconding this but in a nicer way. Please? Just a sample of your work?

Critic threads are way more hugboxy than threads where people just post their stuff.
I assume most people here have low selfesteem and assume that everyone else hates them, so they strike first. You can also do the "it's like 10 people here, so the angry posts could perfectly be 2 really angry guys" routine.

>>5790924
No, their roles are used to name an archetype, which is the anger in sibling rivalry. Archetypes aren't tropes or character arcs, they're stripped down absolute concepts behind human thought.

>>5721200
>Alguien en 4chan tiene calle
JEJ

>>5700199
It's not the same having dysphoria than thinking that genders aren't socially constructed. There has been trans people in very different societies, from India to native americans, and while it still presented it had different social implications.
Why does it have to be a balck and white things? Are you 15?