/lit/ - Literature

>>20662211
Let's start with tossing out Freud and Jung because their ideas are pretty much bullshit storytelling that people love to cite but it has no actual weight in the field. At least Freud (as shit as his stuff is) made some contributions. Jung basically is horoscopes. I know this is all very negative and they both ushered in new ages of psychology but we can at least accept nowadays that their major concepts were largely bullshit.

Anyway books. I'm not going to go through textbooks, because I'm hoping you're not asking for textbook reccomendations via 4chan. Go to a school for that and read it for a program, don't waste life reading textbooks for fun.
>Emotional First Aid (general guide to wellness from psychological "hurts"; one of the best guides on loneliness I have ever seen)
>Why Does He Do That (on abuse)
>The Gift of Fear (on violence)
>Suicide: The Forever Decision (not very analytical, pretty much just philosophical but worth a read, good to recommend to those feeling hopeless)
>Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (arguably the best book for depression and a general first guide through cognitive behavioral therapy)
>Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry (there's a lot of books on anxiety, but this is the best overall review on the issue and the different forms of it)
>Flow (self explanatory, on flow states)
>The Erotic Mind (older but still very good book on sex and eroticism/desire)
>The Worry Trick (meme title but refreshing, not new stuff but more ACT and dbt focused approaches to anxiety)
>How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety (good book on social anxiety, not very analytical though more self-help/anecdotal)
>How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (good walk through of the history of psychadelics (primarily mushrooms) and therapy, very anecdotal/historical lens)
>Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
>Flirtology (meme title but it's a good walk through of how to flirt, not academic at all)
>The Velvet Rage (book about how being gay can be a traumatic experience)
>Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions (good analysis of the possible other factors that can influence depression)
>Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
These are some general starting points, if there's a specific topic you're interested in I could give a more narrowed recommendation. Again these are all topic focused leisure reads and not textbooks. I'm going to reply to this with commonly recommended books to not waste time with.

How has reading effected your life? Did you make any new friends over it? Discover anything about yourself? Did you or your life get worse?

Just finished a book and it was good but...I didn't vanish into it like I usually do. Like when I was a kid and just ate up a story and forgot where I was or how much time had past. Do I just need to get more used to reading? Does reading more often increase immersion or make your ability to immerse with good stories better? Is this inherently flow state, meaning I need more challenging reading?

I'm still immersing somewhat. It's just more of an active effort more of the time, and life kicks me out more often.

I have started 5 books this month and I do not think I will finish any of them any time soon. I just bought another that I will start tomorrow too.

>>19360373
as someone who's read way too much self help, yeah. here's a few of the gems I've found after a decade:
>The Gift of Fear
>Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
>Flow
>How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety
>Emotional First-Aid
>What Color is Your Parachute (for planning at least)
>The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
>Spark Joy
>The Charisma Myth
>Flirtology
>Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
>Nonviolent Communication
>This Naked Mind
>The Erotic Mind
People always recommend How to Win Friends and Influence People but it's such fundamental stuff that it's irrelevant imo. I feel like 99% of people (even the people here) learn this from just going through school. It's a bad recommendation in the sense that a book telling you to eat healthy food to get healthier would be a bad recommendation because people can think.

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For Prose:
>The Art of Fiction
>Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
>On Becoming A Novelist
>Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
>How Fiction Works
>The Rhetoric of Fiction
>Steering the Craft
>On Writing, Borges

For Poetry:
>The Poetry Home Repair Manual
>Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry
>This Craft of Verse, Borges

Related Material:
>What Editors Do
>A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
>Garner's Modern English Usage

Suggested books on storytelling:
>The Weekend Novelist
>Aristotle's Poetics
>Hero With a Thousand Faces
>Romance the Beat

Suggested books on getting your fucking work done you lazy piece of shit:
>Deep Work
>Atomic Habits

Traditional publishing
> Formatting manuscript
https://blog.reedsy.com/manuscript-format/
> Write a query
https://www.janefriedman.com/query-letters/
> Track your query
https://querytracker.net/

Other Resources
>General grammar/syntax/editing help
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
> When/where/how should I write?
https://jamesclear.com/daily-routines-writers
> What software should I write with?
https://self-publishingschool.com/book-writing-software-best/
> Amazon Publishing to make that KDP monie
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200635650
> Be like Charles Dickens and write serially
https://www.royalroad.com/
> Basic overview of the Screenplay format
https://screenwriting.info/

Is there any postmodern philosopher worth reading? Other than Byung-Chul Han.

Where do I start with reading poetry? I'm looking for stuff themed around social alienation, loneliness, and wasted potential. No i'm not gonna start with the greeks you fuck.

Beta read thread. Post a pastebin or a google docs link to a <7500 word short story/first chapter/anything of your own writing, and I'll tell you honestly what I thought about it.

>>17209510
I haven't been able to afford cigarettes in months

Is it autismo to carry a book around? I want to read more but it seems so weird to do that. People are always glued to their phones but that can easily slip into their pocket, books are such an object and it feels pretentious.

I just read a YA series and I have no idea where to go from here. I'm considering a classic next. Does anyone use a system to figure out what they're gonna read next? I find this gap of indecision is usually what causes me to stop reading for months at a time.

reminder that philosophy discussion belongs on /his/. philosophy is not literature. If mods weren't shitcunts they'd ban all philosophy posters.

>too smart to talk to normies
>too dumb to be an intelectual
>smart enought to post on /lit/

>>15527272
My diary desu and the novel I'm writing now

I'm going to finish the greeks before this year is over

itt we redefine words and make up bew words for the next poster to define

i'll start
> egregious
related to online presence of people named Greg
> yolk
portmanteau of folk and yo. the hip young community
> cornacious - ?

>Do not go gentle into that good night (Dylan Thomas)
https://voca.ro/59RbjDi85qB
>>15072277
Thanks anon.
>>15072345
>>15072423
Nice
>>15072591
It sounds interesting, and your voice is great
>>15073302
Good voice, but why are you rapping? Lol

What do you do when you get burnt out on reading fiction?

I'd recommend you Confessions of a Mask and Death in Venice.
I'm pretty confused because I used to feel attracted towards women, but this is gone and I only attracted to men and myself as a girl. I wouldn't fuck with a man though.

>>14998783
I'm a beta male with repressed homosexual tendencies who loves tradition, beauty and his country. That's why I like him

I have no idea how I got diarrhea

>>14939642
Which ones? Maybe I'll finally finish a book for once.

I can't post her, It'd be ilegal