/lit/ - Literature

>26/42+1 chapters finished.
>Almost everything planned.
>Some dialogue and descriptions written in advance.
>Phone and desktop blown up with details and reminders and information.
>Realize that one of the two main characters I switch between gets far more dramatic development than the other.
Fuck man I don't want her to be seen as just as an accessory to the other guy. I need to come up with a good, solid way to demonstrate a character arc that results in greater flexibility in her way of thinking.

>>19481211
stop bullying me
it's not as bad as it looks

>>12234231
>anything in the New Testament could have been sullied by apostles
>god himself needlessly reciting polytheistic nonsense clobbered together from a bunch of local myths

>>12135960
yes I am impatient sometimes as well
>Why do you need to get there fast rather than slow (or not at all)?
m8 that's literally the point of this thread, I've no fucking clue

>>12136005
>that impatience is triggered by an external stimuli
so then there's different types of impatience? don't you still behave the same in either case?
there's loads of people getting impatient for their food to arrive when they're hungry at a restaurant

it's not like you're waiting for your colleague to hand you some report or whatever that you really need and you get impatient because you start thinking about your impending death in the mean-time right?

>>11100598

>>9432311
Because the world runs on people being insecure, and now they can all get together and share their insecurities with a community.

If a community has it, it's not just them; further justifying their insecurities.

>>9361411
>hand friend history of CIA involvement in middle east
>doesn't read it, believes 9/11 is inside job
>give propaganda by edward barneys to friend
>returns book confesses his belief that earth is flat and NASA can't be trusted
>cold war comes up
>he doesn't know what the cold war was

>>18855
>Its all about perspiration

/lit/ tell me about Steven Brust the Vlad Taltos series

>>8409080
>It was very elegant in style, but it didn't do anything for me emotionally.
Ah, I see. I have noticed this issue but I haven't done anything to alleviate it.

>I know - asking you to fall in love is real shit. But it makes writing a lot different.
Wew senpai. In all honesty though, you're probably right.

>there are female posters on /lit/

>>7147683
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>>6772647
b-b-but i'm a boy

>>6582337
>Plato being mentioned
Instant orgasm

>read H.P. Lovecraft as a teenager
>"Huh, these are really interesting ideas but they're not scary at all."
>decade passes
>reread H.P. Lovecraft
>"Whoa, these are creepy, but a more subtle kind. I really appreciate these more now."
>Poke around and find one of the books that inspired Lovecraft
>Started reading The House on the Borderland today
>mfw 16 pages in
Jesus Christ this book just gets to me

>>6157101
That plumpness...

Just reading through his manifesto, this might be a life changing moment

The Old Man and The Sea.

1) Never forget Lemon, and splash seawater on the stern to make salt.
2) Don't go crazy, but think about baseball and bonespurs.
3) PUT THE GODDAMN FISH IN THE BOAT.

>zizek does a talk; near you
>you are a /lit/izen but don't read philosophy
>you go there on your own
>zizek gives a 1 hour speech
>some lels to be had as he talks about the ideology of shit going down toilets
>you are unfamiliar with philosophy but you can just about follow his speech
>near the end of his speech
>he's answering questions
>he decides to be meta
>says he acts like a clown in order to attract plebs who pay for his stuff but don't know philosophy
>"For eexample. Theesh young man on heesh own."
>he points to you
>"What eesh your opinion on the surrogacy of Hegelian dialectics by the subsumation of Lacanian post-modern dialectics?"
>you have no idea
>"Shee what I meen?"
>audience laughs

Does anyone else get nightmares about this scenario?

>>4927900
>>4927901
Here, have more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrMraM4pg8