/lit/ - Literature

I prefer to imagine Sisyphus laughing, personally. It allows for a broader range of absurdity.

>>18578700
The solution is always to stop watching anime.

>can’t read philosophy books without closing it every three pages and refreshing 4chan and reddit
How do I overcome this? I tried using FocusMe and making the password be a string of 50 random characters, yet I always unlock it and go back to my old habit of browsing /lit/ and discord

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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/

>>18536442
>You’re deflecting with irony because you hate yourself
You're not entirely wrong, but I'm not the guy you were originally talking with.

Holding hands
And
Singing songs

Looking back
So
Far along

Waving
With a smile

Someday
I'll be there

My novel must be finished by the end of the year. I have to write at least 2000 words per day.