/lit/ - Literature

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We're getting there. Slowly but surely.

>>20286679
Take a cold shower.

>>20286821
I can imagine how that must feel. But you are right, we get better as we go. I'm only about 60 pages into my work right now and I'm trying to write a scene that's been in the works basically since the first few pages. I want the payoff to be perfect. (The funniest part is that I have the next three or four chapters basically already written in my head, I just need to muscle through).

Are you going to self-publish? What's your plan? And do you have anything to share? I'd love to take a look.

>>20286777
What helps me is to sort of come up with a skeleton for how I want to progress things ahead of time and then treat writing as the application of flesh and clay to those bones. Sometimes you'll even have a better idea along the way. Don't be paralyzed by inaction or the fear of being less than perfect with your efforts. There's always time to go back through.

What are some cutting edge literary journals being published these days, /lit/? The Paris Review is the old guard now, but in the 1950s it was cutting edge; it was publishing Kerouac, Roth, Samuel Beckett, and more, introducing the world to great new writers in their primes.

What journals, today, are the equivalent of the 1950s Paris Review? What new publications are publishing the great writers of our own time, just as they're coming into their own?

I used to read a lot during my mid-late teens but when I started university I almost stopped completely. I've tried picking it up again but I always end up watching movies or shows in my spare time instead. Part of this is probably due to me having a short attention span and that my mind starts drifting too much after reading for more than an hour or so.

I do read quite a bit of course literature due to necessity but I don't want reading to be "work" anymore and want to get back into enjoying reading both fiction and nonfiction alike. So how do I go about this? Just force myself to read a certain amount of time every day and hope I will start looking forward to it? Read shorter books? I have some ideas of what I would like to read (mostly modernist shit) but if you have suggestions for books that would be good as well.

Any tips would be appreciated.

Post quotes that you love. My suggestion is that we concentrate on beautiful prose rather than meaning, but don't feel too restricted by that. This is one of my favourite character descriptions from any novel.

>"I've only worked here about a month. The money they leave on the table's all I get. Take you three, now. If you don't give me anything, I will have served you for nothing."
>"Quite so, quite so! But what about this? What if we attempt to render you a rich gift, and you refuse it?" Dr. Talos leaned toward her as he said this, and it struck me that his face was not only that of a fox (a comparison that was perhaps too easy to make because his bristling reddish eyebrows and sharp nose suggested it at once) but that of a stuffed fox. I have heard those who dig for their livelihood say there is no land anywhere in which they can trench without turning up the shards of the past. No matter where the spade turns the soil, it uncovers broken pavements and corroding metal; and scholars write that the kind of sand that artists call polychrome (because flecks of every colour are mixed with its whiteness) is actually not sand at all, but the glass of the past, now pounded to powder by aeons of tumbling in the clamorous sea. If there are layers of reality beneath the reality we see, even as there are layers of history beneath the ground we walk upon, then in one of those more profound realities, Dr. Talos' face was a fox's mask on a wall, and I marvelled to see it turn and bend now toward the woman, achieving by those motions, which made expression and thought appear to play across it with the shadows of the nose and brows, an amazing and realistic appearance of vivacity. "Would you refuse it?" he asked again, and I shook myself as though waking.

- Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun

>>8507851
Where should I start with Chomsky if I'm interested in his philosophy?

Where should I start with Chomsky if I'm interested in his linguistics?