/lit/ - Literature

>>11078431

You're making a fundamental mistake in thinking that writing a novel is about achieving some sort of inner state regularly. It's not. It's a fucking slog. You sit down every day and you make a sincere attempt to write 500 - 1500 words that advance your story in some way. That's how you write a novel. Some times empathy with the characters come in that period of time, sometimes you get interesting insights into your themes and record them, sometimes you feel the sentences coming fluidly, but honestly, most of the time, you just write shit. Then, in a few months, you sit down again and you start fixing. That works basically the same way.

The way I do it is I just start writing as soon as I have the time to in the day. I work variable shifts so it's not possible to, say, wake up an hour early or two early a day every day and use that. So when I get home I write, or when I get up, I write.

Jordon Peterson isn't actually a critic because he does not analyze so much as associate or analogize from text to text. He's actually a (unconcious, bad) poet working in the form of the lecture..

His whole world view looks more like early Yeats' than an actual philosopher or anthropologist's. It has very little basis in logic whatsoever. It's less a world view than a vision, a mode of perception, he's trying to perfect.

People aren't interested in him because he provides them clarity, but because he provides them excitement and distraction. There's a reason he got popular through his performances and not his books.

>>10774028

Read Anthony Kenny's history of philosophy. Read an introduction to critical thinking. Pretty much any one will do.

I also strongly recommend you get a few volumes of the "Best American Essays" series so you can get an example of what actually strong topical essays, which you will be writing many of, look like.

Then you might read The Portable Greek Reader and The Portable Enlightenment Reader.

Nightvale was a good /lit/ light podcast but the quality went way down as it got popular and they kept churning them out to keep up with the demand and to make it the thing they do instead of a good thing.

You just can't write that many good episodes period, let alone quickly, using the show's premise. It's hard to write good Lovecraftian/weird fiction, as it relies on fine tone/reader expectation control, and it's increasingly so as the setting is defined and the twists are expected.

They ended up being just dull and really repetitive and then they ended up having to introduce increasingly soap-style character drama that destroyed all the original appeal and pandered grossly. It's like a sweet goth chick you liked turned into a passive agressive SJW alt chick.

It would have been better if the creators had released them infrequently instead of giving in to the popularity and turning it into a cash cow.