/lit/ - Literature

>>22476795
>and not dedicate scenes and chapters solely to wank your actors
When did I say that?

Who the characters are, what is their essence, what they act like is a vital point to the story, unless they're not important characters. Character and worldbuilding scenes can make a good tool for changing or setting tone.

You sound like you just hate the shit out of writing and hate reading. Why do you do this to yourself?

I went through a Guenon phase in my late teens.

>>22400341
My nigger, those are both my posts.

What I'm saying is, it's weird to not be attached at all to your characters, but being TOO attached to them is bad as well. It leads to plot armor as thick as redwood trees and hack writing.

My characters are crystallization of my work. In a way, they're also bits of me. I'm not overly attached to them, but it would be a lie if I said I don't want my characters to receive the best possible writing I can give them.

>>22257517
By getting good and activating your schizo brain.

Honestly, just have a walk outside and think of some random shit that could happen to someone, or you, and write it down.
Anything can be interesting, the question is how you write it.

>>22154744

>Finish book
>Tell someone a week later
>"What was it about, anon?"
>mfw I can't remember
why the fuck is my brain like this
i can remember stepping on a lego when i was 5 years old but can't remember the details of the book i just read?

>>21363172
I have done so many fucking stupid things at my job and I'm still employed. That's all I care about. They can laugh as much as they want as long as I get my wagie bucks every two weeks.

>>21257488
>thread about James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, a notoriously dense experimental work written in a peculiar non-linear "dreamlike" style full of ad hoc neologisms, bizarre onomatopoeias and byzantine references
>someone makes a humorous suggestion about a translation in German, a language notorious for its overlong compound words and strict grammar that often leads to convoluted sentence structure, implying the work already infamous for being poorly accessible without dedicated studies could use another layer of additional complexity
>someone else brings up Bottom's Dream, a notoriously dense experimental work written in a peculiar non-linear "dreamlike" style fill of ad hoc neologisms, bizarre onomatopoeias and byzantine references, a great deal of which were borrowed directly from Joyce, written in German by Arno Schmidt, a lifelong Joycean scholar and a translator of Joyce's work, who is colloquially known as the "German Joyce"
>but you can't just imply any similarity because it's only stylistically derivative and not literally the same book in a different tongue!
Can't wait till all those rejection letters come in and you finally kill yourself, you obstinate pseud faggot.

When did you finally realize the vast majority of non-fiction books are just an exploration of pointless minutiae surrounding intuitive truths and are merely designed to give you the illusion of feeling smarter?
Meanwhile fiction is the creation of something vibrant and new and is far more capable of developing and expanding your mind to greater heights.

>>20747029
Was Nietzsche a fruit?

>>20226652
If wanting to commit suicide makes me a heathen then doesn't killing myself mean I am actually murdering a heathen and thus god love me and sends me to heaven

>>19337783
I'm reading beowulf right now. I'm at the part where he goes back home after killing grendel's mom and I think I got filtered because I dont see what's so great about this book. I'm not trying to bait here but to me this whole story it's just:
>hey filthy pagans! look how cool christianity is! why don't you join us?
I dont see what's so great about this poem... maybe it's the translation I'm reading but I'm not feeling anything.

I want to read more, but can't seem to focus
I feel so retarded, I used to read a lot when I was younger, but now 10 pages into a book and I want to do something else
how do I improve my focus and get to read more? any of you guys share this problem?

>>17684502
>>17685083
Based
>>17684981
Filtered

Why insist on being white cis male or how ever they the define the oppressor group? Just be yourself independent of those nonsensical categories, just formally label yourself trans unicorn faggot, because those categories don't mean anything. The game is playing to be oppressed, so start playing it. You don't have to start taking it in the ass, just cross the right boxes in forms. It's a clown world, and it's up to you to adjust to it, the world isn't going to adjust to you.

>read book
>book good
>put book down and do something else
>want to read again
>what happened last time?
>I completely forget
>read a few words and remember everything

Am I retarded? Why is my memory so bad :(

There are mods on this board?

Anyone here actually made any money from self-publishing?

bok comfy fren

>>16118866
>HAHA! So, I was correct

The last book I read was Brave New World in freshman year of highschool, I'm 20 and a NEET, looking to start somewhere, what are you're reccomended must read books, fiction, non-fiction, don't really care.

>>15834369
There is a girl I have always liked since middle school, and all through highschool who's really smart and reads a lot, and she always kind of acted like she likes me but I can never tell. Recently she started messaging me about the books I read, talking about our old town and eachothers favorite things. I randomly started getting anxiety because I don't like the way I look and I didn't want to get my hopes up and also I didnt know how to initiate anything and I started telling myself I was probably just misreading her intentions, so I panicked and blocked her on all social media without saying anything. Why do I always do stuff like this bros pls halp me.

>>15546293
I'm >>15546302
I clicked downloaded and it didn't download it properly, I guess?

>>14923036
That makes no fucking sense you’re saying the diagonal that extends from b through c to the front upper left vertice is composed of four line segments of length 1/4. That would make the diagonal length 1, even though it’s clearly also the hypotenuse of the right triangle with legs upper forward edge and upper right edge. By the Pythagorean theorem this would mean 1^2 + 1^2 = 1, or 2 = 1, which is clearly impossible.