/lit/ - Literature

>pseud-cred
>feelings of superiority over non-readers
>nothing productive to do otherwise
>feelings of completing something
>*big gap*
>intellectual interest
>fun

>>20062593
>take writing tips from a person who has yet to release anything

>be me
>went walking after work on Monday in the dark while listening to podcast
>bought junk food and ate it and felt so fat
>played vidya, skipped gym
>slept late at night
>woke up for work, started work (Tuesday was most busy day of week)
>manager says I suck
>work
>get invited for another job interview (have 5 job interviews upcoming, waiting for results from another interview)
>work day passes without anything going wrong, feels good and less stressful than same time on Monday
>apply for 3 jobs, go walking in dark outside while listening to podcast
>usual afterwork walk is getting boring
>buy junk food, eat it
>will play vidya or read then go to gym
>tomorrow isn't a busy day at work but being on the verge of being fired is stressful

I really hope I pass any of these job interviews. I don't think I've been comfy since late October. Comfiness within the past 6 months peaked in late September, was steady, then has fallen since then.

I am dreading the huge drop in life quality when I have to go back to the office.

>had a sugary as hell junk food binge on Sunday evening, told myself it's the last one until I lose weight
>woke up on Monday morning
>started my wfh job
>had a few meetings
>was lightly reprimanded in relation to some TPS report tier task and I lost what little motivation I had
>had so little work to do
>had lunch, didn't eat too much of have junk food
>prepared for future job interview
>finished soon after 5
>saw I was invited to another job interview
>prepared for job interview after work
>told myself I'd give up junk food and carby food and stop buying coffee everyday at Starbucks
>felt so lacking in motivation
>felt so bored by job
>felt so pathetic for having a boring paperwork job after seeing Tweets by a guy starting am NFT company
>decide to go driving and have coffee for last time, but not a sugary one, before going to gym
>bought coffee, but it was a sugary one
>currently drinking it in car
>feel like having junk food one last time; not sure if going to gym is worth it today
>decided that the gym routine I started yesterday is spooked and not worth continuing; will switch back to simpler one

I'm so mentally done with this job. I'm applying to everywhere else and have interviews. My mental state is currently assuming I'll have handed in my notice within a month. I'll be sad if that's not the case.

I didn't even go for a long walk on the weekend, just a 1 hour walk on Saturday.

I'm so bored.

>finished work on Friday evening; work week was busy but next week will be less busy
>slightly depressed at having an awful boomer manager
>drive outside, buy sugary coffee, drink it at home
>browse internet, apply for over 10 jobs
>lie in bed and browse internet on phone; too tired to lift heavy weights but go to gym and do cardio
>sleep, wake up two hours too early on Saturday morning
>don't get back to sleep
>read novel, browse internet, eat regular food
>browse internet, realise all daylight has gone
>go driving, browse internet in car, buy sugary coffee, go back home without leaving car
>browse internet, read novel, decide I'm too tired to go to gym, sleep
>wake up on Sunday morning, browse internet but don't feel like I have the time to watch comfy YouTube videos about Japan
>go to gym, lifting goes well
>eat regular food at home
>go driving outside, go for a walk for around 1 hour while listening to podcasts
>now drinking coffee in car, about to have fast food
>still have over 6 hours before sleep but feels like evening is over

I'm worried that I'll go through my working life with normies fucking hating me for whatever reason. They smell the autist in me, even when everyone's working remotely, and then seek to purge me. It's so demoralising. Does anyone have advice for this? Peoople at work literally see me as shit.

Hopefully I will stop having junk food on weekdays.

I was reading a novel today and it's so fucking boring. It's a novel of "ideas" by a British mid 20th century writer where he details this "utopia" on an island and it's boring. It just goes over various aspects of the society from the perspective of an outsider and I can't quite tell if it's a le searing critique of le searing examination of liberal thought and I don't care.

I very much feel like reading novels in 2021 is a gay and performative exercise. I have lost all respect for the cultural centre because I have access to the internet and can see the cultural arm of society as totally connected to other fraudulent parts. I simply don't give a fuck about le searing critiques. I don't give a fuck about le examinations as well. It all blends in to the stuff widely known to be schlock.

I feel like a phony when reading anything in the canon or nearby. It feels like work. It feels like enjoying a lot of literature is conditional on feeling part of a wider community and I feel like I'm part of nothing.

>woke up at 6 am
>browsed internet on phone in bed until 7.30 am
>tried to sleep, couldn't, got out of bed before 9 am
>started work
>did work
>boring meetings, powerpoints to nowhere, emails to everyone
>had lunch; ate carby food
>finished lunch
>had a cringeworthy meeting but I didn't sperg out so it wasn't so bad
>had a meeting where I said some stuff just because my boomer boss says I should say more stuff in meetings
>had a meeting which I had been worrying about, but the work I had done was fine
>have much less meetings tomorrow
>finish work at 5.15 pm, exhausted
>lie in bed for over an hour, trying to get to sleep; can't sleep
>decide to reward myself with a drive and coffee but too tired to leave house
>browse internet on laptop, ate carby, sugary breakfast cereal
>ate entire pack, so at least it can't tempt me tomorrow and I can get all the bad food out of the way
>noticed my stonkfolio has gone up in value by £900 over the past 3 weeks, almost as much as I save per month from wagecuckbux... and I don't even own individual stocks, just ETFs
>plan to finally play vidya, after weeks without it (due to lack of effort to be even a low level consumercuck)
>plan to go to gym later for light lifting

This won't be a busy week so Monday was likely the worst day.

I saw a news story with Boris Johnson wanting people to go back to the office. It makes me feel good to know that my rent money isn't going towards a landlord.

>>18727360
Editing. Checking the flow and pacing, that the lines sound natural. Making sure if some random sentence in the first 50 pages doesn't contradict something else in the last 50 pages. Writing is fucking easy, analyzing what you've written and making it waterproof is torture.

Any books dealing with the fact that growing old fucking sucks?

>struggle to get through one chapter of Blood Meridian per day
>can read a 500-page light novel in 4 hours

>>16256364
I've been writing there for 3 years, over 500k words posted, and I make whopping $20 per month.

>>15594938

>>15593963

>>15234496
>Reverse image search these pictures
>Results
>4plebs.org
>2014
>She is 6 years older
Jesus

>talk to qt Hawaiian girl about books before class
>claims she's read 630 books this year
>mostly reads romance
>says she rereads the Twilight Series every year

>30
>living with parents
>Have had sex only twice (same girl) - almost 6 years ago, Never had a long term relationship
>Longest relationship was about 2 months when I was 19
>Last date/kiss was about 3 years ago
>Have been trying to get back into dating but have found it fruitless so far
>No friends except some from military days, but they all live out of state
>Get a little social interaction from classes (have returned to college)
>coomer
>brainlet
>failed as a son, as a Christian, as an American

>character's name is the complete opposite of their traits and personality
this is worse

>'Now all of you leave me alone with them,' ordered Woland, pointing to The Master and Margarita.
i mean cmon bulgakov...

>book is

>tfw internet will never meme you into the Smartest Man on the Planet

>>12977574
I don't know what I should talk about—about death or about
love? Or are they the same? Which one should I talk about?
We were newlyweds. We still walked around holding hands,
even if we were just going to the store. I would say to him, "I
love you." But I didn't know then how much. I had no idea . . .
We lived in the dormitory of the fire station where he worked.
On the second floor. There were three other young couples,
we all shared a kitchen. On the first floor they kept the trucks.
The red fire trucks. That was his job. I always knew what was
happening—where he was, how he was.

Om ! Having bowed down to Narayana and Nara, the most exalted
male being, and also to the goddess Saraswati, must the word Jaya be
uttered.
Ugrasrava, the son of Lomaharshana, surnamed Sauti, well-versed
in the Puranas, bending with humility, one day approached the great
sages of rigid vows, sitting at their ease, who had attended the twelve
years' sacrifice of Saunaka, surnamed Kulapati, in the forest of Naimisha.
Those ascetics, wishing to hear his wonderful narrations, presently
began to address him who had thus arrived at that recluse abode of the
inhabitants of the forest of Naimisha. Having been entertained with
due respect by those holy men, he saluted those Munis (sages) with
joined palms, even all of them, and inquired about the progress of their
asceticism. Then all the ascetics being again seated, the son of Lomaharshana humbly occupied the seat that was assigned to him. Seeing
that he was comfortably seated, and recovered from fatigue, one of the
Rishis beginning the conversation, asked him, 'Whence comest thou,
O lotus-eyed Sauti, and where hast thou spent the time ? Tell me, who
ask thee, in detail.' Accomplished i

>2000
>internet is an amazing thing that will allow for unrestricted flow of information and massively improve our lives by spurring scientific and social progress
>2018
>presenting 200 pages critique of a self-help book by a psychology professor video blogging about Disney cartoons and penis washing