/lit/ - Literature

>>21508396
My method now is to imagine I want to tell a person next to me a story and I have 90 minutes.
Sounds like a good idea too. But 90 minutes sounds like a stretch, though if you can concentrate for such long time and have free time for it, good.
>Another way is to wait for inspiration and not ignore it. Wake up and write it all down if you are in bed. Write it down in a notebook with a pen.
It's funny the amount of good ideas your mind come up with when you're about to go to sleep. I already write some ideas in that time if I think they're good enough to be remembered.
>>21508434
>Finding the common thread refers to finding enough events in the list which work together and suggest a story that an outline can be built from.
But I do that when I brainstorm (writing random ideas that come up in my mind). Like when I thought of a story set in a not-so-distant future, where people can materialize things based on their current cash which is now stored in a non-physical way, and the protagonist is a rich guy who is going to gamble with other rich dudes in a cruise. And all that came from a brainstorm.

>>21501390
Gay bath, Gay bath
We take all the women out of our path
With our swords ready to attack
We will not let go of any back
And before we forget
Of our angry wives we shall be aware
For we, of a sermon shall be spared
And so we meet again for our Gay bath
Of which we maintain as secret until our very deaths.

>>21488318
>It sounds to me like you are confused and maybe overwhelmed.
Yeah, maybe that's my curse for not talking to people.
>Determine what you love, what you are good at, what comes to you naturally.
I like arts (Drawings, animation, music, movies/series, literature, games, etc...), that's why I taking a computer science course: so I can make my own game.
>Look back on your past and examine your choices: whenever you choose one thing over another, determine why you did that, and unless it was a mistake you will discover that you were unconsciously guided by principles.
I thought of many situations in my life, there weren't many that I'd say that has to do with principles (rather psychological) but for this last one I thought of: one day at class we were correcting exercises (I don't remember if it was a correction of the exercises the same day we completed it or homework) and there was one exercise in which I marked the wrong answer, then the teacher went through all the alternatives and asked for we to raise our hands on the answer we marked. I looked at the the alternative I marked, and even thought I and all the other students knew it was wrong, I raised my hand confidently. My past self had marked the wrong answer, maybe for inattention, and I trusted him. What does this say about me? That I was too proud not to agree with my past convictions, even when, looking now, they were wrong? Maybe that I was an Idea Conservative (I made up this term) that clings to past experiences and refuses to forgive past mistakes, even from myself. And if some of this doesn't make much sense, I think the relevant point is to know that I was egoistic. And I am said the last part in the past tense because I might change now; now that I have thought, for the first time, insightfully about it.
But even after coming to a conclusion, all I said might have to do with psychological issues rather than principles, so I will have to think more about it.
>Reading Plato was a transformative experience for me.
>If something is so hard that you make no progress even after a dozen reads, you may need to level up your skills first.
I will read it Plato too, after reading "How to Read a Book", which might help me in reading on reading Plato.
>I hope this helps.
It really helped, thank you. Btw, you sound like the person who gave me instructions on making an argument, in another thread, but that's not important, anyway; just making an observation.

>>21488600
Brothers by Yu Hua.

>>21488719
no u.