/lit/ - Literature

>>22270467
I didn't know coffee was for that

>>20690787
>facial.jpg
Her smirk is awesome

>>19423663
I sometimes have scrapple for breakfast

>>19355703
My favorite time is 5am to 8am. Dark, quiet and a good time for coffee. I really need to get a more rural home with no neighbors so it can feel like that all the time. I hate dogs like you wouldn't believe.

>>19165407
Start with ideas you think about a lot, and decide on something you want to tell from it. Maybe it's a religion, a philosophy, a myth, a historic event, a personal experience. What are the dominant emotions? Are there important symbols for those things? What theme did you learn from it, how did it change you? How might it have affected someone else, or what if you interpreted it a different way?
Deconstruct those elements, say there is a crow as a symbol for a theme. You take that familiar thing, but then add something new to it. Sometimes it's a simple as making it really big, or maybe it has mask on, or maybe it is something subtle like it never leaves its perch at your chamber door. Take those dramatic elements and give them a part in the story: a character, a monster, a setting, a language, anything you can think of. What your story is comprised of can always reveal with double-duty: something in the setting can reveal how characters feel, something in the language can reveal something about the past.

>>18920699
I write about an hour after getting home from work, for 5 hours. If it's the weekend I write when I'd otherwise be working, and read when I'd otherwise be writing. I read on breaks at work.
>>18921012
Developing theme is like exploring an idea or having more to say about it. So say your theme is about history, but the only idea you get is "history repeats itself" and the idea gets promoted ad naseum even if it's just represented in the events. If I wanted to flesh that out I would show more events in the story that made a point about history, subtle or otherwise.
>why does history repeat itself?
>how might characters make history stop repeating itself?
>what other lessons does history show?
>is history really written by the victors or is it that not the case?
So what you want to be doing to develop a theme is to be though provoking. Turn the idea around and look at it from new angles so even as your story chugs along with character arcs and changing events you will also have a theme that is steadily painting a picture of all you'd like to say about that theme. Tying theme elements into characters, events or the setting can help you do double duty and learn about theme even while you write about something else, and shows the reader that your themes aren't just throw away aphorisms but actually part of your world.

>>18864142
>mfw taking caffeinetic readings of all lit from now on

>>13198707

Tfw heaven in Islam is palaces, women, meadows, banquets, and chilling with friends

The beatific vision is also part of it though, it's when you see Allah (swt) directly instead of just reflected.

Schopenhauer wrote,

>Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need for countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism.

That he should feel the complete opposite about Islam that Nietzsche (and later Evola) does should be no surprise. Schopenhauer coined the term "life-denying" (which he uses in a positive sense to describe what is morally good), the religions he approves of are Budhhism (which Nietzsche respected despite calling it nihilist and decadent) and, to a lessor extent, Catholicism (he loathed Protestantism), although he opposed its dogma. Schopenhauer's theory of the Will, based on extensive lucid argument, was mostly accepted by Nietzsche with one crucial difference: Nietzsche embraced the Will, whereas Schopenhauer extolled denying it. In fact the Will is theologically possible to equate to Allah's Will except that Islam holds the Will as occasionalist, whereas Schopenhauer argues its existence based on efficient causation. Therefore Islam, a cult of the Will--not "will" in the liberal, middle-class sense--which is completely about Submission to the Will rather than denial of the Will, is radically at odds with Schopenhauer's values, as well as slave morality.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5CjhA0BedUI