/lit/ - Literature

>learned a new word today

I took classes of both, and I'm not even particularly interested in their culture. I had the opportunity in my otherwise quite empty (business) curriculum and took it.
I took a year and a half of Japanese classes, and nothing remains now. Contrary to what my teacher told me, I would advise you to completely avoid grammar and focus on learning a fuckton of Kanjis. This will remain in your head for decades, and helps a lot.
I am now learning Russian for around a year. It's great.
I'm convinced 99% of the languages are not actually "hard" to learn. It's all about dumbly studying really, and accepting to suffer mentally. But it's not hard like math or even philosophy can be. It's just an iterative process of learning shit slowly.

How do I increase my productivity (reading-wise)? How do I make myself read more?

>>19400679
So far all I have determined is that it is possible some books are better than others

>>18305437
Wright!

What are some /lit/ approved YouTube channels?

how do you guys cope with the temptation to commit tsundoku? in the digital era, its extremely tempting to just go on libgen and download pdfs in bulk that you might simply never get around to reading because its indtsntly gratifying. I find myself falling into that temptation fairly often, but it ends up causing me stress when I simply can't find a pdf that I'm interested in that exact second.

I think this is caused by an inner drive to "collect" as much knowledge as humanly possible, which is an unrealistic goal. Anyone else here experience something similar?

>>16005985
OK, I'll keep that in mind for a possible short story. But I'm writing YA and I'd rather focus on something simple and digestible to a normie audience.

>Show, don't tell!
>Don't use adverbs!
>Open up any book widely considered a classic
>Telling everywhere
>Adverbs everywhere
>Will be remembered long after whatever books that follow the above advice will
Who do these self-appointed Internet writing gurus think they're fooling?

This is now a Goodreads friends thread. Post your profile so we can find likeminded patricians whose accomplishments and status updates encourage us to continue the reading habit instead of spending all quarantine masturbating. And maybe generate some interesting discussion too.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/42040646-mungo-sheaves

I like literature, poetry, literary fiction, philosophy, history, pretty much anything else in the humanities, and some STEM. Currently reading IJ and listening to an audiobook about Stalin.

How do i write a main character that people will quickly click with?

>>13447999
Be the change you want to see. If you want shitposting to stop, make good threads.

>tfw you cant tell whether what you're reading is genius prose you can't understand or retarded shit
what do i do?

I’m mostly interested in western philosophy, but I want some basic knowledge of eastern and islamic philosophy. If I were to read just one book on each, which should it be? I’d rather read a surface-level book that is comprehensive than a particular infuential work.

>>12087884
*vomits*

Is it true that 70% of readers are female, while 70% of writers are male?

>inasmuch

>>11935818
you didn't actually "read", but did "skip" my fren

brainlet here, can someone explain to me the difference between panpsychism and animism?

>vice versa

>postmodernism

If i steal some things from a cririque thread, put it in my otherwise self-written book and it becomes popular, would anyone know? Would there be any consequences?