/lit/ - Literature

>>10688255
i wasn't good for the first 3 years, i'll tell you that much

>>10688255
There’s now raw talent, it’s either practice or experience. Most great authors served so you could do that, but back then the enemy wore uniforms so it was more civil as civil as war could get

>>10688276
What's experience? Does reading vast amounts of books count?

>>10688268
Do you ever write words for the sake of the prose and flow? Without any plot or structure?

I've been doing this occasionally but im not sure if it's beneficial

>>10688292
I write poetry mostly, I'm just now starting out with short stories.

>>10688255
>Source: NYT - 'Can You Make Yourself Smarter?'

>>10688292
Yeah kinda, but you should be going for first hand experience too. Like if you’re making a book about hobos, you should dress up like a hobo and live the hobo life for a week or something

>>10688292
he's just lying all the greatest authors wer

>>10688304

Same actually.
>>10688318
That's true, but I want to write about the Gods, and God without comming across as a loon.

>>10688321
Were what

>>10688327
well then, big thing is to make sure you have the sonnet form down. it'll help you with everything you write. this is coming from a dude who doesn't really like sonnets that much (but writes them a decent bit)

>>10688255
Both you chickenshit little limpdick

>>10688338
I typically write stoned desu, and most of my stuff comes out with a decent flow.

I have no formal training on meter, prose or rhyme.

>>10688347
nice, authoritative you really slapped that faggot around right from the first

>>10688255
>Bobby "Fisher"

>>10688350

well learn it, i write free verse mostly, but i did a sonnet a day for a month and it the difference was fucking huge.

>>10688372
Thanks will do.

>>10688327
Talk to some men of the cloth from different religions then guy, read so mythology and religious texts

>>10688255
"Amadeus W. Mozart"? That must be a joke.

>>10688255
me on the right

>>10688255
>1 in 30,000
Wew, these "genii" aren't even that special.

>>10688377
hope you do, it'll be hard to make sense of meter at first, but it'll irreparably make you more sensitive to rhythm. and a successful volta teaches more about tone than anything i've ran into. just don't put too much pressure into them to be much more than servicable unless you find a passion for it. it's easy to lose tens of hours fiddling with one.

>>10688255
How does one even test Mozart for IQ? Did he have to turn rhombuses in his spare time? It seems like a socialised ideal anyway tbqh desu

>>10688255
Where are these stats from? How many people are actually taking iq tests and where is the standardized iq test that all these phd grads are taking?

>>10688403
GRE scores are probably translatable into IQ scores. Can't answer those other questions tho

>>10688403
these are made up stats for retards by retards

140 IQ's aren't 10% of the human (or American) population, that's absolutely fucking absurd

>>10688378
I do and thank you

>>10688420
>Don't know algebra 2 because shitty teachers
I hope not

>>10688255
>IQ of people before IQ testing existed
Dropped

>>>/sci/

>>10688426
It says 143+ is 1%.

>>10688255
This graph implies there are no people with an IQ lower than 100

>>10688255
As is the case with every other pursuit, talent is the most important requisite.

>>10688255
>iq
Not science.

>>10689875
>>10688255
>IQ as a measurement of writing talent, or talent at all

Dropped

>>10688255
>Mozart
>Pic of Beethoven

>>10688255
>+121 college graduates
>ten precent graduate college
Wrong.

IQ is a myth. STEMspergs are not intelligent.

>>10690904
But over 20% have an IQ over 115.