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Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:34:32 2018 No.10692370 [Reply] [Original]

>wrote 1200 words of my novel today
>tired and want to read something for the sake of improving my writing

What should I read?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:36:31 2018 No.10692387 >>10692370 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:37:16 2018 No.10692394 Start with the Greeks

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:39:36 2018 No.10692412 Nabokov

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:40:19 2018 No.10692420 >>10692370 The Recognitions

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:43:34 2018 No.10692442 >>10692370 hentai mangas ask around for the "start with the mindbreaks" pic then consider the "continue with the NTRs", but that info-graphic gets posted a lot less

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:45:06 2018 No.10692450 >wrote 90 words of my essay today >still 110 to go >not even halfway through after a day’s hard work I’m not gonna make it bros

Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:45:34 2018 No.10692454

>>10692420
>The Recognitions
>> The novel was poorly received initially.

What are you implying

>>10692412
I read Lo-lee-tah already, now which one? One of his short stories?
I had this in mind:
https://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/10/28/gods-vladimir-nabokov/

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:46:43 2018 No.10692467 >>10692370 I write 3000 per day

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:47:04 2018 No.10692471 >>10692454 That's good, or Pale Fire. Also, many authors were poorly received when they were first published. That doesn't mean they weren't good, you stupid fucking philistine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:47:58 2018 No.10692475 >>10692442 >>ask around for the "start with the mindbreaks" pic >>then consider the "continue with the NTRs" Any kind anon have any of these?

Anonymous Tue Feb 13 18:49:39 2018 No.10692487

>>10692467
Nice. Personally, I can keep going but my mind is being all foggy and probably needs some left-brain work to compensate for the right-brain work its been doing all day.

>>10692471
>That doesn't mean they weren't good, you stupid fucking philistine.

Thanks, I feel much more confident.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 21:18:25 2018 No.10693363 >>10692370 >reach 10,000 words today >realized it's all shit, delete everything but first paragraph I'm never gonna do it, lads.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 22:16:00 2018 No.10693610 >>10693363 >organize first 1,000 words of short story in a coherent structure >watch porn and masturbate i'm disgusting and disgusted by myself, i feel too impure to write anymore

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 22:17:35 2018 No.10693616 >>10693363 First draft? Stop editing, lad. Get your story out first. First drafts are ALWAYS shit. I don't give a fuck who you are in the history of literature. No one shat out a first draft that wasn't shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 22:31:40 2018 No.10693679 File: 42 KB, 534x640, v9fxkhal.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10692450 are you me? I have a 300 word essay due Friday and I haven't even started

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 22:37:41 2018 No.10693703 >>10692370 tell us (briefly) what you're writing about and who your writing influences are/who your writing draws inspiration from

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 22:40:40 2018 No.10693717 >>10693679 >300 word essay >essay What's it about?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 22:42:08 2018 No.10693726 >>10693616 Not to be an asshole but isn't The Trial basically a first draft?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 23:22:01 2018 No.10693881 >>10693717 intelligence and class structure in american life

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 00:48:42 2018 No.10694176 >>10693726 and it sucks compared to his other works.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 00:50:59 2018 No.10694187 1500 words due at 10 tomorrow, barely have a thesis. Keep this thread going I need you guys

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 00:51:35 2018 No.10694190 >tfw three paragraph essay due at the end of the week What the fuck guys. How many sentences are in a paragraph again?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 00:58:23 2018 No.10694219 File: 316 KB, 800x907, 1515467818381.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I have five short answer questions I haven't even started that are due tomorrow at noon AAAAAAAAAAH

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 01:10:09 2018 No.10694252 >>10692370 HAHAHHAH No seriously, there is nothing that will make you improve you writing except naked, painful failure. Just keep writing. Go to sleep, there is only misery ahead. You are braver than most humans.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 03:22:38 2018 No.10694657 >>10692370 Fox in sox

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 04:33:36 2018 No.10694812 >>10692370 If you're already writing, then I would recommend to just read something you like. That's the stuff that inspired you in the first place.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 05:18:58 2018 No.10694876 >>10693881 >300 word essay >intelligence and class structure in american life nigga if you ever thought about that topic you can write that shit spontaneously on the way to class

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 05:44:51 2018 No.10694931 >>10694252 It's important to keep reading. Otherwise you're writing without any example or inspiration.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 05:52:33 2018 No.10694951 >>10693881 you need to squeeze 300 words into a colossal topic like 'intelligence and class structure'? tf

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 06:37:41 2018 No.10695078 Herman Melville

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 06:52:24 2018 No.10695120 File: 15 KB, 500x500, 1505596547930.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10692370 > no qt asian waifu to listen to MGMT's TSLAMP with

Anonymous Wed Feb 14 06:58:45 2018 No.10695137
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>>10692370
I see random photos of 7+/10 women on 4chan every day; where do you people go to look for them? I wouldn't even know where to look, and yet 4chan betas seem to have an endless supply.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 07:21:06 2018 No.10695197 >>10695137 There's literally creep shot threads on 4chan where people share photos or take them themselves. Never particularly felt comfortable with that myself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 07:35:54 2018 No.10695228 >>10695120 Them had a hard life

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 07:38:02 2018 No.10695232 >>10695120 is that le radiohead man lmao is he takin a break cus he jus le headhead man

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 08:30:34 2018 No.10695362 >>10694812 Not OP But my inspiration os not a book but a feelng. That feeling of winter and a clear night sky. The limitless.possiblity that goes beyond our earthly world.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 09:26:02 2018 No.10695519 >>10694219 i have a 4 page paper on Paradise Lost due in 2 hours and I haven't even started reading yet :^)

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 09:41:40 2018 No.10695597 >>10692394 >hi /lit/ what should I read >READ EVERYTHING PHILOSOPHICAL STARTING WITH THE GREEKS, IF YOU DON'T DO THIS THEN YOU WILL FOREVER REMAIN BE PSEUD SCUM

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 09:43:20 2018 No.10695604 >>10695597 this but unironically

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 09:45:15 2018 No.10695609 I didn't realize there was an essay due last week, because I never read the syllabus.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 09:47:10 2018 No.10695615 File: 329 KB, 500x775, 1508533075442.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 12:08:56 2018 No.10696188 >>10692370 >That Yakuza finger lying behind her What a barbarical island.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 16:40:22 2018 No.10697474 >>10693679 damn, I feel you. I have two sentences due by the end of next month and I still need to plan out the structure.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 17:21:07 2018 No.10697699 >>10697474 I have 2 characters to compose. I'm still in the research phase.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 17:24:54 2018 No.10697726 >>10694951 >>10694876 Newfags

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 17:26:09 2018 No.10697735 >>10697699 Lucky... I have to compose one punctuation and it's due in 10 years.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 17:28:41 2018 No.10697748 >>10697735 why are you still posting here, log the fuck off and do your work

Anonymous Wed Feb 14 17:32:32 2018 No.10697766
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I've been obsessed with the saxon series by Bernard Cornwell ever since someone here made a thread about it a couple weeks ago, I've already read the first book, the last kingdom, and i'm about half way through the second book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 17:36:24 2018 No.10697781 >>10695519 Just pick either "Satan is actually the good guy" or "Satan is actually the bad guy" and just fluff that shit up my duderino

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 14 17:39:38 2018 No.10697793 >>10697735 Wow.. meanwhile I'm losing my mind because I have to delete a space and I have until the end of my life to do it...

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 15 00:32:20 2018 No.10699465 >>10695078 Anything in particular?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 15 02:41:58 2018 No.10699926 >>10699465 Moby Dick you should do in any case read Conrad too

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