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15563921 No.15563921 [Reply] [Original]

What books help you write? They don't have to explicitly give advice on writing, although that's acceptable.

Personally I read The Poetics of Space but it only helps with my fiction writing (focusing on the image above everything else, avoiding the use of metaphors, some more symbolic stuff). I don't have anything that helps for more analytical or philosophical stuff, other than just taking a quote out of a passage to reinforce a point.

Any novel with a style you want to emulate/approach is valid too.

>> No.15564122

beckett novel prose

>> No.15564213

>>15563921
Redpill me on the poetics of space. Is it not just a book about architecture?

>> No.15564236

>>15563921
notebooks/journals. they generally dont have any writing/type in them so they give you alot more room

>> No.15564241

>>15563921
I've been studying The Good Earth for how it combines literary symbolism and thematic unity with excellent pacing and tension. A literary page-turner is what I aspire to, ultimately.

The book "Consider This" by Chuck Palahniuk has helped a lot, mostly because my analysis is recapitulating many of the concepts defined there (stuff like "clocks", "guns", "strippers vs. comedians") Another useful book is Making Shapely Fiction; many of its shapes are (unsurprisingly) showing up as well: snapshot, juggling, journey, visitation, bear at the door.

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15564290

Linguistics, Rhetoric, Literary Theory & Criticism. And, most importantly, primary sources of good writing.

>> No.15564308

>>15564213
>Is it not just a book about architecture?
not at all,, more about phemonology of interior spaces,, has a lot of quotes from poets and novelists to show examples about how they play with the concept of space etc

>> No.15564368

>>15564213

>>15564308
This, mostly

It's more about poetics and the meaning or impressions one gets from interiors. lot of really interesting stuff about the poetic image and how that gives way to dreams/daydreams

>> No.15565357

>>15564236
kek

>> No.15565380

>>15563921
For me it is life itself. It is very hard to write when I'm feeling undisturbed. As in completely at peace with the universe.