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How to write in a way so that every sentence hit like a bolt of lightning to the reader?

>> No.17652626

>>17652572
Booba

>> No.17652629

Name a single writer you’ve read who can do this

>> No.17652634

fuck you for posting that, now I have a hardon in the library

>> No.17652641

>>17652572
You have to write a lot and you have to try. Go back and make every sentence blaze like fire, don't be lazy. I'm being very lazy nowadays and my writing is suffering because of it. God speed anon

>> No.17652651

>>17652626
booooooBA

>> No.17652656

>>17652626
That's not what thee post is about

>> No.17652659

>>17652629
I'll give you two.

Nabokov, Tolstoy

>> No.17652672

>>17652641
How does your practice session look like? How do you take inspiration?

>> No.17652677

>>17652659
Lol I love tolstoy but no. He definitely builds up tension rather than being straight out in your face the whole time

>> No.17652688

>>17652656
Well he shouldn't have used booba then.

>> No.17652691
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17652691

>>17652572

>>17652659
>Naboobakov
>Tolstoybooba

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>>17652672
>inspiration
I struggle with this a lot so I'm not sure how I could help but often when I go on walks ideas just appear to me. Also, more often they'll just come to me while i'm writing. Just write and it'll come to you. My practice sessions aren't anything particular, I just write, edit, and read my stuff. I don't go to the gym and hardly do exercise so I get exhausted very easily so I'd also recommend physical exercise very much. Taking care of mind and body is not a meme, at the very least don't be physically unhealthy like me.

>pic rel
I'll upload one more too

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>>17652717

>> No.17652730

>>17652691
>not Boobastoy

>> No.17652737

>>17652629
Easily Shakespeare.

>> No.17652758

>>17652717
I think it's nietzsche who said that any idea not obtained on a long walk is not worth having. So you're doing it right I guess.

>> No.17652761

Please post more of this booba. You know the rule. Post 3.

>> No.17652779

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhj1G9EKJGI&t=120s&ab_channel=DuarteHarris

you need that bim bim bim
you need that individual flavor

>> No.17652790

>>17652779
Immediately crossed out after seeing the guy.

>> No.17652804

>>17652572
>>17652629

McCarthy and Nietzsche write this way. But arguably the superior path is to conceal, use tension and restraint, and build up to the lines of fire rather than expecting every single phrase to be incandescent – for example, Mishima.

>> No.17652807

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

>> No.17652821

>>17652807
says who

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>>17652821

>> No.17652839

>>17652572
ngmi, coombrainer. enjoy blowing your potency to e-thots and leave the writing to us.

>> No.17652840

>>17652833
are u the portrait anon from the other day?

>> No.17652846

>>17652833
beautiful

>> No.17652850

>>17652839
>coombrainer
Most good writers were chad impregnators

>> No.17652854

>>17652840
nah I found this pic here like a month ago

>> No.17652858

>>17652572
You probably want poetry. Prose requires contrast to be readable.

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>>17652572
>"anon how would you like to die?"
>well you see as a virile WHITE man the ideal death for me would obviously entail being suffocated by the breasts of several black girls in some tropical paradise while they teasingly stroke my WHITE cock as every ounce of my life (and semen) is slowly drained from my body by the safari succubi.

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>>17652876
bros..

>> No.17652898

>>17652858
What do meany by contrast

>> No.17652957

>>17652898
On the simple level, you can increase the impact of a sentence by preceding it with something more mundane. If every sentence "hit like a bolt of lightening," it would quickly become expected, it would just be more of the same. Lull the reader into complacency, then hit them with the lightening. The trick is to make them complacent and not bored.

>> No.17653002

>>17652957
Should also add, the mundane still needs to serve a purpose to the work as a whole or it will read like setup > punchline.

>> No.17653066

>>17652957
>>17653002
Interesting. Have you read a book on this, or any writer wrote about using this technique? I'm the one who cited N and T as examples in this post >>17652659 and I personally haven't consciously felt these authors switching styles to avoid boring the reader. Maybe it's done in subtle ways?