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>Probably the second biggest one is learning to pay attention in different ways. Not just reading a lot, but paying attention to the way the sentences are put together, the clauses are joined, the way the sentences go to make up a paragraph. Exercises as boneheaded as you take a book you really like, you read a page of it three, four times, put it down, and then try to imitate it word for word so that you can feel your own muscles trying to achieve some of the effects that the page of text you like did. If you’re like me, it will be in your failure to be able to duplicate it that you’ll actually learn what’s going on.
It makes sense. Does /lit/ do writing exercises like this?

>> No.19157516

erasmus recommended the same in "de copia". it's useful in all artforms.

>> No.19157983

Just how much time do you have people?!

>> No.19158193

>>19157498
who is this girl? I remember seeing another picture of her here before.

>> No.19159928

>>19158193
Pretty sure my dick thinks it's Alice something or other, the camwhore.

>> No.19159942
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19159942

MILLENNIAL OLDSTER HERE; WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS SIGN?

>> No.19160684

>>19157498
Screenwriter here.
I've done the thing where I try to watch a movie scene and then write it in screenplay format and then compare my 'transcription' to the actual screenplay. It was unironically one of the best writing exercises I've ever done.
So I can see it working in prose, because you'll look back at your re-writing and be like "why doesn't this slap?"
>>19157983
If it's important to you. You make time

>> No.19160693

Lewd top.

>> No.19160696

>>19159942
Non anime watcher detected. Sad.

>> No.19160699

>>19160693
Meant for >>19159942

>> No.19160718

The real question is: why are you still entertaining the dream of becoming a writer in 2021, international year of illiteracy and reduced attention spans, year of the 20th anniversary of the death of the publishing industry ?

>> No.19160724

>>19160684
Best advice I've seen on this board

>> No.19160808

>>19159942
I want to know too

>> No.19161182

>>19160808
Maybe it makes fat girls look slimmer or maybe fat girls can't fit the pose because their face is too wide? Either way, I have the feeling fat girls are involved.

>> No.19161261

>>19159942
>Name our gang

>> No.19161330

>>19157498
Sure, you learn a lot by doing that, put in the time to dissect the sentences of the authors who like big sentences that go on for pages, you will learn a great deal about sentence structure. Gass and Wallace are great for this, masters at exceedingly long and complex sentences.

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>>19159942
>>19160808
it's kinda like the 'thinking face emoji' combined with 'dat ass', 'thinking bout dat ass' if you will