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Saw a thread here a few months ago about how to create your own insane person's journal. I don't know the exact term but it's when you fill out a notebook with random crap so people think you're a mad person.

Anyone know anything about it?

>> No.2040909

You saw the thread but didn't read it, and now want to make it again? Okay.

>> No.2040910

Sounds like a pretty generic recipe for a psychological novel.

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There's a term?

I think "madman's journal" pretty much covers it.

What do you need to know? There's no particular formula for creating one. Pun intended when I say: just go nuts.

>> No.2040950

Well I remember people posting links and tutorials. A bunch of examples too.

Well thanks

>> No.2040951

>Lots of religious imagery
>One word or phrase written all over a page
>Stream of consciousness writing that goes on for pages

>> No.2040960

AND THEN OH THEN HE FELL.

HE FELL BLOOD RAN AND ORGANS SQUEEZED

THEY CRIED OUT SAVE US

BUT THEY FELL THEY FELL

THE TOWER

THEY FELL TOGETHER

>> No.2040986

CUT OH GOD CUT PLEASE

>> No.2040996

It's easy.

>> No.2041097

Use House of Leaves for reference.

>> No.2041105

well it depends what kind of madman
a paranoid schitzo's journal would be interesting. each chapter would start with a small, mundane thing that he develops into a gigantic conspiracy

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I'm sure it would follow that the diary would resemble something like this.

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>you're crazy person diary will never be as good as John Doe's collection from the movie SE7EN

>> No.2041138

>>2041105
"I just know it, man. They're pulling my socks apart in the wash!

>> No.2041709

bampuu

>> No.2041731

Oh, I think the best guide for what you're discussing, OP, is probably "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.

I mean, it's been 400 years and everybody is still discussing whether he's mad, or just pretending to be mad. He does, after all, warn Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ahead of time that he may need to put on an "antic disposition"----and Polonius is the one who says "though this be madness, yet there's method in't."

So in that case, OP, I highly suggest you go do some reading and learn how to tell a hawk from a hernshaw.

>> No.2041739

DRIP BY DRIP THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
DRIP BY DRIP THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
DRIP BY DRIP THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
DRIP BY DRIP THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
DRIP BY DRIP THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
DRIP BY DRIP THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
DRIP BY DRIP THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
DRIP BY DRIP THE BLOOD OF CHRIST

>> No.2041742

Read the bible and you'll have a good idea.

>> No.2041749

Stay up for 26 hours, drink six cups of coffee and then take two shots of vodka and a huge rip off a bong. Start writing.

>> No.2041759

>>2041749
This except 36 hours instead

>> No.2041772

Yeah 26 hours? Come on if you aren't already staying up that long on a usual day then you're a straight up pussy who needs to get laid.