/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21003316]

i already forgot when i said something original
i always just read, watch YouTube and repeat other people's opinions
book to help me become more creative?

[Anonymous No.21003337]

Books will help you understand that the last person to have an original thought died a long time ago.

[Anonymous No.21003341]

>>21003316
It's called a notepad

[Anonymous No.21003346]

>>21003316
Who is she?

[Anonymous No.21003348]

>>21003337
unabomber died sure but not THAT long ago...

[Anonymous No.21003347]

>>21003316
what kind of creativity are you talking about? In general, the key to creativity is "negative capability" described by Keats. You have to create without knowing anything about what you create. If you have an ego, then you will end up blindly following what you think you know and your mind won't need to create anything. you have to let go of knowledge to create.

but when you talk specifically about saying original things and repeating other people's opinion, it sounds like you are not talking about creativity in general but specifically philosophical creativity or ideation, in which case just read Plato and philosophy, because philosophy will increase your capacity for ideation. but if you read philosophy without negative capability, then you will just end up repeating the opinion of the philosopher you read without understanding it. You have to detach your ego and never assume you understood what you read, and also never think that you have gained knowledge due to what you read. you have to have negative capability. you have to know that you know nothing.

[Anonymous No.21003375]

>>21003346
My wife. Back off!

[Anonymous No.21003383]

>>21003375
ok now write an essay on dostoevskys existentialism in academic russian since your wife is in front of some khruschevskas and you are on /lit/

[Anonymous No.21003385]

>>21003375
she looks underaged

[Anonymous No.21003395]

>>21003375
OK what is your wife's name

[Anonymous No.21003409]

>>21003347
Good Post ;)

[Anonymous No.21003422]

>>21003395
>OK what is your wife's name
Fanny Strepsils

[Anonymous No.21004021]

>>21003316
If you have no time to think you're not going to have opinions. Spend some time doing nothing but thinking, preferably on a walk.

[Anonymous No.21004027]

>>21003385
i agree. that's why i saved

[Anonymous No.21004950]

>>21003346
>>21003395
bibsye

[Anonymous No.21005348]

I could crush her skull with relative ease

[Anonymous No.21005362]

>>21003316
Let your mind wander.
Talk to yourself.
Carry a pen and notepad.

[Anonymous No.21005617]

>>21003316
Take a break from everything, books, internet, social media, 4chan, everything. Just you and your thoughts.
This is why so many good books are written in prison, there you got time to think and day dream

[Anonymous No.21005634]

>>21003316
i think the internet just made it apparent that no one has ever had original thoughts. not literally, but for the most part.. everything we interpret/desire is some abstract from our true nature. 'original' thought stems from experience and/or understanding what makes us tick, and extrapolating. or something like that

[Anonymous No.21006118]

>>21005634
I don't think it's even possible to have "original" thoughts per se, but you know what I mean.

[Anonymous No.21006190]

>>21003347
In a discussion with someone about this, they once told me:
>But explain you must, because they don't get clarified in fiction.
>Dialogue is the only thing that does it for me.
>To speak a thing as plainly as you can and be as honest with yourself as you are the other person that's the skill that whets an idea
>That makes it good and sharp or else shears off enough of it that you have to remake the thing entirely.
>It might be more affecting in fiction-form, but you have to make sure the idea is sumptuous enough and clear in your mind before you can really emit it through image and metaphor.

For context, I said:
>I try to get them (my ideas) out in my writing, but I feel I can only really approach them obliquely there, since I don't like to get preachy, and I feel they're more affecting shown than explained.

What would be your opinion here?

[Anonymous No.21006323]

>>21003348
NIGGA DON'T SCARE ME LIKE DAT

[Anonymous No.21006370]

>>21003316
Have real experiences to get opinions from. Of course you’ll just end up regurgitating other peoples points when that’s all you have.

[Anonymous No.21006391]

>>21006190
You don't have to write for everybody and you don't have to reduce work to a crude exhortation. If they don't get it then they don't get it.

[Anonymous No.21006395]

>>21006391
You don't have to write for everybody and you don't have to reduce your work to a crude exhortation. If they don't get it then they don't get it.

[Anonymous No.21006485]

[Anonymous No.21006515]

>>21003316
Stop reading, everytime you read you let some random schmuck brain fuck you and you stop being yourself more and more.

[Anonymous No.21006745]

>>21006515
So why are you posting on this board?

[Anonymous No.21006853]

>>21003316
holy fuck artgirls make my dick hard
I wanna rail her from behind while calling her a pretentious hoe for pretending to like Joyce

[Anonymous No.21007615]

>>21003383
I know this was probably in jest but dostoyevsky wrote about a century before those came up, you misspelled krushchyovka, and i don’t believe that building actually is a krushchyovka

[Anonymous No.21007983]

>>21006853
you have fallen under an enchanment sir arthur

[Anonymous No.21008091]

>>21003347
>never assume you understood what you read

So my forgetfulness and lack of desire to recap what I read is a blessing

[Anonymous No.21008836]

>>21003316
creativity is cope
unless you think about a world
where nobody acts like an obnoxious
gypsy / nigger / whathaveyou...

if you get good at that you can
also imagine ways of arriving there
... now THAT is real creativity

you are welcome.

[Voluntary Fool No.21009437]

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