This book changed my life for the better
>>24949374Estonian cunt looks like that. Inflamed on the sides, curtains flaked with yellow-orange pus, and necrotic black in the middle, with decaying nigrescent tapeworm caviar spilling from the crevice like papaya seeds from the fruit split asunder by its ripeness. >>24947468Only a homosexual cares about the pleasure of a woman. A real and literary man fucks her, comes into whatever holes he likes, returns to the table to write.
>>24949463melty
Learning how to please a woman is about as useful as learning Swahili.Now "Calm Down Harrogate: A Man's Guide To Vaginal-like Every Day Objects That Aren't Fruit"? That would be a read.
>>24949040>t. not a virgin and will never marry oneKek, what's it like being a slut?
>>24949463>Men can also orgasm when they’re anally rapedI’m sure you do, faggot.
Read C.S. Lewis' nonfiction.
>>24947032He was a conservative Anglican. Church of England, before they went totally gay. He is admired by Protestants and Catholics alike, he's not really a theologian, and doesn't get into denominational controversies in his writing, but sticks to fundamental Christian truths. Read him, he's not going to yabber on about Marian dogma or anything. He's very popular among Anglicans, Catholics, Reformed Baptists, Presbyterians, etc.
No. I will read HG Wells nonfiction instead.
>>24947629is his history of the world any good?
>>24947013it’s just apologia nonsensethe funniest part of mere christianity is when he argues that all cultures have the same set of ethics (and this proves that morality is objective)lolLMAO
>>24947013He's got some bangers, that's for sure.
Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Slop EditionStubbed >>24943213>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
How do I create a character? I'm trying to write my first story, but I have difficulty understanding a character as I write one. The character just feels unalive, as in I wouldn't be able to read their mind. It feels like the scenarios I want a character in end up dictating the characters actions, not the other way around. And trying to write a person from scratch is like pulling teeth for me
>>24950375Also, the more suffering you endure the stronger you become because character growth = power in my world
>>24950364>Minor Earthshaping (allows him to shape stone and soil within a set range, costing x mana)>Salt Alchemy (lets him extract salt from soil/stone)>Night’s Fulgur (projects an ethereal beam of magic as a method of attack)he ideally has few spells, since it’s a survival progression/litrpg with heavy emphasis on what semi primitive survival in a litrpg setting might look like
>>24950379I cannot understand this feeling. Half of my writing stems from dreams where I'm the characters I'm writing. Their feelings feel more real to me than the physical world.
>>24950379Start with a goal. What do they want? Why do they want it? What will they do to get it? What won’t they do to get it?
Apologize.
>>24950358No reason for me to apologize. He is my GOAT.
I fucking despise you and want you all to disappear
Most 4chan users are currently attending their local middle schools, start there
>>24950281Die 4channer scum
>>24950162I work part time at the five below store in provo utah, you can punch me there if you want ig
>>24950162Come over to your mom's house tomorrow night. I'll be the 6'8" 350 lbs bodybuilder pounding her out.
>7 books completed>12 books behind schedule
>>24949460>QuitI will soon>Kill yourselfno, thank you>>24949458Blood Meridian, House of Leaves, Ada or Ardor, Earthsea, King in Yellow, Witcher: Claws and Fangs, Ferdydurke.Half of them were amazing books I want to reread, the other half were worthless slop I don't want to interact with ever again. I'm not going to tell which were which
>>24949373Any non-zero amount of books is a good amount of books, so good job, anon. It's constructive to feel this way, and it lets you look ahead to the next year with a goal in mind. If you did seven, aim for eight - any more will be a bonus.>>24949475Some hefty ones in here, that easily could have been 2+ smaller books (especially Earthsea, if you mean the collected edition?). Don't let it get you down.
>>24949452It is to me. I don't actually care what you think I just posted it for my own admiration. I like to talk to myself a lot, too.
>>24949475>EarthseaI read these too. You don't count them as 6 separate books? Inflate those numbers, baby.
>>24949373I read 2 books this year and I am impressed, feels pretty good
Seriously what happened to this "Mature but crazy enough" archetype, Like are there any other writers or artists who look like Artaud's physiognomy
LITERATURE IS AN ART; ARTISTIC WORK NECESSITATES REASON: A RATIONALLY DEFICIENNT INDIVIDUAL CANNOT WRITE LITERATURE.
Theatre and its Double is badass.
>>24950248>A RATIONALLY DEFICIENNT INDIVIDUAL CANNOT WRITE LITERATURE.Define your terms. Women write and they call that literature.
>>24950353Don’t encourage the tripfag, anon.
>>24950353never reply to the tripfag, newfag.
Will reading a lot of literature make me more attractive to girls at parties?
>>24948428There’s no lack of Islam in the west
>>24948436Most Muslims are murtad who worship taghut and become as degenerate as the westerners themselves. The have no adab when dealing with non muslims and no Ihsan and almost no Iman. Many I have met would deserve a proper hand cutting off or lashing
Is there one person who keeps asking this stupid question or just a bunch of new stupid people who visit this board every day?
>>24948364I've done this, it works. But it also helps i have a vast digital library
>>24948428No we fucking don't achmed, go zutt somewhere else.
I'm a published writer, but I only have a dozen or so publishing credits in magazines, and I am not getting anywhere in terms of recognition, so my plan is to play up how much of a minority I am. I want to shill myself as an underrepresented voice to get a brand or to at least make it look like I'm sidelined or suppressed by the establishment, in the hopes it garners sympathy. I think this will be a good business plan and, if I pull it off correctly, it may project me as the next big name in my genre (horror). After all, people are already saying Stephen King is an old white male, and his spot will need to be taken when he dies soon. I can use my mixed heritage (I am only half white but have middle eastern and indigenous ancestry), lived experience with mental illness (GAD, paranoid schizophrenia), and experimentation with homosexuality as an expression for LGBTQIA+ inclusion. Do any anons have experience in the game of publishing, or know which agents are looking for a horror writer with minority clout and has overlapping disabilities or stigma?
>>24949352>I write academic slop and make good profit margins (false)>I work another job because writing alone can't support me (true).>I’m a REAL creative writer operating outside identity politics (false).>I don’t do much creative writing, my work is institutional slop (true).In the span of one thread, you have claimed all these contradictory statements. Well done.
>>24949356No. I suggest working on your reading comprehension.
>it's another "two resentful faggots seething at each other" thread Love these.
>>24949344No, but if there is they're probably shit and not worth reading
>>24948951GOOGLE DOCCCYYY
>>24945026After listening to hundreds of hours of testimonies of people's reasons for joining a religion, it's rarely ever something that they read or some philosophical argument that they heard.It's almost universally that they were raised in it or it was the religion of their culture that they connected with when going through tough times.It's like 1 in a 1,000,000 that become religious for any other reason than being raised in it or it being the comfort you turn to while in difficult times.So many fucking liars in this thread. You all had some personal experience, and you're all pretending that it's from some book.
>>24950296People don't read it.
>>24950304>on a theological issueThat's like going deep on goblinology. Your religion is a house of cards, and it's formed from being raised in it or from difficult times, and not because you know what's in the bible. You only know what your preacher told you.We already have decades of Pew Research showing that atheists know religious doctrines better than the believers. So I don't know why you want to lie about this.https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/08/21/among-religious-nones-atheists-and-agnostics-know-the-most-about-religion/https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2010/09/28/u-s-religious-knowledge-survey-who-knows-what-about-religion/You're fucking delusional, if you think you know your religion better than a random atheist. We already have the data that shows otherwise.
Not a Christian, but I'm always curious why people even want to believe in any sort of conclusion and then seek justification for it. Why not just learn all you can and then narrow down the possible conclusion instead? And always leave the room for other alternative path in the back of the mind as either unexplored/unfinished/incomplete/conflicting (with prior logic/tree path). You know, just start from normal everyday experiences of life, then narrow down to things of your interest/focus that needs explanation, then go deeper into explations? That seems like a more robust/healthy way to build a faith, a natural/obvious faith rather than >>24945039
>>24950342please pick out a 15 - 30 minute video on the youtube channel "Sensus Fidelium"https://www.youtube.com/@SensusFideliumand reply back with your thoughts.Surely you can spend just 15 minutes out of the collective dozens of hours you will argue something like this in your life time to listen to something of substance.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgI1j8Y_COIthis is a personal recommendation, 12 minutes.
The dregs of society pool together like the dirty puddles they tromp. Dublin is their city. Dubh Linn. Black Pool. The name evokes images of heroin rolling on foil. The Spire watches high over O'Connell Street, a lantern above the oily slick roads, taxis and buses rolling through them, like a needle penetrating the veiny patchwork streets.
>>24946850Dublin is owned by Afghan Bvlls while yt cucks do nothing
Bump
Have ye a euro fer a hostel bud?
>>24946850Is this quote from a book, or your own writing OP? If it's yours pretty good, you should share some more
Can developing the habit of reading heal my brain from years of doomscrolling, porn addiction and isolation that deleted my attention span, memory and gave me a costant brainfog?
>>24944239this guy is kinda wrong about one thingI went through this whole stuff--started by being obsessed with DFW, read and reread IJ and TPK after using them to 'detox' from other forms of media, started working out and engaging with the real world, got a job and whatnot, but I actually found some excitement there, though ultimately all casual talk boils down to media consumption. culture isn't inherently bad, a good book makes a good conversation point and interests in the occult or whatever lead to deeper personal philosophies and something to talk to. a monkish monkey life in modern society means isolation, and dudes usually drop the ball here, but the universe rewards expressions that can notice what is lacking in the wholethat said math books are as stimulating as video games, even more. so is engineering a project or something. it's not like video games, at least mmos and rpgs, aren't devoid of delayed rewards and lots of grinding, the stimulation is usually the same when you can apply a theorem or a little bit of knowledge in real life or see the abstract in it to construct proofs...it's just vidya before vidya camehaving a passion in media can make you a genuinely more interesting person. the only thing is to never just consume, grow interested in producing it, approach it like art, learn not from the passive act but the engagement in the whole, though never let it blind you. it's a passtime. careers and work are pastimes. an excuse to live (and maybe delude yourself into thinking it's necessary, it's something greater) but it's an excuse we all need.this life is empty and cold. we engage in the cold for rewards merely out of boredom, and that's alright. but don't live for anything less than your passions, everything else is suicideit helps to have good passions and addictions. mine are women and video games desu. discover yours
No, your life is in a downward spiral because of structural brain issues. It's a malady of modern times, called "neural net model collapse". Rediscovered with the advent of generative AI, researchers realized that AI models trained on AI-generated output experienced model collapse. Devoid of the outliers and long tails of real-world data, the model's parameters clipped to zero or one, rendering it all useless. A similar phenomenon happens in human neural-networks if they're trained on human-made and other artificial data, instead of natural data. The pathetic shutin stunts his development with anime, vidya, pr0n, virtual human contact, and the confines of his little room, stunting his neural development beyond all repair. The inevitable result is all too common—seething, sexual perversion, and increasing suicidal ideation. If there is any cure, it involves going outside, getting away from the city, and experiencing nature in all its complexity. But that assumes it's not too late.
>>24947146When I was in psych wards, I didn't have access to electronic devices, pornography, or music. I spent most of my time in groups, reading, progressive calisthenics, socializing, and doing arts/crafts. Finding a safe space to jack off was annoying, so I limited it to once a day. Ironically, the porn I had consumed was helpful in getting me to finish faster because I could just remember the pictures. Food was whatever I was given, so although it might not have been the perfect homegrown keto diet, I didn't have to think about it. My personal objects were limited to my arts and crafts, a collection of group worksheets, and stuff for hygiene or whatever. What is interesting is that preparing for outdoors survival is different from preparing for a stay in the psych ward. Any hobby that relies on knives is impractical in a mental hospital. Music is limited to music channels on TV. Going outside is a luxury limited to one hour a day. So anons like to fantasize about how they would survive if they were stuck in the mountains, but you'd have to be stupid enough to go there in the first place. A guy I knew was stuck there because his mother called the police and made up a story about him being suicidal. I periodically think about if what I have or what I do would be feasible in a psych ward. I recommend this thought exercise if you haven't thought about it already, if only because it is interesting how "basic" hobbies like cooking and sewing can be considered luxuries.
Cutting out short form content, algorithmic social media, and getting off this shithole is a good start. Instead of doomscrolling twitter, read some articles that interest you, instead of watching some bullshit on instagram reels or whatever watch a quality movie or documentary. Start reading some lighter books and set a goal of pages ler day and increase every week. Going cold turkey from everything and reading a Tolstoy novel is setting yourself up for failure in my experience. Obviously it's all just other forms of media consumption and it's important you find some real hobbies where your physically active with your hands and body and engaging with the world and people, but reading and watching quality books is exponentially healthier than getting mind raped by what passes for "entertainment" today
>>24941231The world has changed more since the industrial revolution than the previous 10,000 years combined fuck off with this there's nothing new under the sun bullshit
are there any biographical books about chronically depressed historical figures that went on to accomplish anything?
>>24947901Uhhh maybe something about Kurt Cobain?
>>24947901Not about historical figures but maybe you should read>Ferdinand von Schirach
>>24947935Mass murder is actually good
No, and you're not going to dig yourself out of your hole.Your life is in a downward spiral because of structural brain issues. It's a malady of modern times, called "neural net model collapse". Rediscovered with the advent of generative AI, researchers realized that AI models trained on AI-generated output experienced model collapse. Devoid of the outliers and long tails of real-world data, the model's parameters clipped to zero or one, rendering it all useless. A similar phenomenon happens in human neural-networks if they're trained on human-made and other artificial data, instead of natural data. The pathetic shutin stunts his development with anime, vidya, pr0n, virtual human contact, and the confines of his little room, stunting his neural development beyond all repair. The inevitable result is all too common—seething, sexual perversion, and increasing suicidal ideation. If there is any cure, it involves going outside, getting away from the city, and experiencing nature in all its complexity. But that assumes it's not too late.
>>24947901Lincoln. Bouts of melancholia just like this image
What is the oldest book you've read that really disturbed youI just finished reading Matthew Lewis' The Monk and was surprised by how brutal it still is after over two centuries
>>24946642Just FYI, all of the stories in Matt Cardin's Dark Awakenings were republished in To Rouse Leviathan.Also, an expanded edition of The Secret of Ventriloquism came out.
Well I finished up Loop and I guess the original Ring trilogy. That might be an all time swerve in fiction, probably the best case of fiction within fiction I've read. I got the remaining other two books on my table, can't wait to see what else is in store, though I'm not sure how you follow up that ending.
>>24946566I can't stand her. And she's an absolute bitch in She and Allan.
>>24948954How's the novel itself?
>tfw I want to write horror but it is never scary enoughThis has to be one of the hardest genres to write.
Best writers for increasing your vocabulary?
>>24949924alexander theroux Thomas ligottithomas pynchon
>>24949939vased theroux
>>24949924Dwarf phrenology.
Noah Webster
melville and clark ashton
