How do you get better at writing? ChatGPT says I'm already good, just need to work on readability...
>>24739527Unless it identifies it as “important” then it knows the text should be praised. Eg. Lit prize winners and such. This also means it will praise any bullshit it knows or is told is important which includes whatever lesbian black diaspora writing that’s fit for toilet paper.
>>24737245Isn’t ChatGPT programmed to only give compliments?
>>24738754I told it to be brutally honest and it said my draft was shaping up into something publishable with a smaller press and possibly bigger press depending on how I execute a few things. Am I gonna make it?
>>24739584lmfao
>>24739590You won't be laughing when I pull this exchange from the archive after my debut earns me the title of best millennial writer!
Predicted British teenagers in the future talking like idiots and doing violent crime for clout, what else did he get right about the current state of the UK?
>>24739872The entire point is the adults don't understand it but the malchickiwicks do, it's to reaffirm there's a huge cultural divide between adults and young peopleI swear this board is retarded
probably, i blame all the lead in the water,
KUBRICK IS A HACK
well i mean i liked the movie but it was interesting how they replaced the Beethoven statue, that seemed kind of odd, some changes here and there such as removing the true ending of the story, but visually its a very nice movie considering the decoration and scenes
>>24739792Basically everything except the endless hordes of brown invaders but he addressed that with 1985
nice board you got there faggot
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Trying to write horror short stories for a little collection, turning out to be much harder than I anticipated! Also, I thought I'd include some short, eerie poems, but that's also very difficult. Does anyone have any good advice for horror? Something I'm interested in is trying to do without death or blood, but still making unnerving stories regardless. I think that overusing gore is kind of cheap, and it's a fun challenge to not have blood turn up in any way.
>>24738149I've been posting my wips in wng. Even then they usually get no feedback, which sucks a little but it is what it is.
How would “fear of being a leader” manifest in a character as a flaw? Is there any way to make it work for a very young character who others really wouldn’t expect to be a leader?
>>24739926Look at Aang from ATLA
>>24739926Maybe he had parents who are too demanding, maybe he fucked up once and somebody got hurt. "Fear of being a leader" is often fear in general, so the person would be the shy awkward type. Kids don't get the responsibility of being a leader, only if they had to care for a little sibling instead of their parents, I guess. Younger person leading older people doesn't work that often, unless it's some temporary alliance of an educated noble youth and illiterate peasants, which sounds marxist afI don't really agree with the other anon's example, because it sounds like "fear of not being perfect", which is such an edgy teen mary sue "flaw" to have
well that sucked
>>24739771I'd like to know why. I hated the Novelist, so I'm not surprised.
>>24739818There’s barely a plot or characters. The prose is fine. The closest it comes to being good are in the moments of social commentary but they don’t last long or go anywhere. 260 pages of oddly homoerotic “meh” I kept hoping would amount to something.
>>24739860Damn, that sounds almost exactly like my experience with the Novelist, minus the homoeroticism. A few interesting ideas that only come through in what are effectively monologues. I think his point in that novel was about some kind of generational distractedness and self-obsession, but he didn't do it well; it only felt like a description, and not a particularly insightful one.You read anything contemporary that's actually good? Did you glean much in terms of intent from Muscle Man? because I'd like to see someone do a better job with simialr ideas.
A friend keeps urging me to read this. I know the premise. Is it actually going to be entertaining or interesting? Will it be thought-provoking? Or just a bunch of racist drivel?
>>24734918>violent crime, property crime, drug violations disproportionally "US-born citizen"How many of them are black, latino?I wonder what the chart would look like if you subdivided "US-born citizen" into four groups: White, Black, Latino/Hispanic, and other.
>>24734244Thought provoking, maybe; you won't get anything out of it (aside from confirmation bias) if you already oppose mass migration into Europe (or wherever). I read the book, found it kind of cheap: the point is belabored into absurdity and the content mawkish. I also think it is overrated because it happens to intersect with modern politics, though it's impressive how seamlesly it melds with modern anti-immigration sentiment. I say give it a read if you want. But I don't consider it a good book. And I doubt its defenders here would disagree in their heart of hearts, but political convenience trumps all things.
It got btfohttps://youtu.be/T_tjK4R-1HM?si=6Lh1LrExxsTTetYs
>>24738055The "political left" and capitalists are apples of the same bushel. They're consumerists at heart. One is more upfront with its consumerist ideology while the other tries to rationalize it.Eitherway, they're both concerned with perpetual-growth due to death anxiety.
>>24739887Capitalism is about low time preference. Time preference is a concept in economy that describes the consumption time horizon of a person. High time preference means that such person is prone to consume short term, and low time preference means that such person is prone to consume in the long term. Capitalism needs low time preference, otherwise the means of production couldn't develop in order to increase productivity.You think that capitalism is about consumerism because of keynesian disturbances which translate to government intervention in the economy aimed to increase consumption, as they think everything will collapse otherwise. Central banks deliberately increase the monetary base and that stimulates consumption (if money is devaluating, the preference to consume increases over the preference to save money), interest rates are often set low by central banks to stimulate economic activity and then set high after inflation increases (low interest rates tend to cause inflation). And these are the most "scientific" policies resulting from keynesian theory, because you can also find full blown stupid policies to stimulate consumption like cash for clunkers by obama or the veiled obsolescence programme by the EU to replace old cars with an ecologist excuse.
tyrion stroll editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24704184
>>24739626Except the one that lets you bring back dead people and spawn shadow assassins and the one that lets you do greenseeing and warging
>>24739612the Seven gave the Andals the power to conquer Westeros and cast down the blood sacrificing demon worshippers who inhabited it before
>>24738777boring and gay fanficsaying this as a sansa hater myself
>>24739645There doesn’t need to be a higher power for those things to exist. It’s literally just a form of soul-magic (or really advanced telepathy, since GRRM is a science-fiction writer after all), which can be aided by certain substances or genetics.
>>24739670It was the Rhoynar who gave them the power to do that by teaching them how to work iron and even then they were still btfo by Theon Stark.
ITT share what books you are currently going through and discuss with others about theirs.This is my new batch that just arrived. I'm gonna get into them as soon as I finish my current book.
>>24739785How's that Sahlins? I heard somewhere he's a noble savage kind of guy but I want a second opinion.
>>24739769I gotta finish with Hume first, it's the last book from the previous batch. I'm slightly less than halfway through, I reckon I'll get through it this week.>>24739774I'm trying to take it in chronological order starting from the 18th century onwards, while also reading the classics and sprinkling in some more modern stuff or other books I hear about on /lit/ for extra variety. I got the Melancholy of Resistance because some Anon here recommended it.
>>24739769Think of how good they'll look on his coffee table, though.The guests will love 'em!
>>24739797I've probably read over 80 philosophy books or so i ended up mostly graduating to sociology, theology, history and psychology soon after.
>>24739728Divine Comedy
Is this the book that teaches you real world isnt a romantic fairy tale and you need to stop being an idealist?
>>24739901This is escapism. It won't teach you anything you didnt already want to learn. Instead of reading it just eat the book and be satisfied.
>>24739928Nigger, your reading comprehension is trash.
What are the best books to read while going through a divorce?
>>24739048If your dad died and you made a thread here posting about it I would be here for youIf your child died in an accident and you posted a thread here I would pray for you
>>24738802>"I just really fucking hate you right now. I'm not sure why."She sounds like a fucking retarded bitch dude just start recording the abuse then file a police report
>>24739062That's a nice sentiment, but I have my family to help me grief. I don't need a stranger from a Mongolian weaving basket forum
East of Eden.
I was quite surprised, after thoroughly reading through the masterworks of this King, by some falsely considered the godfather of nazism, to promote an almost full equality of the female gender and describe the Aryan Germain as an otherwise tolerant, non-nationalistic, unprejudiced towards foreign nations, individualist man who doesn't go to the temples and resents priests with a passion. He wants nothing other than to contribute to his community and who would, if necessary, even sacrifice his life and all his wealth for it. He is a man who does not love authority and who is good to his slaves. Spreading the message of justice and fair government, with violence if necessary, is the true Aryan's sole concern. They lived inside their rural farms, democratically organized under the head of an uninfluential federative King. Unfortunately there are not many of them left, as Gobineau explains in his book. To say of oneself that one is an Aryan, is almost the same as claiming to be a true genius. But who other than a true Aryan would dare to accept such worldview? Combining the idea of racism with a love for all humanity is a step few people dared to make.
Benevolent racism is the way to go but /lit/ will never get it.
>>24739802The English had it right the first time. You tell 'em.
>>24739184Thats because you seem to view people in terms of class which is a common European mistake. Marx might have had a point here or there but biological science points elsewhere.
>>24738446I couldn't care less what he thinks because paternity tests are illegal in his country all things considered
>>24739802>Also about the attitude of the superior to the inferior races, the Negroes, for instance. R. says the greatest triumph for the intellectually superior person is to win the love and devotion of those beneath him, whereupon the Count [Gobineau] says such love can be found among Negroes, but not mulattoes.>We come back to the subject of race, wondering which theory is right, Schopenhauer’s or Gobineau’s. R. feels they can be reconciled: a human being who is born black, urged toward the heights, becomes white and at the same time a different creature.>‘Negro slave owners etc. as extreme consequence of the conqueror’s becoming far more savage than the animals.’
>It will be found that the impressions of sense give the first occasion for bringing into action the whole faculty of cognition, and for the production of experience, which contains two very dissimilar elements, namely, a matter for cognition, given by the senses, and a certain form for the arrangement of this matter, arising out of the inner fountain of pure intuition and thought; and these, on occasion given by sensuous impressions, are called into exercise and produce conceptions. Such an investigation into the first efforts of our faculty of cognition to mount from particular perceptions to general conceptions, is undoubtedly of great utility; and we have to thank the celebrated Locke, for having first opened the way for this enquiry. But a deduction of the pure à priori conceptions of course never can be made in this way, seeing that, in regard to their future employment, which must be entirely independent of experience, they must have a far different certificate of birth to show from that of a descent from experience. This attempted physiological derivation, which cannot properly be called deduction, because it relates merely to a quæstio facti, I shall entitle an explanation of the possession of a pure cognition. It is therefore manifest that there can only be a transcendental deduction of these conceptions, and by no means an empirical one; also, that all attempts at an empirical deduction, in regard to pure à priori conceptions, are vain, and can only be made by one who does not understand the altogether peculiar nature of these cognitions.
Stop posting Kant. He's not cool anymore.
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>>24739874This is irony btw.
Behold, the logical conclusion of secular philosophy.
>>24739220>Group attacks emerged with the birth of agricultureno, EVIDENCE of group attacks emerges with the birth of agriculture, but that isn't even true because i remember reading about some mesolithic or whatever massacre site where they found bones with cut marks and evidence of being bound including women and children. also some of the most violent "group attackers" weren't agrarian at all but steppe nomads. i like scott, but he has an ideological axe to grind which makes his work non-serious.
>>24738176Behold, a terrible thread
>>24738180This but replace "people who believe in god" with "atheists" and "niggers".
>>24738176Is that the suicide chair? And is that quote literally on the suicide chair? wtf?
>>24738176Logical? Show me the derivation.
Weekly World News ed. Weird fiction & sci-fi/horror welcome as well :)Old: >>24702117
What are the best swamp monster stories?
>>24736122Did you dislike The Shining that much? I thought it is one of his very best novels; very strong atmosphere, great well-rounded characters, both supernatural and psychological horror, a lot of well written tension, just fantastic overall.Also, which Last Days?
Necroscope 2 was better paced than the first book, but the constant backstory exposition got monotonous, also didn't care for the Cold War espionage stuff. The parts with Thibor and Faethor were great though, anything to do with the vampires was kino, really.
>>24718068That ending really got me good even if the name was a huge giveaway.
>>24739658Yeah, the ending was pretty well done. Glad you enjoyed it!
Will this help me get laid?
>>24738141femcel?
>>24738141whats the plot anon? and what year does it take place
No way fag
>>24738164>>24738302It's the memoirs of a guy in the 19th century where he writes how he had sex with a bunch of women.
>>24738141>he was not molested by the nursemaid at 5 years oldsorry anon, either the ladies want you from the start or not at all
