Alone Once More EditionStubbed >>24982319>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.
>Protagonist is over 6 feet tall>DroppedI refuse to read about chad having fun adventures. They already have the best lives in reality
>>24986993Write the next great Manlet Adventures novel
>>24986993What's really pathetic is when the author is short and they make their MC a super tall guy,
>>24986993Read Iron PrinceMC is a short king and his best friend cucks him because of it. Very realistic
>>24986993FFF-Class 'Unlucky Antagonist' is short and hairy, while his rival is tall and shaved.
The polls for the main voting have closed. Now it has come for the tiebreaking.>https://forms.gle/eXmHiPgimFmzUwMA6Each book will be scored on a scale from 0 to 4. The scores from all voters will be added, and books will be ranked by their total score.You can edit your responses after voting. To limit one vote per person, a Google account is required to vote, but will not be collected or viewable in any way.The Top 100 before tiebreaking are in picrel. The full information is in this spreadsheet.>https://files.catbox.moe/iek244.odsVoting closes on Jan 7, 23:59 EST. Thank you for voting!
>>24986908Kys
>>24986889>>24986895>no you have to make it easier to spam votes!
>>24986682These dumb diggers in this board put mason and Dixon over one hundred years of solitude?
>>24986682What a surprise, the same list as last year with the same books just in a different order, which was the same as the year before, which was the same as the year before that...
>no Balzac>no ZólaFucking virgins.
>just a bunch of people fighting at each other's houses
>>24983815>You said I killed you-haunt me, then!
>>24984252i didn't think i'd ever see anyone on this godforsaken board reference lucia berlin
>>24983815>heathcliff incomprehebsibly ruins his plot for revenge for no reason by going full evil retard
All road leads to charlotte
>>24986326What do you mean? He succeeded completely. He just gave it all up when he realized that revenge doesn't make him happy. These Brontes are so Christian...
Discuss good narrative history books on any subject.
>"A Noise of War: Caesar, Pompey, Octavian and the Struggle for Rome" is a historical narrative by A.J. Langguth that explores the political and military conflicts during the decline of the Roman Republic, focusing on key figures like Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Octavian. The book delves into the power struggles, civil wars, and the eventual rise of the Augustan Age.https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/514009.A_Noise_of_War
>>24986732Sounds like woke shit: "Not the least of Price's achievement is to rescue Viking history from the grasp of white supremacists who claim a specious lineage with it. He does so not by asserting any sort of moral superiority for the Vikings–theirs was a brutal society that practiced human sacrifice & slavery, as Price makes abundantly clear–but by restoring their rich & strange particularity...
>>24986544I used to read that stuff but now find that reading well-researched historical novels is just more fun. Then I end up looking up proper non-popular historical research anyway.
>>24986936He makes some perfunctory woke noises but that's all. It's mandatory to get anything published unfortunately, so you as a reader have to learn to distinguish between actual woketard writing vs a writer going through the motions to appease the publishing gatekeepers.
Destiny of the Republic was great read, the Netflix miniseries was meh but it did lead me to the book.
one of those books you immediately start re-reading once you get to the end
>>24984232>le spoopy ghostsBut when Shakespeare does it all of a sudden it's a masterpiece
>>24984232Nothing wrong with ghosts or ranchers, retard.
>>24975922If you guys want to read a nice novel set in Latin America, read BOM
>>24983031This>>24985272Stfu, it works fine
>>24976067I can read spanish but if it's a big boy word then I have to look it up
Which do you lean towards here with Being vs. Becoming:1. Mutual exclusion – Being and Becoming are incompatible; Becoming is illusion/error.2. Full symbiosis – Being and Becoming co-constitute each other; neither is prior.3. Hierarchical asymmetry – Being is primary; Becoming is derivative or degradative.4. Participatory asymmetry – Being is prior, but certain forms of Becoming can disclose or host it.5. Process primacy – Becoming is fundamental; “Being” is a stabilized abstraction.6. Nondual emptiness – Neither Being nor Becoming has independent reality; both arise dependently.7. Agnostic/pragmatic – The distinction is a conceptual tool with no final ontological answer.
>>249867041, 3, 4 is true. 5 is true as well but only in the sense of being and becoming as nominal designations. Becoming is the dual appearance of being, which is non-dual. Being emanates becoming as a hierarchy, with certain forms being closer to being yet not it.
>>24986953Great stuff
>>24986704Feels like this thread is as good a place as any to ask if someone can post the Chad being vs the virgin becoming meme
>>24986998Oh yeah and 2 is true as well, being and becoming are one in the same way a medium and a wave is one.
>>24986704It’s all language games.
Hi. I will read a book every day of the year (seven a week).Would it be fine with (You) if I posted a daily essay on each book so you gave me some feedback? I am a 20yo girl and I have not read books or written essays in a while. I really need some help and guidance.Doing this would also hold me accountable to you anons. In addition, I would rather not use AI to correct my essays or give me opinions, and I have no one else I could ask this favour to.I don't want to spam the thread, so I wanted to ask for your permission first. If you know any other place where I could get feedback (not AI) I would also accept the suggestion.It is an attainable goal for me because I have lots of free time at public transport every day (about 4 hours) and nothing to do on weekends.I'd also accept book recommendations. Today I'll start with The Stranger by Albert Camus.Thank you and Happy New Year!
I don't think you can read these books in a day and come out of them with a crystalized, truthful impression of them. But yes, you may, if you post toes.
>>24986229My dumbass thought their was a book called steppenwold for a second
>>24986229Why did you have to bring up that you're a girl?
>>24986797Same. I'd recommend OP do an essay a week and no more.
>>24986229you wont do shit.
>Anna's Archive
>>24986982I wonder if anna keeps her crack crusty
I'm sorry to break it for you but Anna is short for Anarchist
>>24986985Based?
>Translations are not reading>It is easy>You can not utilise English without French>Women will fawn over you>You might get a French gf
>>24986859>muh performative>muh bataille>muh generic uGo back to Faggit you pretentious retard
>>24986863You didn't finish or punctuate your post.
>>24986871Go back to Faggit you pretentious retard.
>>24986308Nah, I'm good. You learn English, though, Pierre.
>>24986719>dramatically imperative to general eruditionMaybe learn to write English like a straight man before studying another language
the fourth blackfyre rebellion 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: >>24949686
>>24986788Because George has said that the others aren’t a straight up evil race who only want to kill, but this theory would mean he’s a liar
>>24986801Also George is the “subvert your expectations” writer, it would be disappointing and anticlimactic if his most likely theories comes true
>>24986801I honestly think he probably did mean to be an evil race early on but the great gardener let his idea get away from and now he doesn't want to do that but doesn't have anything prior set up to explain them in any other way besides being some totally evil race of monsters destined to be defeated by the chosen one hero of prophecy. One of a dozen ways he fucked himself
>>24980843Reminder that the first time Arya is mentioned in AGOT it is about how she is already in love.
>>24984914I know this is bait but it's funny watching Preston Jacobs go from this schizo "ASOIAF is a sci fi post apocalypse and it all links together" to realising GRRM is a hack who makes it up as he goes along.
Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton are the three greatest writers in the English language and if you haven't read them you are effectively illiterate.
>>24985416Read them in high school. What now?
>>24986264>Chaucer's verse often hinges on slant rhymesNo he doesn't.>appalling to the modern English ear.It's used quite commonly by modern poets.
>>24986340Oi, got a loicense for that smack talk?
>>24985831>Btw have you read Johnson? Your description of Shakespeare is reminiscent of his ideas.I have but I can't remember him. I love Milton and Houseman, myself. Johnson disliked the former to an extent.I rated Chaucer above Shakespeare because I agree with you! I'm very intellectual myself, but mostly yearn for the particular; I prefer to access the more eternal aspects of the world via non-fiction, myself. When I read poetry I just want it to tug at my heartstrings or be enjoyable.
>>24985416Why do midwits bother to make threads with the most predictable takes on the planet? You could’ve given some nuanced or insightful commentary on any one of those writers that would’ve done their legacy justice, but apparently you’re too retarded to have anything of value to say about them.
Behold: the phD level intelligence that's going to write the next literary classic
>>24986315So true. Grok Premium unlocks the real seahorse emoji
>>24986301just one more data center bro please we just need a larger model and we get AGI I swear
>>24986301The one where he goes like "wait no actually this is the seahorse emoji no this is wait for real this time"
>>24986354Does Grok Premium+ unlock seahorse porn? Asking for a friend.
>>24986301Man this is literally going to end humanity for real its just like skynet just like the matrix just like roko's basilisk I'm starting to have serious concerns that this chatbot might be sentient at the very least it's going to wipe out 99% of jobs and cause mass starvation of the plebs if not an end of democracy as we know it. Please give another $500 billion so we can make this dream a reality please.
Books for this feel?
>>24986967Parsifalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijo4EH6aY6U
>The dispensers of mass information have once again discovered science fiction. They do it every seven or eight years. The last time was with 2001. The only trouble is, they've discovered 1939 science fiction. Mindless shoot-'em-up and hardware. Paeans of praise to the grommet and spanner. And that means more of the same, just the way it happened in the wake of 2001. It means that thought-provoking sf, the kind written by Gene Wolfe and Kate Wilhelm and James Tiptree, Jr. and Michael Moorcock, has no value. It means that an entire genre of fiction for our time, material that informs and educates and entertains, will be bypassed in favor of more cops&robbers in outer space, more cowboys&indians on Tatooine.>Goodbye, science fiction, hello sci-fi. That's pronounced skiffy.
>>24984851No. They THINK he shit talked Tolkien. Like the recent China thread. These guys just want people to grow up and expand on the genre instead of going over the same old shit.
>>249840179/11 is more similar to Star Wars than Star Wars is to Hidden Fortress
>>24984017Then you're an idiot. You're an idiot who didn't pay attention to either film and you're an idiot for thinking that when people say it was a massive influence, it means it's an exact 1:1 copy. Star Wars was strongly influenced by a lot of Kurosawa but a million different things. Good creators steal from a lot of sources, plagiarists steal from one
>>24985664Boom. Headshot.
>>24984234In an alternate universe where there is a BotNS cinematic universe Ellison's I, Robot film adaptation is probably a thing.
How important is psychiatry/psychoanalysis, in terms of creating societal change?I am a psychiatrist-to-be.How would you practice, if given unlimited power/funds to create your own health department? How would you set it up?I know of critical psychiatry and books like bad science and some by James Davies. But any thoughts on modern policy thinkpieces? Books about the best way to manage societies (mental) health from a macro/state/gov pov?Is psychiatry /lit/ or /sci/ ? Or some other bumfuck board?
>>24986088I am diagnosed with schizophrenia. While schizophrenia is not caused by trauma, experiencing trauma growing up causes the person to be more sensitive to stress. This therefore makes the person more susceptible to a stress-induced schizophrenic breakdown. Pretty much everyone I know who is also schizophrenic/schizoaffective has some kind of traumatic background (myself included)In terms of the voices, it's really the person's subconscious thoughts being made manifest. An anon on the schizophrenia thread on the psychiatry board of dvach summed up the voices phenomenon pretty well. Pic related
>>24984277>I am a psychiatrist-to-be.a stain upon society, a cancer upon culture
>>24984277Very important to all the subversive evil shit you push in the name of "societal change".It is inherently evil to frame anything like this as if it can ever somehow be not religious. Accept that "mental health" is about your connection to the divine and as such the purview of male priests not women pretending gossip mags are le science.
>>24986088Drop in testosterone levels.
>>24984588>ONLY integrated ritual can cureI know religious conversion (Catholicism) can cure me, I just can't believe in it. There's so much truth in perennialism, but getting past the magical stories of the "normal" religions (pick one) seems impossible
