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How are you supposed to write multiple characters without all of them sounding the same, or sounding like yourself
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Make up exaggerated qualities for your characters. Loud, abrasive, quiet, a cunt, genius, retarded, people pleaser, loveable, fair, unjust, gluttonous, etc.

Then, be subtle as you're writing, but always be thinking: "This guy is an asshole but fair, what would he do/say in this situation". After a while he sort of becomes a part of you and the words flow effortlessly.
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>>24954674
How about meeting people in real life, you shut-in.
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>>24954674
they are so cool...
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>>24954674
straight outta silicon valley
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Make character sheets. Also every man out there is made of contradictions, so it shouldn't be that hard to come up with different personalities based on yours

>What makes you think you're good enough to write a book?
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>>24948669
Because my ideas are actually kind of fire and I like writing. And I have a lot to say paired with an outlook that I think is a needed one.
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I'm high IQ and have a lot of empathy and can intuitively understand how people think. Only real problem is being a shut-in with little life experience and while that definitely hinders me I don't think it's a fatal blow. It just means my work should lean heavily into expressing the pain of isolation and alienation.
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>>24951814
good mindset, good analogy
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>>24948669
I have seen the top books goodreads. Its not that hard.
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>>24953345
I understand the sentiment, but it is not that easy either.

What's the funniest book you've read?
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>>24951866
This is how I imagine Ignatius with his pirate cutlass
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I read "Money" by Martin Amis with Matt Berry's voice stuck in my head and it was hilarious.
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>>24953455
lol i'll keep this in mind when i get to that one
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I wouldn’t say he’s the funniest necessarily but Dickens is often very funny. One moment that always comes to mind for me is the guy from Bleak House (Mr Badger I believe) who can’t stop bragging about how impressive his wife’s dead husbands were.

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What does Kant mean by achtung (IDK what the word for it is in english desu), to regard? What does he mean that you should... heed, attention, the law? OR rather the law he builds up with the hypothetical imperative.
Secondly: what does Kant mean that the law is done through duty rather than love?

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Which one is his best?
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sex gifs
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Factotum

>>24952336
Great movie, great cast (Charlie's mom from it's always sunny is one of the barflies) but Rourke's Chinaski is very uhh.. well I don't think it's what Buk had in mind. Great performance, but he does his own thing with the character.
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>>24952328
Pulp. You can tell the man had fun writing it.
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>>24952328
Ive read most of his novels/stories and many of his poems, and I think Ham on Rye is his best work overall
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>>24953240
Someone told me about a letter or a poem, in which he glorified his mistress' ass hairs. or something of that sort.
Is that true?
If it is, then where can I read it?

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It's that time of year again!
Vote for which books you wish to see on this year's top 100 chart. You can vote for as many books as you want. If there are any books not on the list that you wish to vote for, request the author and title ITT and they will be added. Responses can be changed after submitting.
Voting closes on the New Year, after which will be the tiebreaker poll. To prevent spamming, a Google account is required to vote, but will not be collected or stored.
Vote here:
https://forms.gle/LqHa5xS1q5CVikem6
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>>24954342
Thank you.
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>>24953444
Topkek. This. I have never seen anyone discuss most books on this list. The most popular threads are usually /adv/ adjacent questions.
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>>24953453
>most of these books are mentioned or talked about at least from time to time.
Barely and when they do its never the content in question. Its always shitflinging and derivative nonsense.
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Add:
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Fahrenheit - by Ray Bradbury
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
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>>24951578
hey OP if you may add Édouard Levé's suicide , Pavese's il mestiere di viviere and Pierre de la Rochelle le feu follet

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Mention here literature according to /lit/ suitable to matriculate as a real /x/-ian. Or if /x/ was /lit/ cohorts first.
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Has there ever been a /lit/ version of Incantation?
Whether it be fiction or actual occult texts
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>>24954283
add Charles Upton to this
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>>24951427
erm can't it be explained that the gods are friends with the awesome occultists that's why they can bring down the moon and induce storms--answer that hippopotamus
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>>24954463
Didn't know about this guy, seems related to the traditionalists too? Good rec anon. Thanks.
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>>24954283
what's wrong with the occult when even raw did some rituals

>Harry Potter's mom fell in love with the school bully
What did Rowling mean by this?
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>>24954517
he was just a cool guy.
he bullied snape, someone who clearly deserved to be bullied.
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And more importantly, what did Rowling mean by THIS?
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>>24954517
>ugly ass Lily
>dorky blond haired James
>manlet dark blond Sirius

Man they really fucked up with the flashback actors

Two Weeks Left Edition

>Old:
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>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb

>Archive:
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg

>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
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>>24952794
I thought it was awful. The characters are so generic and they never grow as the books continue. Also the ending is a big anticlimax.
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What are some good sffg series with popular, well-received endings?
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>>24954744
Lord of the Rings of course
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>>24954744
Say what you like about the entire series and Sanderson but the WoT ending was rated highly by most people.
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>>24953933
It's good. The only bad thing I have to say about it is that it ends in a bit of a "to be continued..." way, but I'm looking forward to the sequel.

I think it's impossible to make money off of sharing abstract knowledge. Can you prove me wrong?

Because I've tried to make money off talking about philosophy and its just futile. I thought of the 48 laws of power for instance and then I realized that book is just obvious hot garbage.

I thought of so many other things like economists, internet bloggers, and even psychologists. And they're all either just spewing lies and falsehoods, writing a whole load of useless filler, or making money in some weird abusive way like taking taxpayer dollars, embarrassing college campus kids or something like that.

I think if I could go back in time with the best writing possible, I couldn't convince anyone that the Earth revolves around the sun in a way that makes me money...
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>>24953779
It depends. After a certain point, absolutely math is not abstract. And my intuition tells me all the money made off abstract maths is funded by taxdollars and universities, or makes no money at all
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>>24952785
Retard. The money thrown from the "abstract knowledge" is taken from theirs, not yours. This reason is prepared from those very people's impulses that you take. But I doubt you have the reading comprehension to understand what I just said.
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>>24952773
What are you talking about? The act of knowledge labor definitely involves "abstract knowledge sharing" to varying degrees. I get the feeling that you don't really understand what a commodity is though, because in order to exchange this knowledge sharing for money you have to make a commodity out of it.
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>>24952773
>I think it's impossible to make money off of sharing abstract knowledge. Can you prove me wrong?
You mean like a university professor?
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>>24953779
>>24953789
you've both got the value of abstract opposed to some other value but neither of you knows what the other's oppositional value actually is, so you're just shadowboxing over the meaning of "abstract" defined negatively against terms that don't intersect at all potentially. quite interesting to watch. one of you seems to oppose abstract labor to quantifiable value contributions, the other seems to oppose abstract to falsifiable facts. neither opposes it to concrete, though you would probably group the things you DO oppose it to under the concrete as a theme.

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pbuh
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>>24954791
Why the long face?

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How do you incels cope with the fact that women are desirable all the way into their 60's and men are fighting for their companionship even into old age.
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>>24954772
Its a psyop, everything is a psyop
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>>24954784
time to kill women
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>>24954769
the average 400lb latinx woman will have more romance and partners than a 5'11 man with a good job, this is why i dont care about ZOG, palestine, or anything when even Hamas is gynocentric and most religions even Islam outside of afghanistan now pander to women and put women as higher than men when infact theyre basically should be slaves
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>>24954769
>nose ring
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>>24954798
they dont worship it they face to pray because of abraham had a house thyer they only pray to God

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I've noticed that a lot of sophist philosophizing is based around this concept of "nonexistence". But it seems obvious that "nonexistence" just isn't a real thing right?
How can something exist that by its own definition does not exist? It's just a nonsense idea made up of circular reasoning. There cannot exist a thing that doesn't exist. Everything that exists exists and there is nothing else. Existence by definition is an all encompassing concept. You can't logically accept that things exist and then turn around and say there are things that don't.
And logically the concept of nonexistence is already nonsensical but if you believe in determinism the idea really just gets defeated many times over.
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>>24953075
Another sad case of hegelgegger madness. Get well soon, anon.
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>>24953393
such a smart boy you are!
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>>24953063
>Time machines
it exists as a concept not as a real thing the idea of non existence also exists as a concept and not physical
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>>24951290
What's the underlying sameness between the two states of meat? What can we say about the process that links meat in one snapshot and the link in the other snapshot? What makes one story more cogent than another story? e.g. "I applied a certain amount of heat to raw meat, which caused a chemical reaction to its tissues that makes it more a palatable" versus "I did a magical ritual, and that meat just... did that... and now I can eat it."
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>>24951290
counter-point: raw and cooked are names of types of meat

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Cavaliers vs Roundheads, who had the better literature? I admit the Cavaliers have a larger amount of great writers, but Milton and Marvell for the Roundheads is a nigh unbeatable combo.
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Fuck this stupid board. Retards can't even discuss 17th century literature. Bunch of poseurs.

I have ordered my Christmas books. Have you? What books will you read over Christmas? What books will you give as presents? What books do you want for Christmas?
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>>24954484
here's my list

>Derek Parfit - Reasons And Persons
>Niall Ferguson - The Square And The Tower
>Niall Ferguson - Virtual History
>Adrian Goldsworthy - Philip And Alexander
>Adrian Goldsworthy - Pax Romana
>Henry Sidgwick - Practical Ethics
>John Man - Conquering The North
>Kwame Anthony Appiah - The Honor Code
>Claude Lecouteux - The Book Of Grimoires
>David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
>Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
>Dino Buzzati - Stronghold (aka The Tartar Steppe)

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