Post interesting ways authors died. Jacques Futrelle died on the Titanic, for example.
>>24972104He might poison it
From Wikipedia. "On December 7, 1996, Eugene Izzi was found hanged, his body dangling outside the 14th-story window of his writing office in downtown Chicago. When his body was discovered, Izzi was wearing a bulletproof vest. In his pockets, investigators found brass knuckles, a can of "disabling spray" (likely mace or pepper spray), and a computer disc containing an unfinished manuscript."He was the author of hard-boiled, noir thrillers, considered Andrew Vachss a blood brother.
>>24970495>his death in Paris the following yearHoly shit, how do you fuck up killing yourself that badly?
>>24971765>>24972099I think /lit/ would like Silva>All his life, José Asunción Silva was madly in love with a woman he could not have. His love for her is rumored to be the inspiration for several of his poems. He pined for her and wrote about his pain over and over again. In 1891, the love of his life passed away. The death is said to be the inspiration behind José Asunción Silva’s most famous poem, Nocturno:>[...]>And your shadow>Languid, delicate;>And my shadow,>Sketched by the white moonlight's ray>Upon the solemn sands>Of the path, were joined together,>As one together,>As one together,>As one together in a great single shadow.—Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24970844> yo no puedo seguir viviendo con esta caspa.I doubt he killed himself because he had dandruff. Is it some slang that's not in the dictionary?
Its one of sci-fi's greatest sneak disses on feminism and feminized men.>an emotional female calls for a superior race of beings to come conquer earth "for our own good">a feminized humanity hands the most important job in the solar system to a woman, because we have pretty men now>said female is handed the most important job to keep humanity's enemy at bay and she fails within 10 minutes of having the job. a man held the same job before her for 50 years and forgot how to talk because he took his job so seriously>that same woman takes back control of her company from a more than capable man so that he wouldn't work on a tech that could save most of humanity>said woman then is saved by the same tech she tried to stifle and gets to be counted as one of the last representatives of humanity>a simp who just happened to accidently get stuck with her at the end of the world tries to let her off the hook for her failures. at least we can farm and fuck comfortably in our own universe for the next 10 years amirite!Women and simps will be the downfall of humanity just wait and see.
>>24967143why? it's better than the english translation?
>>24967726you would know why they care about humans if you had just... read the book
>>24968847>absolutely not abilitydo you ever get tired of injecting useless bait into everything?
>>24968847>Anyway I like it, about halfway through the second book now.You're halfway through the trilogy and trying to reject someone's interpretation of the series, along with posting in a thread with massive spoilers. How fucking retarded are you?
>>24968638based jaihoo respecter
>decide to finally "start with the Greeks">the very American translator spends eighty pages of his introduction to this grandfather of all literature spoiling the story ahead and explaining the themes explored therein as if I'm retarded Why do they do this?
>>24966613>Whywhere else are they going to put it? in the back? And then sell the edition as "with a new afterword? with an afterword by joe shlomo?"it is up to you to skip the intro as a rule. but yes, they could at least give a spoiler warning. instead, they devote that space to trigger warnings.
>He didn't skip the introduction Why the FUCK do people ever read the fucking introduction?
Start with the Peano Axioms
how the fuck am i supposed to start with the greeks if i only had latin lessons and failed even those horribly?
>>24966613Always skip the introduction.Read the translator's note if you wish.
What books did you receive from Santa this year /lit/?Not gonna post a pic but I got: >The Encyclopedia of Demonology & Witchcraft>The Imago Sequence by Laird Barronand>a first edition printing of Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison Fairly modest haul but you know what, I'm satisfied. Merry Crimbus everybody!!!
>>24972064>jealous
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>>24972100kys
>>24970445I got a ton of books that I'll post tomorrow, I'm too tired.
>>24972015As someone going through William Blake I hope you are up to date on your latin
So what did everyone get for Christmas?picrel is the kindle book hauls I got, plus I got 125 dollars in Barnes & Noble credits, which I'm probably to use to get some Marx, Smith, Hegel, and Tocqueville and maybe others, possibly a history of China or something. I also got tons of coffee, some food items and a few articles of clothing. more to come.
Got these twoAlso might pick up Nietzches beyond good and evil
Good haul. My family knows me well.
>>24971302I've read the Shadows of Carcosa collection, be prepared for disappointment with about half the stories. Luckily it includes The White People which is peak.
>>24970926This book, a book voucher and other non /lit/ items.
>>24971873I wanted that Shelby Foote since two Christmases ago
Why are they like this? Who tf do they think they are, to be this way?
>>24970414What a nasty, stubborn, perverse, contrarian curmudgeon for no obvious reason except that it pleases him to be troublesome
>>24969813>SlavsThat's just Russians.
>>24970419he isn't real
>>24970530Crazy how they're savage drunkards but also conceived the periodic table and sent the first objects to space
>>24970409I have never seen a Bulgarian give a fuck about anything, a Pole not be even more rude than a Russian, a Serb who wasn't intentionally trashy, a Coat who wasn't a smug retard, a Belarusian, a Czech who wasn't a drunk, Ukrainians are actually pretty nice, or a Slovakian who wasn't autistic.
PBUH?
>>24971009Thank you anon. Currently halfway through the trilogy. Noted the adjacent recs as well.
>>24968998>We shall see later what fundamental importance the symbolism of numbers has in Dante's work; and, even if this symbolism is not purely Pythagorean, even if it appears in other doctrines simply because the Truth is One, it is nevertheless permissible to think that, from Pythagoras to Virgil, and from Virgil to Dante, the 'chain of tradition' was doubtless not broken on Italian soil.
>>24970964I'm not quite sure if this is true, but wasn't the information found in The King of the World theretofore completely unknown to the West and not exactly openly expounded in India, even among Brahmin priests? The imprudent disclosure of which caused his source(s) or teachers or what have you in India to stop communicating with him. Which, if true, indicates at the very least that he was trusted enough at one point to be in contact with legitimate Vedic scholars.
>>24972119> The imprudent disclosure of which caused his source(s) or teachers or what have you in India to stop communicating with him.This is all just unsourced headcannon rumor bullshit that took on a life of its own. Guenon never wrote anything about any of those claims being true.Guenon never once claimed to be ‘in le secrect contact’ with hidden easterners. This may be connected with the speculations that Guenon was secretly initiated by some Hindu, also a totally unfounded rumor.
>>24972127I made no claim that it was a "secret contact", nor an initiation of any sort, but ordinary letter writing with an unknown representative of the Vedic tradition. You can also find in chapter 12 of the book in question an entire passage discussing the "opportuneness" of disclosing the book's contents which, and I quote, "... but in spite of everything, this study has certainly gone further than any preceding it, a circumstance that may perhaps invite reproach from some quarters." Given that the information regarding Shambala was already widely publicized prior to the book, one can reason that it was relating to what he wrote on Manu. You can also find in Paul Charconac's (his long-time publisher) biography of him, on page 64, an anecdote from a different friend of his relating directly to this question. You can of course claim that both Charconac and this friend know nothing of him and made up a bunch of bullshit, and very obviously nobody can know anything regarding any individual's degree of spiritual realization other than the saints and sages, but there's nothing there that's "headcannon rumor bullshit" any more than we the assertion that he had contact with Matigoi through whom he was initiated into a Taoist tradition, mentioned in the post I quoted. I'm fairly certain the source of that information is from the same biography.
"A Very Randy Christmas" EditionPrevious: >>24951364/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
melty in the slopper thread
>>24972134writing for writings' sake is fine i guess but don't expect anyone to think of it as inspired though. in the thousands of years of written language you're sure as shit to come across someone that does 'your style' or executes your themes a hell of a lot better than you could ever. stand gay on the shoulders of straighter giants
>>24972155Sorry I got clinically diagnosed ADHD, there is no way for me to get through a book without meds>>24972158> in the thousands of years of written language you're sure as shit to come across someone that does 'your style' or executes your themes a hell of a lot better than you could ever.That would be true regardless if you're well read or not, I am enjoying the process of writing though so I'll keep with it
>>24972134You don't need to be a prolific reader to be a writer. There's even quite a lot of very successful and highly regarded writers that weren't, some that you wouldn't expect. Franz Kafka, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, JD Salinger, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, F Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, Phillip K Dick, John Grisham, Hunter S Thompson, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Virginia Woolf, Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace, Jack Kerouac, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Langston Hughes, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Golding, Chuck Palahniuk, weren't/aren't big readers, especially early on life. Statistically, you're not one of them, though.
>>24972134>>24972166You should read a lot and write a lot. What you need to do is develop your "tool" set so you can decide what to do when you write ("tools" is how one my professors described it). Reading more exposes you to what tools are available and how other writers use them to create narrative, set tone, write dialog, describe settings, etc... Writing more helps you figure out which tools you like to use and how you like to use them (i.e., your style).That said, you don't NEED to read full books, but it will help because there are tools for writing long works that don't come into play at all for short stories. If reading long works is too much though, then start off with short stories. Hell, even just reading non-fiction articles can help you. Magazines like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and a million others have long form articles that are written in a very structured way that has a kind of narrative. It's not a perfect or even good match for writing fiction, but it's better than nothing. There's something to learn from reading almost any kind of writing (other than like... instruction manuals and legal documents).With comics, the problem is you mostly only read the dialog. There's some narrative I guess, but the artwork does a lot of the work, which you won't have in writing (unless you're also writing for comics or children's picture books). I'd also say comics tend to be structured differently too, since they're more serialized, but that depends on the comic I guess and it probably wouldn't be an issue if you want to write serialized fiction like that anyway. Also it's been a long time since I read any comics, so I could be wrong.
ruins edition FAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old thread: >>24868365
>>24970029Does anyone have any advice for elementally-themed ancient temples/ruins? What about elemental architecture in general besides obvious shit like Water having lots of canals?
>>24971539why don't you engage with anyone's answers? why the fuck does OP have to do it you lazy nigger
>>24971965What are you looking for as far as a temple?
>>24971965think about the architecture as an extension of the element (ie water buildings should have a flow, not look all bunched up and awkward). look into the symbolic meanings of the elements to different cultures, or how they worship deities who represent those elements.
>>24970041>Are there any prominent ruins, abandoned places or remains of great cities in your setting?Main setting is basically a portal fantasy. Certain portals aren't just sealed off, but have whole fuck off dungeons to kill off anyone who isn't very strong or clever from getting anywhere near portals that lead to dangerous places. Which leads to>Have there been any kind of large scale disasters in your setting?The main portals sealed in this way lead to "the land of the immortals". The Immortals were absurdity powerful mages who eventually warped and twisted the main realm they existed on during the Assertion War.Now it's a chaotic wasteland filled with monsters, mutants, and deadly dungeons filled with the most forbidden of forbidden bits of knowledge and magic in the multivers. I am basically saving this info for the very end of the book I am currently working on.A last revelation and explanation of why the vampire lord is where he is and what event was powerful enough to force him into torpor (vampire death sleep).Basically he used to live in the same realm as the Immortals, nearly died and watched everything he loved or cared about be destroyed in seconds due to the indirect effects of two of the Immortals fighting during the Assertion War, and with his last remaining strength ran through a portal that he sealed behind him, made a few minions to set some stuff up in the new world, and then dropped nearly dead in a sarcophgos to very slowly recover and await a point in time when the Immortals are gone.Beyond that most ruins get reused in pretty short order by someone or something. Nothing stays truly abandoned for all that long.
Unironically, what did it teach you?
>>24969483It taught me that 99.99999% of everyone that has ever lived or will live in the future is completely damned, including myself. We all have no hope of escaping hell. It is literally impossible to live in today's world and enter the gates of heaven. Every single thing that society programs you to pursue is in direct opposition to what Jesus specifically teaches.
>>24969483I'm not sure if there is a personified deity, but the Bible does have a high degree of the poetic genius (as Blake describes). KJV onlyists love to mention the "power" of the scriptures, but what's objectively happening is that the aesthetic quality of the poetry and prose is very captivating.
>>24969483how to really appreciate the western canon and western thought with it deeply embedded in everything about society. also, old testament God was metal as fuck.
>>24969483A lot of references that I wouldn't have understood otherwise.
>>24969483You talk to God in prayer, God responds to you with his Word, all 73 canonical books. His nature, His promises, His plan, all are there to guide you to accomplish your destiny, embracing your eternal Father in a realm where there is no anxiety or distress, but perfected, perpetual peace and blissful joy.
I realized this year that I've been a liberal my whole life. I've just been in a stereotypical post-liberal position of 'current woke isn't real woke' and 'the left should focus on economic conditions instead of culture wars.'I've been familiar with trolling for a decade, but simply turning off the computer solved this problem. I never thought government agencies would directly engage in ragebaiting. I've become more like a woke person - I'm not getting my work done because I'm overcompassionate about society and things that don't relate to me.What I want to know is: what should I do to stop caring about things that don't involve me? I've been reconsidering narcissists. I think there's a paradoxical aspect to narcissists where by only caring about themselves and not caring about others, they end up helping others. What books should I read to not care about society and to have a big ego?
>>24970289>have a big egoYou already have an enormous ego because you think you're qualified to fix, or even speak on, society's major problems. Like most leftists, you're completely delusional and everyone knows that you aren't disciplined or smart enough to have a significant effect on society. Unironically clean your room.
>>24971831well, then part of it is already implied in what i wrote: anybody smart will figure out what you are and avoid you, and you will be stuck dealing with retards.more generally, narcissists from what i've seen/read tend to be miserable and tortured. they can't maintain relationships, at least not with worthwhile people. they're prisoners of the perception of others. they get stuck in retarded delusions and copes. they are compelled to take everything personally and as a result get really really mad all the time and suffer stupid meltdowns. they very often kill themselves slowly via substance abuse.since trannies have absurdly high rates of npd, they have become the most visible public example of narcissism and where it leads you. what people think of as stereotypical tranny behavior is in fact narcissist behavior that happens to be centered on gender. take a random kooky internet tranny and replace "actually i'm a woman" with "actually i'm really cool and smart and everyone likes me" and you have a classic narcissist. it's not a good way to live.
>>24971863I don't know what exactly is Ego about, but this is not something to say in a world dominated by the most overt, cartoonish narcissists.
>>24971379a bunch of projections that, again, speak of your rotted mind from too much internet use. it's funny that you say that the left can't achieve real political goals in the world while I know with certainty that you're exactly the type of paranoid useful idiot for the coming technocratic fashoid dystopia that complains about guldural gommunism managing to infiltrate every aspect of reality down to the atomic level
>>24972147>get owned>make up some guy to dunk onwhy do leftoids do this?
LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring - Chapter 6https://youtu.be/KXMW-OkqicA?si=XYK6YbQzMxMSNQvbMerry Christmas!
i never even knew i was into this until now.
not even a chub from the bitch>t. nofap day 118
>>24971901keingooningsama
>>24971657I hate women so much its unreal.
>>24971657>>24971864>>24972128Can't believe this softcore goon material is freely available on YouTube.
How good are his books?Im fiending for some cheap noir these days.
>book is short enough to read in an afternoon>hmm maybe I should consult some retards online to see if this book is any good!npc, just read the fucking book.
>>249673721. "This Side of Paradise" -- Scott Fitzgerald2. "Nostromo" -- Joseph Conrad
>>24965956read hammett and then just skip to ellroy
>>24965956The book deserves a lot better film adaptation than what Robert Altman gave it with the 1973 version with Elliot Gould
>>24965956Look up Andrew Vachss and Eugene Izzi for modern-day noir, and James Ellroy, in a class by himself.
Spooky Psychic Vampires Edition>Old:>>24957211>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
>>24968664I want you to imagine going into battle equipped with nothing more than an abbreviated breast plate, a crotch cup and a sword.
>>24969017I keep telling myself they'll make a TV miniseries, eight episodes to a season, one season per book, and they'll be called the Wanak. and not the wankh.
>>24972021I can never tell if that pull quote was in on the joke.
>>24971971The Flashman Papers. They're more comedic-historical.>During the course of Fraser's novels, Flashman goes from his expulsion from school into the army. Although he is a coward who tries to run away from any danger, he is involved in many famous military episodes from the 19th century, often taking actions that cause or affect events, such as his flatulence affecting the Charge of the Light Brigade,[a] or being the person who probably shot George Armstrong Custer. When circumstances run against him and he is forced to fight, he often does so relatively capably. Despite his cowardice and his attempts to flee, he becomes a decorated war hero and rises to the rank of brigadier-general. He also meets people who either were notable at the time—such as Benjamin Disraeli and the Duke of Wellington—or became well known after Flashman met them—such as Abraham Lincoln. Flashman either has or tries to have sex with most of the female characters. By the end of the ninth book he estimates that he has had sex with 480 women.
>>24972118Cuckolded by his own virgin bride, tho
Give it to me straight. How bad is it out there for fantasy authors that don't write for women?I love writing, but I think I would be depressed if I spent 5+ years writing a series if only 13 people bother to read it.
>>24972061I’m querying now. The truth is that every agent and editor will say they’re looking for “historically underrepresented voices” then list a long series of identities that boils down to “we don’t want white men.” Ignore that. They just want good books they can sell, and that trumps everything else. Just write a good book, and believe in yourself.
>>24972061You wouldn't even be able to write a story for men either.
>>24972093I can tell they’re not a serious write because they love it. A good writer hates writing.
>>24972088>they’re looking for “historically underrepresented voices”even this is only if you deliver the message they want
Writing is a hard game no matter who or what you are Writing for.The market is hyper saturated and it's difficult to get or maintain attention even if you are very good. Marketing is a totally different skill set to writing and extremely few are good at both.My advice would be to write shorter works, polish them well, then put them out and see what gains a audience. Once you have found a audience write more substantial works for that audience. Eventually you will get a small but dedicated fanbase that you can count on to show up and read your epic fantasy series, or whatever big project you long to create. That said don't expect it to pay the bills. Only a microscopic fraction of the top 1 % of writers earn their primary income from writing. Think of it as a hobby or way of expressing your self. That way you won't be frustrated that money never seems to roll in.
