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what is your notetaking system?
how do you write down ideas and stay organized on the go?
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>>24727592
You're meant to not be meant to anything
>>24727617
You just read through them and go by dates. Your memory is supposed to work for you, not be outsourced somewhere else.
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>>24722820
I just jot shit down as it comes. Maybe if I have enough random thoughts coalescing around a central theme, I'll make a spot for it in a commonplace book, but otherwise I just jot it down and color code it with a sticky tab.
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>>24727651
Oh also, I keep a book of quotes, a proverbs book if you will. No particular order to it, also just whatever comes along, but it is separate.
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>>24727592
>>24727617
Why would you write notes if you're never reading them again? Is everything you do performative?
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>>24727656
I think those are sometimes called commonplace books

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>last book you read

>current book

>book you're reading next
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>Morality Play

>The Pillars of the Earth

>TBD
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>>24724370

1- light in August

2- Livy‘s Hustories and Glasperlenspiel

3- probably Mann. Königsreich
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The Poop That Took A Pee by Leopold Stotch
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>>24726835
Is the pillars good?
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>Breakfast at Tiffany's
>The Pearl
>Fulgrim (Horus Heresy)

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"High School Girlfriend" edition

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Please 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.
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(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)

Simple guides on writing:

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is of 'worm' prose a good inspiration for absolute begginer?
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>>24723690
They all look like shit.
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Can a compilation of short stories work as a sellable thing? Some are about 40,000 words long, while others are only 8,000. I don't know what else to do with them but put them in a group and package them up. What do you guys think? Should I bundle them together? How might that even work?
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>>24727710
Are you pulling my leg? Antologies might not be the principal medium these days but they are hardly a novelty, this was the common way to consume literature for the better part of 2 centuries. Even the witcher started as one. The novella is the modern ofshoot that only consolidated after.
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>>24727717
I guess you're right, but it feels weird to me writing one story in which the plot is pretty cheerful and mysterious, then another where the theme is a lot more outward horror. Am I making sense? What if readers sign up for the cosy horror, but meet with the not-so-cosy spooks and hate it?

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This is better than Ulysses
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It is certainly easier to plotfag. All of his novels and his short story collection are the same—or more accurately, attempts at the same thing—writing literature which will live and grow with the reader. Portrait is weirdly a step backwards from Dubliners as far as that goal goes, but it was a required step and Dubliners was sort of a cheat.
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>>24727318
Not really. It's just a worse version of Pierre
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I'm just a poorly read MidLit, but the pages describing Daedalus' religious panic during the sermon is some of the most incredible writing that I've ever enjoyed. I read Ulysses right after, which I think is a better book overall but doesn't have the same moments of literary beauty that Portrait does. Blog over.

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maekar I targaryen, first of his name edition

ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: 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:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters

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>>24725543
He'd get fucked over big time. Honestly would probably be the best possible timeline. No one likes Tywin, he had just murdered Ellia and her children and sacked Kingslanding. The Rebels and Dorne would probably put him down.
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>>24727294
The Rebels? Robert supported him in the actual timeline and didn't want to be king. Dorne couldn't do shit. And of it got bad enough, he could execute The Mountain and the others.
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I just thought about it and realized the bran ending actually makes perfect sense. He’s the only character that fully follows the tropes of a hero/messiah (early life brush with death from being pushed out the window etc), and if you had to choose a single POV to release as an optimistic YA novel it would be bran.
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>>24725543
>Who does Tywin marry
Maybe Cat
>Who does he name his name
Assuming you meant hand I think either Jon Arryn or Hoster Tully
>and place in charge of Casterly Rock
Kevan
>what's his relationship with the north like.
Bad, even worse assuming he steals Cat from them. Hoster is ambitious, I wouldn't put it past him to snub Ned for having his daughter become queen.
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I fucking hate Bran's chapters oh my god
I'm on book 2 and while I didn't care about Jon's chapters on the first one, in this one they're boring as fuck, chapter after chapter of them going through the forest just to get to the savages who I don't give a shit about either, give me more Kings landing politics

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Boomer fuck can’t keep his mouth shut
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>>24726730
I liked Christine at least. But he's just digging himself a hole here.
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>>24726730
People will still be reading King 50 years from now. No one is going to know who the fuck Kirk is by that point.
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>>24727085
Release the Epstein files
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>>24727102
Yeah, the guy Kirk campaigned for and worshipped is in there. Your point?
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>>24727037
He's gonna die soon anyways, it takes a young man to dig a real hole. He's been bagging on rednecks since Trump got elected the first time. Not that any of them would know. To think greasers and trenchcoat guys used to be his villians.

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>>24727670
Such a welcoming environment.
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>>24727675
Exactly. And stay out. It ain't worth it.
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>>24727175
Remember picrel on your journey. Also read Thomas Merton if you haven't already.
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Today someone thought I was 8 years younger than I actually am.
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>>24727673
I was hoping that a person looking to convert would already be at least somewhat familiar with the Gospels and what Jesus said in them. But I don't need to say that much, because it's a pretty noted trend that people "convert" to Catholicism for its ornate tradition, not its dogma. Before explaining myself, I'd ask why that person wants to convert in the first place.

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Post your own work and critique others.
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>>24697242
In the hallowed sanctum of ephemeral sighs,
Where ardor’s quintessence weaves its silken thread,
Love, that ineffable dialectic of souls,
Ascends beyond the prosaic veneer of flesh.

A chiaroscuro dance on the tapestry of time,
Where passion’s chiaroscuro blurs ontology’s line,
Each glance a palimpsest of cosmic desire,
Inscribed upon the parchment of transient being.

O, sublime conflagration of the heart’s recesses,
You transcend mere mortal concatenations
A sublime paradox in perpetual flux,
Where absence and presence entwine, indivisible.
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a same coloured get well soon lighter
fishnet imprinted -on my knees
girl on a carpet

just in time.
my days speaks a language, i wish someone would finally disclose it. help me understan what it is, that i am seeing. what does it want?

ceйчac / чac
now / one hour/ one o' clock
чacтo / often

the attempt to measure time is to be found in unnumeral places.
how do you want to measure the moment? time really goes on and we are missing out, precious life, each minute, that we do not get back.
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>>24727678
A-are you a Ruzzian? An orc?
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In Macondo’s courtyard the marble slept like stone,
its veins carrying the blood of roses long buried.
The angels came in silence, their wings heavy with
forgotten rain that watered the roots of exile.
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>>24727694
no, i just have completely lost my mind. i am afraid for my life, and there is noone who is willing or able to help me.

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Recommend me some legit twisted and sickening splatterpunk that still has literary merit. Bonus point if it's about physical pain and suffering.
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a pooner made this post (cute)

Post /lit/ quotes that you consider to be ironic.
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>>24727402
What most everyone misses about this quote is the "every time," if Twain hated Pride and Prejudice as much as some think there would be no "every time." His anger towards Austen where far more nuanced and not so 4chan.
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>>24726451
The fifth line of the last stanza.
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>>24726451
Last line.
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>>24727703
>Adler -- Speedboat
Incredible book, happy to see it get some love on /lit/
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>>24726451
>>24727402
Doyle was right though
His historical fiction is far better than his holmes stories.

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Was I supposed to be rooting against Gilead? As far as I can tell, it's a social utopia
>women's aptitude for whoreness is completely nullified by society
>military-based society giving everyone a very clear hierarchy, structure, and future prospect
>zero tolerance on crime and deviation from societal norms, ensuring a peaceful society
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>>24726943
>women's aptitude for whoreness is completely nullified by society
>completely nullified by society
You gotta finish the book first, before making a thread about it
>military-based society giving everyone a very clear hierarchy, structure, and future prospect
>a very clear hierarchy
Who is above the Commander's wife?
>>zero tolerance on crime and deviation from societal norms, ensuring a peaceful society
>ensuring a peaceful society
With a revolution?
Maybe dystopian societies are trully some retarded BDSM fantasy from the author.
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>>24727241
I’m sorry you feel that way anon, because if that’s the approach you have to love, I’m afraid you’re going to be lonely for a long time
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I wish it was like that in real life, no memes or irony. Everyone would be happier, we’re just brainwashed to think it’s bad
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>>24727274
lmao fucking bitch. go back to hollywood
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>>24727132
It wasn't.

European civilization has never controlled women like the Middle East.

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Today I woke up again feeling like I need to break up with my girlfriend. I've been losing my patience around her emotional instability and I can't keep the ruse anymore. And she ups the ante! She settles for less and yet she gives me more. I imagine she can sense it too, that the relationship is over and she's about to lose me.

I've never felt closer to shit, not even when my love is not reciprocated. I realized for how long I kept this going, knowing that I was losing feelings. For what? Sex, somebody to talk to, direction when I have none, her unconditional help. I was using her. Don't want to think about that. She wants children. She wants to settle, at some point in the future. I want that too, just not with her.

Anyways, I open Instagram and I get bombarded with advice surrounding individualism. "Open the relationship, know more people", "maybe you're not grown enough yet", "have you considered cheating?" And I started thinking about all these couples; the source of the so-called "blackpill". The ones with the dead beadrooms. The ones that went into terrible, non-traditional dynamics because even with two brains they can't cope with the boredom of real life. Open FetLife and you see dozens of these types. Are they happy? Do they feel satisfied?

Any writings on this? On this weird social malaise that makes us try to cover-up our spiritual romantic disconnection with ruses?
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>>24727042
God you sound like an insufferable faggot. Yeah dude sorry, we should talk "pure" literature and jerk off to schizo meditations on René Guenon for 300 posts
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>>24726948
OP you have a gf you won the lottery why do you want to throw that away
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just go for it dude
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>>24727064
I would be happy with a single post that requires more than 6 brain cells to respond to and has on outside chance of resulting in replies which use more than 2. Hence my digging through the cataloging trying to find a single post worth responding to.

Philosophy posting is just autism and appeals to authority, has been for years.
>dead guy proves my beliefs are right, so there!
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>>24727088
>Philosophy posting is just autism and appeals to authority, has been for years.
I'm so happy you said this because it means I don't have to take anything you say seriously

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If you want understand Spain..read this book in spanish
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>>24726466
Been meaning to read Machado for a while. Thank you for the reminder. Assuming you're Spanish or a native Spanish speaker -- can you recommend a good translation? Love from NC, USA
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>>24726466
Why on Earth would anyone want to understand Spain?
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I believe is translated in all languages :)
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>>24726466

I can't understand Spanish although maybe I'll try and learn to speak Spanish one day. Anyway, just started reading some poetry by John Clare yesterday.

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How is this not just smut? Where's the philosophy?
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>>24725514
It gets very philosophical-y when the degenerates start trying to justify their crimes
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>>24725514
I would read this if it was called "Justin" and it was about a young boy. But it's about a foid, so I don't care.
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>>24726859
There is male homosexuality in it
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>>24725824

Sorry dude, OP is just trying to remind me that I am a horrible person for having read De Sade's shit in the past. OP needs to f--- off and get drunk and party at a nightclub or bar like he did back in college on the weekends.
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>>24725514
>>24727304

Would also like to add that a couple of years ago, during Bud Light's trans phase, they said that bars are a place to exchange ideas while having a drink(although that didn't look that way to me whenever I saw some episodes of MTV's Real World or Jersey Shore). So if you want to get some interaction with philosophical people, you can try hanging out at seedy bars and you may find some fellow writer who is slightly or heavily drunk and wants to talk about Nietzsche.

>He took out the plastic bottle of water and unscrewed the cap and held it out and the boy came and took it and stood drinking. He lowered the bottle and got his breath and he sat in the road and crossed his legs and drank again. Then he handed the bottle back and the man drank and screwed the cap back on and rummaged through the pack. The ate a can of white beans, passing it between them, and he threw the empty tin into the woods.


Can someone explain what's great about prose like this? To me it reads like it was written by someone with special needs
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>>24727704
Good catch it sort of is. Rythm it has but alas. It sounds as if a child made this. Tip tapping away. Simple words make simple song. I could write as such pages twenty thousand or more. But OP pray tell, why have you posted this poor old souls picture? Surely a man in such a state as he, deserveth not to be shown for pithy sport?
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has anyone else noticed that the paintings from Picasso’s blue period use a lot of blue?
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>>24727688
guess he got the last laugh
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>>24727688
It’s a minimalistic, simple passage of his, more strictly functional and meant to move the plot along.
Along with this, he has a higher, more poetic register. And then there’s his dialogue. Usually the praise of his style refers to the parts in a higher register.
McCarthy is notable as a stylist, in one way, because he has both this minimalistic register (very similar to Hemingway, down to the use of polysyndeton, or many conjunctions instead of commas, “and…and…and…” as you say), and a more baroque register.
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Polysyndeton bro. I haven't read The Road but I've heard it's not great. Really liked The Passenger and Stella Maris, though that was more because of the conceptual underpinnings and the abstractions grappled with than the prose. There were a couple pretty passages here and there, and great conversations. There's one moving dialog where the guy who always calls the protagonist squire talks about the similarities between the two, how they both preferred worlds made of paper over the real one as children, holding in their hearts the words of men long gone. There's also some great stuff about the breakdown of language up to the "judas hole" in Stella Maris. Again, more engaging because of the concepts than the form, which as far as I can tell isn't doing anything super novel or interesting.


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