Xianxia Medicine EditionStubbed >>24725258>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'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24732417I wrote 5100 words today and damn if that last chapter wasn't the best one yet. I got so hyped writing it I had to get up and walk around to burn off nervous energy, and then once done I immediately re-read it.Royal Road's going to fucking love it in February. (My backlog is too big)In the future I have to make sure I don't backload all my hypest scenes.
>>24733095female "roland" gunslinger.
>>24732417At 32k words total. I feel like I'm just slowing down. I could get 2k out daily, but now it's slipping.
I am turning my free verse into prose for the readers ;-; The first three chapters have broken free... goodbye!https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/128737
>>24732498He looks like a supporting characterProompt him a pot helm and a more dynamic pose
Books featuring schizoid protagonists?
>>24733146>>24733164Fake schizoids begone. Real schizoids avoid onanism.
>>24733129qrd?
The rainbow by DH Lawrence
>>24733353Onanism is all schizoids have got.OP pic is retarded bullshit btw.
>>24733368lolwut
Bauer's Lexicon is $175. I already have Thayer's. Is it worth it?
>>24732465The Septuagint was.
Two words: Library Genesis
>>24733321Two words: I only read real books because electronics fuck with my eyes
>>24733337And yet, here you are right now reading text on a computer.I believe in you. You can do it gramps.
>>24733351I was literally bitching about this earlier in the kindle thread. I can read hours of shitposts here, but I open a PDF and I'm like "this is hell". It is what it is, man.
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
Editors: The Writer's Natural Enemy by George RR Martin (1979)https://georgerrmartin.com/about-george/speeches/editors-the-writers-natural-enemy/
>Left to their own devices, writers talk about only three things; the three most important things in the world.>They talk about money, they talk about sex, and they talk about editors.>Money and sex are things that most writers want and never get enough of.Gurm is such a glutton
>>24731888If Bolton girl has grey eyes as on the pic, then her because >>24731891If she has icy blue eyes then Patricia, because >>24733270
>>24733270why would other noble houses tolerate a backstabbing, flaying house of psychopaths?
>>24733354The psychos are probably spread over generations of lords who at least can hide their power level.I wonder what Blackwoods did to be exiled if Boltons could stay.
From the Gospel of Matthew>And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
>>24733171Basically and everyone knows that's a strong possibility by now. It's not "antisemitic" to say that any more than it would be anti-british to doubt british-israelite narratives.You do "share lineage" with the ancient Hebrews but so do they. Some Jew on this board posted a table of genetic data from graves meaning to prove he's a Hebrew but in his own data there's a sudden influx of blue eyes and r1b graves around 1200BC, around the supposed exodus. Your attempt to identify with and take control of the narrative of people thousands of years ago is just as silly as the other attempts like british or black israelites.
>>24732682The Gospel of Matthew is the jew gospel because it is directed at jews who havent converted yet. This anon is right>>24732838 The "muh G-d's chosen people" is implied here.Christianity is such a cuck religion its amazing.
>>24732869Christianity is the continuation of Judaism. Just as Abraham's covenant follows that of Noah, and is followed by that of Moses, so does Jesus bring forth a new covenant, for Jews and Gentiles to follow. Those of the Jews who reject this covenant therefore branch off from traditional Judaism (now known as Christianity) and form their own sect. It's actually a great testament to the Bible to see how it correctly predicted that Jews reject their own Scriptures and God. All those talks of the Synagogue of Satan...
I've been samefagging in this thread and calling myself an anti-semite, lol. I was hoping for more responses, but there were few takers of the bait.
>2025 and people are still trying to run the DLC of a schizophrenic desert tribal dietyGrim
Nabokov would have detested him.
Would Hemingway like him?I think it’s interesting how so many writers were obsessed with the style of a specific author, then eventually branched away to build their own legacy.Pynchon had a long-standing Hemingway phase. McCarthy was a big Faulkner guy. Any other examples?
As we know, Nabokov hated anyone better than him.
And I detest Nabokov. Literally the only author whose book I threw in the trash.
The Indians obviously know what's up: God is both the force of creation AND destruction; none of this christian God is only good, infantilizing pussy shit.Rilke was the cosmic cry baby par excellence, and he is good company when you need a reminder of why life is sublime and why death is the measure we must own up to... And why death is not the limit of man's link to the devine...Ligotti is sick. Period. Good hard tonic. It you can stand him you're in good shape.Carver is a great craftsman to learn from, esp for short story writers, whatever you think of his pov and ideasHanna had some fascinating things to point outReznikoff is a neglected master, read that shit and see how much you can stand in a day. Then see if you can do what he did but in our timesKarl Ove is entertaining and instructive. Way too white and Norwegian to be wise or helpful in a wise way, but lots to learn from his fully engaged hypnotic style
>>24730721This would be my shelf if Jung books weren't so overpriced
>>24728027Huh. Ok, noted. Thanks
>>24733097Maybe I am. And? OP is completely wrong about what "destruction" means. He said that destruction = transformation, which is not. According to the law of conservation of matter, it cannot be created nor destroyed, but only transformed. If it can't be destroyed but transformed, and destroyed = transformed, then this is a clear contradiction in laws of physics.
I find it interesting how wrong the Indians were about everything.
I like books, Gary.
I'm hoarding all these books way faster than I can read them and I fear one of these days I will notice some persistent cough or an awkward lump in a place it shouldn't be and the doctors will tell me I have three months left to live and I will spend those three months in physical pain and absolute disappointment in myself as I stare mindlessly at the bookshelf in my room, alone
>>24732238You'll be able to confront death while reading Aquinas for the rest of this miserable existence. Also kek.
Don't try to make a "study" of western thought/literature. If you're naturally curious, you're mind will gravitate to certain questions or ideas, and you'll discover that someone has written a book about it: read it THEN.If you read with some intention in mind (ie, understanding some idea or issue), it'll stick with you. Just going through the motions of "reading an important work" isn't worth shit.
>>24733333>quintsChecked. >If you read with some intention in mind (ie, understanding some idea or issue), it'll stick with you. Just going through the motions of "reading an important work" isn't worth shit.Very wise. OP listen to this anon
Will I regret purchasing a first folio facsimile?
how much is one of these anyway
>>24733331Why would you? Also who got quints >>24733333
who comes to mind when you hear "elegant prose"?
>>24733030Stoner or Hawthorne.
Samuel Johnson. Also Edward Gibbon in his Decline And Fall. Basically the English Enlightenment, all those guys were 10/10 prose writers.
>>24733030A Defense of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney. Its a quick read, here is the Gutenberg link:https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1962/pg1962-images.html>>24733232Yah. A few years back a read a bunch of The Spectator (Addison and Steele), and the prose was phenomenal.>>24733216And Burke. I still remember reading Reflection on the Revolution in France, and it was an incredible read.
>>24733030This.
>>24733065Aristotle
Its amazing how you can take the greatest literary works of all time, some taking years if not decades to write, and make them look like shitty college psychology textbooks.
>>24732280There are pretty softcovers, new ones just look ugly.
>>24719998>2 wild cats fighting in the forest, housecat cat in the center with light rays implying his innocence, separate box shows he's going to be dropped into this unfamiliar, unforgiving world >More realistic rendering, but its just the main cat "hunting". All imagery from the first is lost as the main character is already competent >Furry trash
>>24720914I like the lovecraft one with Chthulu on it.
>>24729700Get the stupid award sticker off of there and it’s perfect.
>>24732642No you
Aristotle Chads report in and tell me what the FUCK is he talking about. Or post quotes from Aristotle and discuss their meaning. I'll start.>Metaphysics II.2 "Again, nothing infinite can exist; and if it could, at least being infinite is not infinite."What does he mean by being being a limit?
Just chiming in to say I'm glad there's a thread about actual reading here. Even just for the sake of the mental exercise Aristotle is worth it, but also of course for the foundation of much of philosophy after.
>>24732627>and hopefully my statement makes sense here>Is that like saying the infinite simplicter cannot exist as a substance because it would be necessarily limited by the account of its essence?I think so. Moreover, based on what I read on On the Soul, Aristotle seems to think that intellect (including human intellect) is potentially able to apprehend all the forms, and this apprehension implies that the intellect, which has no form by default, adopts the form of the apprehended concept. But, of course, it couldn't adopt the form of infinity, because it has no form, and this is something we can test internally when trying to think of infinity. So its lack of intelligibility is an additional sign (not a proof, though) that infinity can't be a substance.However, I'm not as sure of this as with my previous post, I'm no expert in Aristotle, so take it with a grain of salt.
Aristotle be doing dat greek maff wit lines an sheiiiit
>>24732627(me)>Maybe I should include the whole paragraph.I guess the point of the paragraph is just to say there can't be an infinite regress of forms/formal causes.
Why do people say that there can be infinite unmoved movers? Is it that the would each correspond to their own seperate universe, or would they all be in the same universe?
Are kindles effeminate ?
i bought one because they're the only e-reader available in my country for a reasonable pricethey don't get dusty in a shelf and don't take any space, also makes it easier to move to other places without carrying a fuckton of books. Also e-readers in general allow you to read in the dark without a LCD screen fucking your eyes up
>reads 4 hours a day of 4chan on a computer or phone screen>can't stand reading a book on a screenwhy am i like this
>>24729892If you feel emasculated by reading on a tablet you're effeminate.
>>24732929what if it's a pink one
>>24733007https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ5fCa6Xb00
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>Previous:>>24720851>Thread Question:Do protagonists that rely on cunning and cleverness make for more interesting stories than ones with innate abilities or powers?
Red Rising is just Code Geass in space
>>24732765Based (except for le Guin)
>>24732250Niggers have not changed in the last 10k years lol
>>24733167jews brought cavemen into modern world. Not compatible with the west and we are seeing the consequences.
I remember enjoying these when I was in high school 15+ years ago but trying to reread(listen) to them now they're boring me to tears and the dialogue is extremely cringy.
Just finished 'The Cat Who Saved Books'. He saved the books.
>>24733082well thanks for spoiling it you fucking dickhead
>>24733082he clearly destroyed the one he's chewed a hole trhough and now wears as some sort of sick and twisted trophy. fuck this cat, dude. hell nah.
>>24733082I wonder if books about saving books are an entire genre. I've been thinking about how Fahrenheit 451 basically tricked readers into feeling good about themselves, because the point was that (you) were already saving literature in a way by reading f451.
>>24733272Thats a good question. I havent thought of it in that way. Kind of like a positive reinforcement.
>>24733082based.
