"Chanukah" editionPrevious: >>24940898/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.
>>24955715Which one?
>>24955904>Constantine knows the Director has an entire case file that exposes him and I think this pause symbolizes that feeling.So it's more about a feeling of dread emphasized by silence, not so much the silence itself. Help the reader understand. Tell them.>In silent torment he awaits certain doom>no distraction could offer solace for his creeping fear>>24955931Good to know that most issues are resolved elsewhere and that this excerpt is mostly contextually consistent. I just say whatever I think based on what I can see, and if the parts I missed are filled elsewhere it just proves the excerpt demands to be part of a bigger story, well done if you managed to do that.>>24955931>I need to think of a more creative, coercion tactic that makes the narrative a little less predictable.Predictable isn't necessarily bad or something that should always be avoided. Some novel ideas can still be classically predictable, but that's not necessarily a problem as long as they're functional in your story.Whatever weapon you can think of, it should either be a simple plot device or thematically relevant. Are they polluting his air and water supply with an agent that turns his fears against him? Manipulating his senses to make him see, feel, think things to make him question his reality? Electromagnetical pulse radiation to attack his nervous system and heart? Mutated monkey droids gangstalking him at the silliest moments?I'm just spitballing here. Think function over form. Determine what needs to happen first, then you have the creative liberty to make it happen however you like.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24955420you say that and yet every time my writing shores up its because I haven't been reading shit which is particularly vexing at the moment because I can't find what I want to read so I want to write it but that requires reading something that I don't want to read
>>24951364>>24951364>[[ ]] The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.>The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace.>By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex.>Neo-China arrives from the future.>Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo.>Retro-disease.>Nanospasm.How do I write like this?
>>24956025Have an IQ of 90 and ChatGPT
If only I knew back when this was published how right he was
>>24956032Damn OP, you sure are committed to your hot takes. I haven't been here in like 8 months and this exact thread is still getting posted.
>Harry Potter's mom fell in love with the school bullyWhat did Rowling mean by this?
>>24955885>ranting about the joosNot that anon, but the left is also doing this. In fact they're even more publicly vocal about it lately. Try to keep up, you're starting to sound like a confused boomer.
Harry Potter reads differently when you realize James & Lily were only 21 when they died.
>>24955804Lol, are you living in a gentler reality than the rest of us?>2025>Say some weird shit>Get bullied on social media at the very least, your ass jumped at the worst>Try to tell the teacher but the bully "comes from a troubled home, please understand.">Bullied kid fights back>SUDDENLY violence is a problem and he's suspended/expelled>Come back to school playing pumped up kicks and shoot it up
>>24955951I have never not one (1) time seen a zoomer shove, push, kick the shin of, punch, headlock, slap, even flick another zoomer in public. Not a SINGLE time. Its literally never happened.In millennial (ancient, legendary) times, you would see this happen all the time at the bus stops, outside the mall, by the ice cream shack in summer, the parking lot of the movie theater, and so on, etc. It was still far less common and much more strongly punished than in boomer days, but it happened among normal suburban children enough that you could recall a couple examples without much trouble.I do not believe that, outside of some literal slum in the inner city, this happens at all today.
>>24955963I'm a millennial, too. But I've seen plenty of videos of zoomers of all different races in various locations getting into school fights over the years. Probably depends on what part of the world you're in, but in America it's commonplace to hear about shit escalating and kids getting jumped, stabbed, shot, etc. You probably don't see less severe physical altercations as much anymore because most sane people are afraid of that escalation. The days where you'd fight a guy fairly and it'd stop there, and maybe you'd even end up respecting each other are gone.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBwn9wD9M6Q
Is it worth it? I've never read crime fiction before.
Sherlock Holmes isn't "crime fiction" it's detective fiction. There's a difference.
>>24955692Boring and unreadable as hell
>>24955692>everyone are idiots except Holmes who understands everythingone of the insufferable characters in all literature
Let this be a lesson to you about the wisdom of asking /lit/ about books.
Sherlock Holmes is fun. I would recommend starting by skipping Study in Scarlet and Sign of Four and reading a few of the short stories, then going back to those two. Most of the canon is short stories, so the longer ones tend to stand out. Study in Scarlet in particular has its second part almost entirely ignore Holmes and tell a backstory about the people involved in the murder, in an entirely different setting.
>author personally attacks the reader
>>24953681is it dosto or tolstoy?
>>24953681any books that attack esl's like me?
>>24954254Neither. This is from Oblomov.
>>24953681Being really into Russian /lit/ is such a tell. I know everything I need to know about an anon who is. Intellectually insecure, physically insecure, performative, he choses what goes on his shelf with the exact same thought process a woman choses her next pair of jeans. I speak the truth when saying an off his meds /x/tard has a more valuable soul and mind than a russian /lit/ fag when he's reading UFO and wendigo case reports. At least his (credulous) passion for American folklore is genuine and comes from within himself.I really do find the whole business and many og you disgusting. Weakness of soul of this sort IS disgusting, repulsive.
people like this don't actually exist btw. it's a reflection of the author's/narrator's narcissism in observing others
He talks how Cormac McCarthy writes
Anyone have the variant of this meme where it’s Cormac McCarthy instead of the Judge, and some punctuation marks are hiding from him?
>>24954390Enough of the clown!
>clinical psychologist who spent decades personally helping hundreds of people severely afflicted by mental illness>academic who published dozens of widely cited papers ranging in subjects varying from practical counseling, historical/philosophical roots of psychology, research paradigms in neurology...>research scientist working on the operationalization of personality constructs as well as the neurobiological basis of addiction>university professor who mentored dozens of grad students into academic, research, and counseling careers>assisted in the development of software that increases the likelihood of at-risk students reaching graduation as a side project>accidentally became internationally famous and ended up publishing 3 best selling books (so far) as well as organizing lectures in various countries throughout the worldinb4>he's a drug addict tho!>his office was messy once!>er...you don't have a dad!>er...wash your dick!>his daughter is a slut!>y-you're Jordan>he likes the Jews!>he's controlled opposition!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24954436Shut the fuck up
Ἁλικαρνασσόθεν edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24877858>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24955874my greek teacher would make me go in front of the class and repeat the cases every day till i knew them, calling me an idiot and stupid if i failed
>>24955907what a fucking bictchass nigga. Tell me his name and school so I can break this nigga teeth RIGHT NOW. Ain't NO ONE gonna mess with my anons
>>24955874What's the point?
>>24955949To remember Latin case order.
>>24956001What is "case order"?
>be a massive cunt your entire life>write books about how much of a cunt you were>people love themwhat does that mean
Cynicism is refreshing sometimes o algo.
>>24955364ywnbaw
>>24954735>Women seem to bitch endlesslyWomen bitch endlessly about everything, it doesn't mean anything.
>>24955976And this post will still be excluded from evidence when she gets him put away for 4-7 on an imagined domestic when she finds a new nigga but can't handle the idea of breaking up with him or him living happily without her mentally ill ass fr fr.
>>24955995Shut the fuck up, nigger.
>age>location>current read
>23>India>The Brothers Karamazov
>>24931414>29>nigeria>Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
>35>United Kingdom>Fartherland, Robert HarrisNobody told me the 3rd Reich detective stories would be so comfy.
>>24931414>27>Tuscany>Stoner
>>24954838>Nobody told me the 3rd Reich would be so comfy.
Read this to learn structure and restraint, which I did, but now my voice is muted. Need to refind my voice for the book I wanna write.
>>24955969lol
Did Le Guin go off the deep end as the years progressed (like Rowling) or do I just not remember Earthsea being as gay as it is? https://slate.com/culture/2004/12/ursula-k-le-guin-on-the-tv-earthsea.html
>>24955978You would be upset too if the Syfy channel fucked your shit up.
>>24955978Nothing gay there.>>24955996I give Ghibli a pass, the film was pleasant. This looks like such tolkein trash
>>24955996>Syfy fuck I forgot that's its name nowthey did a good job on that Children of Dunc ost, but that's literally the only thing I remember about that mess of a show
Tolstoy's forgotten 3rd novel. Why does no one talk about it? It's kind of like his version of Crime and Punishment with a similar story about prison, crime and prostitution. It's heavy-handed yeah but very good.
>>24954251>why haven't 23 years old zoomers on /lit/ read Tolstoy's entire oeuvre
Ok what the FUCK was this all about???
>>24951612Cuckoldry
>>24951612BBC cuckholding as far as I remember
>>24951612The story of Orpheus twisted into a navel-gazing exercise.
>>24951612paris review interview - https://archive.ph/LeoPqYou can bypass the paywall on most paris review interviews if you copy the link, go to archive[dot]ph and paste the link into "I want to search the archive for saved snapshots"Hundreds of interviews from the 50's onwards. https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews
>>24955235How is it the story of Orpheus? Genuinely asking, I read the book but that idea never occurred to me
Why haven't you read the great fantasy trilogy of our generation?
>>24955992qrd? wiki has nothing
>>24955992Buy an ad next time
>white men, try not to ruin literature challenge Impossible
>>24955479Friday is the Anglo liberal view of race relations. The White liberal's task to uplift the savages of the world, who are fellow creatures created in the image of God, decent, eager to learn and follow and become civilised compatriots in the work of the world. Nothing has changed since Defoe wrote it.
>>24955945The wolf stuff at the end is key to Crusoe's spiritual redemption.
>>24955967And how exactly? He's already redeemed himself several times over by then. It seems like a teaser for the Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and that Defoe is the inventor of the sequel genre too, although I haven't read it to properly comment.Why does Friday want to pull a magic trick with the wolves (or is it a bear? I forget) in the woods, and why does Defoe make a big scene of his antics? It's quite odd.
>>24955917Even video game wolf attacks>>24955945
>>24955954>Nothing has changed since Defoe wrote it.That's true, including the savages of the world.
Two Weeks Left Edition>Old:>>24936611>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
>>24955399>in print>not in handwritten parchment
Is there a good blend of mythopoetic (Tolkien, McKillip) and pseudo-realistic (GRRM) fantasy? I can only think of Lyonesse, but I have not read it.
>>24948309read the left hand of darkness>but that's sf not fantasy
>>24955207No, they are poor to average at best and always a waste of your time.
>>24955207there are good ones and there are bad onesi really enjoyed his first two the path to ascendancy books but i heard the 3rd one is kinda bad and the 4th is his best bookso yeah quite inconsistent
