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>try to write
>everything ends up blood meridian but in different environments or periods of time
How do I stop producing worthless junk stereotypical of the white male brain? Is it hopeless? Has it all been done?
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>>25178105
step one: stop being a self-hating white guilt cuck faggot
let me know when you get that far
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I feel like to make anything truly novel or unique nowadays you would either have to live a really unique life (so why bother becoming a writer?) or put so much effort into how it will flow and what happens that it's more like rebuilding a transmission in a car than actually doing something enjoyable.
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>>25178105
Why do you even care? Grow a fucking dick.
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>>25178106
I mean this unironically: if you tried to tap into what's pertinent in the white heterosexual western male's brain nowadays you would just end up reading like a /pol/ shitpost and it would appeal to nobody, probably not even other weirdo loners. That kind of existence has been completely hollowed out by its enemies and has no value. There is no venue for white male writers that will produce an optimistic or viable inroad into revitalizing literature, let alone validating anyone or anything.
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>>25178114
Yeah except /pol/ is the most popular board on this shit hole of a website and Donald Trump won the popular vote no matter how much it hurts your feelings. So clearly there is a market for it. Nigger.
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>>25178114
/lit/ attracts a lot of literal faggots
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>>25178121
A market that isn't paying for it and is therefore worthless as an institution and demographic. At its absolute best, it just morphs into a bunch of upset guerrillas destroying power grids... something an inevitable competency crisis and brain-drain would do anyway. So it's a big nothing there as well.
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>>25178114
Nah, algorithms will send it to the readers. Kdp will find your audience
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I strongly advise you learn another language.

Other than that I strongly recommend you start reading verse. Even in translation lole Baudelaire (Brown) or Ovid (McCarter) or Dante (Hollander). Or English verse, especially Shakespeare
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>>25178126
>we won't print or distribute it, that means that no one wants it :^)
when the time comes, remember: it's entirely your own fault and you deserve it
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>>25178114
>argument from popularity
Many instances in history which proves your thoughts wrong.
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>>25178105
>blood meridian but in different environments or periods of time
>autistic geological, flora and fauna specificity
>5shadowing chapter subheadings in latin and whatever

Write worthless junk on purpose that's actually entertaining and have a sense of humor about it. Or actually commit to the research and build it up out of the mire iteratively over time.
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>>25178114
Kike detected
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>>25178114
That just sounds like a society problem and not at all our fault. If the current generation wasn't a big bunch of overgrown babies it wouldn't be such a huge issue.
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>>25178189
NTA but if I want to demoralize and not get accused of being Jewish, how should I go about it? I find it's getting harder to demoralize on 4chan in general. I guess all the weaklings have left.
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>>25178105
Who cares, I write mainly for myself. Currently working on blood meridian but right wing cyberpunk bdsm harem erotica.

If I ever accidentally make something good I might post it somewhere but you can just have fun with whatever you want to create purely for the sake of having fun creating it.
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>>25178114
retarded niggerfaggot neck yourself cuckboy if your life is so hard
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>>25178414
Put a shotgun in your mouth and pull the trigger.
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>>25178114
You know, I’ve never been to /pol/ in my life, but I notice a lot of reddit adjacent posts like this on /lit/ specifically that makes me feel like a /pol/tard when I call you a pathetic faggot cuck. I feel this board is as often hostile as it is thanks to the fact that there are many actual redditors in here who just hate this board so they make provocative statements.
>>25178414
Nice bait retard
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>>25178105
That is quite the dilemma simply because Blood Meridian is just overly verbose dogshit that isn't even actually a good read to even begin with.
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>>25178442
>isn't even actually a good read to even begin with
What would you even know about what even a good read[sic] is even
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>>25178448
Because I actually read. Unlike (You)
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>>25178453
Actually, even?
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>>25178466
Yup. I've finished six books this year alone.
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>>25178473
?

That is not a lot unless it's all heavy duty philosophy or something. I read the fifth head of cerberus in a day last week and a 500 page nonfiction psychology book in a week (finished it today).
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>>25178105
>How do I stop producing worthless junk stereotypical of the white male brain?
You have to write it anon. Your mind is a garbage heap in which gold nuggets have been hidden. You have to dig through the garbage to find the nuggets. You can only do that by removing the garbage through digging. Only when you have exhausted all possible versions of this story stuck in your head, can your mind start meandering, looking for what else there is. Nearly all authors go through this phase, where they write novel after novel and nothing is good enough. Do I have to tell you King's story? How about Ira Glass' quote on creativity? I'm sure you've heard all the platitudes. You have to get it out of your head, and you can only do that by writing it. So go write it. Write until your stupid fingers break and you're so sick of the story you can't stand thinking about it.
>Is it hopeless?
Yes. Do it anyway.
>Has it all been done?
To date, there's been at least 130 million unique book titles published. The probability of you writing something that is truly unique in all that is, expressed as a percentage and rounded to the nearest whole integer: zero. But very few readers have read so much that every story is a trope-slurry too bland to swallow. You're not writing for them. You're writing for Dewey eyed genre readers who don't know. Yet.
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>>25178478
These were 1,000+ pages a-piece, tranny.
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>>25178481
That's still not very much unless it's very dense, I read 500-1000 pages every week although roughly half of it is fiction.
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>>25178489
I read the Bible front to back every week so...
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>>25178114
I'm afraid you've been mindfucked, my good man. quite literally mentally castrated. shake yourself off
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>>25178442
unfortunately you're just a faggot, sorry you had to find out like this
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>>25178908
>it seems right to the people who were all brainwashed with the same Marxist bullshit in college, and gatekeep the industry to maintain its astroturfed narratives, and throttle people's popular perception of reality
wow what were the odds
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>>25178923
>what is a popular revolution
They've astroturfed too hard for too long. This ends with mountains of bodies and an ocean of blood. If you're not already preparing for it, then it's already too late for you.
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>>25178923
I‘m much less worried about getting killed because of a new Amanda Gorman breaking through than I am of hollowing out my own soul to play their game. The relative value of their literary value and ours will either shine through eventually, or at least we‘ll have gone out swinging.
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>>25178934
>The relative value of their literary value and ours will either shine through eventually
To the future generations of neofeudalist mongrels, muslims and women in adult daycares? Be realistic.
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>>25178952
The system would collapse long before that. White men are holding up the world on our backs like Atlas.
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>>25178901
>>>NOOOOOOO, YOU DON'T LIKE OR APPRECIATE WHAT I LIKE AND APPRECIATE!!! I AM LITERALLY GOING ABSOLUTELY FUCKING INSANE!!! AIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!
Kek
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>>25178105
You're a quasi gnostic?
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>>25178105
Maybe expand the range of your reading, and don't let this philistine board impose its one-eyed view of literature on you.



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