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 No.13435 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

How should I work to improve my prose? I'm writing nearly every day, but I'm looking to accelerate my work. My prose is pretty mediocre right now, but I want to polish it into something marvelous.

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 No.13456>>17023

If you post a sample I can give you feedback. Otherwise my only advice is to try to practice imitating a variety of authors with styles you enjoy until you find what fits you best.

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 No.17023>>17024

>>13456

Not OP, but can you review mine?

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 No.17024

>>17023

>09/09/17

bruh

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 No.17056

This is a rather rhetorical question from you. Everyone knows the answer to your question. You just need to read more. The last one I read was an essay about comparison different perspective international issue climate change, I used https://envrexperts.com/free-essays/essay-about-comparison-different-perspective-international-issue-climate-change for that. I read a lot of essays. Since I consider them more informative than taking the same books. This is a short version, which outlines the most important.

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 No.17051 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Hey fellow readers,

We have officially moved onto our two bunkers: https://8chan.moe/lit/ and https://tvch.moe/lit/

Please do bookmark them and come join us if you want to have a good time!

Other useful links:

https://smuglo.li/fanfic/

https://8chan.moe/pdfs/

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 No.11999 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

It's the 444th day of a Trump presidency. All day every day, members of the Trump Youth League in their khaki uniforms knock on doors, looking for illegal aliens. Armed with assault weapons and wearing red armbands emblazoned with a black "T" in a white circle, non-whites cower away in fear whenever they approach. After dark, roving bands of less official but even angrier white supremacists patrol the streets, enforcing the curfew for anyone who looks "un-American". People of color hide fearfully in their homes, their neighborhoods destroyed by white racist violence. Art deco-style statues of Donald Trump have been erected in every town square, with a live ticker screen beneath each one that reads off his tweets.

Everyone but Trump's rabid supporters fears "The Knock," when in the middle of the night people are taken from their homes and sent away to "#MakeAmericaGreatAgain Re-Education Camps", never to be heard from again.

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 No.15477

>>12768

oh yakub, you B IG BO I jew

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 No.15777>>15934

>>12000

Over two years later and this is still pure gold

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 No.15934>>17049

>>15777

check'd

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 No.17049>>17050

>>15934

>Posting

Let me see if this fixes the broken link.

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 No.17050

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 No.16838 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Could be Japanese or anything but has a genuine English translation

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 No.16839>>16846

This is a funny one

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 No.16846>>16973

>>16839

Didn't ask for a funny one, anon

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 No.16973

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>>16846

Should it matter if someone suggests a funny book if it meets your other criteria? I can't think of a lot of serious stories that can be described as "randomly weird". All that comes to mind for me are satirical books by authors like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett.

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 No.17046

This should be Kafka on the Shore by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It is not just a random book, I'd say. It's one of my favourites now. However, I came across with it indeed randomly, when I was working with https://letsgradeit.com/review-category/essay-writing/ guys. They mentioned this book in the bibliography to the writing assignment we worked on together. I decided to read it and it was the right decision. This book widens your imagination. It's really good!

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 No.17044 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

By the way, I've already discovered that finding decent telegram channels on how to enhance trade is far less difficult than I had anticipated. All that is required is for you to interpret the cryptocurrency signals https://safetrading.today/bots/cornix/ before advancing. I learnt a lot here, and I strongly advise everyone to familiarize themselves with it; your efforts will not be in useless. So, good luck, and I hope I've been of assistance.

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 No.17027 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

It's free to read on Kindle Unlimited, plus I posted an early draft of about 40% of it, so hopefully that satisfies your sense of ethics.

Plus, it's got a heavy anarcho-libertarian bent to it, which is probably more appreciated here than anywhere else on the Net.

More details at https://reddit.com/user/ulatekh/comments/pluf8q/hello/ .

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 No.16858 [Open thread]>>16906 >>16907 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Treatment resistant schizophrenic here (trauma-induced, and not what Twitter calls "trauma"), with a 143 IQ (since for we've all lost our minds here & decided to start IQ-posting in a recent thread even though IQ is literally a nonsense metric) who is currently in a precarious housing situation w/ my family that has been abusive in the past, but my best friend is getting me up to his state to live with him and rebuild my life. I've been hospitalized 20+ times, countless meds, even got electroshock 16 times. I wrote a book of poetry about my mythologized history, and I got it accepted for publication. It comes out in July. I say all this to prove, maybe just to myself, that there is hope for me.

It is my goal to become a PhD. Clinical Psychologist (which I've had since before my illness, and every doctor & clinician I've had highly encouraged me to do so), and get postdoctoral training in Lacanian psychoanalysis. I am currently undergoing Lacanian psychoanalysis for an extremely reduced fee as part of a scholarship with a postdoctoral psychoanalytic school. (But right now I have never even completed a semester of university.) The analysis is, very slowly, transforming myself and my life.

Despite my capacities, I am unable to sleep or eat really. I take meds, minimally & as needed at the lowest dose, but I am finding it very difficult to literally just SLEEP or EAT because of my overactive mind. It's like I'm naturally high on methamphetamine.

Besides establishing a safe living situation in an apartment with my best friend, WHAT BOOKS can I read---fiction, non-fiction, or poetry—to guide me in my journey toward that second chance, the Gestalt??? Mainstream behavioral indoctrinating industrial complex, and family, has terribly failed me (and I sort of failed myself) — so /lit/ you truly are my only hope.

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 No.16895>>16905

I remember reading in a youtube comment a big blogpost from a guy that finally managed to help his brother's schizophrenia. It turns out it was copper toxicity. The copper would literally get into the brain and short-circuit by "unwanted conductance". To chelate it he mega-dosed his brother on Zinc and I think Selenium, but I recall the Zinc being the chelating vitamin. Healthy fats in your diet should help re-sheath the neuron axons. It took a month or less for progress, a year to get him to a normal level, and IIRC 2 years for all the problems to disappear.

So you should take perhaps 3x the recommended dose of Zinc, Selenium, and avoid all copper in your diet. Meditate so you learn how to reduce brain activity; focus on the breath at the nostrils until the discipline finally works.

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>>16895

That's interesting. I've heard of cases where a person's schizophrenia was actually cured by going on the Ketogenic diet. Turns out the guy's brain was just hypersensitive to sugar.

It's interesting to see that another case of Schizophrenia was cured by realising that the brain was hypersensitive to something else. I wonder if there's more to this pattern or if these are simply two coincidences.

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 No.16906

>>16858 (OP)

OP, I want you to know that you'll be in my prayers.

I believe, in some cases, mental illness is in fact due to diabolic oppression. The Lord allows you to suffer at the hands of demons because he wishes, through your suffering, to extract reparations either for sins committed by you or to you (e.g. child molestation/rape in the "to you" case) or for sins committed by or to a forefather of yours. Such demons are termed "Generational Spirits" and Exorcist Fr. Ripperger has an excellent series of videos talking about them on the Sensus Fidelium YouTube Channel.

I strongly suspect that in some cases, Schizophrenia is in fact a diabolic oppression.

You will be included in my Rosaries. I will be offering them for you to be cured and in reparation for the sins committed by and to the members of your family tree.

I want to thank you as well. I've been praying for my schizophrenic relative for some time now and what I realised is that I never explicitly requested for his mental health issues to be cured, only for it to improve. I would've never realised this had I not tried to talk to you. Your conversion will be in my prayers.

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 No.16907

>>16858 (OP)

>trauma-induced, and not what Twitter calls "trauma"

You mean like MK ultra type shit? I hate how people act like trauma-based mind control doesn't exist.

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 No.17021

You still seem to have it easy compared to me, I'm partially institutionalized and never went to college and I'm about to hit 40. I'm an autodidact.

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 No.17000 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Any thoughts on T.S. Eliot?

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 No.17020

Good Christian writer, looks a bit like Genesis P-Orridge

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 No.17018 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

lets say i am writing a fiction and i planned the ending ahead (cuz i believe it s good by research) but somehow now my content is now locked to the ending so it has to be within its "logical" realm

kinda like fight club, which has ending defined in the beginning of the movie and the rest follows…

so…how do i,say, " infer" the content

from that ending, moment to moment, character by character and so on,…. so that my story can follow the end cohesively into a logical story and maybe also satisfying?

are there sort of tools, formats, that has been used to solve this since time beginning cuz .. idk literature is old?

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 No.17014 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Any fans of Vox Day here? His Castalia Library leatherbound classics series is vertically integrating, gonna build its own bindery.

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/08/building-bindery.html

Supporters of the crowdfund can order copies of the first books set to be made on the new presses, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, which will be specially branded Castalia Bindery. The Library quality books are set at $250 each.

https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-iliad-library-edition/

https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-odyssey-library-edition/

Better heeled classics aficionados and supporters of an alt-old tech reskilling can order the Libraria Castalia versions of each edition, in goatskin, for $1,000 apiece.

https://arkhavencomics.com/product/iliad-libraria-edition/

https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-odyssey-libraria-edition/

The goal is to sell 500 copies of each book by the end of August to fund the Castalia Bindery. But there is no hard limit on the books until the campaign concludes August 31, so there are a few weeks to consider and save up before diving in.

Pic includes some of Castalia Library’s previous editions. The new bindery will allow an even higher standard for future volumes.

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 No.13171 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

I want to emulate Mishima's death, but I live in the states, and am a nobody. What would the American version of his death be?

Also Mishima general discussion thread.

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 No.16912

>>16888

Just dew it.

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 No.16960>>16963

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Let's see if I can get this to work - first post on the new 8k incarnation

Don't know whether anyone noticed but last week was the 50th anniversary of Mishima's big day …

https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Tea-Leaves/Yukio-Mishima-in-the-21st-century

pic related

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>>16960

I did a hundred push ups in his honor

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 No.16995

Bump

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 No.17013

Mishima? I’ve read his Forbidden Colours. An interesting look at the homosexual underworld, and the contempt homos have for breeders. Mishima himself was homosexual (respectably married to a woman) but shows well how homos form a parallel society inherently antagonistic to familial society.

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 No.17012 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

i guess this is all mostly about "good feeling" but im trying to write a story and naturally somehow with the ending defined like the graph, i naturally expects anything before the "end"

to be canon and refers to the end of sorts, but i could quite find any logical idea about it means i cant evn choose a single fucking scene to write that will allow the end to be an acconplishment of sorts…

how do i deal with this?

i keep writing everyday but this thing remain unresolved like i will get somewhere and retcon things which feels troublesome

help i need a model to help connect these plot points to the ending so it feels good to do

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 No.17007 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Asking for a friend…

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 No.17008

Wtf, get out of my tomb

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 No.16999 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

what do you think was Yeats' political orientation? I've been getting into his poetry.

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