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No.99
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No.103
>>99Alright, so I guess when people show up, we'll use this thread as a discussion on topics like writing stories, help with plots, tips on which books are good reads, and so forth. Basically, I'm hoping for a good mix between writing and reading.
No.381
I'm trying out something new to improve my characters. I pretend to be an interviewer doing an interview of them. Seeing how they react to different questions really makes it easier to write more depth into them.
No.383
>>381Usually, I just ask myself "What would X do?" Putting yourself in a character's shoes can be pretty helpful. I also find that many if not all of my characters have some part of my personality. It's just a matter of extracting that part and amplifying it.
No.388
>>383I have a rather boring personality and I'm afraid if I wrote myself into the characters they too would become boring.
So you write as well Mr(s). Anon? In thing in particular you're proud of having written?
No.416
>>388Definitely! I have several stories, poems, short stories, etc… I'll see if i can share some in this thread tomorrow.
I have a pretty boring personality too, but it's not so much about who you are during the day, but the different little thoughts you have. For example, if you think "Damn, what a dame" as you walk by a good-looking girl, that kind of response might fall under what a character of yours would say.
I hope people will contribute parts of their work (short excerpts would be better I guess so that nothing gets plagiarized). It'd be cool to get a peer-review up once this board gets more popular.
No.418
The True History of the Kelly Gang. Ned Kelly is an australian 'johnny appleseed'. Instead of planting apples, he made sheet metal armor, hid in the Australian bush, shot, wrestled and killed cops, robbed banks, had a gang.
10/10 crazy person.
The book is his autobiography.
He writes in a vernacular way and is somewhat hard to understand some times.
9/10 gg
No.421
>>41810/10 would get shot by
No.433
>>418Ned Kelly did nothing wrong!
No.435
>>418Me being Australian too I had to study Ned Kelly quite a lot at school. Such as life. I don't really like Ned Kelly because I crave structure and law.
No.449
>>416i'm also a writer and i don't think i've ever thought the phrase "damn, what a dame". maybe i'll share some of my stories on here (this is clearly a much better venue than /b/) i there's an appetite for it.
No.491
I can only suggest you to read
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htmit's a very inspiring book
No.523
>>491An ereader is a great investment if purely for all the great public domain stuff you can read for free. There are really very few new ideas you can't find from the past and it's really eye opening to see the present in the context of what people thought and did a long time ago.
No.828
Really liking Yalom's flowing style of writing, it's simultaneously educational and informative. I didn't think I had death anxiety before but reading it is showing me that many surface level aggravations have a deeper root. He maintains that people have children as a way to preserve oneself and I certainly agree with that. I'm not quite done with this but liking it a lot. It's the second of his books I've read, the first being the more therapy tales oriented Love's Executioner.
No.829
>>828I meant simultaneously educational and personable hue
No.840
>>99I'm about a third of the way through Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night", and my god is Fitzgerald's prose beautiful. I'm attempting to get more into poetry, so I've begun to teach myself the basics of metre and the like. Any good poetry recommendations?
No.876
If you're a fan of despotic fiction i recommend Yevgeny Zamyatin's book "We". Since it was written before video camera's existed, everyone lives in glass buildings!
No.890
any rec's for hard sci-fi but on a grander scale? (like space opera level of scale but with hard sci-fi writing)
No.1138
>>890Definitely would suggest the Red Mars series. It's an epic chronicling the first settlers on mars and spans about a hundred years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy No.1142
Do y'all download your books or buy them?
If you download them, where from?
I use:
http://avaxhm.com/ No.1143
Currently reading "Journey to the West", aka "Monkey". Basically, first few chapters are about the Monkey King Sun Wukong and his rebellion against heaven, and so far the rest of the chapters are the actual journey of the Priest Sanzang and his 3 companions to the West to find the Buddhist scriptures. Just got done with Three Kingdoms a few months ago and enjoyed that thoroughly, so I thought I'd give one of the other Chinese Classics a shot. All in all, the action and fights in the book are written well. I'm currently about half way through the second book.
No.1178
Reading Stand on Zanzibar (1969) now…
>Mass media all controlled by a handful of corporations
>constant stimulation and instant gratification made people numb to emotion
>black president
>random acts of violence become more and more commonplace as people lose touch of reality
>europe is a federation
>china is a superpower
>gays and degenerates accepted
what a terrifying world, i hope none of that ever comes true
No.4124
>>1142I usually try to buy them, but if I can't, I use google to find free pdfs.
>inb4 I am le happy merchantI am but that's not the point.
No.4150
>>381That's a pretty good idea, I'm going to use that
No.4221
I'm re-reading The Republic by Plato