/erp/ - Erotic Roleplay

Mostly because I'm sorta forced to read up on Military shit for this side project, I've been reading Generation Kill. Finished it last night, pretty good book and it did make me chuckle a few times.

If you don't know it, it's about this Reporter who followed a group of First Recon Marines during the beginning of the Iraq War and what happened to them.

Quite a good book, did sort of give me a better insight in the military which I kinda needed for the side project. So I guess it made me RP better in that regard?

>>66604

Oooh.~ Yes, anon. More. My hunger is far from satiated.

>>66531

The Pearl, The Autobiography of a Flea, and The Romance of Lust specifically. They a collection of Victorian erotic stories mostly written anonymously during the time period and you can find them online. I know it's not for everyone, but it's been some of the best stuff I've read in terms of teasing and getting the mind going. I found them to be good if you need to play an aristocratic character or even one from the time period, but it's even a good example of how to write out scenes with less explicit language.

Aside from that, I don't think that I get as much experience from books as I do play. Books I find may give me new ideas or even help me define my writing style a bit more, but otherwise I've found that skill just comes from play and "getting gud". I sometimes look back at my notes from 2 years ago compared to now, and wonder how I managed to get/keep play back then.

Stephen King and William Gibson are my go-tos. Both are very good at creating distinct images without beating around the bush with flowery language, and both have written across so many genres that you're bound to find something you like.

If you want characterization and consistent narrative, Douglas Adams is very good at that.

Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors is the last book I've read in a while I guess. Wholly unerotic, but very… visceral, is a good way to put it I think. It does a phenomenal job of portraying the various human dramas and extremes of emotions that play out during the events covered (the battle of leyte gulf).

For basic bitch shit, just go get Harry Potter and Dragonlance novels. It's simple, and they aren't super lengthy. Loads of them and they talk about stupid fantasy bullshit. So if you like stupid fantasy bullshit characters and examples of writing for stupid fantasy bullshit, congrats. You got em' by the plethora.

If you haven't read Lord of the Rings then you're a plebeian with questionable taste.

I'll always recommend Kurt Vonnegut. Both Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions were truly thought-provoking and touching. Two of the best books that come to mind beside those are Ender's Game and Wise Man's Fear - both are titans of their respective genera.

If you want fun and easy writing I can recommend The Dresden Files. They have a slew of problems but I've never found another author or series that flow quite that easily or is that consistently entertaining besides perhaps Terry Pratchet himself. There's a ton of books and they're all rather short and expensive so be sure to pick them up second-hand.

Fuck it, I've been reading the Chronicles of Narnia. I like Lewis' personal style and it made me appreciate second person narratives a bit more. Also, the fantasy settings and creatures that he uses - and how they all interact - could be great influence for any fantasy settings or any fantasy/realism crossovers.

And on another note I've also read shit like The Turner Diaries and Hunter. Both novels are by "Andrew Macdonald" aka Dr. William Pierce (head of the white nationalist National Alliance) and deal with race, violence, conspiracies, and volk. Pierce is kind of a sperg but his writing is pretty good. I'd also recommend The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail. It's a dystopian book about massive Third World immigration into the West and how different factions react to it all. His writing is solid.

>>66859

>yet another LotR faggot invading a book thread

oh boy ( ° ʖ °)

Lords of the underworld series by Gena showalter (paranormal romance)

Psy/Changeling Series and Guild Hunter Series by Nalini Singh (paranormal romance)

Chicagoland Vampires series by Chloe Neill (paranormal romance)

And The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (fantasy/mystery)

Are my favorites i recommend to anyone

"The Writer's Way" by Rawlins

"Style in Fiction" by Short and Leech

and a bunch of introduction to narratology textbooks

you read about writing to write better

>>66531

Actually what helped me improve most was reading non-fiction by extremely talented writers. Most notably Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, who had a way of word weaving which I had never experienced before. Hitchens was poetic and made writing look like an art, Dawkins was clear and vivid, making writing into a delicate and beautiful science.