/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22255335]

Has anyone here gone from a life of surfing the web and video games to reading and writing consistently? What did it take?

[Anonymous No.22255344]

I am the only /lit/ user with multiple commits to SerenityOS ama.

[Anonymous No.22255349]

>>22255344
Why won't ISO?

>An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity
- Terry Davis

[Anonymous No.22255350]

>>22255344
Oh to answer your question anon I dont own a computer now which helps lol

[Anonymous No.22255354]

>>22255350
Are you at library?

[Anonymous No.22255355]

>>22255349
makefiles are simple :)

[Anonymous No.22255360]

>>22255355
Not for the average person.. What did you do?

[Anonymous No.22255362]

>>22255354
Nah on my phone. Which I suppose is a computer of sorts. But less engrossing than a pc.

[Anonymous No.22255366]

>>22255360
Some commits to LibWeb, adding layout features (CSS properties), and some other userspace stuff. Nothing in the kernel.

[Anonymous No.22255371]

Maybe a bit unrelated but has anyone (any WeStErnEr) successfully left the West to find a place to live somewhere else in the world? What did it take?

[Anonymous No.22255380]

>>22255335
>What did it take?
Reading and writing consistently. Mainly journaling and re-reading my favorite books, taking notes and writing down quotes.

[Anonymous No.22255382]

>>22255335
Kind of. But I always had an interest in reading from early on even if it didn’t manifest strongly. And still to this day if I get into video games too much I easily become addicted, I can be reading and writing consistently for months but if I all of a sudden start playing league or the new Diablo I’ll lose a month of my time just like that.

[Anonymous No.22255388]

I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.

Here's how I did it.

-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person

-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure

-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.

-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.

-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.

-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.

[Anonymous No.22255444]

>>22255388
>Buy the physical copies.
I'll add an asterisk here, completely unsolicited. From my own experience, it's a horrible idea to just throw money at books without knowing if I'll like them or not. Instead, I just stick to buying the ones I already know I love, and re-read those over and over again (alongside books I haven't purchased, of course), because they're all extremely deep books which can be explored for years without exhausting them of all they have to teach. Doing this, I've avoided spending a single cent on a book I ended up disliking, and my bookshelf is full of books which I'm grateful to be able to own nice, quality physical copies of. Then again, other anons may not be as tight on money as I am.

[Anonymous No.22255530]

>>22255335
Get rid of da computer and unplug the router if you live alone

[Anonymous No.22255537]

>>22255362
Phones are even worse than PCs, you can't type anything longform on them or do any work or article reading, just scrool.

[Anonymous No.22255579]

>>22255355
Based non ISO provider.