/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7857922]

Has yours shown up yet?

[Anonymous No.7857926]

top kek my friend

[Anonymous No.7857929]

stop shilling OP

[Anonymous No.7857934]

Hey, that's pretty good

[Anonymous No.7857943]

>>7857926
this was exactly my thought before opening the thread. fucking weird man get out of my head

[Anonymous No.7858071]

Literally one of the most overpriced devices ever. I could get a chromebook for half the price.

[Anonymous No.7858184]

>>7857922
Not yet. Where are the drones when Orwell doesn't need them? Get Zizek on the phone.

Of course, the gadget may still be a really bad attractor of pseudo-intellectuals, which really can be off-putting at times -- but I know that I'm not a plebeian, and that's honestly enough. I'm positive that the typewriter will benefit the saṃsāra of my literary output. As an aspiring writer, surely I can afford to invest money on a serious, professional tool that even costs less than my MacBook.

Those of you who cannot understand this reasoning, let me tell you straight away that this is exactly why you'll never be successful writers. If you can't even self-sacrifice to buy a top-tier product for your craft, you've lost the game even before the first half started.

[Anonymous No.7858255]

>>7857922
Damn son, a couple years ago they were offering this shit to me for like $80 for showing early interest. Maybe I should have went for that, though I recently ordered an alphasmart neo for dirt cheap so we'll see how that goes.

[Anonymous No.7858274]

>>7858184
pretty refined b8

[Anonymous No.7858299]

step aside

[Gaskun !!LKQ0Koj4uFz No.7858316]

B. No frills workstation.

A. Is a hipster
C. Is a hipster who spends time at Starbucks to be "seen writing a book" but won't finish one.

>inb4 kekzozzlewewlad

[Anonymous No.7858320]

>>7858184
>If you can't even self-sacrifice to buy a top-tier product for your craft, you've lost the game even before the first half started.

[Anonymous No.7858324]

>>7858320
It doesn't have to be top tier, but you shouldn't be fooled by trendy gadgets that can't take the punishment of long hours of work

[Anonymous No.7858361]

Took mine out today downtown.

Love it.

[Anonymous No.7858380]

>>7858299
I actually love netbooks! Is there a netbook that actually runs with any real processing power. The one I used to own is pretty weak for most things.

[Anonymous No.7858396]

>>7858299
Sorry? What message is that picture trying to convey exactly? That the weight of arbitrarily selected items and their price has anything at all to do with productivity? Why does Person A not carry a note book or books? What scenario is this person involved in? To what end?

[Anonymous No.7858416]

>>7858361
The only way you could be more of a poseur is if you longboarded a couple blocks south to Wash Sq Park

[Anonymous No.7858443]

>>7858361
>25th street
>downtown

fuck off you midtown pseud

[Anonymous No.7858593]

>>7858361
doesn't the noise of the keyboard annoy you? Its like they want to make sure other people know their writing something

[Anonymous No.7858635]

>>7858593
That's why he has it.

[Anonymous No.7858697]

>>7858593
The entire product is specifically designed to inform everyone near you that you are a Writer©. Even when you walk past someone without sitting down to write fuck all, you carry it with its little handle and display your Literary Lifestyle© to the world.

[Anonymous No.7858701]

>>7858316
Gaskin you made a post a while ago about how you write in coffee shops and cafes don't act above people.

[Anonymous No.7858767]

>>7858316
I always relate to this image until he starts talking about emo music
Who listens to that shit?

[Anonymous No.7858769]

>>7858697
All that for $500.

[Anonymous No.7858815]

Is it bad that I want one of these? I would never pay anything close to the asking price but they seem cool and at least a little bit useful.

[Anonymous No.7858820]

>>7857922
Just get an old thinkpad and manually disable/remove the wifi card, that's all there is to it.

[Anonymous No.7858834]

>>7857922
The worst thing about this is the design. I mean wtf is up with those ugly arse dials? The whole vaguely-80s-retro-but-still-21st-century aesthetic is disgusting. Its unironically vaporwave.

[Anonymous No.7858846]

>>7858767
emo like american football and sunny day real estate is actually good though

he certainly isnt talking about screamo music or hardcore, if thats what you think

[Anonymous No.7858853]

>>7858767
>some anons will never expose themselves to The Brave Little Abacus
>they will never be exposed to the single most gorgeous rock album ever conceived, Just Got Back From the Discomfort–We're Alright
>tfw

[Anonymous No.7859090]

>>7858701
I write everywhere I can. Work, home, indie cafes, gay bar lounges.. Hell, I've been writing in the back of a comic book store every Friday for the past ten years.
Yes, gay bar. I used to work there as a janitor and they have a sound and light system with a quarter of a million dollars.
#nohomo
>inb4 kek zozzle finnigans wake start with the Greeks,
Pic related: said lounge. Free wifi, 7 foot drag queens, and there isn't a 2 cock minimum.

[Anonymous No.7859129]

Rookie mistake. All the greatest writers wrote with pen/quill.

[Anonymous No.7859292]

>>7858396
they could easily carry notebooks too, but it would be additional weight. For the same financial and physical cost of the freewrite, one could easily find better solutions to the problems it "solves".
anyways, why so defensive? did you actually buy into this shit?

[Anonymous No.7859302]

I don't know what this retarded thing is but here's what I'm reminded of.

[Anonymous No.7859346]

>>7859302

[Anonymous No.7859381]

>>7859302
The only thing cringy is the guy taking the picture

[Anonymous No.7859385]

Why the fuck can't you guys just use fountain pens?
Fucking shitty-ass gimmick pseudo-typewriters
Get a Pilot Metropolitan and a CON-50 converter alongside a good notebook and do your entire book longhand.

[Anonymous No.7859426]

>>7859385
writing by hand is super slow

[Anonymous No.7859428]

I wanna get this. The new WG-S30 is out too, but you have to import from Japan. I'll probably gonna get the new one, but this one has a nicer cover.

http://www.amazon.com/SHARP-Electronic-Memo-WG-S20-White/dp/B00GGCB3AC/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

http://www.amazon.com/SHARP-Electronic-Memo-WG-S20-White/dp/B00GGCB3AC/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

[Anonymous No.7859440]

>>7859426
It's more comfortable, and harder to get distracted with though
With a fountain pen your hand will get tired way less too because you aren't putting much pressure onto the paper

[Anonymous No.7859451]

>>7859440
>>7859385
I bring a notebook with me when I leave the house but at home it's far more convenient to type. A digital workflow is just much more convenient and fast.

Plus you will probably eventually have to digitize all your handwritten stuff anyway.

[Anonymous No.7859455]

>>7859451
You know what that's fair
Maybe I just like fountain pens

[Anonymous No.7859463]

The best writing device is any laptop with a somewhat popular Linux OS installed. You probably won't be able to run shit and you'll save battery life. Although at the end of the day you'll always find a way to distract yourself.

[Anonymous No.7859475]

>>7858316
I agree that every hypothetical person in that image is a massive faggot, and the idea of taking weight into account like it means anything after you've sat down to write is pants-on-head retarded, but there's nothing wrong with Starbucks as a place to write. The library's seating tends to be uncomfortable comparatively, and there are too many distractions at home. I've written and edited an 80 thousand word long book mostly at Starbucks.

[Anonymous No.7859484]

>>7859455
Not that guy, but for what it's worth, I agree with you.

White college rule legal pad + a Pilot G2 07 is what I use to write. Looking to buy a fountain pen soon.

[Anonymous No.7859499]

>>7859426
>>7859451
I'm not him, but I've written far more by hand, like tens of thousands of words more, than I would've ever written if I stuck exclusively with typing. Having to type it out later isn't even a drawback because it gives an extra opportunity to edit your work in various ways.

Productivity and supposed convenience are a terrible excuse to not write by hand.

[Anonymous No.7859503]

>>7859499
>Productivity and supposed convenience are a terrible excuse to not write by hand.
Are you memeing me?

[Anonymous No.7859504]

>>7859484
I'm >>7859499
And I use that type of Pilot pen too. Though I use 99 cent store graph 100 sheet graph paper notebooks instead of legal pads.

[Anonymous No.7859509]

>>7859503
I'm completely serious. If I hadn't started writing most of my first drafts by hand, my output would've been exponentially lower.

[Anonymous No.7859520]

>>7859484
For the moment I'm using a Parker Vector, and just with Quink blue in it.
It's pretty good, but I'll be getting better once I scrape together a few spare dollars.

[Anonymous No.7859529]

Just for a quick reference, could everyone ITT post their preferred writing tool and a sample of their work?

[Anonymous No.7859535]

>>7858635
kek

[Anonymous No.7859564]

>>7857922
>>7857922


Download JDarkRoom and save your money for booze.

[Anonymous No.7859573]

>>7859529
I write on toilet paper with pens I find on the ground in the park. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.7859601]

>>7859529
I write with pens because it's often my task in these dreams to.

Sample:

… underlying cause… Irreconcilable… masses writhing in… thirst… Yet… insurmountable distance… The soul… altogether… entropy… empty spaces:… Chant now… signifying nothing… Springing eternal… ;meaningless illusion of meaning… mass… Black Sun’s dawn… In terms of… meager leftovers… (incandescence of being)… Coalescing spokes… no muse’s song…

Paradoxical nature:… ,answered with a question… missing pieces;… Look upon your works-… Reconfiguration… in another? … who seek… the loop… because you must… blind… they can speak… parody of providence; mockery… No longer… vaguest of ways.
…, in that merciless, tiny-yet-infinite space beneath The Zero, within the inverted Rainbow of the negative, that unholy of unholies, Qlipoth of Qlipoths, Sitra Achra’s anointed; the imaginary numeral itself…

[Anonymous No.7859612]

>>7859601
Is this ironic?

[Anonymous No.7859616]

>>7859612
It's a small excerpt from Pandemonium of the Sun.

[Anonymous No.7859617]

Marking full-stops with a ballpoint pen is not satisfying at all.

[Anonymous No.7859631]

>>7858853
How is this band any different from Algernon Cadwallader, Castevet, or TWIABP? I was into Midwest Emo a few years ago and WANT to like it again but it all sounds the same. Snowing was the peak, now it's all derivative.

[Anonymous No.7859670]

>>7859631
Have you even heard them? They're possibly the most unique "rock" band I can think of (that still counts as rock)

They mix midwest emo with baroque pop, electronic, folk, tape music, ambient, and math rock using instruments like grand pianos, trombones, glockenspiels, melodicas, what have you. It's seriously a genius piece of work, that album. Infinitely relistenable.

[Anonymous No.7859727]

>>7858593
Why are all of you such fucking plebs when it comes to basic technology? Have you never typed on a mechanical keyboard? Are you seriously advocating typing on some shitty laptop keyboard with no tactile feedback over a keyboard designed for professional writers? Why not use some Ikea pencil to write your notes too, it's the cheaper alternative and everything else is just tryhard and hipster.

[Anonymous No.7859737]

>>7859727
>basic technology
>$500 piece of shit with less features than a 10 year-old cell phone
Ayy lmao

[Anonymous No.7859739]

>>7859727
>implying a fountain pen is hipster
>using a pencil
>not using infinitely more comfortable writing forms
fag

[Anonymous No.7859745]

>>7859737
No, not THAT device, a mechanical keyboard. You know the one people typed on before things had to get flat.

>>7859739
None of the things you say make any sense in relation to my post. It seems you're talking to someone else.

[Anonymous No.7859747]

>>7859739
He's probably shilling so people will buy his retarded paperweight.

[Anonymous No.7859752]

>>7859745
>extols the virtues of typewriters
>calls others tryhard hipsters
W-E-W

[Anonymous No.7859758]

The shilling is strong

[Anonymous No.7859765]

>>7859752
But I didn't call anyone a hipster and I didn't advocate typewriters, I advocated mechanical switches over rubber domes. They can be found on typewriters and pc keyboards alike.

[Anonymous No.7859780]

>>7858184
I don't get writers like you.

Why is it so hard for you to just sit down and write at the computer?

How can you call writing your 'craft' if you can't sit down and do it without needing some ridiculous machine to keep you from getting 'distracted'?

[Anonymous No.7859787]

>>7859780
What's there to get? It's shillbait.

[Peeeeniiizzzzz No.7859802]

This device is pure poppycock. By which merit would a true writer schedule his/her admonishment from larger society? I beckon thee /lit/ ANSWER!!!!

[Anonymous No.7859805]

>>7858299
>Macbook air

[Anonymous No.7859913]

>>7858184
It always sucks when I come across one of these posts and remember that yes, there really are people in the world who are THIS pretentious and snotty.

[Anonymous No.7859928]

>>7859573
post more

[Anonymous No.7860006]

>>7859573
>he manicured AIDS
Damn son, post more

[Anonymous No.7860007]

Just get a laptop

[Anonymous No.7860018]

Lol, just as I was typing it into Google, I thought it's totally gonna be some pointless shit from Kickstarter. And what you know?

>The Freewrite is a distraction-free smart typewriter funded on Kickstarter. Leave the internet at home and write anywhere with the Freewrite.

[Anonymous No.7860056]

>>7859573
I actually write on anything, including tickets i keep in my pockets.
Pic related is pretty shitty but's it's all I have at hand.

[Anonymous No.7860086]

>>7859385
>>7859426
>>7859499
New to writing here, when you're writing a story, how do you plan it out? Do you have a set method of writing a shorthand version of the story then writing the whole thing section by section, or do you just wing it?

[Anonymous No.7860259]

>>7857922
>2016
>not exclusively using this dildo


ah shiggy diggy

[Anonymous No.7860273]

>>7859601

[Anonymous No.7860310]

>>7859928
>>7860006
Book 2

[Anonymous No.7860321]

>>7860310
Book 3

[Anonymous No.7860330]

>>7860321
Book 4

[Anonymous No.7860356]

>>7858846
Yes I know what emo music is
Those bands are fine but most emo is whiny garbage imo

[Anonymous No.7860366]

>>7859302
>>7858184
>>7858299
>>7858361
>>7860056
>>7857922

>not using LaTeX
>mfw

[Anonymous No.7860367]

>>7860330
>>7860321
>>7860310
>>7859573
Ergh. Self-absorbed, postmodern wankery.
>b-but it's satire!
It's wank. Ejaculate. The literal result of tossing off your ego.

[Anonymous No.7860370]

>>7860356
those bands are whiny white boi garbage imo

[Anonymous No.7860373]

>>7860330
Book 5

/lit/ exclusive sneak preview

0. The Urtext of Insipidly Mediocre Contemporary Fiction

Fourty six years after The Recognitions first went unrecognized and thirty nine after the eponymous “Bastards” had failed to be fired, came a book that ushered in our current mentally deficient and emotionally incontinent state of affairs in Murrican letters. Entirely misunderstanding the source of its own name, it went on to massive critical and commercial success. This was a travesty nearly as horrendous as Ernest Hemingway’s stylistically bankrupt drivel gained currency among so-called “professors” of allegedly “creative” writing.

Disaster almost struck when the author—who laughably enough, thought of himself as an “elitist” in spite of being incapable of comprehending the intent of authors such as Gaddis, Hawkes, and our favorite pseudo-arboreal pot-smoking recluse—limp-wristedly lashed out against one of his benefactors. This led to a brief feud between the two equally tasteless, parasitically revered figures and their respective fanbases, which was, unfortunately, resolved. Fifteen years later, we’re still reeling from the effects of this man’s unrepentant, overrated, hackery on the American publishing landscape.

In all seriousness, it’s absolutely horrifying that this utterly talentless schmaltzmonger thinks he has any place in the “high-art literary tradition”, and worse yet, that there are critics and readers who are themselves paid off, blind, and/or ignorant enough to agree with him.

[Anonymous No.7860384]

>>7860373
cont.

1. Puerility

His thoroughly inadequate member was a wanderer set adrift in the rancid monad of her yeast-infected orifice. No aeon emanated within the confines of our autistic mahamanvantara could overcome the all-encompassing sense of pure meaninglessness inherent in the act; the lackadaisical thrusts of his semi-flaccid, sheathed, and toppled Tower into those distorted depths, the sisyphistically ineffectual pawing at her reversed Sun, the intermittent, half-hearted tweaking of her asymmetric Lovers (which had, after two pregnancies and 50 years of metaphysical and literal Gravity, metempsychotically morphed into The Devil). In accordance with the rites prescribed during these millennial days of our fledgling 21st Century, she reciprocated in kind by tweeting about a mildly amusing ad she perused within the stygian confines of a particular specimen of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s lumbering phallic instruments of spiritually kekulean motion, as he labored in vain over—and inside of—her.

His Moon futilely dripped into its containment sac three minutes and thirty three seconds later. As he rolled off, ending this abortive (but in absolutely no terms Dickensian or Victorian) Fool’s Progress, they exchanged unimpressive, superficially witty platitudes and turned off the lights. The New York Times called it a “novel of plentitude and panorama”. It went on to have sales as unimpressive as its prose despite debuting at #2 on their bestsellers list.

>>7860367
All writing is self-absorbed wankery and I honestly have no idea how anyone could think otherwise in this day and age.

[Anonymous No.7860385]

My kindle works just fine, OP

[Anonymous No.7860402]

>>7860384
Touche.

[Anonymous No.7860424]

>>7860402
the japs did it better

this does not look like a fisher price toy

[Anonymous No.7860459]

>>7858299
Why not join the 21th century loser?
A phone is a notebook...
And just write/ do anything else on a laptop

adhd/muh eyez is a myth you better get rid off

[Anonymous No.7860546]

>>7860424
How can it fold?

[Anonymous No.7860818]

>>7860546
same tech they have used since the early 90

[Anonymous No.7860854]

>>7860459
>muh eyez is a myth
Are you 12? Enjoy the constant eye strain you'll start feeling by your 30s.

[Anonymous No.7860941]

>>7859090
Yesterday, one of your beta readers said your shit's cash, gaskun. Congrats.

[Anonymous No.7860948]

>>7860424
Mechnical switches and eink? Design is way neater.

>>7860459
I can tell you don't look at screens much or you're like 16.

[Anonymous No.7860991]

>>7860459
enjoy the youth while it last man

[Anonymous No.7861024]

>>7858299
it's still not a fair comparison; the freewrite's battery life clobbers all that other stuff.

not that I'd buy one, but that's a huge selling point which people saying they're worthless never address.

[Anonymous No.7861040]

>>7861024
I don't think a battery can justify that price. But then again what the fuck do I know, I write everything by hand like a caveman. I also am only a hobbyist so that probably skews my perspective a bit.

[Anonymous No.7861044]

>>7857922

im too afraid to go outside to bring a laptop anywhere to write. I don't understand people who feel comfortable enough to write in social environments.

I write while listening to albums in my dark room.

[Anonymous No.7861069]

Pro
>battery
>distraction free
>e-ink
>mechanical keyboard
>digital and cloud storage
Con
>price
>small screen
>looks like a 90s toy
>interface for handicapped children
>advertised by tossers, you could end up being associated with then

[Anonymous No.7861166]

>>7858299
You should probably include battery life

>>one month

>one day
>one month (but the battery's aren't rechargeable)

>one day

[Anonymous No.7861195]

>>7861040
A notebook has a better battery life in that it doesn't run on batteries. Also pens and/or ink are pretty cheap comparatively.

[Anonymous No.7861208]

>>7861195
Unless you can write in shorthand, your wpm goes down severely

[Anonymous No.7861214]

>>7861208
That's a made up concern. I've written 80 thousand words by hand in a month before. Even if typing could've hypothetically led to more words per minute, computers are a lot more distracting to me. So the effective WPM would've been a lot lower.

[Anonymous No.7861219]

>>7861208
That's a made up concern. I've written 80 thousand words by hand in a month before. Even if typing could've hypothetically led to more words per minute, computers or kitschy gadgets like this thing are a lot more distracting to me than just having a pen and a notebook. So the effective WPM would've been a lot lower.

[Anonymous No.7861223]

>>7861214
>computers are a lot more distracting to me
Yeah and the glare is a real strain on the eyes

[Anonymous No.7861229]

>>7861223
Eye strain is a real thing. I know you're just some memer kid, but I'm telling you, once you grow up after a lifetime of sitting in front of a computer screen you'll start to feel it.

[Anonymous No.7861352]

>>7860086
Not him. I'm >>7859484

I'm currently writing a novel about some problems in a fictional colony on Mars.

As far as "planning" a novel goes, a written plan shouldn't be necessary by the time you start writing it. I've been creating the universe for the novel and the plot/characters in my head for a couple years before I started writing it down.

The best way to get a clear idea of how you'll write down your ideas is gleaned from the study of literature.

In short, by the time I put pen to paper, I already knew exactly what I was going to write. This may or may not work for you, but the best advice that I can give you (to which most writers will agree) is to READ.

Read well and read often.

[Anonymous No.7861353]

>>7860818
>>7860424
THIS LOOKS GREAT!
I'm getting one of these

[Anonymous No.7861354]

>>7861229
nah i'm being sincere. that's what's nifty about freewriter

[Anonymous No.7861380]

I'd rather be on a laptop with internet access. What if I need a synonym? What if I need to know what it looks like on the street in another city? What if I need to research something?

[Anonymous No.7861456]

>>7861380
Take out your cellphone

[Anonymous No.7861485]

>>7860086
For short stories I tend to just wing it, though I will leave myself notes on my phone if I'm walking down the street and suddenly come up with an idea for something or something like that.

For full-length books, I start by outlining the key points of the premise in bullet point form in one file, then I figure out how long I want it to be and break it down by chapters/segments which are each described in at least a paragraph, more than that if I have more to note about the segments/chapters before or during the process of writing them.

For example, the thing I'm working on now will be divided into eleven 7500 word segments.

Another habit I have with full-length books is writing the ending first so I'm committed to a certain direction with the story and themes from the start.

These aren't things anyone taught me. I fell into these habits on my own because they worked for me.

[Anonymous No.7861826]

Install a distraction free operating system instead, such as 9front

[Anonymous No.7861898]

rip your neck

[Anonymous No.7862018]

>>7861898
It's obviously meant for giraffes.

[Anonymous No.7862120]

>>7860356
Not the person you were responding to, but isn't most music within any genre garbage?

[Anonymous No.7862148]

>>7862120
Is there even such a thing as music that doesn't fall within some genre? Also most of everything is garbage.

[Anonymous No.7862176]

>>7862148
Agreed. I didn't mean to imply anything but.

[Anonymous No.7862330]

This thread is fucking insane, what is it with you people? Don't any of you butt-bandits care about writing for the sake of writing something? There are notebooks and pens for fifty cents, write and shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.7862339]

>>7861024
>>7861166
My laptop lasts the whole day and then I plug it in at night.
Is that really such a hassle for you niggers?
What, am I going to forget to charge my freewrite for a month? who cares?

[Anonymous No.7862375]

>>7862330
Did you actually read it? It's mostly people calling OP a shill and OP living up to that title.

[Anonymous No.7862377]

>>7861353
Prepare your wallet then.

[Anonymous No.7862380]

>>7861208
Doesn't everyone have a pad with them as they write?

[Anonymous No.7862449]

>>7862375
I can read loads of people arguing about laptops. It doesn't matter, you can write for no cost if you really care to, this is all pointless, people should use whatever they care to for writing.