/lit/ - Literature

Writers of /lit/, how do you choose to write your work?

I think I am one of the few people who prefer to handwrite things. Typewriters are a pain to use and I've always found staring at a screen off-putting when writing. It also helps with editing as I type everything up and edit it as I do so.

Why didn't Sauron just make another ring?

It was good up until the ending. It is not so much the ending itself that bothered me but that it was so poorly executed.

I do. I am moving in with her soon.

Both One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Third Policeman are fantastic reads.

What kind of read do you want?

When I get good at writing, yes.

At the current stage I am pretty meh and would only be famous due to my shortcomings.

>Get out a bunch of books on the topic, quite general.
>Use them to form some general decision of what my argument will be
>use that form to help speed up reading or further articles and books
>write it out
>edit it a few times

>>3240437

Thanks

>>3240389

Link or name of essay?

>>3240299

Yeah from London, but started in 2009 so plenty of time beforehand. Graduated this year.

Fortunately when I was at uni it was 3,000 a year.

My sister is applying now and seriously weighing up whether it is worth the debt.

>>3239966

>This fucking guy

>>3236197

I think someone needs to give Matt Bellamy a smack and tell him to get a grip.

Battle Born - The Killers

Yeah, I know it's plebby but they're the first band I ever really liked and their songs always produce this nostalgic feeling in me. Except Day & Age, that was dull as fuck.

Second place is By Your Side by Breakbot though.

Best Kafka story is the Burrow.

I doubt anyone else will agree with me though.

Try looking up memory palaces or the method of loci for methods of retaining information.

He may be right.

I was reading the translation of the Brothers Karamazov and found the book very dull and uninteresting. I have heard nothing but praise for the book so perhaps my translation does not do it justice.

Under the Volcano

It's about an alcoholic consul during Mexico's Day of the Dead

God, that was an uncomfortable read.

>>3232635

Think I may go for Koffing. I always found him particularly cute.

>>3232659

You are confusing the fact that some books are better than others with some reasons for reading are better than others.

>>3232645

This. And yes, my family does: dad is currently reading some LeCarre and my sister is reading Naked Lunch

Get

'The hull, it's bursting with sperm!' - Ishmael.

What I would like ideally is some kind of balance between populism and quality.

At the moment there is a huge gap between authors like Pynchon and DFW who are good but who the average person could never understand. And works like Twilight and Hunger Games which are fluff entertainment without much substance.

Would like to see more big releases that bridge the gap between the two.