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How to Build Your Own Literary Education (opens the original)
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We need REAL readers to help create a literary renaissance. Readers who are activated, skilled, and ready to represent literature out in the world.Right now, literary readers are asleep and unactivated, reading random books, reading what interests them, and reading the classics they think they need to read.That type of reading leads nowhere. We don’t need more people “reading the classics” or rocking the Dostoevsky aesthetic. We need readers who are willing to master what they read, synthesize t
Book of the New Sun Book Club (opens the original)
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Boom! The Write Conscious book club hits its sci-fi arc! In September, we are reading the first two volumes of The Book of the New Sun. WE ARE LIVE, it is happening! We are reading one of the greatest fantasy series of all time. On September 26th, we are reading the first two volumes of the series, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.This is literary fantasy, and we are going to have a ton to discuss, as the layering and depth of this series is insane. So, I would start ea
Why Most Writers Shouldn't Write a Novel (opens the original)
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Most modern authors spend years writing a novel, dumping all their creative energy into it, only for it to end up in the Kindle graveyard, selling 10 copies.If we are going to create a literary renaissance, REALLY DO THIS THING, we are going to have to change our entire approach as a literary community.Question every requirement, KILL every sacred cow, and reshape what literature looks like if we want anything to change.And the first sacred cow we need to look at is the novel. If you guys want t
Judge Holden: Man, Devil, or God? (opens the original)
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Everyone has a theory about Judge Holden… What he is, what happens at the end of Blood Meridian, and what McCarthy was trying to show through Holden.Today, I'm going to discuss every theory I’ve read about him, from the academic theories to PURE SCHIZO theories from fellow interlopers with a fever dream and a keyboard stuck on Anareta with us. And we are going all the way, NEVER SLEEPING, NEVER DYING, because the Blood Meridian Course pushes forward again. While making the next symbol literacy c
How to Write Short Poetry (opens the original)
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A literary renaissance won’t begin until poets learn to write short poems again.Haikus won’t change literary culture. Instead, modern writers will have to learn to trust their own emotions again, learn to stop turning everything into an EPIC, an explanation, a digression, and let their beautiful revelations and images stand on their own. We write and read poetry to go beyond explanation. To show the unstable flashes of inspiration and metaphor that touch us. In just 3-8 lines, you can do more th
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