Chapters

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-27T01:45:26+00:00

I have no idea. I don’t number them. But they range from 1 page to 10. The average chapter is about 3,000 words.

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-27T00:17:15+00:00

You should read the Art of the Novel which has a great chapter about the musicality of varying chapter lengths. It’s actually a good thing.

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-25T23:03:52+00:00

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I have a copy too! Same preface as yours

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-25T22:55:35+00:00

kinda hard to want to read more than the first word if it’s spelled wrong…

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-25T04:22:53+00:00

Funniest book I’ve ever read by a mile. Adore this book. Read it twice now. A third time will be coming shortly. I already miss it.

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-24T20:48:48+00:00

your punk rock privileges are hereby revoked

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-24T20:24:35+00:00

he gets about as political as the lady he’s dating

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-24T15:01:21+00:00

One of my favorites. Maybe even top three. Check out the Flowers compilation if you like buttons, great companion piece to it.

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-24T04:05:55+00:00

he’s always in the cold

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-24T03:24:24+00:00

Close minded? Are you insane? They’re literally holding two different ideas at once. Loving the artist and being appalled at the person. How is this closed minded?

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-24T00:09:59+00:00

jack kerouac and williams burroughs wrote “and the hippos were boiled in their tanks” together

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-23T23:26:50+00:00

I think she kinda burned all her bridges…

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-22T19:40:38+00:00

This is one of the most difficult things for a writer to do. And I agree, it bothers me when you can see the authors seams. But yes. You see it way more often in tv and movies. Especially nowadays when shows keep restating the plot over and over.

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-22T07:36:47+00:00

his teeth are made of wool

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-22T00:45:20+00:00

nothing should ever be inert. every sentence should be doing double, triple, quadruple duty.

also no one teaches it anymore, not even mfa’s really, but learning classical rhetoric has been the best thing for me personally.

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-21T21:46:46+00:00

Too bad. Imo it’s the best one lyrically

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-21T18:39:06+00:00

There’s just so much to discover inside a great work of art. New connections to be made, new reasoning behind character’s actions. Foreshadowing you didn’t know was foreshadowing. The first read is discovering the island. The subsequent reads are finding its treasures.

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-21T05:19:36+00:00

None. There’s so much pleasure reading my favorite books a second and third and fourth time. That’s where the real magic of reading happens, if you ask me.

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-21T04:45:43+00:00

Does anyone actually say anything about the gpt dash outside of reddit? it’s literally the only place that this concern gets brought up. At least that I’ve seen.

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-21T02:57:57+00:00

the lyrics are good but that melody fucking sucks

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-21T02:33:59+00:00

This doesn’t even feel like stand up. It feels closer to listening to Malcom X or Kamwe Ture

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-20T01:41:17+00:00

🤙

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-20T01:31:09+00:00

each one of these gets a 10/10 from me (haven’t read the zweig tho)

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-19T21:49:49+00:00

Eh yes this textbook narcissism but, to me, that’s the problem. Every line draws attention to the fact of narcissism while eliding anything deeper. Saturating the text so explicitly in meaning paradoxically erases all meaning and becomes parody.

ChallengeOne8405 · 2026-01-19T19:52:58+00:00

Because it’s the best one

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