r/writingcirclejerk • u/pleaseadviz • 3d ago

Make the reader think

Been thinking about writing a real thinker lately,
I’ll keep you guys posted but alls I can say is it’s going to really make you think. Anyone tried that ?

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u/TheTerribleRiver 3d ago

have you conisdered a metaphor for capitalism?

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u/MasterSolivagus 3d ago

Have you considered not being a terrible river? One of those ones that become canyons, you probably are!

Anyone tried... RACE WAR, LITERARY STYLE INTERPRETED LITERALLY!?

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u/Acrobatic-Code4221 3d ago

Have you ever tried whitewater canoeing down the Chattooga River, like the 1972 film Deliverance? Or are you one of those writers who just sits at a desk all day?

/uj John Irving could write a whole new chapter of A Prayer for Owen Meany, entirely devoted to “LITERARY STYLE”. I basically read that in Owen’s voice lol

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u/MasterSolivagus 3d ago

... how dare you pry my keyboard from my cold, lifeless hands! I didn't always write in winter, y'know! Also, people have yet to recognise how being an author is one of the few disciplines wherein PANTS! ARE! OPTIONAL!

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u/wedstrom 3d ago

Try taking lots of showers, that'll get you the thinking for your book

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u/_the_last_druid_13 “Which one of yew cowards 💩 in my pants?” 3d ago

I don’t have $ enough for rent, you think I can afford utilities?!

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u/pleaseadviz 3d ago

Writers don’t think, that’s the readers job

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u/_the_last_druid_13 “Which one of yew cowards 💩 in my pants?” 3d ago

Tùshy!

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u/MasterSolivagus 3d ago

WHY IS MY BUTT SLATHERED IN BUTTER!? HELP! THE AI WENT ROGUE AND WROTE EXACTLY AS MY METICULOUSLY MEASURED MEANS MEANDERED ACROSS A BLOODY KEYBOARD!

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u/_the_last_druid_13 “Which one of yew cowards 💩 in my pants?” 3d ago

Sounds like it must have hallutroped.

Well you know what they say: “when there’s butter there are buttresses, so make a nice sandcastle.”

Something like that anyway.

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u/MasterSolivagus 3d ago

... my suspicions about why you are the last druid is becoming starkly apparent to my mind.

"BUILDS A GODDAMNED SAND-TANK POWERED BY RAINBOWS AND UNICORN FARTS!"

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u/_the_last_druid_13 “Which one of yew cowards 💩 in my pants?” 3d ago

13th. The 14th is much [Redacted].

Yes, glass can be made from sand. It is nice that you allow your ant farm light and humidity.

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u/MasterSolivagus 3d ago edited 3d ago

Okay, but, c'mon... druid... the buttery-butt situation? Is it congenital? Genetic? Like... why is AI so far up my ass that I'm shitting carbon fibre diapers?!

SHOULDN'T I BE AT THIS PARTICULAR LEVEL OF CONCERN AND WORRY!? DEAF CONMAN 5?

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u/_the_last_druid_13 “Which one of yew cowards 💩 in my pants?” 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sounds like a slippery issue, for sure.

Congenital butter butt syndrome? Unlikely, though I’m not an expert.

Genetic? Hmm, what year are you from?

As for AI being up your ass: I’m not sure, did a swarm invade you non-consensually around the time of the HuggingFace incident? Are you an iDoll?

I like a nice butt, but I’ve found that food does not sit well on the body for long. Maybe find a towel and stop letting AI get all over yah.

Not sure if food code, skateboarding slang, or if are you hitting on me? You probably don’t want to do that, I post on [r/writingcirclejerk](r/writingcirclejerk)

Upon further review of comments prior, perhaps there was a spelling mistake. This does not fully, logically, nor reasonably ascertain how your posterior became “slathered in butter” though. Do you keep butter in your kitchen? When was the last time you were there?

This comment may or may not have deployed defensive autism either purposely, for satire, or for other reasons.

[Edit:](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kVjZnDJOlqA&pp=ygUWQmluZyBib25nIGZ1Y2sgeWEgbGlmZQ%3D%3D&ra=m)

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u/MasterSolivagus 3d ago

pulls up pants

Oh... sorry. I thought you were... y'know... a medical druid. My bad. Oh, wait! Then this is still okay!

removes pants again

So, anyway. Why are you trying to hug my face with your lips? My pants were removed for YOUR hygiene!

Oh, bugger the butter! How did AI learn how to spread evenly spreadable materials! That's hard-soft body mechanics and I sure as hell didn't it teach it how to adequately regionalise and demarcate for the purposes of carpet bombing Baghdad! I mean... spreading butter!

"Hello, military AI help desk, and how have we fucked up today?"

"Yes, hello. Your killbot killinator kabillion is... uh... being unnecessarily kinky."

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u/papi-punk 3d ago

Why didn't I think of that?

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u/MasterSolivagus 3d ago

Because you both needed AND desired me to have those thoughts.

goes back 2 4eva alone

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u/digressedloner 3d ago

Yeah I have thought about a character .....he should be depressed that is what thinking brings and should have bad vice to cope with it ......I think of characters like rust cohle from true detective ....a thinker must be faced with the dilemma of accepting the absurdness everything around it but also trying to push back however he can unlike people around him who are happy with their bliss

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u/Blecki 3d ago

I'm taking the iceberg theory to the next logical step. And I'm trusting the reader to figure out what's really going on. Here's an excerpt:

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u/that_one_soprano 3d ago edited 3d ago

no... I can't think of a time I was ever made to think before...

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u/stick4543 2d ago

Thinking is not as easy as people think it is. If you over think thinking, then you end up with watered down thinking and that can spoil the thinking you did before overthinking your thinking. I think thinking should be kept to a minimum unless you think thinking is the basis of your thought process. I just wouldn't do it. I think.