Anyone ever send an email to an author...

I've emailed Mike Ma asking for advice on what someone who feels directionless should do / what direction they should start heading in. The reply I got was quite satisfying, and I have been living my life through the advice he has given me since, honestly one of the best choices I've made.

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Yes. I sent the author of a random self published book a nice email telling him that I really liked his stuff. I feel a little bit guilty now because I tried reading his stuff again recently and it was fucking terrible

What did he say user

ive sent one email, got a reply. also semt a dm on goodreads to the author of The Troop and he replied like a fren
there's another goodreads author i want to contact once i read his book

I was translating lectures by Robert Sapolsky for youtube and asked for his approval on my idea to translate some wordplay. His response was short but encouraging. He is quite well known so I was surprised how easy that was.

I sent an email to one and he never responded. I thought I asked some good questions about his process too.

Yeah I emailed Tom Cheetham (author of quite a few books about Henry Corbin and James Hillmans work) and he was extremely prompt in his reply. Wrote to him a few times about various things.

Not an email but I sent a typewritten (written on an actual typewriter) letter to Melanie Jackson in hopes that she will forward it to Pynchon himself. I haven't heard back but the letter hasn't been returned either, so we'll see what happens

You aren’t supposed to dm them but @ them or however Twitter works.

I got blocked by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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But this guy is a miserable failure and a transexual, how can one take his advice

Where can I email Charles Murray? I have questions about Coming Apart, and I tried to email him at the AEI but sadly never got a response.

I don't know who he is but
>no shows, games, porn, masturbation; rewire your brain
are very good tips.
No psychiatrist is true as well.
Belief in God and ignoring women, sure.

Taking meds, fuck that, if you're sick just take your pills.
No tap water, drink milk instead -- idk, seems like a weird tip

Tao Lin once replied to my comment on his post on twitter

>Taking meds, fuck that, if you're sick just take your pills.
>No tap water, drink milk instead -- idk, seems like a weird tip

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All I’m getting from this is that Mike Ma likes to be thrown around like a rag doll

The stuff about boredom is a really good point actually. I've never been happier since I gave up video games and made literature my only hobby. Passive consumption is the mind killer; boredom is a signal to grow.

Reading books is passive consumption, you're literally reading someone else's thoughts. Also I feel like all these self-improvement tips that focus on switching from consumption to production and removing time-consuming destructive habits with productive ones, miss the point of why so many people are like that. The fundamental issue is that people move to these things because their primary functions of working, procreating and building homes are not being met. This advice only boils down to: "here is what you can do in a shitty society", it's not wrong but it's extremely Jordan Petersonian ie to get your "house in order" while ignoring that the entire street is being carpet bombed. The Zizekian part of the equation that sometimes you have to fix the society before individuals can get fixed is almost always ignored and for good reason: it's impossible to piss against the wind as an individual. But we *are* at the point where we do have to look at entire society instead of solving issues at an individual level and sooner than later we will be forced into that position, the pessimist in me thinks that unfortunately the solution that will be forced on us, will be even *more* negative than the present state. But nobody in the West today is willing to look at these issues and this is such a slow-boil massive structural issue that more than a generation could pass before anything concrete happens. I think people who are 20 and 30 today will sadly be reduced into trying to build a tolerable existence in a declining society.

I'm surprised at how earnest and not-edgy he was here. This is all genuinely good advice.

>Reading books is passive consumption
reading is an active activity
get out of here with your "le humans are like le animals, I must sleep and fuck and forage like my half-monkey ancestors" bullshit

>I have been living my life through the advice he has given me since
>advice given literally a month ago
you won't last much longer

THE MILK SHIT IS REAL
I DON'T KNOW HOW
I've thought to myself before "Heh, milk. Gonna drink milk. That's my creative juice." as a joke but it must be legit because EVERY other piece of advice he gives is 100% true

>take time to read again
>really want to mail authors
>Le Carré
>dead
>Uncle Ted
>can't reply because busy + cancer, don't want to be in some watchlists
>Amor Towles
>A nice and comfy answer
Send a letter to your favorite living authors you will not regret it.

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I emailed Ogden Nesmer to get a copy of his book like three months ago. Seemed like a nice fellow.

I mean, I've been happier because of it and see no reason to go back to my old ways. perhaps during the first and second week I was tempted to watch a movie or play some vidya, but as it stands those desires have faded almost entirely.

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Such an insecure faggot

Care to elaborate user?

Dont take it personally maybe he was super busy. Be persitent, its polite and it shows him you really care. Write him the same email again. Or re-write it and trim all the fat. Write one version that brings your point across in 30s of read time. Put that at the beginning. Then write a version that takes 2 minutes to read. Send both.
If you get no answer, never take shit like that personally. Chances are it has absolutely nothing to do with you or what you wrote.
This guy sent me a link to his dj set because he looks up to me and I wanted to listen to it but then I just carried on living my life.

Not Yea Forums but I wrote emails to composer David Maslanka for a few months. He sent me a personal letter plus a spiral bound copy of some beginner Bach piano pieces to train my ear before I went to college.

raw milk is literally an illegal product in Canada unless you have your own cow. if i had one, it would be illegal to even give anybody raw milk.

No, I realize that I am a stupid faggot with nothing of value to contribute.

No.

I sent his fantasy author a DM on Twitter saying how much I enjoyed his series but he didn’t respond. Also have thought about writing a letter to Cormac McCarthy through the Santa Fe Institute, though, I doubt he’d get it.

i remember when i was in like first or second grade we read some book in class near the end of the year, and i dictated an email that my mom typed to him about my suggestion foir a sequel or something. on the first day of the following year, i received a postcard in the school mail from him.

What did you write about?

Most laws like that are begging to be broken.
If you don't personally know a guy, you're out of luck though.

I just asked him where he got his inspirations, how much he charged for custom pieces, how long it took. For his symphony 8 he traveled to Russia and spent a month there listening to folk music and learning everything he could first-hand. Dude has my respect as an artist.

Yeah, I've asked for advanced copies of books citing various meme credentials and they always politely said no.

I agree with the other user reading is a form of passive consumption. I mean you're reading, right now, just reading stuff on this website. The only difference with a book is that it is someone's curated, proofread thoughts.
I don't think passive consumption is inherently bad, but there's an important distinction between passive consumption that is both enriching and relaxing and passive consumption that is just dumping garbage in your brain, i.e. this website.

is mike ma being ironic or does he actually think like this? harassment architecture feels like its supposed to be a caricature of the average Yea Forums user, it feels mostly satirical, but at the same time it seems like he's 100% serious. very hydeian.

I've emailed two somewhat famous Yea Forums people: Harold Bloom and Dana Gioia. Gioia's somewhat more obscure because he's a poet and poets aren't well-known these days.

Bloom wrote me a three-sentence email thanking me for my note and plugging his most recent book. But at least he responded.

Gioia was super nice and sent me a ton of material and gave me encouragement as a poet and a creator. He later came and gave a talk at my grad school, so I got to meet him in person. We've kept up some correspondence, though it's been a while since I've written to him. This thread is reminding me I need to do it.

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Read harder books.

it's really bonkers.
i can smoke tobacco and marijuana and drink myself to death and it's all legal, but raw milk is considered like actual poison or cocaine.
i remember there was a group of people in Ontario a couple of years ago, they had found some kind of loophole. basically they all "owned" a share of a cow some farmer had, like a cooperative, so they could get raw milk because they technically owned the cow. well they got taken to court and were forced to stop doing that.

I think (at least with Yea Forums and a few others) there's a somewhat healthy balance between receiving information that can further you or your life while simultaneously providing entertainment. As long as you're not overdoing it and spending more than an hour a day here, you should be fine.

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While it may feel intellectually dishonest looking back. at the same time you probably made their day. As long as it didn’t inflate their self worth, which is a real possibility due to the arrogance of many creatives, you did a good thing all writers would appreciate to read. Not the worst thing to cringe at in retrospect.

As long as you aren’t lactose intolerant, which how could one be so intolerant in the current year, drinking milk is always a good tip. Whole milk not that 2 percent trash.

Not that user said. What he said was reading is passive, writing is not. And there is a nugget of truth in it despite me not fully agreeing with the passiveness of reading. Many people have thoughts and ideas worthy of consideration, to say nothing of prose worthy of enjoying, but it is true that writing important too.

I don't know man, some really smart people don't read other people's work much. overindulging on other people's thoughts and not developing your own is not good. There not much reading that's a more constructive use of your time unless your reading guides to teach yourself how to do something.

I think she might just be like that, user

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mike ma's a pooner? the more you know