/lit/ - Literature

>>16544959
>Is there a point of writing novels if you're just starting out? Why not just do short stories?
They're both going to be shit, and they're both equivalent in that they will both give you experience. That's the point. I'm tired of people thinking, "You can't do this until you're good" and "You can't do that until you're good." Just fucking do it dude. If you think whatever you did is worth sending in, fucking send it in. You're only going to kneecap yourself by overthinking this shit as an absolute beginner.

It's like people on /ic/ trying to sketch still lives and hammer in anatomy as absolute beginners because someone told them it's the correct way to do it, except they forgot the crucial part that if you're not fucking enjoying it, you're not going to stick with it. No human being has enough willpower to force themselves to consistently do things they don't enjoy.