/lit/ - Literature

American Psycho
The Metamorphosis
The Stranger
The Iliad
Little Boy
Childhood's End
Golden Son
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Lolita
Slaughterhouse-Five

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I have not read anything by a russian. But I still pretend on /lit/ that I have.

/lit/, I've wasted 7 years of my life writing books that are unpublishable because they're stuck between the YA and MG age brackets. I'm being told on multiple fronts that the only way for me to get published is to throw my life's work in the dumpster and start over from scratch. I don't know what to do, and I was already struggling before this. Please tell me there's something I can do about this

/wg/, I really want to write my novel and don't really have interest in writing any other story but lately I've been having a hard time. I was struggling to squeeze words and it was really hurting my confience. It kept snowballing and now it's gotten so bad that now any time I look at my writing I get this crushing sense of panic, shame, and hopelessness that makes me want to avoid it

what do I do?

>got so burned out writing my second novel I had a mental breakdown and spent a year trying to kill myself
>ended up in a death spiral scrapping and re-writing the same un-skippable chapter without ever finishing it
>still desperately want to finish my novel, but even looking at it gives me a panic attack
>have zero desire to write anything else.

I just want to be me again bros... I want it so bad...

how do you cope with the understanding that because you weren't born a genius prodigy your greatest accomplishments will amount to nothing, your most painful experiences will serve no greater purpose, your memory will never garner any recognition, and the minute you're gone society will replace you with yet another nameless human cog?

why can't I just bring myself to edit these stupid fucking scenes /wg/? This isn't supposed to be hard, and it never would have been difficult to the old me, but I'm just not good enough to be a writer anymore. I just want to crawl in a hole and die