/lit/ - Literature

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I think Ayn Rand of all people had the best writing advice I have ever found: concretize your abstractions.

You're feeling something. That feeling is abstract, formless, shapeless. It's anger, lethargy, depression, emptiness, whatever. What you do with it is: you give it form.

Think of things, real world things, that would represent that feeling. It's a start. Then try and think of actions that would convey that sentiment as well. You feel life is meaningless? Imagine someone who goes to buy some groceries, trips, falls on his head and dies, all while a baby nearby laughs at it. That's a very short way of conveying this sentiment and can be further fleshed out.

It helped me a lot to actually get writing done.

How to get the public to read your work, /lit/?

The world is in such a hurry nowadays that people seem to be unwilling to read anything that isn't Twitter-sized, or worse, they don't read and prefer to watch Youtube videos or something. They will look at some rando's long text and automatically dismiss it.

Help anons write. Post pitches for short stories or even novels.