/lit/ - Literature

>>15819773
>find something to live for
i am passionate about writing and reading, and i am writing something, and since it's something that means a lot to me, i've been pouring so much time and effort into it that now i'm just wasting time researching stuff for it when i probably have more than enough resources needed for my story to be at least decent anyways, yet i still can't seem to stop this process, but i know i probably need to just fuck off and write once and for all. apart from that i also wanna get more fit, but doing that by yourself feels like a battle on its own. there are other things i care about too, but i feel too much like an ignorant midwit whenever i try to look stuff up to get informed or even just when i try and formulate my own thoughts and opinions on things, but maybe my defeatist horseshit acting up, right?
>stop rationalizing defeatist horseshit, exist independent of external validation
i want to learn this too. how does one go about doing or achieving this? philosophy is one thing, then what? gym? exploring concepts? studying?