/lit/ - Literature

>>7401571

>You should not be writing poetry if you literally cannot even discern what differentiates a shit poem from a good one.

Charles Bukowski did alright for someone that didn't know anything about poetry.

>I see threads like this all the time
>I suffer from constant writers' block. How do I write my book?

But that is a common problem for writers. /lit/ would be a good place to ask how other writers got through their own writers block would it not?

>implying anyone on /lit/ actually writes and doesn't just shitpost.

>It's like people have this bizarre conception that what they have to say is endemically important and must be put to text even if they have zero talent or knowledge of the field.

Or maybe OP wants to start a new hobby and thinks poetry is the thing for him/her? Not everyone that writes does it to get published, nor even read.

>Why does this shit only happen to literature?

It doesn't.

>/sci/
>/k/
>/fit/
>/g/
And there just the boards I frequent.

>Nobody goes on /mu/ and says
>Hey guys I'm working on an EP but I can't sing and don't know how to play any instruments. Any advice?

I would almost be certain that does happen.

>Read poetry. Get good. Otherwise fuck off.

This last sentence should have been your whole post.