/lit/ - Literature

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Hey /lit/

For fun (since I'm finishing uni and committed to not working hard at my career), I want to write a short story, possibly a novella. The problem is, whilst I can use very verbose, descriptive languages (I got A's for year 7 creative writing), I'm by no means a "good" writer and I doubt anything I write would be interesting, even if I have a few interesting ideas. Another problem is that I haven't read a fiction novel from start to finish since I was a teenager, mostly because whenever I start I wonder if there's something more important and substantial I could be reading (maybe about philosophy or science).

Is there any hope for me? I'd have assumed good writers are also avid readers. Surely it's like music in that you need inspiration from other works, right?

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