/lit/ - Literature

What's an experience worth writing about? A big adventure? A solid discipline? Exciting personal relationships? Important social changes? Grand emotions?

First, tell me, are any of these worthy something that has already been written? Are you basing that worth on those other stories? Then, aren't you an imitator? But the thing that made those stories great was that they weren't imitations, that they made echoes. Yet those stories weren't the first stories either. Was Homer not an imitator, or at least one of a line?

Now, look around you. What do you see? Think well, because it's all that matters. If you look at a chair, what do you see? A mass produced commodity? A dead tree? The realization of an idea? Unresponsive matter or a part of your consciousness? Something to impose your will on or an unbearabe otherness? A sign or a sight?

If you can answer any of this on any level, you have something to say.