/lit/ - Literature

>>12946425
>i have 21
*RECORD SCRATCHES*
uhh did he just say what i think he did

>>10816342

>a work of three hundred pages depends on padding

>>10599611
WOWOWOW could you, like, PLEASE not??? I can't even.

>>10152866

wtf

>>9746909

>it's another frothy, paranoid /pol/ rant against the joooos

>>9695568

>Who is this dilettante

i am upset w/r/t your meanness.

>>9693856

This smells like a trap.

>>9567534

Hi /lit/, please help me with a problem.

I've spent 3 years working on a novel. I think I have what it takes to complete my first draft.

But I now realize that the story is.... it's okay. That's all. I'm proud of parts of it, but it's a story about modern-day outcasts being lonely, and rejecting each other when they really shouldn't. Pretty... pretty plain,stuff. Sad people being sad. Some half-baked message about the spiritual corruption of living in a consumer society, which I only half believe, since things are obviously better than they've ever been. Stuff about how being a man in today's society is difficult, even though I think it's never been easier to be a man, historically.

tl;dr, I wrote something immature that I only half believe in, and want to start on a new novel. Since I've started on this project, I've conceived of seven or eight great ideas that I'd love to get started on. But all this creative advice I've received says "FINISH IT", which I'm inclined to do because I've worked so long and I'm so close- but what's the point if I'm not very proud of it? It's gonna require probably another year of work to second draft and then receive editing.

What should I do? Any advice? Experience?

>>9321692

>1996
>early-mid 20th century