/lit/ - Literature

I want to write. I love to write. I could give up now or I could keep writing until I'm 80. I'm going to choose the latter.

I used the same paragraph in two different stories, both of which I submitted. The first one was an older story and I forgot that I used it. Will this be a problem if theoretically they are both accepted?

>tfw arm in a sling for 6 weeks

how do you guys read one handed?

Man I hate this. Been banging my head against a wall for a long time now, got some flow finally and there's this.

Now I open it and go to start again and all of a sudden the read through is painful. I hate this part, everything I write eventually makes me cringe, at that point I post it here and usually most posters agree.

Anyway I'm only 1000 words in and so I'm procrastinating/looking for validation/being a masochist tell me how shit I am.

https://pastebin.com/5vVu1rUs

when I write I just spew out molested imitation of whatever it is I’m reading

Those moments were conducive to breathing, when I could say to myself that all that mattered was the moment. I could say it to him as well but he wouldn't want to hear it. He would dismiss my nonsense for what it was but why couldn't nonsense be meant as well? I almost asked him if he ever wondered about the fact that our hearts had been beating since the day we were born and had continued to beat into this very moment, and did he ever wonder why we found that fact so astonishing but never marvelled at our own pulse when checking it at the wrist out of boredom? Just clutter - from my hung wrist I held a pot aloof in my fingers with suds painted on the glass until the bright lager that was alive and shifting. Drank it and toasted the victory that was Monday afternoon, the hardest fought for and the most hollow, dinner was eaten, a schnitzel from the special board well worth the price and neither of us felt cheated.

is competitive sport just a simulation of war?