/lit/ - Literature

My ideal life would consist in playing soccer, reading, writing, smoking weed and hanging out with other friends. Grad school was basically as close as I would ever get to making that a reality, but it was awfully stressful, to the point that I stopped exercising almost entirely by the end of it.

I finished this spring, have already lost 15 pounds and stopped smoking weed, but all I do is play soccer and watch Netflix. I think I'm just recuperating after the load of grad school, but I haven't convinced myself to get back to disciplining my mind again yet. It's hard to balance being both /fit/ and /lit/.

>friend starts writing critique group on WhatsApp
>he posts first page of his novel
>people like the world-building
>tell friend he's cramming too much into one page and suggest he should write more than a page before asking for critique
>post my own short story (full draft)
>one person says he doesn't think he will get it so he doesn't read it
>nobody else replies at all for days
>other friend asks for advice about how small a WMD could feasibly be made in the far future
>never get any feedback on my story
>tfw you're the cynical asshole of the group and your writing is probably bad too.