/lit/ - Literature

Earth is another planet's Hell. (h/t Aldous Huxley)

>>20112464
>start writing a novel
>successfully complete it
>no one reads it
>...
>start writing another novel

I have a rule not to write on weekends. Used to write every day, but it was burning me out fast. Remember to relax and have fun sometimes too. Then you can start strong again on Monday.

>>16006086
It was tough at first, but then I discovered that the main reason why I found my work cringe was because I put far too much of myself into it. I (half unconsciously) inserted heavy emotional significance and personal meanings to the characters and events, and when I stopped feeling a particular emotion over time, the scenes built on it started to feel "cringey" to me.

So I trained to remove myself from the text, completely dissociate myself from the characters and what they do and think. Instead, I started to look at my writing from the perspective of a carpenter looking at a block of wood. So long as a table has a surface and enough legs to keep standing, it's just fine for its purpose. If some corner feels off, I'll keep fixing it until I works better. Never experienced any "cringe" since.

>>15188310

I write only in English. I simply can't write at all in my own language. I get immediately depressed and can't imagine anything interesting or uplifting that I could put in text. It doesn't help how getting published in my country is almost impossible.

At first, I would think in my own language first and translate it on the fly, but I left that step out with practice. Now I only think in English in my daily life too. People have enjoyed what I've written, and that's enough for me.

Quote yourself.

No trite aphorisms or platitudes. Preferably specific, maybe something verbatim out of your works.

>inb4 will lose my greatest lines