/lit/ - Literature

>>9446977

Too hard to read imo

>>9389905
I am, as ever, unsure of whether or not I am fit to be a writer. I have trouble writing prose and composing actual stories. The most joy I've found writing is in poetry, and I've been told numerous times I'm good at it. Trouble there is poetry isn't exactly a good base for a literary career and I would really like to write a good story.
The best advice I've been given is to remain generally unconcerned with whether or not my work is good, both because its been praised many times and because its supposedly better to write for the joy of writing. But I cannot bring myself to do this. I am constantly dogged by the fear that I am a poor wordsmith.
I know this is a trivial and common problem, but I can't seem to help it. The only solution I can think of, which I'm trying out currently, is to simply write and not immediately discard what I've written, to sit on it and continue, no mater how disjointed it comes out, and then maybe try to make something of that.
We'll see where that takes me, I guess.