/lit/ - Literature

>>14831063
Thanks, I'll order it. You saved me a lot of time because I won a gift card and I didn't know to do with it.

>be badly educated 19yo poorfag
>never been anywhere or done anything really, no holidays, nothing
>emotional intelligence high enough to tap into the heart of fiction
>don't know much about anything so can't describe or run through a setting with the intimacy required to explore said heart in a skilful let alone masterful way
I don't know how ships work or the names of their bits and pieces. Even if I learn all about them, including other very important things like weather, ports, navies, hierarchies, job roles, ship combat, and trade- how would I ever get the intimacy one'd get from being an actual sailor or at least having some experience of it? Especially the particular but imagebuilding details that are never mentioned when reading about these things. Or simply the feel of it altogether.

Maybe I should discard the things that are unfamiliar to me and dig deep into familiar settings and feelings. But that wouldn't be fun for anyone. It'd be depressing and morph into a rant about why the impoverished, at least in the form taken today, are human trash and should be gulag'd. It's ok though, unlike lit I'm not hung up on this 'I'm a writer' business so there needn't be any product or method that I must satisfy (mentally/emotionally).

Post about your issues and feefees as they pertain to literature.