/lit/ - Literature

Mother died and I need to cope with a novel. Any good ones about griefing? It can be non-fiction too, but not something very scientific, please.

>finish first draft
>feel happy
>read first draft
>feel miserable
I'll need at least a year to fix it all.

Lost the competition because of 0,5 points. The winner got 28.0. Fuck, I'm sad. That money would be extremely helpful for me. I'm thinking about quitting writing altogheter - but there's nothing else I can do with my life really. If I stopped writing I'd lose all hope and kill myself.

The days seem all the same. Ctrl C + Ctrl V. I feel animals are making fun of me. "Hur dur look at me I'm a human, I work and pay taxes hur dur". What can I do?

Is it common to suck a lot at your first draft? I'm at the end of mine and it seems so bad. A lot of open things and incoherence here and there. I feel like giving up.

>>21533211
>checked
Do you regret larping your 20s away? Asking because that's what I'm doing right now. If I get nowhere in four years I'll off myself

Gotta write 20k words in 3 weeks. I shouldn't have put it off for so long

I'm never going to write as good as Joyce, so why bother?

>write a novel
>realize you improved a lot and the ending is much better than the beginning
>rewrite it
>realize you got better
>rewrite it
>continue
Is there a point when it's ready?

Had sex with the lights on for the first time in my life and now I'm haunted by the disgusting sight of a vagina. It's horrible, guys, truly ugly. How am I supposed to look at my gf the same way now that I know what she hides between her legs? I've put my mouth there, goddamnit. How do I cope with it?

>>20168686
12 years of celibacy, 12 years on 4chan. Can't even imagine being intimate with a woman at this point.

Is there a way to refute materialism without metaphysics? I'm reading the pessimists and I'm not being able to cope with existence. It's all genes manifesting into the ambient you were born into. I don't have the right to live since I'm weak - and all the weak should perish. Just want to know if there's a way around destiny without resorting to God, for I'm unable to believe in such things. I'll try mushrooms next week hoping that I change these mental patterns and end up having a fate other than killing myself. It's all so tiresome.

Why is writing so hard?! I try to write 1k words every day and after I finish I just wanna hit my head against the wall until I pass out and die. It's so badly written... and who cares about my sucking story anyway?

Am I too dumb for that book? The fiirst two chapters were ok. I don't mean that I understood all the references, but at least I could follow. Now, with Leopold, it's so dull and confusing. I'm on the verge of dropping it. Maybe I should go back to it in some years, after reading more.

>plot all the story
>plan all the scenes
>write the backstory of all the characters and the changes they'll go through
>*crack fingers* time to write!
>everything is the bland "he did x and y happened"
>try to give it charisma by putting witticisms and it feels convoluted
What do?

>writing for 4 hours
>500 words

>>18470660
Hello

I hate living in a shithole. New books here cost at least 50 bucks, and used ones 20-30. I paid 120 on Infinite Jest... Jesus fucking Christ, the best decision I've made was to learn English and then buying a kindle. If I depended on translations to read I would have given up long ago. FUCK THIS GAY EARTH.

>>18003522
Y-yeah lol who would still be here in their thirties right?

>>17876414
/b/ -> /tv/ -> /r9k/ -> /sp/ ->8ch -> /tv/ -> /mu/ -> /x/ -> /lit/

I've been here 12 years

>>14986515
I may have to beg your pardon for the analogy I'm about to make, but I feel like we are living in a Lord of the Rings scenario where the war of the ring has been lost, and criticizing the enemy is forbidden. Tolkien was all about hope in the face of imminent despair, and I know this too will be consumed and forgotten by time, but I don't believe the end of this cycle to be near enough so we can see it. We were born in a wasteland of beliefs and will die in one.

Any books about being a humanities fag with poor career prospects?