/lit/ - Literature

>>22116374
It's not crap, it's being narrated by a millenia old wizard. It's style.

>>19544392

>>18900231
It was the antidepressants

>>18771783
>I-It's the aerodynamically optimal rocket geometry, I swear!
Fuck I hate engineers. We need to go back.

>>11717360
*97%

t. Stanford-Binet tested

>>11584995
it explains a lot; besides, Scheler is against N's characterization of Christian love as ressentiment.

>>11177502
Teddy Hall, which they're standing right next to
>tfw nobody knows it so I have to describe it as "the one between Magdalen and Queens"

>western culture outclassed by superior oriental culture yet again

>>10883703

>>11337
>1337
It's not fair the bullies always win

>Get good feedback on critique threads
>Get told I have a talent for writing
>Always enjoyed writing since I was a young buck
>Only written one thing I actually like
>Its less than 1500 words long.
>Its genre fiction
>Its genre fan fiction
>Whenever I try to write I get stuck 200 words in with crippling self doubt that what I've written is shit.
>Struggle to write if I don't feel it will be great
>Even shit I feel is mediocre gets good feedback

This must just be a matter crippling self doubt with what I write.

I'm tempted to start writing drunk but I don't want that to be a crutch in my growth as a writer.

tl;dr How can I get past self doubt about my writing so that I can actually get better by writing more than 200 words in a day.

>>8051562
DELETE THIS

>>7956491
>people call me out when I make pseudo-intellectual posts

>>7913831

>145 pages into your novel
>realize the fundamental concept behind the story is flawed

>tfw you'll always be a 5'9" limp wristed omega male dicklet

What are some good books about being a loser?

Nebuchadnezzar
Nebu 'Chad' Nezzar
>chad

>>6994705

>imagine a scene in a certain spacial configuration/direction
>later text contradicts what I imagined

>>6852502
>Dad sees through this facade
>if you wanted to be a writer you would actually write instead of just reading, but you don't, so get a job

>be me
>confirmed Platonist reading a translation in a book shop
>"guess I'll look for that passage in the Phaedo I love"
>quickly realize that the translators are small minded analytics with absolutely no awareness of the poetic or the mystical in Plato
>tfw they translated Plato in a dry, expository style the way an Aristotelian treatise ought to be written
>tfw they haven't realized that all true knowledge is revelation and that it can only come by an illumination from above
>tfw they haven't realized that the kind of knowledge taught by Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers is not true knowledge but is only a kind of technique
>tfw Plato invented the university only for it to be quickly taken over by sophists who would teach men techniques for getting ahead in the material world, rather than bringing them to an awareness of their own souls