/lit/ - Literature

>>15541053
No, it's the ones who settle who regret it. They settle for friends and lovers who don't understand. They settle on love - not out of inspiration and admiration - but desperation and a need for reassurance. This is how most people live and select their partners: it doesn't matter to them who is actually in front of them, true friendship and intimacy can go fuck themselves, right? So they just grab whoever they think is available, someone replaceable - and they know they themselves are replaceable. Most couples don't even like each other as friends, as people. No, they like their partners by what they can "get" out of them, and the person in front of them can go fuck themselves. Here's another funny thing: most people don't know what they want even for themselves, they don't know what they're even about, so they're pushed around and wishy washy - then they get with a broad who drags them down, or some bloke who chokes their spirit with his mediocrity.

No, my time, my energy, my life is too precious to deal with someone who doesn't understand or care about the hill, and I would rather spend my energy getting to that hill. Art is beautiful, stories are beautiful, and they're powerful and eternal and just so human - and this is the hill I want to die on. So I want someone who understands how powerful and beautiful it is as well. I want to be someone who can inspire and shake people, and I want to love someone who can look at my work - which is the kernel of me anyway - and be inspired and shaken. I want someone my work can destroy - wait no, not destroy, but uplift.

This is what I plan to do: To be ambitious with art, ambitious with life, ambitious with love.

>>14613100
Yeah but who isn't? I can see my demons in my writing, though others may not.

>>14613235
I suppose. I still want the conversations to be believable. For example I don't want to pull an Orson Scott Card where the author projects his own desires into all the characters - like all his characters, even straight dudes, just happen to be mirin little boys.

>>14613359
sadly im too old for this shit

>>14613370
maybe not sociopath but still... out there.

>>14613722
What worries me is that none of my characters seem to be different from me. For example I haven't hung out much with other guys and don't know what guys do in larger groups. I also never had friends since childhood, so don't know what it's like to have people who has been in your life for years and actually know who you are. These are part of the things that make me feel unhuman and shows in my writing.

>>14613738
>why not just write abnormal interactions for abnormal people?

because that's not what my stories are about.

Let's say you devote most of your time - like at least 6 hours a day - to writing and you really enjoy it, want to do it for life. You'd die with it.

If you had a choice between a relationship with a hot girl (not a writer and couldn't give a shit about your writing) or becoming a successful writer, which would you choose? You get along with a girl, she's not a nutcase, her pussy is good, she's "good on paper", but she doesn't like you spending so much time with your stories.