/lit/ - Literature

how do I regain my passion for writing?

I've been writing almost every day but there's very little passion in it anymore. I don't think about writing when I'm not writing, instead I just think about pointless things, or just get meta and fixate on my own lack of passion/quality

Should I write badly on purpose?

No matter what I write, all I can think while writing it is "it's not good enough." The stress of trying to write well, of expecting perfection even when I try to tell myself I don't need it is weighing too heavily on my mind. I'm starting to think the only way to free myself from this fear of being terrible is to be terrible on purpose

/sffg/, I just had a realization. All this time I've been telling myself I can't do shit, I'm not good enough, and other little lies like that.

tell me /sffg/, how many others have managed to write a novel at 24? How many others did it while working as the fastest programmer in their company? How many others coded a romhack just a few months later? How many others have an encyclopedic knowledge of food science and a better intuitive understanding of physics than most physics majors? How many others got the highest SAT scores in their entire goddamn high school?

I can't do shit? Bitch, I am a walking, human mary sue!

>>14016185
Dude, novels are the market. Mostly gritty, epic fantasy trilogies with multiple-POV, but anything can do if you have your shit down. The secret my friend lies in the publishers – hundreds of thousands of fantasy books are published every year but most are on amazon or through independent publishers who couldn't get a book onto a shelf if they tried. Ignore those fucks, your target is not among hundreds of thousands but among dozens. Beat them and you're in the big leagues. Fail and you can just try again with another story or a sequel. The game is in your motherfucking hands.

>>14016833
Codex Alera's a good one. It's six books, and things get grim about half-way through, but it's got a nice happy ending, and the main character's development makes Neville Longbottom look like a disappointment