/lit/ - Literature

Even though I write almost every day, I'm not getting better.
I figured the answer would be reading a lot more, but it hasn't made much of a difference.

When comparing writing to other pursuits, I've noticed that it seems that people typically don't deliberately practice writing.
Neither do I and I'm wonder if I should be.

Aspiring artists will practice shapes and are recommending starter books to each other.
It isn't unusual for them to "grind" drawing -- practicing it for hours a day.

Somebody trying to get better at chess will read books and play hundreds of practice games.
An athlete will exercise their body and do practice drills for their chosen sport.

But it seems to me that when it comes to writing people just... go straight for the full novel?
Sure, some may crack open a book on writing, but it appears that people just start on a book.

Even though I know that there's a variety of writing / plotting / description exercises, I don't know anybody that practices in that way.
Most don't even settle for short stories and use that as a simple way to practice plotting and creating characters.

It's all just the full novel.

Is it weird if this seems like overconfidence to me?
Maybe even arrogance?

Once again, I'm doing it as well, so it's not like I'm scoffing at them from the sidelines, I'm in there eating dirt with the rest.
This is how things seem to me after joining several online writing groups and the like.

Am I just looking at the wrong places?
Is it a simple case of lurk more?

It should be obvious that I haven't had a formal education on matters of writing or literature.
I would assume that students in those courses would engage in stuff like that, but I just don't see it happening in practice.

Any books on this?

Having a nevrotic phase again
It's all falling apart ahahaha
Any book to cope?

Why do post-modernists think it's acceptable to jump between preterite and present tense?

>>8910656
good copy pasta, I nearly fell for it

>>8662318
>Aurora
>space colonization is impossible because it's hard, you're a bad person for wanting to leave Earth
Everyone knows the only good KSR is Years of Rice and Salt.