/lit/ - Literature

Writing an autobiography in third person

directing a film about your autobiography

>>11431511
all good books are somewhat autobiographical

Going on a world tour to for your autobiographical concept album

>>11431692
Roger Waters btfo

>>11431511
>be stephen king
>write a book on how to write
>instead write a book about your childhood and why you were born to be a writer and how only good writers are born

>>11431705
ajmen.

>>11431511
Yes, being a celebrity and writing an autobiography (or being ghost written) when you're 30 years old.

>>11431511
a memoir

>>11431511
Reading on the train

>>11431511
It depends on your purpose: do I want to share my wisdom/insight on life, or make people read my blog?

>>11431511

>read autobiography from the 1700s-1800s
>"Let me begin by assuring you that this extraordinary tale is ABSOLUTELY, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUE, and not a single word is a fabrication."

>>11431511
I'm only so narcissistic because a good deal of people will initially confuse it with being charismatic.
By the time they realize it though, I've already wormed my way into their lives or have gotten what I wanted outta them.

>>11431511
Easy on the carrots

>>11431511
looking in the lake and then drowning

>>11431511
>ad hominem attack on an entire genre
The only thing more narcissistic is presenting a non-argument ad hominem towards autobiographers in a pathetic attempt to earn upboats.

>>11431511
Yes, taking hundreds or thousands of selfies and posting them online for thousands of followers to see.

>>11431516
This is what I'm writing as we speak

It's going to be a masterpiece, well, it already is.
I'm bad at prose though and can really only write sentences that are more of a nonfiction flavor. This is because fakeness just refuses to emit from by body so I have to work with writing sentences that aren't as decorated as a poets.

I have no grand achievements or anything, it's just an autobiography written in third person about me doing random shit

It's a modern classic in my mind already and I have no doubt will IMMEDIATELY receive the penguin classics stamp of approval upon release within an hour, if not BEFORE it is released.

>>11434144
based

>>11431685
huh

>>11434459
he means they are inspired by events that happened in the authors life.

>>11431511
Harlan Ellison's "The Essential Ellison".

each story has TWO intros by him, listing all the famous people he knows, as well as a postscript where he sucks himself off.

>>11431511
Keeping a diary

>>11431511
reading it

>>11434530
Why is that?

>>11431673

casting yourself in a film about the writing of your autobiography.

>>11431511
paying for a biography

>>11434855
What about Salinger?

>>11431511
>posting about how much you hate other people and their vastly more interesting lives on an internet imageboard

>>11432136
I'm doing that right now so

Writing your obituary

>>11434930

You're referring to how he said he was the only one who could play Holden? Although I don't think he disbelieved it, he made that proclamation when he was too old to do it anyway, probably as an excuse to never license the film rights.

>>11431511
being elon musk

I think one of the most narcissistic things a writer has ever done is Max Stirner critiquing (shitposting) other writers of his time when they were only very loosely related to his work. He did this only to make his book more popular

>>11431511
Thinking that just because you're such an uninteresting non-entity there can't be people whose perspectives on themselves are interesting enough to warrant auto-biographies.

>caring about being narcissistic

>>11436184
now THAT's the thing

>>11434144
based

>>11436184
>replying with meta-posts

>>11434453
>>11436283
Thanks boys I'll let you know when its completo

>>11434144
kek. Please post it here when your done, I truly would love to read a story about your life. Farewell op.

>>11434462
>mfw the only thing that has happened to my life are timeless events from 4chan.

>>11431511
Keeping a diary.

>>11431511
>I always use to think narcissistic was funny and good and then like it was bad and I hated everyone because they didn't get how funny it was to do the stuff I do.
>I wrote a book that I dedicated to myself.
>The book is about me.
>I am the narrator.
>I am the main character.
>I am the driver of the car that hits me as a small child, and I am the person outside the car watching this happen.
>I am also an old man who I am taking care of at a home run by The Manager.
>I get fired for smoking weed while working and at some point I also realize I'm all the parts of the land, so I think I spend some time talking to a wall.
>There's a funny sex scene where I'm climbing into my butt which is just some opening in the briers, but I cut that.
>I think people here would like a view of my work.

>>11431511
Dictating an autobiography

>>11431692
kek'd, roger waters is a dick

>>11431511
What if you don't love yourself?

>>11431705
based king

>>11431705
the biggest joke is that On Writing turned out to be his best book

>>11431511
Writing an autobiography and then later getting exposed as a complete fraud

>I had to read this in high school and then when it came out as fake we blamed our shitty teacher who was later fired

>>11431511
Fantasizing about writing an autobiography. Writing is sublimation.

>>11431511
>>11431516
t. Brutus and Casca