/lit/ - Literature

Like anything else? Dedication to the craft.

are you implying that you've made implications?

>>1199970

What about life experience?

something to write with and on

>>1199969
i'm actually just trying to get >1199999

>>1199973
or 1200000

>>1199973

I understand.

Should be easy enough, this board seems slow

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seems like it's mostly dedication. gotta keep putting words on the paper till you get something finished. not as easy as it sounds.

okay

>>1199978

Perhaps I should change my query to include successful before writer? Meaning, so one can live off it, not so I can use money as asswipe.

I mean, someone said to me, you need to experience life to write. But... I had read Twilight(so I can have an actual reason to dislike it) a couple years ago, and the only thing I can see experience going into it from was something along the lines of "high school crushes".

And it's not even really a good book in my opinion. But, if that's all it takes to be pretty successful, then it can't possibly be that hard, can it?

i posted the >1200000 situation on /b/, no one seems to care.

how sad that is about /lit/

>>1199984

/lit/ seems pretty serious business

I don't come often, it seems I'd get ripped to shreds

>>1199984
Did anyone even notice? It's hard to get attention for anything on /b/

>>1199987
yeah, everytime I post there it just disappears

>>1199964

>what it takes to be a writer
>on any level

Well... writing.

Yeah. If you want to be a writer, you have to write.

If you want to call yourself a writer and be taken seriously? You have to get paid. I'd say you'd have to have made at least $3000 from your writing to really title yourself "a writer."

>>1199998

Yep, no one at all ever mentions experience being needed especially.

1199999 GET

>>1199964

>>1200026

I don't see anyone mad.

OP here. I am not a good troll.

>>1200007

Not sure if sarcastic.

I wouldn't say experience matters. It helps you improve, but I don't see how it would affect whether or not you were a writer.

If you have an eighty year old man and a twenty year old man, and both of them have published novels, then they are both writers. If the eighty year old man has been writing for eighty years but has never published anything, while the twenty year old just picked up writing recently but has already published a novel, then I'd lend far more creedence to the twenty year old being a writer than the eighty year old.

At least, in the sense that doing is not really equivalent to being.

>>1200038

A good dose of experience could lead to a more realistic depiction though, am I right?

If someone had never been on a boat, and someone who lived on a boat for 4 year, wrote a book about being on boats, chances are, the one who was on the boat would make a better, more believable story, right?

>>1200041

Oh, you mean life experiences outside of writing.

Well, yeah, it all helps, but I wouldn't say it's strictly necessary (though I would advocate doing research and making sure there are no huge mistakes before publishing when speaking of a little-to-no experience area).

>>1200054

And now I feel like my curiosity has been filled.

Though if there were other posts who might agree with this one, then I'd feel a lot more confident in this idea.

>>1200054

Research is for faggots. Without it we got such great epics like Let Freedom Ring.

>>1200057

Well, experience can be a pitfall as well.

On one hand, it's possible use experience as a grounding for your characters and lend authenticity to the story. One popular example would be John Grisham, who uses his background in the field of law to guide his setting and background. (Then you also have the works of writers like Stephen King, wherein nine out of every ten protagonists is a novelist.)

On the other hand, it could be possible to lose perspective from experience. If you're an experienced boating enthusiast writing for other boating enthusiasts, this won't hurt too much; in fact, you almost certainly need the experience to write for such an audience. But if your audience is more general, you might overlook explaining or clarifying some things, like aspects of boating that are intuitive or obvious to an expert but incomprehensible to a layman.

>>1199964

Depends on what you think a writer is.
To me, a writer is someone who is able to communicate effectively by use of the written word.

What makes a GOOD writer?
The ability to express oneself using the written word.

<<-- something along those lines.