/lit/ - Literature

My prose is bad in both English and Spanish

I'm just worried that I write like a teenager, which is likely when my skill stopped developing. I am practicing though, and am getting gradually better!

>>13047526
I am a terrible writer and I don't have time since i have a full time job.
Also I just like to read, I don't know if, even after training for a long while, i would be able to write decently.

>>13047526
The setting for my novel/series is what killing me. It's a cyberpunk fantasy novel and I'm in my fourth attempt on writing it. I've changed it drastically since my first attempt I wrote it. Originally it was supposed to be a standard YA run-of-the-mill Urban fantasy, ease my way and make a name of myself, but I drop that soon thereafter, kept the rough draft since I like the story I've written and I don't mind writing it as a concurrent story. The second attempt was more cyberpunk dystopia than the first with no mention of fantasy whatsoever, it was written as a deconstruction YA but I drop it since the MC was an unlikable cunt which I don't mind I wrote him like that for a reason but the readers won't like him. The third attempt was god awful, that I don't want to talk about. Currently on my fourth attempt, went back to the cyberpunk fantasy, the Protagonist is a police officer and that's about it.

I hate myself

>>13047526
1. I can't decide on which language I want to write.
2. I'm too anxious about writers that influenced me, they still overpower me.
3. Can't decide about direction, novel or short story.
4. I doubt that I really want to create, maybe I just want do be someone else or to be a man and finally do my self.

I'd rather spend my free time reading literature than trying to produce something decent and somehow getting it published.

Nothing to write about.

Im almost done. I improved my prose so much during the last year that i have to thoroughly edit previous parts and chapters.
However, currently doing a 40hr week wagecuck interview so progress is slow eventhough 95% is done.
Plan on approaching tor publishing and similar bigboy houses

>>13047648
Good. Youre making progress!
Dont mind killing your latest story as well and starting over and over until things become easy.

>>13047810
Internship*

>>13047816
Thanks, I'm just having trouble with the setting since its post-apocalypse.

>>13047526
>The realization that you may not be a good writer?
No
> Lack of incentive?
I find it intrinsically rewarding
>Inadequacy?
No, although sometimes I feel that it is somehow guilty or indulgent to spend my time dreaming up make believe people and situations. It's far better than what I might otherwise be doing with my time.

The real reason is: the plot is too complicated and my job.

>>13047526
>What's keeping you from writing
Obstructions, and my pending fortnightly tactical sickleave.

>>13048368
Sounds like an excuse.

how do I write like Yasunari Kawabata? :’(

I lack confidence so I make excuses not to write because it's a "safe" way to not make mistakes. Also I can't think of a plot or theme that actually goes anywhere.

I didn't start writing because I hadn't lived yet, and I haven't lived yet because my only life talent turned out to have been writing, leading to a state of immobile cynicism and poverty.

>>13048532
Maybe to an individual who is comfortable with writing under pessimal conditions and/or with creating qualitatively subpar works.

I want to write a children's book based on the stories I make up for my kids when putting them to bed. It would be really funny and a good book.

Does anyone know how to get started? Like do I write it and illustrate it first? How big should I make it so when it's (if ever) published it's still high quality when shrunk down? Do I contact a publisher first? help and advice appreciated

>>13047526
My english sucks, I don't know how to write the first chapter, I don't know how to avoid plotholes and I don't have any free time