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What makes one a better writer: studying literature or studying creative writing?

>> No.13164250

Living

>> No.13164344

Bump

>> No.13165965

>>13164228
read a lot, write a lot. For fucks sake. Don't be like those guys who read books about self improvement instead of doing self improvement.

>> No.13165987

>>13164228

1. YOU MEAN: «WHICH», NOT: «WHAT».

2. THERE SHOULD BE A COMMA AFTER: «LITERATURE».

3. TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION: NEITHER.

>> No.13165996

>>13164228
Creative writing, only because if you study lit they'll force you to read a bunch of women and non-white men (ie shit). If you, on your own, read the great white men: Flaubert, Maugham, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, etc., you will learn a ton (tonne).
You do have to write a lot as well >>13165965 this anon knows.
Not to contradict myself, but it can also help to read shitty writers. You write something you think is great, and then you read someone who wrote something similar and don't like it, and then you realize it's not that good. learning to write is also about learning what not to write

>> No.13166012

>>13165996
hey luke, can you critique me if you have time? i need advice on how to improve this short piece
>>13127360

>> No.13166023

>>13166012
yeah, but do it fast, I have work tomorrow

>> No.13166030

>>13164250
Fpbp as always.

>> No.13166031
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13166031

>>13166023
huh? do what fast? i linked the piece i want critiqued. here it is again

>> No.13166044

>>13166031
my bad, I don't understand 4chins too much
I have already read this, don't know if I critiqued it? but I just read it again.
I think there is really great language being used (ignore the haters who tell you not to use big words, English has more words than any other language for a reason, let those retards learn) however, I will say you are kind of packing too many big words together in a "look ma, no hands" kind of way, which will turn people off. there's a ton of other shit you could do with language (and I love big, rare words, absolutely) but a cool it a bit.
The other thing I would suggest with a piece like this that has a ton of character development, is to add mystery. There is something about arabic that is a good start to mystery in there, but if you want to hook a reader, you need a serious like "what the fuck is that?" or "what the fuck is going on?" sentence in there, that will just make the reader keep reading because they want to find out. Great prose (some pruning) but you know what you're doing in terms of syntax, for sure. I can see that.
Also, I have seen you post this a few times. It is good, but I wouldn't say it's publishable. Just keep writing. You have a great knack for details and an almost poetic prose. You just have to keep writing more and more and more and not focus on one thing. That's the killer to just focus on one piece

>> No.13166053

>>13164250
Wrong. Dying.