/lit/ - Literature

I'm writing a novella desu

>>14580694
I'm doing an internship at a magazine soon. That will make it blossom, r-right?

>>14580727
Don't give up on your dreams, Anon.

How do you write loads? I tried to start writing a novel, I wrote 2 sentences in one day

>>14580694
i don't want to have a writing carreer, but i'd love to have the energy to write what i'm passionate about, but i'm just so fucking drained after 8 hours of physical labor and no food. physical labor + no woman in your life to cook for you or wash your clothes or at the very least let you bust inside her after a long day is probably the closest thing you can come to hell on earth desu. i feel like i'm in a siberian labor camp, it was zero degrees out today

>>14581011
working in Siberia worked out for Dostoevsky

I got a 80 page manuscript going, still needs work though.

A couple of years ago I was frustrated due to working full-time and having to commute etc which left no time to write, so I felt. Now, a couple of years later, I have a job working remotely earning good money and now have more time to read and write. But I'm depressed due to mistakes I've made between then and now, on a moral level, which has tarnished my reputation in the eyes of people and has forced me to look at myself and realise what an asshole I've been in the way I've behaved and thought. Not that I'm all bad, or that I've acted purely with malicious intent etc, but still I no longer enjoy my own company and no longer wish the best for myself. Sorry for blogposting, but it truly is unpleasant to not want the best for yourself and not enjoy being around yourself. Nothing makes up for that, as I already knew and as I'm learning now that I have a comfortable life, good money etc. Nothing makes up for a guilty / dirty conscience.

>>14581032
did he write anything that could help me cope with this unceasing toil?

>>14581057
what did you do?

>>14580694
What's the point in a writing career. Either be a genius with writing as a hobby and live your life to gain experiences to use in your writing or be a complete neet and drove into the darkest and deepest recesses of your mind.

These are the only two options.

>>14581240
Thats supposed to say delve by my brain can't

>>14581210
Hesitant to blogpost as it feels self-indulgent, and also paranoid of doxxing myself. In short I wasn't wholly forthcoming about the truth in a situation that meant my name was posted online etc. I explained myself to the people involved, and they said I hadn't done anything wrong. But realistically I know I've made a lot of good, honest people have second thoughts about me and probably consider me sinister. So at this point even if I write a novel and a billion people view it as faultless, I'll still feel unworthy because I frankly don't like myself.

>>14581240
>What's the point in a writing career.
its every midwit's dream.

>>14581259
just change your name...

>>14581260
If the dream isn't the work itself you're doing it wrong. Might as well write for the pussy at that point if you think a career is the end goal.

>>14581278
i do it half to create something aesthetic that has a little piece of me in it, and half for others to enjoy it, but not like so they'll pay me lol, i just want to bring smiles to people and make them laugh or inspire them.

>>14581259
I'm in a similar boat. It seems paradoxical but I think my self-hatred actually arises from narcissism. Basically I need to stop thinking about myself so much, thinking myself as important.

>>14581306
That's noble.

>>14580694
i'll start writing one of these days... right, anons?

>>14581419
there is only one day. today.
don't force yourself to write, just do it becaus eyou want to though. what i mean is don't pressure yourself, just write anything. sounds stupid, but just go do it. write about the nasty shit you just took. write about how great your cock is, or how pathetic it is. write about a hot girls ass. go write a shitpost. don't classify writing as some dogmatic ritual, it can be anything.

>>14581419
Doubtful.

t. non-writing pro

How the fuck am I supposed to be a creative genius with ADHD?

There's too much fucking dopamine stimuli everywhere for me to engage my poetic/music talents when I don't feel like it. But every great artistic genius practied everyday they say...

>>14580694
Stagnating, to say the least. I'm about to leave for my workshop, actually. I suck but the people there support me. "You have a very unique voice" they say. Sometimes it feels like I'm a Stand Up comedian. I'm still gonna push through.

Stuff this, I'm leaving this place.

>>14581336
I struggle with this idea also. To think yourself as distinctly worthy of loathing is maybe equivalent to thinking yourself distinctly worthy of admiration. I've had low self-esteem for a long time now.

I'm 18 and I've just started writing things more seriously and considering the potential that one day it might get published
Do you think I've started early enough?
Could I have something published by my mid 20s?
How much should I practice if I want to make it? I also have to focus on my study and whatnot.

>>14580994
Don't worry about quality too much and then edit it down afterwards
Have a set scene or plot point you want to cover or a place you want to get to before you stop writing.
Just write whatever comes to your mind. If it's bad you'll cringe but you can take it out or write it better later.
Writing good prose is really about writing shit prose, then rereading and rewriting the shit parts until you have good prose.

>>14581661
writing to get published is like becoming an actor just so you can get on tv. wouldn't you agree that the latter is pretty gay?

>>14581661
18 is fine. I could name several well-known writers from the top of my head who started later.

The key, at your age, is to read a lot and as widely as possible. And also I wouldn't recommend trying to get published until you're at least 22, but even that is young. The reason you will need to read is that if you for example are writing a chapter where a certain thing happens, or a certain thought is articulated, then you need to have read widely enough to know whether this has been written previously. If you do not, chances are you will simply be writing an inferior version of this sentence or thought, and readers who are widely read will see this immediately.

Your writing at the moment should be something for you and maybe a close friend to look at. An important thing is to edit a lot, and identify aspects of your work which are awkward, pretentious, cringeworthy etc - and there will be plenty believe me.

>>14581721
To be clear, I'm not going all in on writing as a career. I'm studying law with intention of doing that as a job. Writing is a passtime. If it goes somewhere that's awesome, if it doesn't that's fine.
>>14581726
>Your writing at the moment should be something for you and maybe a close friend to look at.
Yea that's pretty much exactly what it is at this point. And I'm definitely big on editing.