/lit/ - Literature

Do like Hemingway and drink in public

>>14906746
I can't, I'm social distancing

>>14906763
Then do like Hemingway with a shotgun.

>>14906737
Looking at pretty girls isn't going to help you.

NO DISTRACTIONS YOU LAZY COWARD!

>>14906763
You can't lounge on a park with a liquor bottle in a paper bag because you're social distancing or because you're scared of possible social interaction?

>>14906737
>Writer's block what's that?
>Well it's when you don't manage to write...
>YES THAT! THAT'S WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
>...what?
>What's this writting thing?

Just start writing something completely different. Doesn't have to be something good.
Just start writing a scene about anything. Yesterday I wrote a short scene about a filthy neckbeard being a neckbeard. It wasn't particularly well written but it got me into the momentum of writing.

Are these all men? They have very wide shoulders, flat torsos and large jaws.

>>14906802
that was just what we found hot in the 90s

>>14906805
I guess that's what (they) wanted you to find hot in the 90s, to pave the way for the homo agenda of the 2000s.

>>14906831
hmm, no it's still hot

How does someone get writers block, just write. Lmao

>>14906737
If you have writer's block, it means you have nothing to say. So, give up and let someone else have the floor.

Writer's block really should be called
'I think I should write but I don't actually want to write' -itis

>>14906845
I have lots of things to say
I just don't have the words

>>14906849
this

>>14906849
I want to want to write
it is a metadesire

>>14906851
Then first say it poorly and revise it to use better words. Oh wait, you're just making excuses and have nothing to say.

>>14906870
(^:
if I build up enough frustration I'll get that nice explosive writing you always hear about great writers getting

>>14906838
>>14906867
Damn women were way more elegant and hotter back then

>>14906889
This was "degenerate" back in the days, the same way as "degenerate" thots are nowadays.
Only back then there was no social media, only books so you had to be somewhat classy in your degeneracy or you'd end in porn books and not those "swimsuit mag"

>>14906889
Retards like you always look back and say this, no matter what the generation

In the early 2000's nobody thought the 80's were anything but a coke-fuelled sex party with bad hair

A few years later, through rose coloured glasses, a picture that looks eerily similar to 90% of thots on instagram today is "classy" because the iq-starved peanut in your head saw earrings your mom used to wear and filtered it through your madonna-whore complex

>>14906737
Unironically if you are struggling with writer's block, read this book. Dean Wesley Smith is boomer af, but if you can look past that, his advice in this book will absolutely get your ass in the chair and get you writing. Like, I still have good days and bad days in terms of output, but I never experience anything like writer's block anymore.

>>14907486
I got over it and started writing again, but thanks
coincidentally it came back just as I logged on to begin working remotely

>>14907502
>coincidentally it came back just as I logged on to 4channel

>>14907648
is it possible to be a good writer and keep 4chan open in another tab?

>>14906867
metadesires aren't real

if you want to want to do something but don't actually do it, you don't actually want to do it.

you're being governed by expectations, essentially neurotic drives to save your pride instead of just admitting to yourself that you don't actually want to do it and look for something else you do want to do

>>14907748
like asking if you can be a good surgeon and keep a bottle of Jameson in your spare hand.

>>14907109
Isn't this a little specific?

wrote a short story last night when at peak despair, then wrote some other shit to accompany it. it could be either the base for a novel or a stand alone short story. of course no one wants to publish depressing things and melancholy is my only mood available, so such as it is i may as well rip the page out and eat it.

writing on paper is pretty comfy actually. i want to buy a few notebooks and try it.

FOR THOSE UNAWARE

>>14907109
I'm not convinced. Instagram thots today have largely adopted urban negro styles: big asses and thighs, big lips, etc. That popular 90s look - thin, small tits, fit but not too muscular - looks a lot like more elegant modern looks. I don't think this is the case with every generation.

>>14906737

TITTYS PUSSY SUCKING COCK SHOOTING CUM

>>14908075
I am a surgery resident and this is not infeasible

>>14906784
is that actually george?

>>14906805
>>14906838
Hot

>>14906831
Gay

>>14906845
No

>>14906851
I just don't like what I've written. It's not bad but I'm just unhappy. Then I get stuck. I shouldn't pants when I write.

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HOW TO CURE WRITER'S BLOCK

1. Take a few minutes to think of a character in a setting with a problem. Don't spend fucking hours on this, and don't worry about getting it "right." Just think for a few minutes about a setting it can be the Mariana Trench or a truck stop bathroom, Whatever. Then, think of a fucking character. Don't fill out some gay ass character sheet, just let the image of a character come to you. It can be based on someone you know, or it can be totally made up. Once again, it doesn't need to be right or perfect. Just a fucking character. In a fucking setting. With a problem (The problem doesn't have to be complicated or extravagant, and it doesn't even have to be specific, as long as you have a sense that the character is facing a problem)

2. Write about this. Shut off your critical voice that says what you're writing sucks or is boring or whatever. Just write.

3. Cycle. The length of the cycle will vary for everyone, but usually about 500 words or so. Basically, whenever you feel yourself grinding to a halt, back up 500 words or so, then read through what you have written, making small adjustments or edits as necessary (don't get bogged down in this though--you aren't rewriting, just tweaking.) When you hit the place where you stopped, you will usually find you have the momentum to move the story forward.

Summary:
1. Character in setting with problem
2. Writing "into the dark" with no outline and with inner critical voice turned OFF
3. Cycling

>>14906805
>uuuhhrrmrmrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CUNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

>>14912769
thats not what cunny is you retard

Writer's block happens when you need to switch gears and work on something else. Go back and edit or work on a different project. Sometimes completing a short story or poem is enough to refresh. Sometimes it's a sign that the project you're stuck on is going nowhere and should be abandoned for a while, maybe permanently.
Outside deadlines can help too if you're motivated by the threat of embarrassment, lost money, or a bad grade.

>>14913571
That's how I ended up with 7 stories ongoing, all about 75 pages, before I end up deleting everything in one and starting again
It sucks I know
I need to plan

>>14906889
>elegant
>sheer top

>>14910795
you're a homosexual

>>14914345
your a nigger harry

>>14912631
>just let the image of a character come to you
They don't.

>>14912092
that skinny girls is 200% a tranny

I don't think i've ever really gotten writer's block. At the same time, I've never finished a novel-length work or really worked under pressure / a deadline, or tried to get something published. Nevertheless, I am aware of it and try to write notes directly into my chapters in some other font to make sure that future me knows what I was thinking when I wrote it. Also, I like to start writing from a point that isn't exactly where I left off -- just a bit further back -- so I can get more time with pushing the scene further, whether it be really gelling with what the characters are feeling / going to do or not do.
Something else I do is plan my writing beforehand. If you know what keyframing is for animation, I try to do that but with story / plot beats and then I can fill in the blanks from there. Depending on what I've "winged" while filling in the blanks, those "set" points can actually be altered in something as minute as tone; however, altering tone in terms of story and writing is definitely huge, but in terms of the storyboard, it really isn't. It just affects what comes after provided that what comes before it already "set."

>>14914481
even better
I hope her dick is bigger than mine

>>14906745
Writers block is caused by too much sexual stimulation whether from sex or your own hands. It is resolved when you abstain sexually.

>>14914460
Did you complete elementary school? During your time in elementary school, did you have one particular teacher who was in some way memorable? There you go, you have a character.

>>14914460
>They don't.
They do.
Yes they do. You're just lazy and/or fearful of judgment, so you are willfully standing in your imagination's way and calling it writer's block

>>14906763
what sort of cosplay gear is that?

>>14910851
No, but it's real close.

>>14906737
As long as it's structurally sound, should I really care about the quality of specific sentences?

>>14906737
edging works like a charm. stick a finger up your ass. historically famous authors were really fucking weird. be like them.