/lit/ - Literature

>>15225944
>boo hoo I had a girlfriend
don't want to hear it

>>15225948
It was a qt bf from a rival country

>>15225958
of course, Romeo and Jules.

>>15225944
Depending on the output, that's not terrible inspiration. Don't try to express those demons through writing though—it doesn't work.

>>15226001
Which one is it, then?

tfw you make up fictional girls to forget about your ex

>>15226018
Two different statements. The inspiration is fine, provided you do something with it. However, you're not going to stop pining for your ex by writing about him.

>dated a girl in mid 2017
>fell in love
>nothing came out of it
Almost 3 years later and I have feelings for her. What's the fucking point in life, again? Yea, yea, besides not being a pathetic bastard like me.

>>15226034
Alright, gotcha. I read it the wrong way.

>>15225944
Which is why i can write purely because I’ve never had one!

>>15226048
find someone new?

>>15226048
>What's the fucking point in life
Assuming some teleological sense from your life, the universe, etc. is a mistake.

>>15225958
Turk?

>>15225958
traitor

>>15226001
The output are a series of stories about war between our countries lmao

People tell me i should get over him but but I like what’s coming out so far.

>>15226072
No, neither of us were Turkish

>>15226213
Brazilian and Argentine?

Does dating and fucking others help you forget?

>>15225948
I had a girlfriend and now have a wife and a girlfriend.

>>15226259
They're different women I suppose?

>>15226001
>Don't try to express those demons through writing though—it doesn't work.
Wasn't this what Goethe did with Werther? It seems to have worked splendidly for him.

>>15226275
Not him but yea, I thinl can be therapeutic and cathartic as long sd you dont obsess too much.

>>15226034
Yeah writing keeps me thinking about him but I like what’s coming out so far and even if it means I need to stay celibate until the story is finished. I rather be immersed in great stories than give that up to get with some retard girl or guy just so I can get off.

>>15225944
she keeps turning up in my dreams bros how do I excise her?

>>15226048
>What's the fucking point in life
Happiness.

>>15226226
No, US and Russia. He sent me some photos of himself in the Russian Army which kept me deep in thought in the middle of the night. I still have them.

>>15226251
No, I’ve gotten very bitter and jaded towards others. Other people’s relationships disgust me now, they seem so degenerate to the love I felt with my ex. Most people think like animals, fuck like animals, and die like animals. When I read Plato’s Symposium, it reminded me of my boyfriend and I thought about the nature of our friendship and how pure it was. So a lot of my story is trying to capture the nature of that friendship.

>>15226819
Yes but have you dated others?

>>15226736
lmao

>>15225958
Tell us more, anon.

>>15226048
There's no justification for life, except it being what justifies existence

>>15226263
In some ways.

>>15225944
that’s gay

you should chad up and consciously write stories about being a pussy slayer

>>15226879
here anon >>15226819

>>15226896
a lot of my main characters are pussy slayers because i like writing about alpha males

>>15225944

>tfw you realize all your stories are subconsciously just you pining for your ex

This needn't stop you being a good writer. Many (perhaps even all) great writers had one particular psychic wound which impelled them.

It also doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be too repetitive. Some of the best writers are obviously working from one basic starting-point, emotionally, but they still achieve plenty of variety.

A couple of obvious examples:

P.G.Wodehouse had a wretched childhood and basically created the world of his novels to escape it. Everything he wrote comes from the same pain, but he makes his world so entertaining that people will happily read a hundred books about it.

William Faulkner is a slightly more heavyweight example. He said himself that the one thing in his whole ouevre that came directly from his heart was the image of Caddy climbing the tree and looking in the lighted window in The Sound And The Fury. And there's a Caddy figure over and over again in his books, sometimes disguised. She's Lena Grove in A Light In August, and Dewey Dell in As I Lay Dying. (Notice the names. A grove is a group of trees and a dell is a little clearing amongst trees. And Benjy says over and over that Caddy "smelled like trees".) It's all coming from the same place in Faulkner's mind, but he can still use that one impulse to create a huge variety.

>>15227168
who is caddy

>>15226892
Does this situation fully preempt the boredom that necessitated it?

>>15226842
I talked to a couple people to see if it would help but nah, it just left me more disgusted.

There is one guy however who's been on my mind but I don't think it's a romantic or sexual thing, and I am sure he's married. In fact it kills my libido if I think about him and I don't jack off for days. I am trying to build my writing resume before I contact him because I want to write a book on him. I find him incredibly masculine and he's the kind of guy I want to be like.

>>15226048
Just think of all the guys she's banged since she ditched you probably at least 50