/lit/ - Literature

will your actions be changed by the outcome of this thread?

>>2972546
I doubt it. I don't suppose anyone can actually make choices like that. I'm just wondering.

I think that this question was asked poorly, but still serves as a valid inquiry... What is considered a valuable life experience, with the ultimate goal being becoming a successful writer?

Success is a very relative term, as success can only be defined by the individual. What I am sensing from your question is that in your opinion, success is to become a popular writer, and that rustles my jimmies because it means you have your head up your ass.

>>2972746
OP here.

Tripfag, you're a fucking retard. Your whole post is stupid as fuck. "Sensing" from my post? What are you, a medium? Is your reading comprehension that poor?

And I never wrote the word "successful", not even once.

I dont know what makes you a better writer, but your books will sell better when you have an interesting vita, no matter what your book is about

it depends on what you want to write
if you write about quantum mechanics youll need some research, if you write adventure novels itll help if you see some parts of the world

>>2972760
>if you write about quantum mechanics
We're on /lit/. We're talking about fiction.

>>2972766
ok, about quantum mechanical engineers then

>>2972769
Quantum mechanical engineers have cocks and asses, so I have lots to write about without ever bothering with quantum mechanics.

>>2972766
DON'T YOU DARE

I think it's a bit of both. I took a trip around France and lived in London for six months and felt it allowed me to apply expeeience to my writing. It made my observations potent and my thoughts clear; not just those that occured in London or Paris.

I now believe that I could write a decent novel. Better than those juvenile novels I wrote years ago. I also seem to understand how a writer came to a thought or observation.

I'm no author, but now I think I can be.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. #nietzsche

>5 years of solitude and counting
>borderline insane

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depends on the experiences. depends on the books. depends on the person. depends on what mood they're in and how receptive they are at that moment.

and so on. too complicated. too circumstantial for universal answer. different strokes for different folks.

>>2972850
In short, you have no clue. Ok.

>>2972871
in short, consideration of this cluelessness is the only realistic approach. ok?

>>2972530
Why is OP so butthurt

Experience for the story to write.

Reading for the ability to express what you want to say perfectly.

dude I can read 100 books written by strangers a year or shoot 100 strangers for a year; neither will make you pay attention. it takes soul, guts, fucking panache.

If you have an interesting story to tell but don't know how to choose the proper words to illustrate your own view of that story then you should read more. If all you can do is making fancy nonsense that somehow morphs into a halfasses story, you should go out and join a milita. Case in point, I don't think Orwell would have had the material to write 1984 without seeing firsthand in Spain the ability of the government and those who vie for control to fuck things up. But he also would have failed if he didn't dedicate a lot of his times to reading other literature/journals/historical texts.

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”

-Faulkner

I mostly agree with this, although depending on your objective in writing the different elements may be weighted differently. The most important thing for novels is imagination, for example; the most important for manuals, experience; the most important for journalism, observation.