/lit/ - Literature

Moist dicks in my face.

But i don't write, so there we go, nice assumptions though friend

If Fifty Shades can get published anyone can

>>4484605
>because you're delusional and deeply convinced that you're talented

How else would I improve?
Go jack it, you negative Nancy you.

also OPs pic is the best example for having one of the most known books in the world even tough it's as shitty as they come.

argument invalid.

>>4484622
I don't think that's what that proved. I think it proved anything derivative from something already proven successful has a much higher chance of being published. As it will more likely bring in big bucks. It's a business man. Shit writings crafted to sell will get published.

>>4484631
>you're talented

Thanks. :^)

>>4484605
10/10

>>4484605
>you're talented

Thanks. :^)

Well OP, I just need to say to you that one of the greatest talents of youth is its ignorance: young future-writers are generally arrogant and prideful of their embryo-talent, and think that they simple efforts, still pathetically crawling on the white pages, are a sign of great genius.

This is, of course, a stupid state of mind, but it is also necessary for development. If you are well aware of the enormous distances you will need to walk, if you are aware of the mountains you will have to climb, if you are aware of how seed-like the imaginary-spring of your production is: if you really knew this, with cold logic, right on the start, you will never start a writing career. But the young mind is still virgin of failures; the young mind doesn’t know its own limitations, and so the young-writer has great deposits of strength in him – he really thinks he can start a new aesthetic fire in the world that is already drowning in the flames of several other works of art, past and present.

All of that to say ignorant-pride and innocent-arrogance are some of the first necessities for an artistic life. If you didn’t had those you will not even had the strength to get up of the bed of inactivity and sit your ass in front of the desk of labor. All young writers need that illusion of greatness to feed them until they really reach the shores of the true islands of success.

If you don’t believe in yourself blindly from the start you will not succeed in the craft of literature.

Also:

>>4484605
>99.99% of books are shit.

I don’t think so. I believe that advertising is a powerful tool and is responsible for many works success, including the success of great classics. For example: it’s easier for America and UK to propagate their writers across the Globe while thousands of masterpieces in other countries are suffocating in dark ignorance. For me we tend to select some small group of works as “the great works”, “the canonical works” basing these assumptions in some strange academic rating and willingly blind us for the great surges of talent that flow from all around the world.


People in general are much more talented than we believe. We are all very similar in our brain structure and capacities.

>>4484664
>I don’t think so. I believe that advertising is a powerful tool and is responsible for many works success, including the success of great classics. For example: it’s easier for America and UK to propagate their writers across the Globe while thousands of masterpieces in other countries are suffocating in dark ignorance.
Sad but true.

>>4484664

I agree with this gentleman.

>>4484664

>>4484704

What does this image mean?

>>4484706
It is posted when one is unsure who is trolling.

>>4484707

lol.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom, OP

>>4484605

So first of all, by shit you mean culturally irrelevant, right? Not going to get someone famous, rich, admired etc.

To which my answer is of course: And?

The same could be said for any art form.

Most of it is not culturally relevant in any way. It doesnt mean it isnt fun to create, and its an enjoyable way to spend your time.

> 99.9 % of art is shit
> Why do you even try?

Well we try because creating is fun. Fun. Remember that? That thing we do because were bored?

If someone happens to enjoy reading what you wrote, then all the better.

I write. Little things. Im never going to be an author, and never expected to be. ive already got a career. But i enjoy writing. So i do it. If i had a steadier hand id draw too.

If you go through life constantly weighing what you're doing against what it will gain you in terms of money, admiration, fame etc. then all it shows if you are desperately uncomfortable in life and are striving to find value for yourself.

I value my life by enjoying my life.

>>4484605
I'm not talented. I would be proud to become part of the 99.99%, because that means I was part of the 0.01% who actually wrote a book.

>>4484938
Do writing book give superpowers ? If not, why writing a book is considered an achievement ? You think you're better than the rest of the world because you wrote a book ?

>>4484758
Every writer is utterly convinced to write something valuable. Saying you are writing just for fun is just an excuse to justify your writings. Stop fooling yourself.

I just love stories man

>>4484605
>99.99% of books are shit.

and that one percent is Mein Kampf, right?

Do you think your non-academic your opinion on an imageboard matters?

>>4484992
Mein Kampf is historically relevant, no matter what you think of his content. Picture was unrelated though.

>>4484642
Can a newspaper actually misquote like that and get away with it?

Because I have many followers (physical) at my University who are inspired by my conversation.

Because last night I sat in a chair for an hour, staring at a wall, detailing exactly, with dialogue, in my head, a night out at the pool hall, to which I attended later that night.

Because literature is my favourite bridge to knowledge.

Because I want to teach others.

Because I am a recluse.


The literary life chooses you. if you want to be a writer for any other reason than "it's my life and reason in entirety," than you won't be.

I think that too many want to write and not enough want to read.

Writing is incredibly painful, exhausting, and solitary.

Reading is joyous, exhilarating, and social.

Read more. Don't aspire to be a writer. You can't "get" there. You either are or you're not.

>>4485021
I feel like you read all this in a book about writing.

>>4485021
>writing and reading at the same time

Doesn't work.

>>4484966
Only better than those who have not accomplished anything at all. The fact that writing a book is an achievement is self-evident. It is a thing that can be achieved, and since few people achieve it because they do not possess the willpower, dedication, or intelligence to do so, it is reasonable to feel proud of accomplishing it.

>>4485021
While I don't fully agree with you,
I came to this conclusion a while ago.
I never thought I would become a writer,
but I shut the idea out entirely.
May be you're right,
but every day I start to hate writers more and more, of fiction any way.

>>4485021
Actually, bitch,,

You need to write 50 stories before you can call yourself a writer.

>>4485043
Said who ?

>>4485048
A writer.

>>4485043
That's like saying you need to kill 50 people before you can be prosecuted for murder.

>>4485061
Yeah definitely.

>>4485021
>you either are or you're not
>and i am one cause i'm a special snowflake

>>4485021
>Because last night I sat in a chair for an hour, staring at a wall, detailing exactly, with dialogue, in my head, a night out at the pool hall, to which I attended later that night.

I'm listening.