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10988515 No.10988515 [Reply] [Original]

why is writing so hard

why will "making it" in writing not even solve anything

>> No.10988630

Because you're doing it for the wrong reasons.

>> No.10988637

>>10988515
Why is "making it" important? Is there some reason you would want to make it beyond some financial gain? Then if that is your goal how about giving a hand at literally any other skill on the planet? Why the one that is the most abundant and that every person with the ability to read is attempting to do? Just become a low effort SoundCloud rapper and get interested in fashion and I think you have pretty much have made it.
I don't know why you write, but I write for myself. Why don't you try thinking about that first, rather than whatever extravagant image that you have inside your head?

>> No.10988648
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10988648

It seems so simple doesn't it.
You take your thoughts and you put them down on paper.
If your thoughts were worth anything it would just work wouldn't it?
But it doesn't work...

>> No.10988655

>>10988648
hey nice poem dude

>> No.10988685

>>10988515
because writing is hard.

There are ways to help some resistance and blank-ness for writing: techniques and education in rhetoric, for example. Yet, there will always be inertia to overcome, and so you have to sit down and simply resolve to write something.

If you're unsure about what to write about, then practice developing thesis statements (i.e. choosing a general subject like say, geography, and whittling it down into a sharp, specific declarative sentence for you to write about "The Gall–Peters Projection is the only justifiable option for teaching students accurate geography.") and developing them along common topics.

If you're unsure how to put the pieces together, then practice some skills on arrangement.

If you're unsure about the words themselves and how they appear on the page, then practice some skills in style.

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10988690

>>10988648
Well it is difficult because one needs a grand vocabulary before one is every truly capable of expressing their most truest intents; otherwise, people are going to assume what they think you meant and construct their own ideas on false beliefs.

>> No.10988953

>>10988690
Is that an image from LISA?

>> No.10989268

>>10988690
>you need to know more words than the average person to make yourself understood by the average person

Stressing the importance of vocabulary is missing the point.

>> No.10990262

>>10988953
yes it is. I absolutely loved the story.

>> No.10990331

>>10988515
I mean “making it” will solve a few things, though not everything.

You would have a good reputation, other peoples respect, most likely money, or a position as a professor at a good university.

Aren’t those a few good things?