/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11349007]

>start writing
>suddenly lose all inspiration
>realize everything I've written so far is shit and want to start over
>can't
What does /lit/ do to regain inspiration?

[Anonymous No.11349041]

>>11349007
listen to music and just let your mind wonder about the plot you had in mind

[Anonymous No.11349047]

>>11349041
Not writing prose. I've been trying to write a poem, but it seems like as soon as I try to write more complex fixed poetry, I have a hard time following the structure.

[Anonymous No.11349084]

go for a run

[Anonymous No.11349094]

>>11349047
what sort of poem?

[Anonymous No.11349100]

>>11349047
write your poem like that then
break away from your structure for lengths of it only to come back to it more distraught or something

[Anonymous No.11349121]

>>11349094
I usually write either simple / unstructured poetry, and when I try to write something as mudane as a rondeau I fail miserably.

[Anonymous No.11349174]

>>11349121
can i see some of your stuff? also what exactly is a rondeau? i'm poetry brainlet sorry

[Anonymous No.11349182]

You need some modafinil in your life op . Just take it once if you want , rediscover that love

[Anonymous No.11349184]

>>11349174
English isn't my writing language, sorry.
A rondeau is basically a structured poem with the first stanza being a refrain that you repeat throughout the poem.
A 15-line rondeau goes something like:
A (Refrain) A B B / A A B A (Refrain) / A A B B A A (Refrain)

[Anonymous No.11349255]

if the words come to you slowly
and you find yourself in despair
for the sake of all things holy
leave your chair and all hope there
truth as urine through a folley flows
for you my friend that hole will close

[Anonymous No.11349977]

some anon somewhere deleted a masterpiece of literature because he thought it was shit and in an impulse he backspaced all of it.

You dislike it? leave it there for a while, so something else, take a break for a few days if necessary, then comeback to it, try and finish it even if you are not happy with it. Do you think every great writer wrote with the pretention/conviction it would be a great work? finish it, read it, improve

[Anonymous No.11349992]

You don't "get" inspired, or motivated. You don't just wait for it to happen, you make it happen.

Even if you don't feel up to it, you still write. You still focus on doing a good job, and if you start writing stuff you're happy with, then the inspiration and motivation will come and even multiply itself if you continue doing work you're happy with.

It's not a passive thing though, you have to make it happen.

[Anonymous No.11350073]

You have to be willing to produce garbage with no guarantee of success or improvement if you want to be a good writer. You have to embrace the process itself, which means you have to work. You have to finish. Your stories have to have endings.

Will this make you a better writer? Can't say. Probably not, even, since quality writing is extremely rare. Are you still willing to try to become a writer if you'll never be any good? It would be totally defensible if you decided not to. But you have to understand that you'll never be a good writer if you say no.

[Anonymous No.11350080]

>>11349007

[Anonymous No.11350520]

>>11349007
One day I got the inspiration for a story, wrote the preface and went to bed. I hated it the next day but still loved the idea for the book so I kept going until the end. As I was writing I got ideas where the story should go, it just flowed so beautifully that I got 85,000 words together.
When I was done I decided to scrap the preface and start over.

Never delete, keep going and don't doubt yourself.
Once you are done, have a perfect stranger read your work and take the criticism.
Move on from there.

[Anonymous No.11350843]

>>11349255
The most fitting description of your poetic skills would be "better that Ernest Cline".

[Anonymous No.11350861]

>>11350520
>Never delete, keep going and don't doubt yourself
>mfw did the exact opposite

[Anonymous No.11350864]

>>11350520
>perfect stranger
The correct expression is "complete stranger". You should brush up your English.

[Anonymous No.11350867]

>>11349977

This.

[Anonymous No.11350930]

>>11349007
start a diary
stare at trees
channel some entity/deity
read classical works of course

[Anonymous No.11350954]

>>11350864
no they have to be perfect to be able to criticize me

[Anonymous No.11350961]

>>11349047
never edit a poem
a poem is like an experience
you can`t relive it
only write poems in an altered state of mind
induced in whatever way you wish, from focus, to imagination to whatever
fail fail fail until you get it
1 you will fail because of not inducing the state - learn to induce the state
2 you will fail because you cant properly express the state - fail at it until you manage, share your failed poetry too, so others can refine

[Anonymous No.11352608]

>>11350843
thank you bitch