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I want to get good at writing where should I start, anons?

>> No.14722675

>>14722664
By reading.

>> No.14722690
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>>14722675
Reading what?
>inb4 books

>> No.14722700

>>14722664
Get some calligraphy lessons

>> No.14722719

>>14722690
Thomas Hardy,
John Williams,
Osamu Dazai,
Yukio Mishima,
Flannery O'Connor,
Cormac McCarthy,
William Faulkner,
Jane Austen,
Dante,
Virgil,
Aldous Huxley,
John Steinback,
Ralph Ellison,
Charles Dickens,
William Shakespeare,
Kazuo Ishigiro,
Yasunari Kawabata,
Anton Chekov,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Franz Kafka,
D.H. Lawrence,
Chinua Achebe,
Najib Mahvouz,
Jubran Khalil Jubran,
Al-Tayeb Saleh,
Mark Twain,
Milan Kundera,
Italo Calvino,
Goethe,
Soren Kierkegaard,
Spinoza,
Homer.
There's more, but I'm lazy.

>> No.14722738

Probably read a bunch of authors with very different writing styles.

>> No.14722740

>>14722690
Specifically Art Of Literature by Schoppenhaur. Ignore his stuff about in born talent and take the advice.

>> No.14722746

>>14722664
Writing is a talent, Anon, you either have it or not.

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>>14722746
Jokes on you Anon, I've never tried writing anything before so I wouldn't know.
>>14722740
Thanks fren.
>>14722700
>Calligraphy lessons
For what? No one writes in paper anymore.

>> No.14722766

If you have good taste, write what you’d love to read
Only works if you have good taste though

>> No.14722767
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>>14722740
Thanks fren.
>>14722700
What for? No one writes in paper anymore.
>>14722746
Jokes on you Anon, I've never tried writing anything before so I wouldn't know.

>> No.14722770

Also go to the critique thread and some of the stuff and think about why you like it or why you don’t, then compare to the comments those pieces received

>> No.14722771

>>14722770
*read some of the stuff