/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15922732]

>write some fiction
>read it later
>It's the cringiest thing ever
Why bros?

[Anonymous No.15922745]

literally the reason I stopped writing desu

[Anonymous No.15922803]

>>15922732
I feel the same a lot of the time. But everytime I write, it's a little less cringe than before. Maybe one day, it'll be good.

[Anonymous No.15922807]

>>15922745
same but I'll try again later

[Anonymous No.15922817]

>>15922732
Write more, and frequently.

[Anonymous No.15922884]

>>15922732
Basically this >>15922732
I write a decent amount and only get like two or three poems or stories I look back fondly on per year. And my grammar never improves because I don't get out much and punctuation is a social thing.
So I'd add that you should talk to people more.

[Anonymous No.15922900]

>>15922884
wait, I'm retarded. I meant to quote the person above me.
>>15922817

[Anonymous No.15922934]

>>15922732
It could be worse.

I spent my entire early adulthood working on an experimental prose piece that ended up having a 122,000 word count. It was mostly about a (self insert) narrator who wanted to fuck his mother but decides since he cant do it irl he tries to fuck her on the astral plane so he goes to an Indian (feather, not dot) reservation where he seeks initiation into the tribe's shamanic tradition but ends up being scammed and eventually raped by a group of redskin extremists outside a gas station. the book ends with his mother being sent his scalp which she humps until she cums because the sight if it gives her a mental breakdown.

Basically I wrote the whole thing in a manic episode that spanned five months and I spent the next two years telling my parents i didn't need to go to college because i was going to publish my masterpiece any minute. eventually my father got fed up and gave me enough money to just self publish because he was convinced it was shit and he wanted me to recognize this so that I'd give up being a writer go to uni to get a compsci degree.

I took the money and skedaddled down to the Bahamas where I blew it over the coarse of about two weeks. at the end of the binge i reread my book and realized it was absolute shit so i chunked my laptop into the hotel pool and took a flight back stateside. haven't talked to my family since and so far I'm scraping by as a cashier at a McDonalds. but the boss heard me calling a stray dog a nigger the other day so i might be looking for a new job soon.

i have the idea of writing a Divine Comedy-esque epic poem that consists entirely of lines plagarized from Steven Pinker and Mencius Moldbug that will be about a pornstar being guided by Henry Ford through a factory in heaven that produces rapists. but idk

[Anonymous No.15922945]

>>15922817
What do I do if I have no inspiraton to write? For the past month or so I've been trying to write, but I have no story to work on, so I didn't write anything. Except a diary. I feel like coronavirus lockdown has stifled my creative spirit.

[Anonymous No.15923023]

>>15922945
read books I guess

[Anonymous No.15923096]

>>15922945
Then read more. And frequently.
Or watch something or play a game or go fuck a prostitute or do something adventurous and just consume and embrace experiences and you will find something you're compelled to write about.

[Anonymous No.15923668]

>>15922732
When you read your writing, what about it makes you cringe?

[Anonymous No.15923705]

>>15922945
You need a grand project.
Pick whatever body of litterature you like most. Dissect it. See what's lacking, think about how it can be improved, see what it should have but doesn't. Then start cooking.

[Anonymous No.15923756]

>>15922732
Might be like how you cringe when you hear your own voice recorded

[Anonymous No.15923819]

>>15923756
Good point.
OP, do you have any alpha readers? If so, do they share your reaction?

[Anonymous No.15923996]

>>15922934
Take the story you wrote and combine it with the after story (future goals and all) and you have yourself a masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.15924716]

>>15922732
To be fair, all literature is inherently cringe

[Anonymous No.15925030]

>>15922732
Creation is an embarrassing process and dreams are embarrassing as well. You can't help that. That's something very common. But, at the very least, it's not something to beat yourself up over.

[Anonymous No.15926513]

"Damn, it's the cringiest thing ever"
- Shakespeare on Hamlet

[Anonymous No.15926574]

>>15922732
It means you're getting better.