/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15994526]

>reading stuff I wrote at 16

[Anonymous No.15994536]

>>15994526
>reading stuff I wrote last night

[Anonymous No.15994668]

>reading

[Anonymous No.15994684]

shut the fuck off with your stupid non-quality thread and read actual literature instead of low-effort posting here you stupid cunt.

[Anonymous No.15994688]

>reading stuff I wrote 300 years into the future

[Anonymous No.15994693]

>>15994684
I'm reading Lolita and Critique of Pure Reason desu

[Anonymous No.15995204]

>>15994526
>reading the pretentious Joyce ripoff crap I wrote a year ago, when I first started writing fiction

What the fuck was I thinking

[Anonymous No.15995220]

>>15994526
>reading essays from high school, cc, university, and my first year of MA
I want to burn everything

[Anonymous No.15995292]

>>15994526
Reading the shit I'm writing.

[Anonymous No.15995296]

>>15994526
>reading stuff I wrote 6 months ago
Why am I like this?

[Anonymous No.15995317]

>>15994526

>Juvenilia

[Anonymous No.15995328]

>>15994526
>reading stuff I wrote 15 seconds ago

[Anonymous No.15995366]

>reading stuff wrote

[Anonymous No.15995404]

>reading

[Anonymous No.15995445]

>stories written and illustrated by yourself as a nine year-old

[Anonymous No.15995448]

>>15994526
Honestly some of it is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.15996368]

>>15995296
Because you’re getting better at writing

[Anonymous No.15996413]

>>15995445
The ride never ends

[Anonymous No.15996591]

>>15994536
Fucking this.

[Anonymous No.15996650]

>>15994526
>reading university admission essay I wrote
someone at cornell had to read about a faggot 17 year-old and how much he liked crossdressing. there's really no recovering from this for me

[Anonymous No.15996660]

>>15996650
You think that's bad? I had a friend write about Beastars.

[Anonymous No.15996706]

>>15994526
Same here bro. Just remember how far you've come. Most boomers probably write more shittily than you at 16

[Anonymous No.15996711]

>>15996650
You got in didn't you?

[Anonymous No.15996716]

>>15994526
Could be worse, I think the stuff I wrote back then is better and more artistic than anything else I've written... feels like fucking shit

[Anonymous No.15996718]

>reading what I wrote drunk

[Anonymous No.15996804]

>>15996660
This makes me feel better, but unless he very much explained in the essay, they probably didn't even know what he was talking about because I didn't know until looking it up right now. I wish that I hadn't looked it up though.
>>15996711
Nope. I've become an even bigger fag since then too, so it was their loss really

[Anonymous No.15996953]

>reading what I wrote in the comment field immediately prior to clicking post

[Anonymous No.15996982]

>reading anything another person writes

[Anonymous No.15997160]

I was getting rid of some stuff yesterday and came across a note that read

"I need to test the limits of the house."
"-don't worry about what that means"

Good thing, because I have no idea what I was talking about. I was probably just trying to be mysterious/random.

[Anonymous No.15998228]

what happens if you like (or don't dislike) what you wrote

[Anonymous No.15998320]

>>15994526
>read what I wrote at 16 when I find my old netbook from high school in a box
>it's not that bad
>it's better than some of the webnovels I've seen that authors make thousands of Patreon bucks off of
>feel a deep sense of worthlessness as I realise that what I'm reading might have literally been the last thing I wrote for almost eleven years

Feels bad. I know I have talent. I know that if I had worked at it I'd have a shot at doing it professionally. I don't hate my writing. I just hate the fact that I wasted so many years not doing it. I'm just starting to take it seriously at 27. An entire decade of my life, almost entirely wasted on mundane tedium of work, video games, and takeout. I didn't even fill that time with something useful. I wasn't disheartened. My teachers, random people on the internet, everyone I spoke to said that I had ability and should pursue it. Instead my crippling laziness meant I just didn't.

>>15994536
The only thing you'll regret more than writing something bad is looking back and seeing that you stopped.

>>15995204
You had ambition. I hope you never lose it.

[Anonymous No.15998426]

>reading things i haven't written yet

[Anonymous No.15998488]

>>15994526
>reading old diary enteries

[Anonymous No.15998536]

>>15998488
>reading old diary entries that are comfy as fuck and remind you of nice days that you'd forgotten about

[Anonymous No.15998751]

>>15998320
>I don't hate my writing. I just hate the fact that I wasted so many years not doing it. [...] I didn't even fill that time with something useful. I wasn't disheartened. My teachers, random people on the internet, everyone I spoke to said that I had ability and should pursue it. Instead my crippling laziness meant I just didn't.
Hits too close home...
I do have ideas, but never sit down to write them. I only collect notes and half-assed fragments. I ruminate on ideas for so long, that they start going off the rails, and I lose track of the spark that inspired them. I only ever finished one story (years ago) but never made a second draft for it. I used (years ago) to feel ill if I went on too long without writing. It was really more about catharsis than anything, but what I wrote wasn't terrible.
Nowadays I don't feel anything anymore. It's a shame. It's not that I hate writing, it's just that I'm too easily (and willingly, self-sabotage is based) distracted by the "mundane tedium", as you said. I'll write something tomorrow. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[Anonymous No.16000102]

>>15998228
you write some more or u r a pussy

[Anonymous No.16000124]

>the face I find myself making during the course of consuming and analysing literature to whit I myself have conceived some.years prior and therefore, after careful and robust analysis by my mind having matured over some years

[Anonymous No.16000145]

>>15998488
>reading the dairy entries from last night
religious extremism and alcohol is a poor combination.

[Anonymous No.16000151]

>>15994526
>reading stuff I wrote in a parallel universe

[Anonymous No.16000182]

>>15996804
Why are you a fag?

[Anonymous No.16000322]

I'm pretty sure that not liking what you write is a sign of either young age or extreme insecurity.
I personally find nearly everything I write epic and redpilled, even the posts I make on 4channel. However, when I was about 15, I wasn't this way. I was chasing what could be called spoooks, trying to write like the great writers of the old days yet not understanding what made them great. I think a large cause of this is that a lot of people seem to read and enjoy classical literature not because they genuinely enjoy it and find it meaningful to themselves but because of their social status as great books. The thinking goes, if I too write a great book, I too will become a great author and people will think of me as a genius. It's easy to see how this sort of thinking will mislead you to becoming a failure.
Truth is, most of classical literature is not well-written. A lot of the passages are too long, a lot of it is confusing and meaningless (where that is not the purpose), most of it could profit from a great deal of edid
Sure, there are times when I see what I wrote and don't like it. Then I go back and correct it into something I like. It's easy to do that when you know what you want to say.

[Anonymous No.16000346]

>>15994526
>>15998751
>I only collect notes and half-assed fragments
Yeah, I do this too. I thought it was viable for years until I actually sat down to try and collate everything together. I ended up in a dead end within a few pages.

[Anonymous No.16000354]

>tfw you realize what you wrote when you were 16 was far better than what you're writing now

[Anonymous No.16000357]

>>16000354
Better in what way?

[Anonymous No.16000370]

>read note I made on story I'm writing
>can't remember what the fuck I meant by it

[Anonymous No.16000376]

>>16000370
This gets me the worst.

[Anonymous No.16000381]

>>16000357
Vigour.

[Anonymous No.16000395]

>>15998320
>reading something you started when you were 16
>It's not Shakespeare but there's the seed of something interesting
>but it's been too long for you to carry it on, or get back into the headspace you'd need to know how to properly finish it

[Anonymous No.16000410]

Everyone has heard of Shakespearian, but is there such thing as Goetherian? Or would you say such uniqueness was always swiftly dispersed into the developing Germany and to a degree the world a'large to be made specifically his own forever more in the language, being casually designated its own wording?

[Anonymous No.16000459]

>>15994526
>Read stuff I wrote at 14
>It's Witcher inspired monster hunter series with self-insert main character saving big-tittied elven maiden and page long chapters
How well self-published fantasy smut sells these days? Asking for a friend

[Anonymous No.16000484]

>>16000459
based

[Anonymous No.16000818]

>reading my diary entries from when I was 18