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Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:10:47 2011 No.1675915 [Reply] [Original]

What makes a good writer?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:11:47 2011 No.1675919 suffering

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:12:47 2011 No.1675925 >>1675919 /thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:12:47 2011 No.1675927 detail

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:13:47 2011 No.1675928 File: 135 KB, 736x721, forever alone sad frog pepe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1675919 So most of 4chan are potentially good writers...

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:13:47 2011 No.1675929 Self insert characters

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:13:47 2011 No.1675931 Beard

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:17:47 2011 No.1675938 Someone who breaks the norms and conventions of his genre, as long as he doesn't do it just for the sake of doing it. Haters abound, though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:24:47 2011 No.1675951 Willingness to work, concern for the craft, humility, and determination are all things that make a good writer. Great writers, however, tend to do it their own way. They are the one-in-a-million types, and we need only admire them, not try to be them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:25:47 2011 No.1675958 Good writer: deep shit that speaks of the human condition Successful writer: Mary sues and whatever other ploys Stephanie Meyer used.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:30:47 2011 No.1675964 >>1675958 Fuck, how insightful. Successful writers often lack depth. Never fucking thought of that before.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 01:36:47 2011 No.1675981 Good writing is the truth.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 10:40:47 2011 No.1676565 >>1675951 >humility I always thought lit majors were true faggots.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 10:43:47 2011 No.1676570 >>1675981 Half the truth is in the lie.