[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 663 KB, 1234x1123, 28EDB481-4A65-4F05-9CB9-4776AEA470A7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17606266 No.17606266 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw the most exciting thing you do is getting groceries

>> No.17606290

The excitement happens in my imagination, simpleton.

>> No.17606296

I've definitely had the most interesting grocery store trips of my life within the last 12 months.

>> No.17606302

imagine being this much of an inspirationlet

>> No.17606344

Be the book, be the page.

>> No.17606349

Those writers suck anyway.

>> No.17606361

>>17606266
>Another generation of books where every page has a "the character stretched his legs" sentence

>> No.17606364

>>17606266
Who the fuck listens to the lockdown bullshit?

>> No.17606368

do boomers only use the internet for fucking twitter and reading news on reddit?

do they realise there's a whole rich internet culture that doesn't revolve around id politics and american elections

>> No.17606371

Unless they are writing an autobiography, I don't see what the problem would be, except that they are a bunch of untalented hacks using lockdown as an excuse.

>> No.17606374

>>17606296
Tell us more

>> No.17606463

>>17606368
>rich internet culture
Who cares about that? Shit would be useless for quality writing

>> No.17606477
File: 846 KB, 1036x1424, rilke.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17606477

>If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world's sound - wouldn't you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attention to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance.

>> No.17606560

>>17606266
>tfw all my hard-earned social skills are forgotten like an old credit card number

>> No.17606567

good. contemporary writers should not write anything because it's all garbage

>> No.17606573

Am the only one that has benefitted greatly from the lockdown? Ive had so much time to improve upon myself and my hobbies, started reading philosphy, greatly increased my skill in piano, started getting on a schedule etc. Its been wonderful for me.

>> No.17606576

>Lockdown
I fucking wish. When this all began I was looking forward to comfy neet time, but absolutely nothing has changed for me except waiters at restaurants wear masks and at some establishments not even that.

>> No.17606604

NO excuse.

https://www.bearparade.com/hikikomori/

>> No.17606608

>>17606567
jealousy or envy?

>> No.17606610

>>17606573
that's the spirit. never waste a crisis

>> No.17606612

>>17606266
>noooo, we're struggling to write epic novelinos about hecking niggerinos and poc and genderfluid characterinos smashing the patriarchy/racism/fascism/transphobism

>> No.17606624

What’s the difference without the lockdown? You can go to pubs and restaurants? Great. It’s not like that’s going to give you loads of inspiration for writing.

>> No.17606636

>>17606266
Novelists are struggling? Sounds like an open market

>> No.17606645

>>17606624
Not loads but you can pick up excerpts of how random people are and can be as they’re living their lives. You can look it up online but that’s more focused/dedicated effort and unnatural. You think writers got characters down well purely through reading books?

>> No.17606655

>>17606266
This is actually why most literature has sucked for several decades now. We have the most boring lives of any humans to ever live. Lockdown just made it more visible.

>> No.17606667

>>17606645
There aren't that many unique behavioral patterns humans exhibit, if they haven't picked most of them up in the years before lockdown, then they aren't really trying. And chances of a unique encounter of someone special are really small, you could spend the whole year going around cafes and not get anything new. A writer of novels can't afford to spend that much time on relaxed research, unless they are rich and write only as hobby.

>> No.17606685

>>17606655
speak for yourself, peasant

>> No.17606692

>>17606685
Please. Don’t try to pretend like you are beyond us. Whatever it is you consider “adventurous” would’ve been mundane norm just a few hundred years ago.

>> No.17606697

>>17606573

Its the same for me. I have never been more productive and organized than I have during covid. I was heading towards becoming a college dropout but now I'm doing better than ever while also spending more time on hobbies I enjoy.

>> No.17606702

>>17606692
Anon a few hundred years ago people still lived and died in their small villages

>> No.17606733

>>17606692
First off, not everybody on here leads the same Undergroundman life. Second, you have no idea about the history of the mundanity or adventurousness of average lives. Third, you sound depressed and your depression has an effect on your worldview.

>> No.17606923

>>17606477
>rilke

a complete non-entity, puffed up, second-rate

>> No.17606999

>>17606667
jesus are u 16?

>> No.17607019

>>17606999
Add 20 years to that and a lot of observation of humans.

>> No.17607036

>>17606266
I’ve done more writing in the past year than I have in my entire life. Over 150 pages. Maybe normalfags should stop writing about their experiences (mundane urban life and decrepit, soulless sex) and have some goddamn imagination.

>> No.17607038

>>17606302
This. I have literally written more than 400 pages in the last year.

>> No.17607044

>he doesn’t enjoy driving for the sake

>> No.17607096
File: 2.48 MB, 1560x1080, zerkalo.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17607096

>>17606573
Same here. Excluding those who are struggling financially or because of their mental/physical health, and who clearly have all the reason to be upset about the lockdown, people who complain are generally those who never learned how to be alone. I am bothered by the lack of sex, mostly, but I have connected with lots of people on zoom - much more than I would have in real life, honestly - including friends I haven't seen in more than five years, to do reading groups online. Plus, I have read lots of literature I would have never have had the time to read otherwise, and wrote a lot. In terms of concentration, of course, my university research has been slowed down, but everything else has been going so much better that I do not care. I also managed to get on a proper exercise routine. And beside all this, now that there is no pressure whatsoever to go out, I spent my evenings watching sophisticated european movies and catching up on the whole Gundam UC timeline.

>> No.17607294

>>17606697
>>17607096
Im glad to hear anons, lets keep it up after the crisis as well.

>> No.17607310
File: 93 KB, 700x947, 1613706482310.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17607310

Lockdown has been fucking glorious. My writing has gone neither up nor down. I could do this forever without breaking a sweat. Normie writers I can see having an issue with it. Everything inside of them is just a reflection of what's going on around them in the normal world. I suppose it explains a lot about why I find most authors work tedious beyond reckoning. It's really just NPC life fictionalized but with the same drab gray priorities as a trip to buy new tires for your car.