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How's the writing career coming, /lit/?

>> No.18675950

It’s not. I find the process of coming up with an idea that’s story-worthy, sitting down and writing, and making something good to be insanely difficult. Hell, I find the idea process extremely difficult. I feel like I just have nothing that’s story worthy, don’t even know how to come up with anything. I think I might be a lost cause.

>> No.18675969

its alright

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>>18675940
Slow but there is progress

>> No.18676241
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I want to write a story set in a world I have been dreaming about. I have been inspired by doom metal and the folk tales that I grew up on. I want to combine psychedelic elements, old-school evil wizards that are less human and more demon, a massive bog, the neolithic age, pre-historic satanism, cults, ecology, and how one young man and his neanderthal buddy belonging to the last tribe of his kind thwarted mother natures last attempt at ridding its planet of the plague that is Man.

Once it's done, I am going to self-publish it under a pseudonym and call my writing career done. I have outlined the first 8 chapters of the first book.

>> No.18676279

>>18675940
Would be binding books right now but my glue was ruined when we had a 40c+ heatwave for 3 days. Now all my glue is dried out and won't bind!

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>>18676279
>pic related

>> No.18676311

I feel bad. I got few stories published in my 20s. A story I sent to Harper's came back with a note saying they liked it and hoped to see more. It's no problem to sit and write 3-4 hours a day, it just feels like there's nothing worth writing about. There's nothing else in life I even like doing

>> No.18676344

>>18676311
How old are you now?!?!

Dude I'm 43 and life is STILL fun. Every. Single. Day.

>> No.18676360

>>18676311
>A story I sent to Harper's came back with a note saying they liked it and hoped to see more.

That's really impressive. I'd take that as a huge motivation. You should get back on the horse.

>> No.18676362

>>18676241
That sounds badass, I'll buy it if it's under $20 American

>> No.18676427

>>18676344
I'm 31
>>18676360
thanks, I think the stories I wrote came out of a place of indignation/anger that isn't there any more now that I'm in my 30s and comfortable. I write every day but nothing worthwhile comes out (I'm talking literally 2,000+ pages of unpublishable/uneditable shit)

>> No.18676430

>>18676362
Thanks. Standard pricing for self-published books is usually around $2 to $5 for digital copies. Self-published paperbacks are usually between $10 to $20. No name authors and lower page count lower the price. So it's definitely going to be below $20 if I ever get it done.

>> No.18676458

>>18676430
Hell yeah brother

>> No.18676769

>>18676427
Do you know why you are so blackpilled? (Other than the obvious clown world of 2021)

>> No.18676846

How do you publish poetry? Do you go to the with a single poem or a buch of them?

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>>18675940
I gave up.
I don't particularly enjoy writing even though I love daydreaming about dozens of book ideas.
I instead found a hobby that allows me to be artistic and requires a bit of esoteric expertise; and its something that I don't even imagine making money with or being "good" at which is freeing.

>> No.18678272

>>18675940
It really hasn't started at all. I'm making short stories for the fun of it and the valuable practice, but I'm rather unsure whether or not I should do it. I wouldn't mind writing as a side-gig

>> No.18678300

>>18677798
Why did you give up? Did you even release 1 book before giving up?

How far did you get?

>> No.18678337

i am writing a post card for someone else's birthday.
can't be that hard. i don't have to do inline citations and i am never mailing it out anyways, so might as well gift it to someone i can be see somewhat regularly in person. i am going show i can commit my thoughts for non-assignment based writing still.

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>>18675940
I stopped writing because I realized that I had nothing of worth to say.
I am aware that I exist but I am also aware that if I didn't, nothing would change.

>> No.18678370

>>18678360
How could you possibly say that about yourself?

>> No.18678383

>>18678370
I'm just done pretending to be a scholar is all.
I'm not suicidal, I'm not suffering from the human condition, I'm not battling my ego.
I am mediocre, just like 99% of everyone that has ever existed.

>> No.18678400

>>18678383
I mean... have you tried? What did you try and do that you failed at that would make you believe you are mediocre?

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i write a lot of poetry & have published three poems online... all unpaid... i only started to write in March of last year so i'd like to think for a beginner i'm doing quite well

>> No.18678477

>>18678469
Go go go!

>> No.18678497

>>18678469
this was one of the pieces I published and I'd like to say it's p. clever, if only just in the premise.


ODE TO FIBONACCI

love
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math
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for its
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ultimate
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complexities are
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beyond infinite-- glorious.
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if god exists, he hides amongst or within math:
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proof is in the constants, that which transcends math, that which existed even before time.

>> No.18680042

>>18676344
This post reeks of existential angst and depression

>> No.18680057

>>18676279
You're not a writer, Jason. You're sick in the head, get some help.

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>>18680042
Enjoy every day bro, you never know when it could be your last!