/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23261912]

>write a couple of pages
>feel pretty good about them
>read them the next day
>it's cringe shit
Oh God...

[Anonymous No.23261921]

>>23261912
That's normal. Happened to me too. You just have to keep going and that sensation will lessen. Also, all first drafts are cringe, your job as an editor is to make them less so.

[Anonymous No.23261926]

>>23261912
/wg/

[Anonymous No.23261954]

>>23261912
Put on the blinders for cringe, think about fat stacks, and write a few more pages, repeat

[Anonymous No.23261959]

>>23261912
Maybe don't write drunk. Why does everyone think they're hemingway or Thompson and that they can write such profound shit but only when I'm fucked up tho

[Anonymous No.23261972]

>>23261959
Well, I did have some tea, but I doubt the caffeine gave me that much high.

[Anonymous No.23261974]

>>23261912
Happened to me with drawings, must be a normal artist thing.

[Anonymous No.23262029]

>>23261912
Art and fucking are all about self-acceptance. Cringe and gay, but quite true.

[Anonymous No.23262599]

This happens to me constantly, my best advice would be to just leave it for a day or two, then go back to it. For me, this tends to lessen the feeling of what I have written is terrible. I then edit and expand on what I have written, most of the time, I finish it and am happy with the result.

[Anonymous No.23262622]

>>23261926
>um this isn't r/wg/
The redditification of 4chan dismays the enlightened anonymous poster. Why does there need to be a general for everything now?

[Anonymous No.23262625]

That's totally normal

[Anonymous No.23262655]

>>23262622
Most of the time generals suck anyway. It's always the same 5-10 mega autists with inside jokes and retarded conversations.

[Anonymous No.23262668]

>pull up my manuscript
>read though a chapter
>it's not very good
>identify what needs to be changed
>write a new introduction
>reorganize some things
>add something that was missing
>new draft is 100x better, faster, punchier
I'm a literary genius.