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I want to write beautiful poems and novels but have zero experience and no idea where to start. What should I do, /lit/?

>> No.23337731
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23337731

How do I become a writer?


I want to write

beautiful poems

and novels

and no idea where to start

but

have zero experience.


What should I do, /lit/?


How do I become a writer?

>> No.23337743

>>23337711
start making crappypasta and post on the creepypasta website and work on your prose without very high standards on you anonimously until you get comfortable enough to start a serious piece which you send out to a publisher when ready. this is what i am doing. this is I dont like horror.

>> No.23337745

>>23337731
who is she?

>> No.23337748

>>23337731
Slant verse is a low, especially for you, cumgenie.

>> No.23337752

>>23337711
You don't, the world has enough hack writers whose books end up at dollar tree.

>> No.23337757

>>23337752
I don't want to publish anything, I will just do it as a hobby.

>> No.23337763

>>23337748
Are you retarded?

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>>23337711
Read this, for a start

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>>23337711
This meme is a mandatory reply. Now for some simple advice.
>Read what you LIKE and allow yourself to imitate
>Craft books are a meme
>Accept that literature is a very long path and will take a while to get good at, maybe even your entire life
>Some craft books are not a meme
>Just fugging write :DD

>> No.23337777

Reading and writing are intertwined, but I feel like the dismissive "keep reading" advice given here is missing something. If you uncritically read things you like, yes, you will passively "absorb" their writing style into your own. You'll fail to understand *why* they wrote in such a way and end up making random blunders in judgement like purpose prose or tonal shifts. Don't feel too bad about this, because there's a good chance those you look up to were doing it inadvertently, too. My advice is to try and read those things more critically: ask yourself why they used certain literary techniques, avoided others, what you think could have been done better, what you think you might've done worse.
Writing as a profession or hobby is just like drawing, there's an endless continuum from your first work to your last and you will certainly look back on your prior works and cringe. Everyone does it, don't feel bad about it. But just like you critically examine your favorites, don't forget to critically examine yourself. Otherwise you'll stagnate like the deviantart autists drawing the same thing for decades on end.

>> No.23337790

>>23337777
>purpose prose
meant purple prose, which does sometimes have a reason to exist, but most of the time just looks like autofellatio.
>>23337776
All of this is good advice, and this probably is a bait thread, but it's still worth giving out to any would-be lurkers.

>> No.23337800

>>23337776
Lmao the perfect image.