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So when I was younger I wanted to make video games. As I got older I realized games arent the right medium for what I want to do and I cant do art or music. Since I am a shut in loser I figured I would make a great writer. /lit/ got any advice?

>> No.3351496

>Since I am a shut in loser I figured I would make a great writer. /lit/ got any advice?
Writers are social, m8.

>> No.3351499

what makes you different from anyone else

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3351511

Read books and think about them and read about what other people think of books.

That is literally the entirety of any profession writing.

>> No.3351514

>>3351496
It's more that he probably lacks life experience.

>> No.3351521

>>3351499
BURN.

>> No.3351542

>>3351514
In which case he still wont' be much of a writer.

>> No.3351544

>>3351511
Says the person who isn't a professional writer.

>> No.3351591

>>3351511
>Read books
>think about books
>read what other people think about books

No, that's how you become a great /lit/-user. A writer would produce something.

>> No.3351596

>>3351514
That depends. Ligotti is a shut-in and wracked with anxieties. So he writes about that sort of thing. Life-experiences are different from person to person, dude. It doesn't have to be "I went to Africa and hugged some poor people, now I'm super deep".

>> No.3351610

>>3351492
Same for the video game part. But I could totally be a musician, or a composer. But don't become a writer by default, because you can't do something else. That would be the worst you could do.

>> No.3351617

>>3351591
I would argue that being a great /lit/ user entails looking like you read and think about books while never actually doing so.

>> No.3351622

>>3351596
Writers are just people who fucking write. This search for a 'writer lifestyle' that all the posters on this board are trying to build for themselves has only turned up abstract, unconvincing results, and is on the same par with the search for 'real masculinity', or 'true scotsmen', or 'the way of the sword' and other such and so forth bullshit. If you want to get good at sword-fighting, man, practise sword-fighting - just read, write, and study.

>> No.3351624

>>3351617
You mistake "great" with "average". A great lit user would be intelligent, well-read and would enlighten the other users of lit on his area of expertise with clear and concise posts without being elitist about it.

>> No.3351632

>>3351622
I agree with you and that's why I think all these posts saying that people who "lack life experience" or "aren't special" are bullshit. If you write a lot you will get better at writing. There's no Lady of the Pretend Alcoholism to hand you the pen Excalibur from a bottle of wine. It's just writing.

>> No.3351634

>>3351596
>"I went to Africa and hugged some poor people, now I'm super deep".

Pretty sure that's just basic white girl stuff.

>> No.3351639

>>3351634
It is. But it is also a stereotypical example of (potentially feigned) life-experience.

"I went there, people were poor and it was terrible. I felt bad. Then I got on the plane and went back while uploading the pictures with my iPhone."

>> No.3351658

>>3351639
The "life experience" thing is just a misunderstanding of what writers really need to be capable of producing decent work, and that is good observational skills and empathy. Working in an Ugandan orphanage for a year won't do you any good as a writer if you're not looking very closely at what's going on around you during that time.

>> No.3351660

>>3351624
If by "would enlighten the other users" you mean get shouted down by them. The greatest /lit/ user would be the one who realizes this place is a pit before making a single post and jumps ship.

>> No.3351737

>>3351622
IMO to be a great(note, not "good") writer one has to be able to see things differently than a normal person. Brain responds to stimuli and changes if there is enough stimuli to do that(e.g note the longer one is solitary the harder it is to become social again). To be a great writer you need to give your brain different stimuli than what normal people's brains get. I mean, how many great writers there are who have 9-to-5 jobs and do nothing but watch TV and get drunk in their spare time?

>> No.3351739

>>3351660
or get reported by said users and banned, like monsieur guy.

>> No.3351740

>>3351737
ITT: pretending there isn't a great variety of writers, that writing is often only a product of thinking about certain things e.g. philosophy, art, stories, everyday life, or your dead cat, etc.

>> No.3351758

>>3351737
>how many great writers there are who have 9-to-5 jobs and do nothing but watch TV and get drunk in their spare time?

How many great writers are there in general? Fighting about who is great and who isn't is pretty much all we do here.

I reckon greatness is to a large extent in the eye of the beholder and that there is no reason a person who spends his life as a mexican hitman should intrinsically have greater insights than somebody with a cubicle job.

Mostly I think the 9-5 guys will be faced with the problem that their perspective is too similar to the competition and will as such have a harder time standing out from the crowd.

>> No.3351760

>>3351639
I think it's more about how you see the world, I guess.

Although, I'm thinking about Sumire from Sputnik Sweetheart a little.