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3896184 No.3896184 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/ has a sticky for reading books, but there's no sticky for writing.

How do I start writing?
How did you start?

>> No.3896188

1) Have an idea for a story

2) Can you tell it best in prose?

3) If yes, get down a sentence

4) It's shit

5) Keep going anyway

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>>3896188
6) Keep it up for two decades until even you don't believe the lie
7) Instead of rejecting it, revel in it, and wind up with a macabre parody of the written word that spurns the history-spanning quest of mankind to congeal the universal aether into a lasting monument to discourse and cockteases your own innate need for meaning
8) You're the man now, dog.

>> No.3896232

>>3896200
Was Joyce just trolling the literary world with Finnegan's Wake?

>> No.3896234

Have a good ending, and give me characters I can care about.

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This list may help you.

>> No.3896241

>>3896232
at that level it doesn't really matter

>> No.3896292

>How do I start writing?
Find a Muse
>How did you start?
Meeting someone Awesome

>> No.3896313

>>3896184
Write a diary. Write everything. Write all the time.
Musicians never stop playing, well, you should never stop writing.

>> No.3896320

Have something to say? Write it down. Have nothing to say? Live your miserable life.