/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.414652]

Thinking of becoming a writer?

Don't.

Nothing more needs to be said.

[Anonymous No.414671]

/literature

[Anonymous No.414679]

[Anonymous No.414682]

>>414652
>Thinking of becoming a writer who makes a living solely on royalties from book sales?

>Don't.

>Nothing more needs to be said.

fix'd

[Anonymous No.414681]

Thinking 2+2=4?

Don't.

Nothing more needs to be said.

[Anonymous No.414691]

Thinking of starting a shitty, worthless thread?

Don't.

Nothing more needs to be said,

[Anonymous No.414692]

>>414681
>>414682
I mean nothing more needs to be said by literature.

[Anonymous No.414697]

>>414692
By that I mean everything that can be said about anything and everything has already been said better than you can hope to say it, and by better people than you.

[Anonymous No.414698]

>>414692

I will refute that statement.

[Anonymous No.414701]

nah, fuck you

[Anonymous No.414705]

>>414697

Channeling Ogden Nash, are we?

[Anonymous No.414716]

>>414705
Hadn't heard of him until now.

[Anonymous No.414720]

>>414698
Good luck...

[Anonymous No.414718]

>>414652
>>414682
This is a pretty terrible meme that I've seen pop up a lot by unimaginative faggots.

We live in one of the most interesting times in fucking history. No one has been able to do the kind of shit we're doing. There's so much to be said that no one knows where to begin.

Get out of your postmodern funk and get funky.

[Anonymous No.414726]

>>414720
You're gonna' need it!

[Anonymous No.414732]

>>414718
>>414705
>>414652

Also: King Solomon was saying this shit in fucking BC times.

I'm pretty sure he was proved wrong. A lot.

[Anonymous No.414738]

>>414732
>proved
>proved
>proved

[Anonymous No.414739]

>>414732
King Solomon knew about Ogden Nash? He must have had a direct line with God.

[Anonymous No.414745]

>>414718
I don't know that I'm all that unimaginative. I have written a lot of things, but have started to hate everything I have ever written.

I re-read some of my own stuff recently and hated it with absolutely no forgiveness of any of the flaws I saw. I took a freezing cold shower and beat myself with a stick, I hate myself and my fucking pathetic little head so goddamn much.

So give up, guys. I'm shit, we're all shit.

[Anonymous No.414759]

Remember Stephen King and J.K. Rowling.

If you are going to be an author, be the biggest whore possible. Don't write for yourself. Remember: the public has to buy it.

Writing a bestseller is a tactical exercise.

[Anonymous No.414770]

>>414759
I write for myself, then hate what I have written and then hate myself.

Writing kills you dead.

[Anonymous No.414775]

>>414770
Write for others, and hate them instead.

[Anonymous No.414779]

>>414770
There's no point in writing for yourself. It'll always be better in your head, so it's just wasted effort.

[Anonymous No.414781]

>>414775
You may be on to something here.

[Anonymous No.415419]

>>414745
Speak for yourself, dickhead.

[Anonymous No.415439]

"Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. "

[Anonymous No.415463]

>>415439
whatever keeps you from just staying in bed and dying...

[Anonymous No.415701]

Be the Brian Eno of the lit world: pop avant-garde.

[Anonymous No.415707]

>>414759
well said.

[Anonymous No.415731]

>>415439

While I'm at it, I'm might just start writing with on flowers instead of paper.

FALALALA

[Anonymous No.415732]

Write for writings sake

[Anonymous No.415734]

I saw a very inspirational speech by Salman Rushdie on the matter of whether one ought to write. His response was that writers, especially creative writers and authors, are in a unique position to offer perspective to the public at large and generate discourse. The reason is that they have no political platform.

Also, our world is changing drastically. There's plenty of stuff that needs to be said.

[Anonymous No.415759]

>>414738
>Implying proved isn't an acceptable version of the past tense of to prove.

[Anonymous No.415773]

You want to become a writer? Do it. A writer is someone who writes.

Want to make a career solely out of writing? Odds are more likely that /b/ will become a bastion of intelligent discussion.

Fucking write, if you have a story you need to get out. Put your words down, whether on paper or pixels. Don't be ashamed of it, unless you actually want someone else to read it.

[Anonymous No.415777]

>>415773
Writing as masturbation

[Anonymous No.415781]

>>415777

Isn't it, though? When you get right down to it?

[Anonymous No.415788]

>>415773
>>415777
soooo.... I get from this that once I am comfortable to masturbate in public I can become a successful writer. True?

[Anonymous No.415793]

>>415788

You're prepared to have you work read by others, sure.

[Anonymous No.415805]

>>415788

Not really. I've been fapping in the Holy Water at the nearby church for years, and I still won't let anyone get near my manuscripts.

[Anonymous No.416288]

hey dipshits: i spent the better part of my formative adult years wasting my time writing science fiction and self-indulgent, most-podernist lit. i mean thousands of pages. over a decade. i knew it was essentially a masturbatory exercise - but guess what? writing skills are transferable, they apply in practically any professional environment. and, apparently, most companies suffer from a severe shortage of capable writers. so, yeah, i bill $67/hr thanks to all that time i "wasted" writing, bitches.

[Anonymous No.416303]

>>414697
Considering historicity, I would disagree with this.

[Anonymous No.416321]

Thinking?

Don't.

Nothing more needs to be said.

[Anonymous No.416369]

>>414745
That sounds more like a personal problem.

Stop being a bitch, emo-pseudo-intellectual-troll.