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Why do you write?

There is plenty of shitty writings, there are countless mediocre books, there are more masterpieces than you will ever be able to read.

And yet you try to add to that. Why? Is it really necessary?

>> No.4436208

what?

>> No.4436214

Writing is fun. I like building characters and settings.

>> No.4436233

If you think every great writer starts out great you are mistaken.

>> No.4436232

Why wouldn't you want to (try to) create something beautiful?

>> No.4436236

>>4436204
Because I enjoy it, and only autists let things like that keep them from enjoying things.

Contrary to what the morons on /lit/ will tell you, you can improve your writing with hard work. It's not impossible.

>> No.4436249

>>4436233
excuse me?

>> No.4436304

OP never implied that you have no chance of becoming great (though most if not all of you will not, no matter how hard work you put in).
OP implied that the chance is minuscule. He also implied that even if you do, your general contribution to literature will be relatively insignificant. (Goethe was great, one of the greatest, but seriously, if he never existed, do you think the world would be so much worse?)

Now, if you claim that writing is always fun, than I have no objections.
But usually that is not the case, is it? Usually people get upset and frustrated with their own works, peoples' ambitions destroy them. And writing and ambition are inseparable. You write and you suffer, you become self-important and hate yourselves for that, is it not so? Indeed that is so.

>> No.4436322

>>4436204
$$$$$$$$$

>> No.4436340

it is my last hope for getting laid

>> No.4436382

I need to get it out of me. When I have an idea for a story, it's painful, it makes me suffer when I don't write it, I can't rest while I don't write it. I'd go crazy if I was not allowed to write.

I love it because it's so painful. When the process is over, I re-read and think "here's a good piece of shit", but at least it's not haunting me anymore.

>> No.4436400

>>4436304
'Let me just ask myself a question and then answer it'

Anyway OP - I write *because I have the urge to write*.

I think the feeling of transporting inner feelings into something permanent and outside the mind is why people write. They want to make people feel like how their favourite authors have made them feel - or make people feel how they feel.

It isn't really necessary, but it feels important to do it anyway. People write for entirely different reasons to why people who enjoy making things that are necessary make those things.

>> No.4436414

>>4436249
You have to write bad things to get better.

>> No.4436424

>>4436414
im published (first try, too). neener neener neeeen-er!

>> No.4436433

>>4436424
>im published

So is Stephanie Meyer.

>> No.4436437

>>4436424
so am I

in fact I am publishing my writing at this very moment

>> No.4436441

>>4436424
Stephanie Meyer is published.

>> No.4436442

>>4436433
>>4436437
rude.. :/

>> No.4436443

I want to make money.

>> No.4436446

>>4436433
But not you

>> No.4436453

>>4436442
oh didnt see you there >>4436441 you too, you little devil

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>>4436446

>> No.4436461

>>4436453
can... can I be your little devil too?

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4436465

Only motivation pic you'll ever need.

>> No.4436466

>>4436204
Why do you shitpost Anon ??

>> No.4436470

>>4436465
I'm going to put this on my wall.
thanks anon
thanon

>> No.4436469

>>4436466
It's good writing practice

>> No.4436473

>>4436470
you are actually too stupid to ever publish a book

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4436474

>>4436469
Lol'd

>>4436465
She's pretty hot

>> No.4436481

>>4436473
>implying

>> No.4436484

>>4436481
no, I am outright saying he is too stupid to publish a book

>> No.4436489

>>4436484
And calling him one makes it you are too

>> No.4436494

>>4436489
are you actually this dumb?

>> No.4436525

>>4436494
You can't have it both ways

>> No.4436563

>>4436494
>>4436525
Fucking hell

>> No.4436574

>>4436563
ur gay

>> No.4436629

>>4436304
>You write and you suffer, you become self-important and hate yourselves for that, is it not so? Indeed that is so.

Sounds like a pretty good time to me

>> No.4436655

>>4436204
Well for one I need to get rid of a few niggling mental fuckups, and I figure writing a story around them is the next best thing. Hell, if Kafka could do it then so can I.

For another, I'd like to make money off of that shit.

>> No.4436669

>>4436655
>niggling
fucking racist

>> No.4436679

>>4436669
>muh racism

>> No.4436684

>>4436679
what about your racism?

>> No.4436688

>>4436655
>niggling
>on par with Kafka
haah

>> No.4436691

>>4436684
>>[s4s]

>> No.4436713

I want to write something good

>> No.4436715

>>4436204
how do you think the "good ones" comes about?

it's more important to have a positive occupation that makes life better, the results are only relevant for the market and money chasers

>> No.4436760

I write because I have to.
I've experienced misery in my life more than some people have, at least in my upbringing. I typed a note once condemning everyone and their emotions as motivated by selfish reasons. I decided to type fiction to avoid finishing that note.

>> No.4436772

>>4436760
oooh, ouch!

watch out! next time please leave a warning for passers-by about your edge! now I'm bleeding!

>> No.4436782

>>4436772
Guess there was too much pomp there :/.
Short answer, sans my depression: writing is the only thing I find truly fulfilling.

>> No.4436803

>>4436204
It's about ME, damn it.

>> No.4436815

>>44riting is fun.

>> No.4436909

>>4436782
Stick to that answer in the future. Nobody really cares about the shit you've been through unless you make them care via fiction.