/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4463419]

Why haven't you finished your novel yet?

[Anonymous No.4463423]

I'm a reader in a world full of wannabe writers.

[Anonymous No.4463424]

>>4463423
Good on you. We need more readers.

[Anonymous No.4463429]

[Anonymous No.4463496]

I have to git gud first.

[Anonymous No.4463500]

>>4463496

What's your git repository? Maybe I could help.

[Anonymous No.4463501]

>>4463419
studying
working
music rehearsals

[Anonymous No.4463523]

>>4463496
Same. I write a little bit of my novel here and there. but mostly work on other stuff and some short stories. I have something really important I want to say and I'm afraid that I'm going to fuck it up without more experience and training.

[Anonymous No.4463526]

>>4463523
At least, important to me.

[Anonymous No.4463531]

because I don't write

[Anonymous No.4463533]

kill yourself / get rekt

[Anonymous No.4463534]

>>4463500
Right now, I'm just lazy; and I need to meet more people.

[Anonymous No.4463767]

Because it was kind of going nowhere and I'm not in a manic phase anymore and whenever I would read the chapter I just wrote I hated it.

[Anonymous No.4463828]

>>4463419
Only working on shorter projects (20k words or less) until I'm ready for the big one.

[Anonymous No.4463845]

>>4463534
Just kill yourself. You don't need anything. You just need to sit down and do the fucking work.

[Anonymous No.4463880]

>>4463845
Woah slow down there edgelord

[Anonymous No.4463908]

I've realised I am incredibly weak willed, unimaginative, naive, nowhere near as clever as I thought or was told, I lack the fundamental experience of the craft, and I'm unable to focus on a project for long enough to bring it to a satisfying whole.

[Anonymous No.4463925]

>>4463908
Finally some fucking truth in this thread. Let the fucking hug box die. Also it is the fucking truth. It just comes down to sitting down and doing the work.

[Anonymous No.4463947]

>>4463845
Eh, I'm outlining everything to get accustomed. Calm the edges.

[Anonymous No.4463956]

Because I am a shite writer who can't help but create characters after people in my own life and then I feel bad about putting them in bad situations.

[Anonymous No.4463967]

depressed easily-distracted don't know where to start not even on punctuation

[Anonymous No.4463990]

>>4463967
I know this exact feel. I just resort to reading Hemingway and salivating over his somehow pitch perfect usage of punctuation.

[Anonymous No.4464007]

Can't put it into words.

[Anonymous No.4464010]

>>4463423
This. I will write a novel when I have an idea and the knowledge and skill to execute something worth reading

[Anonymous No.4464014]

>>4463419
'batin'.

[Anonymous No.4464421]

When I was working on my first novel, I would get angry with myself for spending days thinking and not writing. I did this for years; I was really hard on myself. But when I finished writing it, I saw that all the thinking had helped, had kept me from writing scenes or sequences that were perfunctory, so that when I actually did sit down to write it, I wrote only what I wanted. Now that I understand this, the second book is a lot easier.

(No agent or publisher for the first one, tho.)

[Anonymous No.4464423]

I'm not writing a novel.

[Anonymous No.4464425]

>>4463419
>novels
>this year

only hipsters read novels and even they do so ironically

[Anonymous No.4464429]

I don't know how to write yet.

[Anonymous No.4464474]

I am the novel.

[Anonymous No.4464579]

>>4463908
I have felt this before. What an incredible amount of ego it takes for people to be famous, you know? To think others care of what they do or think.

But then, you must remember, there are people who DO care. And that's what makes it so truly absurd.

[Anonymous No.4464628]

>>4463423
Keep up the good work. You read the books while I'll make the money

[Anonymous No.4464639]

>>4463419
I have finished it. Nobody will publish it because I support pedophilia throughout the book and one of the potential publishers contacted the FBI

[Anonymous No.4464641]

>>4463419
Lack of time

[Anonymous No.4464666]

>>4464641
"Lack of time," he posts on 4chan. Only a few more hours of hitting refresh and he can get at that book he's writing.

[Anonymous No.4464710]

I don't have much of a desire to write. I prefer doing nothing.

[Anonymous No.4464733]

>>4464666
I chuckled heartily

[Anonymous No.4464779]

>>4463956
That is a tool, anon, not a bad habit. Love your characters but don't get attached to them.

I dont really have the vocabulary or fluidity on the language as I would like to publish, but I've certainly finished worldbuilding and just need to put hands on the matter.
In other words: Im procrastinating.

[Anonymous No.4465668]

*PLEASE GET YOUR ATTENTION HERE*

For anyone that has not started writing in any form, but reads: I learned from music that you have to practice writing no matter what skill level you are because writing is completely different from reading and practicing, even if you dont publish or show anyone. Im assuming since music is a language this translates to everything involved with language so fucking get to it.

[Anonymous No.4465672]

>>4465668
1. i didnt choose that picture
2. its not even saved on my computer, now that ive looked
3. <thats what i chose

where the fuck did that picture come from, its not even on my computer
im legit scared

[Anonymous No.4465674]

>>4465672
Happens sometimes when two people post a picture at the exact same time.

[Anonymous No.4465679]

>>4465672
do you see that little black dot above the tail, i cant see anything except it now

[Anonymous No.4465684]

>>4465674
>>4465672
And yet Lawrence of Arabia is a perfect illustration of "get-to-it-iveness". 4chan, like God, works in mysterious ways.

[Anonymous No.4465776]

>>4463419
Because oh snap here come another interesting idea.

>tfw making drafts for 4-5 novels at a time

[Anonymous No.4465780]

Finished? I haven't even gotten started and I only have a vague idea of what it's about.

[Anonymous No.4465811]

>>4463419
>finished

hahahahaha

i haven't even started faggot

[Anonymous No.4465882]

I haven't finished yet because I'm still writing it, and I'm a slow fucking writer to boot.

Also, it's the first novel I am set on actually completing, therefore I'm not getting too attached to it because I know it will probably turn out sub-par at best. At best.

>tfw

Anyone else have this problem?

[Anonymous No.4465903]

>>4465882
yiss ;_;

[Anonymous No.4465909]

Because I only write short stories, only like short stories and don't want to write anything that's longer than a short story.

[Anonymous No.4465918]

>>4463419
I have, after a year of daily work. I'm currently revising my synopsis.