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WRITING MOTIVATION THREAD

GO WRITE

YOU'RE NOT A WRITER IF YOU DON'T WRITE

YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO WRITE WELL WITHOUT WRITING FIRST

NO EXCUSES

HOW MANY WORDS DID YOU WRITE TODAY?

>> No.6269605

Thanks but I won't

>> No.6269608

>>6269599
If I get published will Zadie notice me?

>> No.6269609

>>6269605

your loss

>> No.6269611

I'm coming up with the plot for my first novel. It's not coming to me easily, and if I had it planned out I'd be writing today.

>> No.6269615

i spent all day looking for a room i can afford on my poverty level wages because liberal arts is lower than digging ditches

>> No.6269618

>>6269615

Why don't you be a technical writer?

>> No.6269619

>>6269599
bbut i have a raging boner. what do?
no its not from ur pic op

>> No.6269622

>>6269618
tell me a place that will hire me and i will

>> No.6269628

Gonna do my 10 pages (of screenplay, not prose) after I eat dinner. Working as a dishwasher if exhausting, but it's worth it if I get to write at the end of the day!

>> No.6269630

>>6269622

Just download Indeed job app and search technical writer. Did you major in English, philosophy or what?

>> No.6269633

oh, but i do write

i recommend trashy erotica for starters

you can publish a short story EVERY DAY and have incredible fun with it

>> No.6269637

>>6269628
are you mexican or something? how the hell did you get a gig washing dishes? check your hispanic privilege

>> No.6269641

>>6269619

write a page and then reward with yourself with masturbation

DO NOT MASTURBATE FIRST

>> No.6269645

>>6269630
history, so i guess maybe that's "social science" but i go for the interpretation of documents style "history" and not the "i'm going to list sociological statistics in narrative form and call it history" style of history...

>> No.6269658

>>6269641
too late anon. my right hand is in my pants

>> No.6269689

I composed about 1000 words as of now.
Been blocked the past week or so though--wasn't quite sure about the consistency of the plot and how i was to keep the story interesting between events.
My goal is to finish the novel before the end of June.

>> No.6270121

>>6269599
>GO WRITE
It's the story of Dieter.
Violent father, suicidal mother who takes it out on her child. Very manipulative woman.
Dieter tries to be good, but he's very self-destructive. He feels guilty about being self-destructive.
Later, as a young man, Dieter tries to get help. He doesn't think he's crazy, but his parents tell him to go see a psychologist, and out of humility, he thinks he shouldn't feel he's above this. The shrink tells him he shouldn't feel guilty, shouldn't self-destruct so much. So Dieter tries to stop self-destructing and tries to get his shit together. He had basically become the only problem in his family.
Now he stands out and doesn't like it. He tries to solve his problems, but it does not work.
He goes to new shrinks who tell him his problem is entitlement.
Dieter feels very bad about this and punishes himself for being entitled. He starts questioning the idea that he has rights, like the right to be happy, the right to be loved.
Then he finds a book saying he shouldn't be so hard on himself. So he tries to relax and love himself. His life improves for a few months. But it doesn't last. He still doesn't have a career and drowns in money problems.
Now he realizes that he should try to find a balance between being too harsh and being too soft on himself.
But it doesn't work either.
So Dieter eventually hangs himself with 4 intertwined guitar cables.
His family finds a note :
>Mother, father, you never loved me. You never loved each other either. You probably didn't even love yourselves. As much as I could gather, your parents didn't love you a lot either.
>But you never knew real hardships in your life so you managed to live your life without love. You didn't need it. It was business as usual.
>When I faced unemployment, that's when I needed love.
>But apparently our family didn't have the love gene. That's why we're dying today. I'm sorry you don't have grandchildren. I hope you can forgive what I'm about to do. I feel very peaceful.
>Love, Dieter.
His parents buried him. They felt shame, anger, sadness, but above all, they felt guilt. What have we done wrong? They felt very lonely because they had no religion, and no grandchildren.
So death felt to them very crude, violent and meaningless. Nothing was waiting for them on the other side. The father lost himself in work. The mother, in sacrifice. Their daughter, though very wealthy, was sterile. The parents both died of cancer. This is their story.

>> No.6271487

I know I shouldn't be stuck on something as basic as a word processor, but I don't know what I should use. Basically, I'm making excuses for myself.

>> No.6271506

>>6269599
> GO WRITE
CALM THE FUCK DOWN, GUY. I'M ABOUT TO.
> YOU'RE NOT A WRITER IF YOU DON'T WRITE
FUCK YOU PAL, I'M WRITING ON MY FAVORITE MEMEBOARD RIGHT NOW.
> HOW MANY WORDS DID YOU WRITE TODAY?
5,369 MOTHERFUCKER, AND I'M ABOUT TO DIVE IN FOR ROUND TWO.

Seriously though, I haven't had a day this productive in months. It's been like, a week and a half since I last wrote, but something about today has just been working for me.

>> No.6271511

>>6271506

wtf 5369 words

what are you writing and how good is it

>> No.6271641

>>6271511
It's nothing to brag about, really. I was just trying to motivate myself.

It's an adventure series, and as far as quality is concerned, I don't really know. This is still the rough draft, so it's probably terrible, but I have a beta reader who's reading it as I write it, and they seem to be enjoying it for what it is.

The stuff I've done today is alright, by my standards, but maybe I'm just blinded by the afterglow. I've been looking forward to writing the scenes after this for so long, pushing through just felt so liberating, hence the excitement.

>> No.6271661

>>6271487
I've just been using a pirated version of Word. Are you meaning to tell me there's better options out there?

>> No.6271765

Is rewriting writing?

>> No.6271903

>>6271765

yes

>> No.6271918

>>6269599
thank you for doing these threads, OP. They really do inspire me to write. I've been doing at least 1k for the past month without missing a single day.

>> No.6271943

>tfw try to write and can't find/develop a single idea worth committing more than a sentence too
Fuck

>> No.6271953

>>6271641
>adventure series
shiggggyyy

>> No.6271959

>>6271943
write about how much of a talentless hack you are then

>> No.6271960

>>6271959
>being mean on the internet

>> No.6271973

>>6269658
>not continuously masturbating just with varying degrees of commitment.

>> No.6272673

>>6271973
>just with varying degrees of commitment.
wut

>> No.6272743
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6272743

>I want to
>but I moved into a different country
>I want to write in english instead of my native
>I have no problems with english, speaking fluently, reading classics, etc
>no confidence
>no proofreader
>misery
help

>> No.6273060

I wrote 7915 words yesterday. It's all hogwash though, but I doubt I'll try and publish it. It's more of a hobby than anything else.

>> No.6273597

BUMP ITS A NEW DAY

HAVE YOU WRITTEN YET?

ITS SUNDAY

YOU HAVE LOTS OF TIME AND ENERGY

STOP PLAYING VIDEO GAMES OR WATCHING TV OR JERKING OFF FOR AN HOUR AND WRITE

"NOBODY LIKES WRITING, EVERYBODY LIKES HAVING WRITTEN"

>> No.6273607

>>6273597
Is it true that no one likes writing?
Surely it can't be

>> No.6273611

>>6273607
no-one likes working

everybody

outside of these rare bouts of inspiration, writing is work

therefore

no-one likes writing

>> No.6273614

>>6272743
believe in yourself anon, this adversity will become your strength.

>> No.6273625

>>6273607

it also distinguishes writing from other arts: like artists generally enjoy drawing, painting (etc), musicians enjoying playing their instruments and so on


no other craft really has the equivalent of "writer's block"

>> No.6273859

>>6269599
saw this thread and wrote 500 words thanks op heres a bump

>> No.6273958

>>6269633
Hey, you or anyone else who writes erotica, does this actually pay anything? Do you self-publish on Amazon or wherever? Also, how long are your stories? I wrote one a while back but it was pretty short. It was also pretty much just the sex part, no romance or any background or anything.

>> No.6273970

>>6273597
I hate going to the gym.
I feel great when I get back from the gym.

Is it kind of like that?

>> No.6274079

>>6273970
or even better.
When I have an actual story in mind and I finally get my shit together and sit down to write, I can barely stop.

>> No.6274086

I wrote a short conspiracy pamphlet and published it to Kindle

>> No.6274108

>>6269599
b-but I dont want to be a writer

>> No.6275425

>>6273607
i like writing. it comes easily now but only after years of learning how to get into the groove

>> No.6275453

>>6274086
Is publishing to Kindle easy to do, and do you retain all rights?

>> No.6275463

1250 words, just like every day you lazy fucks

>> No.6275467

>>6274108
Me neither, anon. I still wrote 2000 words for fun.

>> No.6275476

>>6269599
why would i need a thread to tell me to do something i already do?

>> No.6276908

>>6273625
Composing, you shit. Musicians are a bunch of happy go lucky string strumming fucks, composers are the important ones, and they get serious blocks too.

>> No.6278464

>>6273958
bump for interest in this

>> No.6278671

>>6275453
Here's the website. I've not published anything yet, but I heard from some anons who have that you do keep the rights.

https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A3R2IZDC42DJW6

>> No.6278684

>>6273958
I remember a thread last week from a guy who would publish short, shitty sex novels. I think he was making okay cash from them on Amazon with mostly sex parts, about 1000 words and up to ten pages a book. The sweet spot for pricing is like $2.99 if I recall correctly.