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>write
>it's shit
>feel shit
>don't write
>feel shit
>read what I used to write
>it's good
>feel even shittier

feels

>> No.6750001
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6750001

>>6749982
Obligatory quote.

>> No.6750071

>>6749982
who are those semens demens

>> No.6750087

>>6750001
not OP but that quote gave me a warm fuzzy tickle in my gooch, thank you

>> No.6750120

>>6750001

I don't really think it matters or not whether you have good taste. You're just shit at things when you are start out and impatient people or adolescents don't quite know this yet.

It's not specific to creative people. I think for writers specifically the problem is that they don't know what they are trying to do when they begin. Later you start to actually understand what it is you are interested in and what it is you want to do which makes everything come together.

>> No.6750147

>>6749982
Just for once I want to screw girls like this.

>> No.6750151

>>6750001
I'd feel a lot better about this quote if Ira Glass hadn't made it. That guy's not really much of an artist; he makes a middlebrow radio program that collects the stories of other people. He's certainly a professional, but his creative input is somewhat minimal if you ask me. He has a team of editors, producers, and writers who organize and find the stories, and he hosts their presentation. He's a talking head

>> No.6750162

>>6750120

Also thinking about it - a lot of young people will struggle so much because they have such awful taste. They'll read nothing but 19th century Russian literature or pomo shit and then wonder why contemporary readers think they suck when they don't even know what a story is.

>> No.6750255

>>6750162
yep yep.

the mental trap would-be writers fall into, and that /lit/ seems particularly susceptible to, is basically this. the pleb-patrician dichotomy, thinking readers > everyone else, all that is part of it, but possibly the biggest mistake is refusing to read anything that isn't "god-tier."

genre fiction is an excellent teacher

>> No.6750412

>>6750255
Now, this statement interests me. I'm currently reading a "genre-fiction" book and I find it absolutely dull and unappealing. I'm not even halfway done.

Why is it that I should read books like this as opposed to masterpieces? Would I not enjoy reading a masterpiece much more than reading trite?

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6750558

>wake up
>post frogs demeaning strangers on image boards
>feel more creative
>get to work on my project

>> No.6750606

stop posting erector vectors in our board pls

>> No.6750677

>>6750147
Like twenty bucks plus condoms.

>> No.6750864

>>6750001
>Nobody wish good taste. gap. just not that good. trying potential, not. taste, got still killer. never interesting, creative years special thing all gotta normal most important do a lot of work. deadline volume of work your ambitions. normal gotta fight Ira Glass

>> No.6750880

>>6750412
I think anon's talking about reading from a writers perspective. You can't see why a book is bad if you only read the best books.
I bet you could write a huge list of all the things you dislike in the book you're reading now, and for a writer they would be less likely to fall into those pitfalls if they read shitty books so they are more aware of them.

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>>6750864
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