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>your age

>your job

>your /lit/erary ambition(s)

>> No.8373677

>>8373672
>18
>Psych undergrad
>enjoy the ride i guess

>> No.8373689

>22
>unemployed for the past 2 months, almost finishng law school
>i just like literature

>> No.8373694

>>8373672
18
Student
Writing a metamodern Don Quixotte about a man living totally in consumerist culture ideals and forcing women to sniff his neck because the commercials showed how women love to smell men with some parfume

>> No.8373702

18
Student
To become a meme philosopher, and a philosopher of memes

>> No.8373704

>>8373677
>>8373694
>>8373702
Damn it sucks to be one of the older /lit/ users

>> No.8373734

>>8373704
-0.75 yrs
swimmer
it's p comfy in this place, hope i don't end up a failure

>> No.8373750

>>8373672
19
PolSci student, but i am most likely going to switch, i don't want to become a bureucrat anymore.
Maybe get my poems published, but i am not crazy about it.

>> No.8373758

>18
>IT, going back to school next year for engineering
>

>> No.8373791

>>8373704
get fucked you dickhead

>> No.8373868

>>8373672
18

Currently seeking my own way

I hope one day to make a great stir in philosophical circles. I know the journey will not be easy, but I'm pretty certain that I'll be at least as famous as Kant. In fact, he is my first target (if you excuse the military lingo); I will publish my Critique of Critique of Pure Reason in a few months, once I get started on it. I already have a few ideas!

Wish me luck, friends. And remember my name (so you can screencap this and say you knew me before I got big); Ashley Pinton.

>> No.8373910

21

English Undergrad

Build up a decent collection of self-publish books throughout my early life (close to publishing my first this year). Maybe look into traditional publishing after I've built up a steady discipline from it. I'm trying to look into my own personal satisfaction of the finished book over making money at the moment.

>> No.8373931

23

Sales

Publish a book by 28 and retire from the job market by 40

>> No.8374044

>>8373931
>wanting to be alive at the age of 40

Literally retarded

>> No.8374054

28
NEET for the last five years
ataraxia

>> No.8374082

>20
>Student
>Write a book im satisfied with

>> No.8374218

>all these 18 yo
No wonder this border is so psued

>> No.8374220

>>8373672
>20
>NEET
>>having ambitiions

>> No.8374235

>>8374218
Some of them are probably younger.

>> No.8374334

>>8373672
>22
>walmarteer
>writing a long form poem about the idea that the universe is just a god with DID interacting with itself.

>> No.8374370

Every
Single
Day

>> No.8374435

>>8374235
I wouldn't doubt it. I'll remember that next time someone replies to my post

>> No.8374444

>>8373672
>18

>College student ( going for journalism)

>Would like to stop procrastinating and write some short stories, maybe a short novel or two someday.

>> No.8374445

>>8374435
You shouldn't doubt it. I've been posting for years, and I turned eighteen a few days ago. The underage levels on 4chan in general are fairly high, I think about the third highest bracket (behind 18-24 and 25-30, IIRC).

>> No.8374467

>23
>advertising company minion
>to see a revision of nicaea in my lifetime

does that count?

>> No.8375200

That's the image I remember, the one I associate with these threads. There were times when even I thought my memories were yellow or purple (not the prose, because memories are sensual impressions left on the mind, whatsoever they may evoke notwithstanding; the mind doesn't codify its impressions as sentences, whether complete or fragmentary, but more multifarious and hierarchical (hieratic?) than the stylized plop of modernist vainguardists).

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8375215

>19

>student

(every blog thread until forever)
>make friends

>> No.8375233

19

Retail, going back to Uni in a few months

Maybe get some novels published, have a philosophical text I'd like to work on but it's fairly Egoist-derivative to the point I'm afraid reading Stirner would depress me. Would love to write some scifi but I don't have the creativity in me to make things up

>> No.8375376

>>8375233
Creativity is probably one of the less important aspects of writing sci-fi or fantasy.

>> No.8375419

>>8375376
this.

>>8375233
Go for it, man.

>> No.8375505

>>8373672
22
Working on LiDAR images for the summer, otherwise a student
The next Great American Novel, or a novel featuring a revolving cast of characters that's set in a country transitioning from a dictator to a more democratic government. The story is set up with no definite ending between the pro- and anti-democratic reform movements.

>> No.8375514

22
"Production Associate"
I'm starting to realize I'm not very good at writing. Either that or I don't have any reason I should feel confident in it.

>> No.8375524

19
Student (not English major)
Want to self polish some shit tier genre fiction "novel" on kindle, laugh it off, and then call it a career.

>> No.8375527

>>8375524
*publish, not polish

>> No.8375537

23
Retail - looking at possibly going to uni just to escape this wageslavery hell for a bit
Read more

>> No.8375541

21

Biochemistry and Cell Biology Major

My life is consumed by science and I'm just trying to fill the void with some humanities. In the works of writing a novel, coming out a little too edgy than I'd like it to sound though.

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8375546

>19
>Bartender/student
>world-famous and professional John Green harasser

>> No.8375570
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8375570

>24
>student/percussion tech

I want to eventually teach college level percussion ensembles in addition to playing in a real orchestra

>> No.8375594

>28
>lawyer
>gave up

>> No.8375601

>>8375594

>lawyer

Well there's your problem

>> No.8375603

>21
>implying i'd be a wageslave cuck for a minimum wage job; engineering major
>no literary ambitions at the moment but maybe if the stars are right ill start scribbling on paper someday

>> No.8375615

>>8375601
Nah, my problem is that I lack the talent to be anything but a mediocre writer.

>> No.8375631

>>8375603
Nigger are you joking? Unless you're running your own firm OR you're super passionate about the work, then an Engineering is a higher tier of wageslavery. My flatmate who graduated last year is doing almost 60-70hrs a week.

>> No.8375686

22
Canadian Naval Reserves/Uni Student
Finish the Greeks

>> No.8375706

I hope one day to finish editing the massive number of documents I have produced. And find where I put them. Where the fuck did I put them?

>> No.8375816

24
Student/Artist(got ill so just now finishing my degree)
I just enjoy Philosophy

>> No.8375841

>20
>Student
>Become proficient enough in French, so I can read untranslated Francophone authors.

>> No.8375852

>>8373868
Good luck ash

>> No.8375853

>>8375631
i think you misunderstood me
i said that i wouldn't be a wageslave cuck for a MINIMUM WAGE job

im perfectly fine with being a wageslave cuck for double that

my body is worth more than a few dollars an hour; i sight my sights high

>> No.8375863

>>8375853
set my sights high* sorry
and i probably wont stop there either
ill go to med school because my body is worth even more than that

>> No.8375890

>>8373672

24
clerk in government (just like Heraclitus and Democritus!)
Read the entirety of Classical Latin and Greek /lit/ in the original and in chronological order, then re-read it (I'm about a third of the way through Latin, and I still haven't learned Greek).

>> No.8376872

>>8375376
>>8375419
The unironic support here is pretty meaningful, thanks

>> No.8376951

>24
>On employer disability for paranoid schizophrenia

I just want to write a single, perfect novel about the beauty and optimism of a meaningless universe. Then I want to get very drunk, wander out into the snow, and die.

>> No.8377022

>>8375233
Don't let the slog of university get you down. You're going back to it fresh-faced and tired of drudgery, and the tedious reality of busywork might fail to meet your expectations and subtly bum you out.

Remember, university is what you make of it. Go into every course and assignment asking how it fits into your plans and goals, rather than strapping into each one like a roller coaster car with a set path and destination. One shitty first-year survey course that barely forces you to dip your toes into real literature can be an opportunity to read all the Romantic poets like a crazy faggot, if you want. Or something else that interests you. Put your own meat on the skeleton you're given. Go to all your professors and TAs during office hours and ask for the "real" syllabus, the readings they'd assign if the class weren't full of dickheads who barely care.

With your project, the seed is more important than the idea at this point. You're 19, so the next 6-10 years of your life are going to be a nonstop series of reversals, where every six months or so you realise that you were a total retard six months ago. For most people, this process is just a gradual adjustment to mediocrity, since it's when all their naive dreams get smashed against the rocks of mundane daily life. But if you're immersing yourself in mind-expanding shit like philosophy and literature, it's the complete opposite. Each reversal hooks onto the possibility that you can surmount it, sound the flaws in your current ideas to discover their "real" form, and it becomes a really fucking exciting process of growth, where each level of your consciousness is qualitatively higher and sublates the previous states. By the time you actually hammer out your idea, which will take years of this, it will have changed into something that might seem completely different superficially, but when you look at it in relief, you will realise it is the organic growth of the poetic idea you have now.

Being 19 sucks and is also great. You're basically a fucking retard right now. But if you don't give up and you keep going through the ringer of conceptual revolutions, in 5~ years you'll see what I mean. Your philosopical idea right now is the equivalent of a young Kant reading Hume and kinda-sorta getting it, and adumbrating the deduction of the categories without even realising it. Even "I kinda wanna write some scifi" will gel into real ideas and passions if you don't let it wither on the vine.

You can't get any tactile feedback on anything at 19, so it's easy to assume you're mediocre and that ideas are these brittle things that fit into boring fucking pegs. Just keep sticking your dick in the pegs, and when you're a bit older everything clicks.

Sorry for longposting I am autistic.

>> No.8377110

>>8373672
22

NEET

Being able to survive off my writing, don't need to have a movie based off everything I write like Stephen King. Just want to be able to do it as a job. I hear smut pays well

>> No.8377305

>>8373672
22
neet
I wanna write Harlequin romance novels under a female pseudonym no, really. that's actually what I wanna do. I eat that shit up

>> No.8377330

19

Restaurant

Write for Vydia or just novels

Trying to catch up after years of not reading

>> No.8377429

>>8377022
good post anon thnku

>> No.8377436

>>8373672
18
going to college eventually
wanna be a good writer

>> No.8377440

>25
>medician
>i really like /lit/ and reading
>this year i started to try to make a career in the world of literature (obviusly in my country; which is chile); been sending some short stories to a lot of contestss

>> No.8377475

21
Philosophy / History student at uni
Become a writer/educator, inside or outside of academia

>> No.8377482

>>8373672
>23
>HVAC repair
>Just want to have someone genuinely enjoy my first novel
I've been published with a few short stories and my first full novel comes out late this year/early next year depending on some shit I have no control over.

>> No.8377485

>>8377482
>tfw want to share your work with /lit/ don't want them to know your identity in case they shitpost you to oblivion

hope you book does well anon

>> No.8377532

>>8377485
Thanks, I appreciate that. The fucked up part is that I know /lit/ and 4chan in general isn't a bad way to gather opinions from people without them being inclined to pretend they like it just because they know me like most people I've shown my stuff to.
If only there weren't so many edgefags.

>> No.8377538

>19
>Student
>Nothing really, just want a better understanding of the world and people

>> No.8377575

>>8377305
>not calling yourself jack the bodice ripper

>> No.8377673

23
butcher
none

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8377851

>40

>elevator technician

> have sci fi series published. Finish "devil" book. Self publish edglord novel under different name, Write second sci fi series, write WW1 book, write hacker trilogy, write movie script, write stage play, keep writing. Start own writers group, encourage and mentor younger generation of writers

>> No.8377929

>>8373672
>your age
20

>your job
NEET, just dropped out of med school (it's in the UK so I don't even have another degree to fall back on)

>your /lit/erary ambition(s)
Not really sure to be honest. I've always read a lot and I find that I'm reading a lot more justnow, though a lot of that's probably escapism. I won a couple of prizes in school for short stories that I had to write for English and I've started writing short stories again mainly as a distraction. I know I'll almost certainly never write anything of substance or that's publishable but I find myself fantasising about it as an antidote for a lot of angst and uncertainty I'm going through at the moment.

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8377935

>>8377929
I believe in you, anon. You can do it. Outline a simple story and write it. Then do two short stories that take place in the same universe. By then you should be able to do a full novel. Don't give up. I have every confidence you can do anything you put your mind to

>> No.8377959

>>8377929

> just dropped out of med school

why? Could have powered through it and gotten into research or smt

>> No.8378030

>>8377935
Thanks man, I'll try to stick at it
>>8377959
It was a variety of things to be honest. I wasn't in a particularly good place mentally and I'd come to the realisation that I really didn't want to be a doctor.

I enjoyed the academic stuff but there's a tonne of bullshit that goes along with it (forced "reflection" with no scope for any insight beyond what they've told you to say, no right to a private life etc.) and unfortunately my university in particular placed a huge emphasis on clinical skills to the detriment of science teaching.

I'd been considering dropping out all year, and when I marginally failed my first OSCE (largely due to the cock-up of the invigilator) I was that pissed off and unmotivated I decided not to go back for the resits.

>> No.8378042

>36

>unemployed and unemployable.

>Get one of my books published.

>> No.8378209

How do NEETS survive? Not just rent, but being able to afford drinks and wing night and stuff.

>> No.8378216

>>8378209
first world welfare her

>> No.8378377

>>8376951
goals desu

>> No.8378385

22.

VOLUNTEER.

TO ENTER A STATE OF HALF- SLEEP BETWEEN THIS AND OTHER WORLDS.

>> No.8378386

>>8377482
What's the book about?

>> No.8378388

18
kitchen employee at a deli
write some poems or short stories my senpai and friends enjoy i guess

>> No.8378403

>>8378209
I am what is referred to on this board as a NEET and I am presently writing on the donations afforded me by my mother to pay for the utilities and sustenance required to stay alive. But my living costs are very low when compared to the majority of people, especially people my own age. I eat the same meals every day, I spend the majority of my time at the library, and I ask only for a small room containing a single bed, a solid desk, a reading lamp and a high-speed unlimited broadband connection. I am something of a contemporary ascete I suppose, asking so little of the external world but furnishing my interior world with extravagance. I see my peers rushing out of their homes at 6:30am to commute to a job they despise and which, day by day, in myriad subtle ways drains them of their enthusiasm for life and the energy they would otherwise have to produce great works of art or complete great feats of physical endurance. It is very tragic, though like JP Donleavy, like Orman Pahuk, like Douglas Adams, like Jack Kerouac and like so many other well-known and respected writers I have opted to accept my mother's assistance in my attempts to write a great novel. The simple fact is that some form of universal law denies any human being the right to have everything in life, or, in other words, to live a life defined only by success and sated preferences. Successful businesswomen are rarely good mothers, great musicians rarely reproduced their talent in other forms of art, and so too do full-time workers, befitting from the security and often wealth that their daily labour allows, simply cannot produce a great work of fiction in the few remaining hours at the end of their working day. Writing requires dedication, focus, time, sacrifice, talent and hard work, and I'm sorry to say that your average fellow working 40 or even 50 hours a week has never and will never write anything worthy of even my most fleeting attention.

>> No.8378437

>18
>web development
>want to read more books

>> No.8378480

>>8378403
Do the chapters of your book start with «Dear reader», Ignatius?

>> No.8378648

21

IT Specialist for the Army

Develop soft skills so I stop being an autist

>> No.8378669

>>8373672

21
Undergrad trying to get into medical school but probably won't
I used to want to write and publish a book but I don't want any publicity. Does anyone know if it's possible to publish under a pen name and remain totally anonymous?

>> No.8378688

29

lawyer

To be able to say to myself, lying on my bed in the dark while I wait for sleep, that I am a great poet and dramatist; that my years of effort flourished into a real spring; that I managed to create beauty using language, the most wonderful invention of the human mind. To know, on my own conscience, without the aid of fame or support or renown, that to have my head crowned with laurels in my death bed would not be an unfair honor.

>> No.8378711

>>8378688
Brazil / Portugal anon?

>> No.8378737

>>8378648
Commissioned?

>> No.8378759

>>8378711

Yes. Hello :)

>> No.8378782

>>8373672

>28
>I write fluffy articles for shitty websites (think "10 reasons why __", "Top 5 examples of __" type things).
>I want to make books. Not write them, I just want to be involved in bringing the work of better writers into the world. I never wanted to write for a living, I just fell into it because it's just about the only think I'm ok at.

>> No.8378795

>>8378403
How's your valve these days?

>> No.8378798

>23
>retail/student
>nearly done with my education/lit degree in preparation of being a high school English lit teacher

>> No.8378969

>>8378759
Are you the dude with the qt supportive wife or the dude who almost got conned into buying 500 copies of his own book as part of his publishing contract?

>> No.8379007

>>8378969

I have a cute supportive girlfriend, but I never talked about her here on /lit/, so I am probably guy number 2. As for the volumes, I bought 100 myself from the Editor to sell. The others were theirs to distribute. I have sold most of them (my personal copies), but also gave many as gifts.

I am now using Facebook to gain readers, and it is proving itself a very fruitful and rewarding experience. I can’t imagine why I haven’t think on it before. Since my first play is very long (over 700 pages in the printed book) I actually have a lot of material to share; lots of excerpts can be meaningful even when separated from the whole organic structure.

I plan to finish a Tragedy until the end of the year, but this time I will publish it by Amazon and sell it online. This next play will be actually playable, so I will also search for dramatic companies.

After the tragedy I plan to write a small novel with folklore and nature tonality, with drawings and paintings (for this one I am thinking in searching the Editors again), and after that I will start two comedies.

>> No.8379127

>>8378403
Is this an excerpt from your manifesto, by any chance?

>> No.8379448

20

Engineering Student

Specialization is for insects.

>> No.8379755

>>8378737
>21

Nah, enlisted. I joined out of HS but now I'm close to finishing my BA, have IT certs and have $2k to blow every month. Pretty decent life except for weird men micromanaging your life and having to live on a military post.

>> No.8380651

bumping good thread

>> No.8380838

>>8373672
>19
>student
>publish three books and move into a cabin up north.

>> No.8381509

>>8378386
Well the ultimate tl;dr is that its about an artist born into a very privileged life who purposely ruins their own life at every turn to better understand pain and suffering.

>> No.8381513

>>8373868
Go catch them all Ash.

22
Horticulturist
Short Stories in magazines to show girls and get laid/show my kids

>> No.8382988

>age
23
>job
No job unless you consider an internship for a county judge which mostly consists of me sitting in on court cases and pretending to understand what people are saying. Starting law school in the spring, so I guess I have that in the offing. Was tempted to put writer here because I have had a few pieces published (one of which is forthcoming in a pretty well respected magazine) and have won a few prizes, but I'm not sure if just getting paid for a few things is really enough to earn the title.

>lit ambitions
Try to keep publishing stories in progressively better lit mags. Maybe garner some interest in the historical fiction book I have been doing research for and trying to get a decent outline/opening few chapters hashed out before law school swallows me in its vortex in a few months.

Also, since I noticed some people in this thread are in law school/lawyers, I was wondering what your first year experience was like and whether you were still able to produce a respectable amount of fiction (assuming you write).

>> No.8383316

>>8373672
21
Student
Become true /lit/.

>> No.8383340

>your age
22

>your job
Physiotherapist

>your /lit/erary ambition(s)
Read

>> No.8383927

>age
19

>job
I work at the storage of an Auto-Eletric shop

>/lit/ ambitions
I wrote a draft of a pulpy horror tale, still got to properly organize it, maybe it will see the light of day

>> No.8384151

>30
>unemployed
>make the means of production great again

>> No.8384174

>27

>Graduate Student

>Want to: Write something that's in between a work of philosophy and a work of fiction. Or philosophically-informed essays.
>Will probably (if I'm lucky): Write a series of commentaries on Platonic dialogues.
>Afraid of: Big fat nuthin'.

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8384319

>22
>about to start college at a great books school after wageslaving for four years
>read as much as I can, write as much as I can, and try not to off myself

>> No.8384408

>23
>Copy editor/content writer
>Getting my pulp western story published

>> No.8384747

>>8379007
what is the name of your published work?

>> No.8384749

>>8378385
where do you volunteer? you always say goofy shit and i like it

>> No.8386364

>>8373672
>22
>STEMpleb undergrad
>occasionally I think of a scene or character dynamic, but realize it would be stupid self-insert wannabee Tom Clancy garbage (and I can't even pull that off because nogunz faggot)