Delusion

[slow reader No.8814708]

What does one do, when people say that your writing is shit, yet you believed up until then that it was at least fine?

If a writer says, "I am proud of every word I write. They are all perfect," what do you think of him?

[Anonymous No.8814742]

>>8814708
What about when you think your writing is just okay or passable, but those who have read it thinks it's amazing or great?

[Anonymous No.8814751]

Ask him about it and why he thinks it's good, admit I don't get it and ask for the skeleton key

Try to get a phenomenological sense of what he finds important or poignant about it

If he says some stupid shit like "I DUNNO.. IT'S JUST REAL GOOD!" I'd be sceptical, but if he shows that he's making interesting points or conveying something he can convince me is new or amazing, I'd be interested in what he has to say

Easiest situation and best case scenario, he remedially demonstrates to me in dialogue that he is demonstrating some cutting-edge insight and I am converted to his cause, but if I still can't see it, if his vision is just too peculiar, like it's some Schoenberg-level superweird unpalatable thing and I just have to take his word for it that he's crystallising human relationships or his unique way of seeing the world through it somehow, I would probably advise him to keep showing it to weird fuckers and seeking someone with a resonant mind like some kind of Glass Bead Game shit until one of them notices the unutterable leitmotif of his own genius in it and goes
>Wow, a fellow Schoenbergian who is trying to solve Einstein's paradoxes using alternating capital letters and inserts from titty magazines! I get this!
because there's not much else I can do at that point

[Anonymous No.8816208]

>>8814708
n/a

That he should kill himself.

[Anonymous No.8816227]

>>8814708
that picture always makes me laugh
fuckin dugin mate

[Anonymous No.8817763]

>>8816208
that goes without saying desu

[Anonymous No.8817773]

Constantly asking yourself what makes a writing good is conducive to being a good writer.

>>8814708
>>8816227
What is the context behind photo?

[Anonymous No.8817998]

Enroll into your second semester less cockily.

[Anonymous No.8818006]

>>8814742
They're your family/friends that want to get off wasy, or they don't know exactly how to analyze it.

[Anonymous No.8818035]

>>8814708
>>8814742
Both situations are dubious. You have to be repulsed by every word you write, or you'll never make it.

[Anonymous No.8818070]

>>8817773
This. And if someone criticizes your writing you should try to understand their criticism and take it to heart, while still keeping in mind what YOU want to express.

[Anonymous No.8818075]

>>8814708

is this hypothetical writer the trumpmaster flex? flexin' deez nuts? if not see -> if so also see ->

>>8816208