/lit/ - Literature

Lmao, same thing but I'm an """artist""". Wish there was a (blue) art board.

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>>18597365
at least you recognize when your work is shit. rice waldun thinks he's the next Kerouac lol.

>>18597377
t. enjoys reading her own works (which i'd assume are her collected 4chan posts)

>>18597388
I’ve only got notes and outlines so far.
I need to run away so I can finish these stories

>>18597365
In reverse for me.
Wrote some dumb fucking garbage 10 years ago when I was a wee shithead. Came back to rewrite it recently (having forgotten basically everything about it but the premise), and the fucking thing was a page turner, and funny too.

Sharp contrast to my diary from that time. Boring and shittily written.

>>18597499
how do you do it
idk anymore
i feel hopeless
>>18597445
maybe when you actually finish something you will be able to look back on it and feel embarrassed
when that happens you can make this thread
idk if i will bully you for it i haven't made up my mind yet

>>18597365
I want to marry this stock photo

>>18597522
>how do you do it
>idk anymore
>i feel hopeless
No fucking clue, man.
I just write shit that I'd like to read about even if I hadn't written it.

>>18597499
Same thing for me, except it was an assignment I had to do on a political happening from back then. I was 15-16 or something. I thought it would be shit and cringe-worthy but fuck, it's only gotten more relevant! I'm proud to say, little-me actually managed to make me laugh.
God I'm a fucking genius. I should honestly become a satirist or some shit.

>>18597532
i used an hour's worth of autism energy to track down her VK page
i forget what her name is though
how to i channel my autism energy into writing and not into being retarded?

>>18597365
Post work.

>>18597580
idk anon it's humiliating even to think about
i made instagram accounts for two heteronyms through which i would post my own poetry
i even went on thispersondoesnotexist to give them face profile pictures
at first i thought i was doing good because i got a few likes, but looking back on it... idk at least i used heteronyms and not my real identity

>>18597575
I bow before thee. Too bad I guess she turned out to be a whore but...post moar while you’re at it

>>18597634
ok fine but i will only do it if you promise to uhh idk contribute something to the thread
the jannies are targeting me. i am a targeted individual. i dont want to arouse their suspicion. they will take any excuse to delete my threads

>>18597365
Personally I think it happens because you get momentum and tunnel vision while writing. When the most accomplished writers in the world do this, the results are obviously extraordinary: just see how Stendhal was able to write the 500+ page classic The Charterhouse of Parma in less than a month. You really need to get the basics down I think like dialogue, pacing, how to write descriptions, etc., even while you think the story might be good in your head.

>>18597693
You are safe here with me.

>>18597445
>so I can finish these stories
ftfy

>>18597365
it happens because you think your first draft is perfect. Try editing.

>>18597376
/ic/?

>>18597771
idk when you write you think it's good so you don't edit it
but when you read it a month later it's so bad, no amount of editing can save it, so you abandon it
idk how to escape this

>>18597753
wat

>>18597606
>idk anon it's humiliating even to think about
Are you an insecure person? It's probably not as bad as you think; anxieties may be warping your perception.
>i even went on thispersondoesnotexist to give them face profile pictures
Didn't know about this, thanks. It will help a lot of my shitposts.

>>18597693
Fuck jannies.

>>18597896
>It's probably not as bad as you think; anxieties may be warping your perception.
idk I instinctively recoil after reading a lot of them
i guess if you want to read it you can, but idk
https://www.instagram.com/levin_w_poems/
>Didn't know about this, thanks. It will help a lot of my shitposts
there are actually a few similar sites but idk if they'll be useful
https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/

>>18597905
thank you

>>18597788
>>18597788
By trying to get to the essence of a paragraph, what are you trying to communicate, and rewrite it either in text if it's easy to correct, or if the task is a bit more challenging, lay a blank slate next to it.
Again to reiterate, you're after clear communication not flowery prose, unless that's your thing of course.
Also, you should take a look at RC Waldun's writings, they are absolutely dreadful, but show us a writer who doesn't want to communicate but just larp as one.
Communication of information/thoughts/feelings should always be the goal of a piece of writing, so focus on that when you're editing.

I am the opposite. Write something, think its terrible, garbage, and shouldn't see the light of day.
1 year later, wtf I didn't know I was so based. I find myself caught in this trap a lot. Such as when I take a photo of myself I think it looks terrible, but looking back on it later I look fine. Mentally ill I suppose.

>>18597726
>momentum and tunnel vision while writing.
isn't it that if you are to become better at something you need to practice?
and isn't practice a very slow and uncomfortable task?
i think learning a skill you don't have is probably uncomfortable, but idk how to write in a way that makes me feel uncomfortable, like i'm pushing myself

>>18597365
How many times do you suppose this chick has been slathered in cum? More than once?

>>18597365
>>18598837
If you experience both of these then you are doing it right

>>18599475
lmao yeah that's true

>Write something
>Finish the first draft
>Don't even bother to re-read it because I know I'm going to hate it and want to start rewriting.
>Push it out there
>Never look back unless I'm absolutely forced to
When I do I cringe, hard.
That's how life is, take into account it takes me weeks to finish shit, mainly because I just don't write.

>>18600885
>Push it out there
well have you gotten published yet?

>>18599169
-_-

>>18601514
No, I just send it out into random forums and never look back.

>>18602696
Eventually, I will. Maybe, probably not, but the dream is still there.

>>18602696
To be an artist, you need to live as an artist.

An artist does not "fire and forget" unless your art was strictly for your enjoyment / self-discovery.

If you want to be a successful writer in 2021, you have to be larger than life.

>>18597445
>How I Will Never Touch Another Woman Because Lesbians are Low Status and I Don't Have Looks Going For Me Either

I wrote poetry as an angst filled teenager. I am so, so thankful that I'll never see it again because I do not want to even imagine how cringe inducingly atrocious it was.

>>18603151
are you a better writer now?

>>18604420
I hope so. I found my poetry so piss poor that I stopped writing anything for years and years, even though I had always enjoyed it as a child. I've picked it up again a bit more lately, writing some sort of story, and it's hit or miss.

>>18597365
I have the opposite happen, I write stuff, I dont look at it for weeks or months thinking it will be cringe, then I read it and it's pretty good first draft material

Same thing is happening to me. Do you writerbros think its better to rewrite scenes immediately if you think the draft is shit, or should I wait until I finish the complete draft of the story (with all its flaws) before I start rewriting?

None of my good writing is artistic. I seem to be a good robot ("scientific thinker") and a terrible artist. That's the only discernible pattern I've noticed with my writing.