/lit/ - Literature

You are forcing yourself to do something that you don't really want to do. Otherwise there would be no need to force yourself.

Write me a one-page story about a man trapped in a room. The deadline is in three hours. Chop chop!

>>18828311
>struggle bad just be a hedonist bro :^)

>>18828263
Not op but the problem is I don’t want to do anything at all.

>>18828263
you just do it one session at a time. if you can only do 20 min at a time no problem just make sure you come back tomorrow. take walks.

>>18828323
This but write about an ace airline pilot who refuses to describe turbulence with any word but blumpie (ie "uhoh got some nasty blumps coming in").

>>18828263
limit peepee rub to once per week, ideally stop peepee rub all together
stop entering womens orbit, they are sapping your intelligence
adopt a dog, a black labrador works well and will stimulate an active desire

Try this: stop all internet activities, as long as you don't have written your daily objective. You force yourself to stop internet, and you wait for willpower to write. It helps a bit for some people. It's at least a step forward

>>18828386
Pomodoro method is the go-to for soccer moms who write porno in their spare time, but regardless for some people it works really, really well.

>>18828263
Look up Jerry Jenkins on youtube. He's got some good help for aspiring writers.

>>18828311
Retard. If you just automatically did anything you wanted to do you would never want anything.

My big hangup is being disappointed with the ideas I come up with. I’ll think of something and then think “What are you a fucking video game and anime addict? You want to write a script for a video game or an anime, like a child? Why can’t you come up with something good and mature?” So I stop writing and scrap it, rack my brain for a few days, rinse and repeat.

it's not a psychological barrier
you just don't have talent

>>18828640
Perhaps you have to finish a script for video game and anime to get the feel for the writing process. We all start somewhere. Writing a mature book is what you can set as your long term goal, while your short-term is jumping into it with what you know.

>my only writing skill is witty retorts on 4chan
I fucked up

>>18828648
Writing is a craft. Authors are like musicians. You train on the process for however long it takes for you to perform that brilliant piece. So it is with writing too - a continual development of your imperfect craft.

>>18828263
Meditate. Like at least an hour a day, every day, with the goal of ceasing your flow of thought while you are meditating.
In my experience, this is like putting a lid on a boiling pot. A huge rush of thoughts billowed like steam through my awareness with a force and coherency that is difficult to come by otherwise.

Do it everyday. Discipline is key for craft and eventually evolves into an actual calling for creative output.
>t. Composer

>>18828263
Post a 30-day all boards bannable offense (like say you're under*ge or something) and pull the plug on this shitshow. Or better yet rent a cabin in the mountains with no internet and force yourself to write.

Just write anon. You write shitposts, you write effortposts; writing a novel is basically one long stream of both.

I probably wrote several novels worth of shitposts over 15 years, so technically I'm already a writer ;^)

>>18828263
Isolate the activity, meaning stop doing anything else other than writing

>>18828669
Maybe. I mean, I doubt myself so much that I don’t even think they’re good by video game or anime standards. I have this like mental hangup of being the guy who wrote light novels or something even though I want to write something entirely different. I feel really uninspired and defeated a lot of the time lately but I didn’t used to feel that way.

>>18828673
The last 10 years of using 4chan has given my writing style a postmodern feel. After a good internet high I can speak in memes and anime/movie references.

We need to solve this problem for real. Sometimes it takes little energy, and sometimes we can't fathom putting the pen to the page. That's the problem. Strangely, we always have energy to write clever posts on the internet. So we have the energy, and the barrier should be theoretically overcome. It can't be the fear of failure or success, because those things don't block me on the internet. What is it? Think, anon, think

>>18828263
Letting go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU1Rp184IT4
You are experience subconscious blocks to your creativity. This can be fixed.

>>18828883
If all you did was let go, you would never write. This is deceptive stuff.

>>18828386

This. Just try to do a little everyday and build up the habit. Just like exercise if you make it a routine it will get easier. Sometimes I have bad days and don't get any writing done at all. I try not to beat myself up too bad, otherwise I get too anxious and it becomes harder to start. I also like to have two projects going at once, that way I can procrastinate on one with the other. Also do fun little things: copy a quote you like, write a book review, maybe some light verse. Even if it isn't working toward a finished product it helps. It's for fun anyway right?

>>18828407
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>>18828829

If OP already had a strong will or dedication this wouldn't be a problem in the first place. Again try to build up dedication. For me depriving myself just turned into punishing myself and led to depression and less writing.

>>18828640
>>18828669
>>18828674

I have found most of my good ideas come from expanding or correcting my bad ideas. I start with whatever dumb thing I have thought up and the next day I have usually thought of ways to improve or change it. I find it much easier to be critical of something that exists than just have a good idea from nothing. (Maybe that makes me an asshole, but it works.) I think I have heard of a few authors that start their writing this way. It also helps get rid of the blank page starting from crap feels easier than starting from nothing.

Take this all with a grain of salt. I have never been published and have only successfully finished a couple of short stories. I am working on a novel but it feels so overwhelming, I struggle to even approach it most days. But I do write almost everyday and that is enough to feel like an accomplishment for me.

There's a 99.9999999999% chance that even if you write the greatest novel ever, nobody will ever publish or read it. Think about the kind of pointless, masturbatory activity you're stressing over, write for yourself.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.”

>>18828969
Actually the more you write the easier it is to let go. When you write the subconscious blocks associated with writing will appear more easily.

Pen and paper, pick a consistent time when nobody is around. Early morning tends to work well. Consistent length every day. Half an hour is fine until you realize you want more time. Good luck.

>>18829143
And don’t worry about what you’re writing during this time. In the beginning just sit at a desk and either write or do nothing. The time is what matters.

i retract my earlier post. what you need to do is rub peepee 4 times a week, ideally every day
get into contact with as many womens as possible, they will make your stronger after having dumped them to the side like the ragdolls they are
adopt a dog (this doesn't change), a black labrador works well and will stimulate an active desire

You need to know what you're writing about. I'm thinking of developing a "wiki" system where I ramble on and build the world and the characters, before I build the narrative for the book.

What I’ve personally found helpful is to think of writing like sculpting. If you think about it, a sculptor doesn’t so much manifest something out of nothing as he does draw out something which already there but hidden. There’s something already in the marble, in the act that I’m just trying to uncover. Over time, I’ll get more and more a sense what specifically that is and what needs to be done to draw it out. But where do you start? I think you need to just chisel away. You’ve got to get a feel for the act of the doing the thing and working with the stone and come at it from this angle or that angle and see what it shows. It’s thay consistent chipping away, in a reiterative way, that teaches you to look at things in forms, then structure, then in more detail, to learn exactly what movement or angle needs to be done to make it happen. It’s a process. It’s only ever going to be a process. And the best way to go about any process is to simply start engaging with the process.

>>18829336
There's a few apps out there that do that pretty well. I started using this one bc if you're not a total retard you can run the whole program locally without paying for shit

>>18829537
I just got dokuwiki. They have a build where it comes with a miniserver so you don't even have to set anything up. Just download and run it. Works from a stick as well. Notebook.ai seems pretty interesting.

>>18828851
Write write write!

write in another language, write only for yourself then translate, it will make u feel things differents, the trick is that you do not need to know the language, only some words, linguistics call this a bridge language or something like this, for example use this methods -->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=votSBYfZrQM&t=128s

>>18828263
Drop your other jobs and become a professional writer.

>>18828263
Keep beating yourself up over it and establish yourself as a failure for failing to do X per day across Y days a week.