/lit/ - Literature

Yes.

You need imagination. There are a lot of smart people with no imagination.

yea and no

It depends what you're writing.

>>4991454

You need empathy, too.

>>4991454


being smart takes talent too.

50% hard work
30% human experience
20% talent

>>4991454
First of all you need to be interested in writing. I guess after that a smart man can write something, but to create a masterpiece brains alone wouldn't be enough.

>>4991600

1%
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I can write my name in japanese, but I wont show you.

>>4991591
Should've said intelligent, but yes, valid point.

>>4991616
Everything I read has a style to it, no one writes as one would write a biology textbook.

Is there a way to give an example of a writer that you can tell writes primarily because he is smart and talent comes second. It would be interesting to examine his style.

>>4991643
Well there is marketing books. Not everyone writes to be known as a great writer or just for the sake of writing.

>>4991454
To become a writer you need to write

>>4991643
people talk with a style to the language. same with writing.

>>4991600
I have 0% talent. What do?

>>4991674
I always feel like it's either too bland or too over the top. Bukowski, for example, is really easy to read and still doesn't sound too much like an asshole friend describing his weekend at Vegas.

>>4991669
I feel like everything worth writing about has already been written. Who needs my two cents anyway?

>>4991728
i disagree, Bukowski sounds exacly like a drunken friend describing his exploits in the most simplistic way.

>>4991551

Probably one of the most significant traits of a writer. By cladding yourself into another person's skin, you can see things from his point of view; a laudable skill and something that takes a lot wheedling and wheeling.

>>4991728
>I feel like everything worth writing about has already been written

Improve, criticize, deconstruct, reconstruct and reimagine what was already written. There's always a new angle, there's always new readers that haven't read everything so far. There is a gap you can fill.

>>4991551
hey wait a minute if i'm a cunt that means i can't be a good writer
or my characters will always be pretty much clones of me except changed a little bit

goddamn

>>4991454
it's like any other muscle, you have to write every day to get good. some asshole said that inspiration finds you working, so it's a good idea to make writing the default habit, or you can be like the rest of us and make 4chan the default habit and never go anywhere with writing or anything for that matter

>>4991968
I thought what you did in here, is writing. So what prevents you from writing properly, and saving everything that's worthwhile, and sharing it after, thanking the anons that helped you create those thoughts?

you can misjudge your content and be called a bad writer, but you can still be a writer. there are enough critics to debunk your style and even more readers who don't know how to read who will help.

>>4991454
>Can you become a writer by just being smar
yeah
but you're not smart enough to just rely on smarts

>>4992190

nothing tbh and the secrets that err1 tells u it is