How do you get into the mood of writing /lit/? I'm trying to write at the moment, but I can't think of anything. How do I come up with a good idea to write about? Could you possibly give me a list of things that I could write about to practice my style?

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Anonymous Fri Oct 15 18:15:45 2010 No.1208691 [Reply] [Original]

How do you get into the mood of writing /lit/?
I'm trying to write at the moment, but I can't think of anything.
How do I come up with a good idea to write about? Could you possibly give me a list of things that I could write about to practice my style?

Anonymous Fri Oct 15 18:20:45 2010 No.1208703

>>1208691
just write. write about a conversation you had today. change it around to something more awkward. or the opposite if you want. write about two dogs having a convo.

just write. you're wasting your time if you think you're going to reflect THEN get in the mood for writing. starting is the hardest part. i say skip it and get right down to business.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 18:24:45 2010 No.1208712 >>1208703 Haha, okay man. Thanks, I'll try that. Any more ideas /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 18:27:45 2010 No.1208719 >>1208712 write about the first time you let your dog lick your nuts.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 18:27:45 2010 No.1208721 Search "writing prompts" on Google. You have to write even when you're not in the mood. Practicing is how you improve. Also, read a lot of shit by writers you admire. It helps.

Putin Fri Oct 15 18:30:45 2010 No.1208725

I do it whenever I feel like. That's it. Typically, if I NEED to write, getting drunk or high first is a big help. I don't know if others have noted such a thing, but I seem to write better under the influence, and when going into a depressive phase (I'm schizoaffective, which means schizophrenic and bipolar at the same bleeding time). Maybe kinda like Randall Munroe's "Ballmer Peak."

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 18:42:45 2010 No.1208738 >>1208725 I'm getting really high tonight, what is it like writing while under the influence?

Anonymous Fri Oct 15 18:46:45 2010 No.1208746

>>1208738
I think it depends on the person.

My drinking was what reconnected me to my writing, but everything I wrote when I was high/drunk was shit. I got better when I got sober. But that's just me. My a friend of mine, who was an English major in undergrad, said one of his professors told him once, "There stopped being any decent American writers when they stopped drinking."

Sort of a downer, imo.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 18:53:45 2010 No.1208770 >>1208738 I get high and write every night. Has always worked out for me.

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