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>tfw I've completely planned out a novella and have every idea of where's it's going and have the images perfectly formed in my head
>tfw I'm too scared to start it in case its not perfect
>tfw I keep telling myself "next weekend" ever single week

WAT DO /lit/!?

hold me

>> No.6318739

>>6318730
sit down and post frog memes like the rest of us, snowflake.

>> No.6318743

>>6318730

so you'll shitpost on /lit/ instead?

>> No.6318749

It won't be perfect, get over yourself. Churn out that crap, hope the next will be better.

>> No.6318753

>implying a novel can be perfect

>> No.6318754

Sometimes what you don't think is perfect turns out to be your favorite novel

>> No.6318757

>>6318743

I thought that was the literary lifestyle?

>> No.6318769

>>6318730
smoke/drink till you're not thinking anymore, or at least your insecurities disappear.
>Write
>edit while sober.

>> No.6318780

>>6318769

This, OP. I know it seems fucking cliche as fuck and you can feel like a poser, but drinking honestly removes all insecurities and you'll just write whatever comes to mind and if its shit it'll be funny and you won't give a fuck.

I always just drink enough to make my inhibitions disappear but still stay in a relatively good mindset and I'll just keep myself a good level.

>> No.6318786

Write it down -- QUICK! -- before you forget it. If it's not perfect, edit it until it is. No one's forcing you to write just one draft and then leave it alone. Good writing is mostly editing.

>> No.6318797

>>6318769
>>6318780
This is terrible advice, OP. Notice how it was only the mediocrities that wrote while intoxicated. You need a lucid mind if you want to write at an elevated level, otherwise you'll end up writing garbage like Hemingway and Bukowski. Reminder that Nabokov and Shakespeare detested drugs and alcohol and always wrote sober.

>> No.6318811

>>6318797

>implying anyone on /lit/ wouldn't love to be on the same level of Hemingway or Bukoswki

nobody here is going to make it, drink, don't drink - it doesn't matter fuck all.

>> No.6318821

>>6318797
We didn't say get drunk, just said drink. How old are you? have you even experimented with drugs yet?

>> No.6318824

>>6318797
Even Hemingway knew to write sober. The "Write drunk, edit sober" quote is misattributed.

>> No.6318828

>>6318797
Well, plenty of writers did drink while they wrote (Joyce, Faulkner, Chandler), but agreed otherwise.

>> No.6318837

>>6318811
I'm a better writer than the both of them. Whether I make it doesn't matter to me. I write because I enjoy writing, and it shows in my work. My writing has the "lightness" Calvino wrote about. Hemingway and Bukowski were the sort of writers who hated writing, and it shows in their work.

>> No.6318841

>>6318837

Show us some of your work

>> No.6318899

>>6318837
Kek

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6319216

>>6318780
>Drink even a little bit
>Disassemble Bed
>Try to sleep in the closet

I really do not handle this well at all.

>> No.6319223

>>6318837
>a better writer than the both of them
Okay.

>> No.6319238

Accept that every writer starts by making stuff that isn't good.

Realize that ideas are cheap, and nearly all authors ultimately wind up with more ideas than time in which to write them.

Sacrifice this idea so that your next story is better.

Come back in a year or two after finishing to salvage what can be salvaged.

>> No.6320088

>>6318797
I'm not sure that Hemingway did drink while he worked, actually.