/lit/ - Literature

>female booktubers

I don't know what to write.
When I force out words I don't like them and quickly reach a standstill.
When I try to use structure or ideas from writing books books I feel like I'm not qualified to write yet because I still can't come with my own input.
I'm so lost

>>15670522
Stop

>>10152280

What a fucking entitled reader. All those books were written to entertain the audiences they were made for, one of the great things about reading is learning to appreciate new aspects of life and elements of entertainment that you wouldn't see in today's society, which in turn supports your overall growth and maturity as an individual.

He sounds pretentious as fuck.

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>>9455016
This mentality is fatalistic shit though. You aren't specifically wrong, but I wouldn't assume a lot of the people ahead in life are there because of luck of birth.

>There are shit loads of talent-less hacks working over and over again in the entertainment business who have good connections.

Yeah, and getting those connections is difficult and I am sure most of the people you know as successful in the entertainment business was not born into it.

The entertainment business is a whole other discussion though, because I am not going to sit here and defend the entertainment industry. You have to work hard, but it's not necessarily the type of hard work that would be considered fulfilling by most of the artistic minded people here in /lit/. Gaining access to the elite in the entertainment industry comes from making deals with groups and when you owe something to them you have to be around to do what they think you owe, just like the business world actually.

Lets just take this specific idea of success then: Making a moderate, livable wage off your art, and having the art be something you truly feel proud of creatively.

This cannot be achieved without lots of dedication and grind. Specifically, to achieve the second part of this idea of success, you have to work countless hours on your craft. There are so many pitholes, so many things to learn, so many bad habits to eliminate, you cannot possibly be the best craftsman you hope to be without constant self training and study. The first part comes from persistence I think, at least it's what I have been told. Persistence is the key to getting published.

My mentality is this. Have some guts and fucking dive in the deep end of the pool. No regrets, no self-consciousness. Yet don't treat it like a vacation, treat it as something that will be 100 times harder and painful than working a full time job your whole life. You will come out either dead or you will come out knowing you took the fucking chance and you achieved at least SOMETHING on your own without ever being told every day which direction to take. You might not be a millionaire, you might even end up living worse off then you did when you first started, but honestly are you really that scared of that?

You should start WITH THE GREEKS

>>9156985

Kubrick's shining shits literally all over the original book.

Just like Stalker and Solaris shit all over Roadside Picnic and the original book Solaris.

They are literal PROOF that it's not the idea of the story that matters, it's the execution and the work involved.

>>8730995

>It's a kids scream while they play a minecraft clone with guns on the library computers episode.

>It's a dumb bitch brings a screaming baby to the library episode.

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Chinks are fucking soulless, have you ever gazed into the eye of a random prole chink? They don't give a fuck about life, they only care about themselves and surviving the harsh communist climate.

There are lots of good chinks, especially in America, but China has seriously fallen from grace ever since shitty communism. I fucking hate communism.

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>>8324487

Even if you didn't waste time why are you fooling yourself that you are genetically fit to be a good writer? Why are you fooling yourself that you live in the proper time where it was rewarding to be one?

All the best writers were born to write, it was in their blood to be autistically obsessed with philosophy, poetry, words, communication. In addition, this obsession was cultivated, because in their time literature was held to a higher regard in society.

Just write your little gay stories about space aliens,wizards, edgy kids that don't fit in society, because that's all anyone in /lit/ will ever be capable of writing well, and that's all anyone these days even reads. Stop having these pretensions of comparing yourself to writers from many decades ago, you can't unravel the cultural tides of history.

All you can do is try to flex your pen and stop worrying. Literature in the future will have regressed so far in the future that your shitty literature might look like a masterpiece in comparison.

>>8271010

>Comfy meme

Please fuck off

>>8124659

How can I trust Harold Bloom's opinion on anything other than he's old and he's read more books than I ever will in my lifetime?

Roger Ebert saw an innumerable amount of films in his lifetime but that didn't make his opinions any less worthless to me.

I don't understand the pseud/patrician dichotomy. It's just gay as fuck, it's all based on what tastes you have.

Of course I understand it's important to have standards of excellence within yourself and society and if you draw out those lines exclusively for yourself you can turn out a massive idiot.

What I am saying is why do we take it all so seriously? Why is it SO important to be "patrician" and not a "pleb"? Is it compensating for the lack of something more substantial in their lives?

>>8049596

>having a diary

what am I? A fucking little girl?

>>6566852
>talking with this girl about books
>she mentions a bunch of shit that she read
>says that she didn't like some ok-to-great books
>her reason for not liking them is that she "couldn't connect with any of the characters" and "didn't understand it" and "it made me sad"
I could barely contain my autism.

>>6246500

We can never be friends.

>>5991956

>See her develop.

Please leave.

>>5515163
>that chapter about him yelling at the sea because he believes that's where Satan lives

Who knew something so crazy could be so depressing.

>/lit/ talking about books by black authors

>>4426371
>That shitty formatting on the page.
>That lack of a headline
>Not a Sterling