/lit/ - Literature

>>23252951
Firstly, get disciplined and actually WRITE. Stop reading about writing, stop making threads asking for writing advice. It's all procrastination. Timers are helpful. Set one and write for one hour a day, moving up to two, then three, then four. With writing, learning by doing is the only - I repeat, THE ONLY - way.

Secondly, be prepared to write dogshit before you write anything good. This phase may last years. (Or forever, in which case writing may not be for you.) As they say, writing is rewriting. As a beginner, you don't yet comprehend how much damn writing being a WRITER actually entails. Get used to the volume. Don't expect first drafts to be stylistically nice; just get it out of your brain and onto the page, vomit it all out, and don't worry about style. Sometimes a passage will come out great on your very first try, but not usually. Go back and rewrite everything. Do it as many times as it takes for you to be satisfied with the final result. (For reference, Tolstoy wrote 9+ drafts of everything he did. That's a lot of fucking writing, by hand at that.) Enough months and years of doing this over and over, writing and rewriting, writing and rewriting... eventually your dogshit will get better, and you'll start being pleased with what you've written, AND it'll take less time. Be patient.

Thirdly, aside from writing, spend all of the spare time you have READING. Be careful what you read. I believe in the adage that milk takes on the flavor of whatever's next to it. If you read nothing but modern, soulless pulp, that's how your writing will be. Read the classics, and you'll learn a lot. They're considered great for a reason.

Fourthly... I don't know. I'm not published, I'm just an intermediate hobbyist wannabe like every other fag here. But those are my two cents. Godspeed.

>>18101508
>>18101325
heh


>>18101325
>Rings of Saturn by Sebald
>doesn't pick up because it's a book, not a phone

>>13967294
Had a genuine chuckle.

Tfw anarchist and pragmatic Hobbesian. Books for this feel?

>>11694524
Oh how I still love this website.

rolling

>>10433687
>ancient egyptian
>old english
...why