/lit/ - Literature

>>17539879
I have no discernible talent

>>17539879
Can’t be anonymous and famous anymore because journos would make it their life goal to expose you

>>17539879
>What’s stopping you from becoming the greatest author to have ever lived?
I haven't read enough yet.
Oh well. Can't wait around for perfection forever. Imagine being over the age of 27, hell, 25, and never having published a single thing. It must suck being that much of a loser.

I'm not trying to be, but most people are really too stupid, I'd say anyone can become a good author if they practice enough but to be one of the greatest you have to also be a genius.

My overuse of technology has dulled my senses and attention span, that's why I'm posting on /lit/ right now instead of reading. I made a blog though so that even though nobody will probably read it, it at least gives me an easy outlet for the rare times I feel inspired enough to write something.

>>17539879
A lack of effort crossed with structural racism and sexism against me (white male)

>>17539879
Talent, discipline, drive, the knowledge that it’s a dead medium.

>>17539879
Myself

>>17539879
I'm working on it, but first I have to make sure I live long enough to have an impact. Cutting out pornography and masturbation, limiting how much time I actually spend in front of a screen or watching TV, healthy diet, lots of exercise and other hobbies outside of reading and writing. I'm aiming for at least 110 years, but who knows? Borges said that when authors die, they become the books they've left behind, so I got to make sure what I leave behind is notable

>>17539879
Nothing. I am working on it, this sort of thing takes some time.

no talent
no drive
no connections

>>17539879
Too busy jerking off to japanese cartoons.

>>17539879
Lack of natural gift, laziness, inability to get a hold of my addictions.

>>17539940
We get it. You’re a 20 year old English major and you’re trying to trigger the oldfags.

>>17539879
I hate humanity too much to give them that gift

>>17539879
I have the talent and intelligence, but I constantly second-guess myself. Also like this anon said >>17540011 my brain circuits have been hotwired by technology to the point where I can barely focus on any task without the involuntary urge to check social media or 4chan. I reckon that if others of my generation are this way, literature is a dead medium, and perhaps TikTok is truly the artistic platform of the future. But I lack the energy and focus to do that either.

I don't feel like putting in a titanic effort to contribute to a dead medium which rotting corpse is crawling with females and trannies. I love literature, so I want it at peace, I want it forgotten, buried, with dignity.

>>17539879
I did but then I died

>>17540195
Like every other media, it will get buried nonchalantly, drowning in fanfiction-tier work. If only the sun would expand into a red giant soon enough.

>>17539879
lack of funding

mental illness means i can't focus on writing and actually get paid in the same day

seriously, if i had enough money to live i'd probably be able to write the next great novel

>>17539879
I'm working on it. Rate it.

Every harvest, successful or not, was an excuse for father's indulgence in liquor. From the barn – my bedroom of choice on that and many other nights – one could hear laughter, soon followed by shouting and commotion as glasses became empty. What was I to do? It's not like I could stop it. As a malnourished youth aged 10, whose scrawny frame was that of a child seemingly two years younger, it felt pointless to intervene. It wasn't fear of death that stiffened me, but an overwhelming sense of powerlessness as the racket of knuckles bashing against walls turned into pounding of flesh. As I laid over a makeshift straw bed, deafening quietness finally ensued, allowing for a dreamless sleep.
The rooster's call announced first light on that creepily calm dawn. Father wasn't out to wake me as he usually did by slamming the barn door, rattling the chains that I wounded around the handles in an attempt to avoid his drunken presence. Oftentimes he would have to bash it open to wake me from a stupor, whenever I looted his stash a night prior craving abashedly for approval and serene slumber. After getting up and dressed, I loosened the chains, opening the barn door and letting in a gust of morning wind and the first embers of sunlight. As I walked down the beaten path and felt cold earth beneath my feet, I saw that both the porch and kitchen lights were on, yet the animals still weren't tended to. In my approach towards the house, when all I could hear was the wooden porch creaking from my light first step, I realized that it has never been this quiet, holding my breath in response. It seemed like it took aeons between that first step and pushing open the agape front door. A scent of rusted iron filled my nostrils, and two figures were made clear: mother, limp on the ground beside the dining table, laying in a mixture of dried dark and fresh scarlet blood; and father, sitting on his rocking chair, empty bottle in hand, his resolute eyes piercing through mine.

>>17540195
>>17540208
I see it the other way; right now, it is at the lowest its ever been in history. Its up to somebody (read: us, restless, alienated and mentally-unwell young men) to rebuild it, to restore it to what it once was

>>17539879
dead medium; the best way to become an author remembered for all time in 2021 is to have some completely unrelated faggot make a successful tv show or movie out of your book without you.

>>17540212
You have a long ways to get to get to greatest who ever lived, but at least you are trying.

>>17540156
Meditation and practicing mindfulness might help your ability to focus more.

>>17540212
trying to be updike or steinbeck, but a poor imitation. if you had written this in the 1930s-50s you might have a chance, but it's 2021 and literally nobody cares for this kind of narrative, content, character, and writing style. sorry friend.

>>17540230
Gotta start somewhere.

>>17540254
Indeed you do. And if you are going to try, you might as well try to be best.

>>17540156
Also, it's probably too much to just quit social media, but see if you can get off the internet for an hour, then two hours, and so on. Baby steps.

>>17540251
Never read neither. Maybe that's my problem.

>>17540251
this came off too harsh. i applaud you for taking the time to write and it's better than the majority of the stuff that's posted here. but it seems anachronistic in style and content, and no publisher would find this relevant in the current day and age unless you put some spin on it that would make it "of the now." on the other hand, i'd argue that the true writer doesn't write for others, and certainly not for fame, so keep it up, anon, but keep your day job too.

>>17539879
An international conspiracy what else

>>17539879
I am missing the fundamental aspect of the human experience: love. I have never felt love. I have never had sex with a woman. I cannot write if I cannot experience the ultimate in pleasure.

>>17540298
Millions of worthless retards have sex every day and are none the wiser for it. Good LSD is better than sex every day

>>17540288
Thanks, mate. I appreciate it. Don't worry, I happen to quite like my job, I wouldn't want to write for a publisher anyway.

>>17540298
sex is overrated
>>17540307
this, LSD and mushrooms can help you unlock the keys to genius,– but only when combined with deep spiritual focus and meditation. perhaps if you do enough psychedelics and pray enough, you can become the next mystic poet like Hafez, Hildegaard von Bingen or St. John of the Cross.

I'm working on it.
Check book one:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TGBGGF8

>>17540274
>>17540246
Thanks Anon. I do pray each day and go for walks. But the internet has absolutely infested/poisoned my consciousness and I need to force myself to overcome my addiction. I know it's holding me back from my creative, spiritual, and happiness potential. I'm actually going to log off right now. Thanks for the encouragement fren.

>>17540298
While love is an amazing thing, there is more to life and the lack of love is a valuable insight even to those who have/have had it.

>>17540307
Millions of worthless retards do LSD. Did you actually think you made a point?
>>17540317
Incapable of making a human connection but you think hallucinogens will help you write something which people will connect with?

I do not have enough fingers and toes to count the different psychedelics I have taken, they all pale in comparison to real connection with another human. Drugs will never return your love.

>>17540347
Hope you had break.

Good luck fren, learn that you don't need the constant stimulus. Strive to be content with nothing but the sanctuary of your mind.

>>17540399
Had a good break*

>>17540391
>Did you actually think you made a point?
Yes

>>17540413
You may want to cut back on the LSD or at least make an effort to think before you speak.

>>17539879
stupidity

>>17540435
If you want to experience love and romance go outside and find it like everyone else you lazy faggot. You won't find it here

>>17540435
LSD, more like LDS.
Ya feel me?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TGBGGF8

>>17540460
>not marrying the first /soc/ hoe you meet up with
What are you afraid of, anon?

>>17540469
STDs, probably.

>>17540469
>what are you afraid of, anon?
AIDS

>>17540460
You just tagging random anons in a thread?

>>17540481
Women don't have AIDS, unless you have jungle fever.

dunno

>>17540044
Based

John David Card is stopping me.

I'd have to have the discipline to learn, and the intelligence to use what I learned. I have neither of these virtues, and also I have no other virtues. I just beat off and listen to music.

>>17540733
who?

bump

>>17540510
>t. will get AIDS

>>17540391
Based.

>>17540391
but anon the girl i like is extremely stubborn and paranoid and she won't talk to me no matter how hard i tried

>>17539879
i'm trying bro. my biggest obstacle is my cancer office job but i still read, write, and/or edit every night

>>17541046
Than move on.

>>17541099
>Than
Sigh. THEN.

>>17541111
>correcting typos in online communication post-submission

>>17539879
I don't know If I can do justice to my ideas

>>17541099
but anon i like her and wish she would see the light someday and stop begin childish

>>17539940
>imagine being Stendhal
Yeah I-I'm totally glad I'm not a loser like that haha.

>>17539879
Writer's block.

>>17539879
Rabelais mostly

>>17541138
You won't like her once she stops being childish. Move on.

>>17541199
but i would like her even more. besides it's not like she can remove all the childishness nor would i want her

>>17541236
OK, keep at the lost cause.

>>17539879


I lack discipline.

>>17541164
ayyy let's fuckin gooooo

Motivation and the fact that my mental illness isn’t severe enough to make me as unhinged as the true greats all were. Anyone can be a good writer if they put in the effort, but it’s life experience that elevates good writers to great. That doesn’t mean you should give up and not try though, even if you can’t be the greatest you can still be outstanding.

>>17539879
there is no need to hurry, we have all the time in the world

Simply nothing more than unlimited money so I can ignore things that are beneath me like work and dedicate myself to my projects undisturbed and with the full expenditure and commitment of my energies . That would also include travel to research areas featured in my stories, and a nice fine place in the woods away from it all to serve as my sanctuary and scriptorium.
That and crippling life long manic depression.