/lit/ - Literature

>>7258642
Day job

>>7258642

read more. you'll then know more. and then you can write more.

>>7258643

I have a boring day job. I am boring.

your life is quite alien to normies, so why not try to write something that gives them a sense of what it is like?

>>7258642
Let's get you on the right path.

What drove you to be such an introvert?

If you cannot think of that, at what year did you truly begin to shut yourself away from the world?

Writing, regardless of what anyone wishes to think, is formed most powerful from personal experiences, not the understanding of texts written by others.

>>7258649
Well you either have an imagination or you're going to get a better job or both.

Why would anyone without anything to say want to be a writer? Some become journalists before they write about anything they want, but don't let me think for you, dear.

>>7258657
>Writing, regardless of what anyone wishes to think, is formed most powerful from personal experiences, not the understanding of texts written by others.
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOU

>>7258661
An amazing response.

>>7258642
yes
writing is for normies who dwell in cities where they can fulfill their hedonistic life and thus stumble little odd scenes to narrate.

rise above the urban mediocrity and its incestual entertainment. face what is inside of you, no matter how frightening, until you defeat it in understanding that it is bogus.
>>>/sci/7602306

>>7258657
>Writing, regardless of what anyone wishes to think, is formed most powerful from personal experiences, not the understanding of texts written by others.

lol I bet you're that guy in writing class who only writes about your failed past relationships and then cries when reading aloud his stories so everyone's afraid to give genuine criticism because they don't want to be rude.

>>7258657

>Writing, regardless of what anyone wishes to think, is formed most powerful from personal experiences, not the understanding of texts written by others.

>Implying reading writing by others isn't personal experience

Come now son, join the ride.

Fernando Pessoa is one writer who springs to mind that may be of some inspiration to OP.

>>7258673
I wouldn't consider the act of reading a personal experience but reflection on what you've read is the personal experience because you can compare it to what you know.

My main issue is that people who often say "Just read more!" Normally copy both the ideas and writing style of their favored authors and never attempt to mesh their own ideas and style into their works.

>>7258657

I would rather read than hang out with people. I had a hard time relating to normies

>the amount of bullshit in this thread
Tell me how Tolkien could write about elves and hobbits.
Tell me how J. K. Rowling could write in the point of view of an angsty teenage wizard boy.
Tell me how Hemingway could write about a Spanish fisherman.
Tell me how David Foster Wallace wrote about Québec separatists when he is an American writer.
Tell me how Jules Vernes could write about a British man traveling around the world.

The quote is write what you know not write what you lived through.

>>7258642
>reads all day
>>7258649
>i have a boring day job

Why do you enjoy contradicting yourself?

>>7258686
>My main issue is that people who often say "Just read more!" Normally copy both the ideas and writing style of their favored authors and never attempt to mesh their own ideas and style into their works.

Well the answer to that is to "Just write more!" Writers, professional and amateur, always copy other writers style before developing their own style. That's something that you grow into naturally when writing often. "Personal experience" can help with an understanding of people and life, but doesn't give you a unique style of writing.

>>7258667
that pic hit too close to home.

>>7258645

'no'

>>7258691

You're looking at this way too literally.

>>7258642
Give up writing for now! You need Real Life Experiences® to be a good writer!

>>7258763
*rubs hands to stay warm in this cold weather*

>>7258642
If you even have to ask, the answer is a clear YES and it's not your situation but you.

>>7258754

Then you're a moron

>>7258657
Gotta love how many losers jumped you for stating something so obvious.

Never change /lit/

>>7258762
Elaborate.

>>7258657
There are plenty of good writers that were introverted, there were plenty that had to go through endless, difficult toil to write artistically rather than use the enigmatic "personal experience" as a muse.

Obviously it helps, but a creative mind can fabricate it, and a talented writer can make ordinary circumstances/universal experiences an interesting read.

You don't need to travel around the world or have a million friends to have good ideas. As long as your days aren't monotonous then they have capacity for writing, regardless of what the subject is imo

>>7258642
>>7258649

Kafka and Pessoa.

Check 'em.

>>7258793

>As long as your days aren't monotonous

Even this isn't necessary. Seriously OP, as has been mentioned several times already, Pessoa.

>>7258805
I'm reading Kafka's diaries at the moment - quite interesting stuff, he and his job suffered a lot from his writing. He'd stay up extremely late to write, and then his mind would be "powered out" the next day. It's no miracle that Kafka never managed to finish a novel.

>>7258642
You can either live a more interesting life or develop your imagination and imagine an interesting life

>>7258793

>As long as your days aren't monotonous

But basically everyone's life is monotonous...

>>7258642
Emily Dickinson was a shut-in too, OP.

>>7258642
What angers you?
What do you despise?
Have disdain?
Calm yourself.
These questions make the book.

>>7258642
Write about your insatiable hungry for cocks.

>>7258642
There's no problem to write about being a broken man or a NEET. But there's something terribly sad and banal about that

>>7258642
Yes.

Or get job

>>7258657
Put a trigger warning on that shit man.

>>7258642
>Should I give up writing since I have nothing interesting to say?
If you have nothing interesting to say about your pathetic life, your alienation, and your disconnect from society, then yes, you have no hope of ever making it as a writer.

>>7258642
you're just a set of values, any set of values can write a book as long as it exists in the right dimensions

>>7258642
Writing as a full time job is a bad idea and it will drain you creatively. get a job and do your writing on the side.
Don't worry about it taking a lot of time. I have been working on my novel for over 10 years now and while the end is nowhere in sight, it gets better as I get older.

>>7258642
The phrase "write what you know" isn't something you're supposed to take that literally.

>>7258642
Learn to think and express thoughts. Set yourself writing goals about what you read. Comparisons, juxtapositions, stray thoughts, etc. Write essays and short stories about what you read to start off with.

It is not that you have nothing to say, but words are communication, they will not happen in a vacuum. So use what you have at hand, your reading.