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>decide to try and write something
>stare at an empty word document for 15 minutes
>feel like throwing up
>close it and go back to shitposting

>> No.11158072

>>11158050
Maybe try having an actual idea before writing it down.

>> No.11158093

>>11158050
hehheh you are loser. one day will be trashman

>> No.11158100

>>11158093
Garbageman in my country make pretty good money. I doubt it.

>> No.11158122

>>11158100
in my country, trashman, he live with trash. he eat the trash, and he become a trash hisself. he is no longer man, but trashman, and he make no money, only trash

>> No.11158712

>>11158122
What the hell country is this?

>> No.11158724

>>11158712
It’s the most common job in America I hear

>> No.11158732

>>11158050
why the fuck did you throw up? anyway just forcefully write some shit and edit it later once the flow starts

>> No.11158762

>>11158050
>decide to try and write something

You just decided to try to write something without actually knowing what that something is? I don't think you understand how writing works. That guy was right. You will be a trashman one day

>> No.11158789

>>11158762
Maybe I'll find a manuscript in a dumpster and claim it as my own.

>> No.11158804

>>11158100
You're conflating the garbage man (a respectable profession) with the contemptible trashman.

>> No.11158805

>>11158122
Quality post

>> No.11158807

>>11158093
>trashman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4

>> No.11158834

>>11158122
Good stuff amigo

>> No.11158841

Yoy faggots better not publish a best seller tittled "Trashman"

>> No.11158850
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11158850

>>11158841
Now i gotta do it
It's going to be about a garbage/trashman who is an aspiring writer

>> No.11158857

>>11158712
Autism

>> No.11158885

>>11158850
Something like Good Will Hunting, except it's a lowly janitor at a publishing house who's a secret writing genius.

>> No.11158898

>>11158850
Nickname him "Gillette"

>> No.11158905

>>11158850
>garbage/trashman
So a man who picks up people's trash while also living in said trash? What does he write about? What are his dreams and aspirations?

>> No.11158927

>>11158050
You're too old OP. Writing requires recklessness; the ability to not be overly self-critical. This only exists in your youth.

>> No.11158960

>>11158927
May one practice recklessness enough in their youth that they will be able to harness that recklessness past youth through a sort of earned skill for disruption and chaos? Or will maturity simply not allow this?

>> No.11158978

>>11158960
It's hard to say. The older you get, the easier it is to perceive what quality writing actually is, which means that you will throw away things that might be good if it is rewritten a couple of times.

At least this is my experience.

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>>11158885
maybe
>>11158898
like the razor?
>>11158905
He puts the trash together, making assumptions on people's lives based on them and writes about it
example: If he goes to a house that has a lot of alcohol bottles and cans in the bin, but also broken toys, he makes a story about a child with an abusive father

>> No.11158983

>>11158789
it can be good thing if learn let animal take wheel, like animal live with trash of god, everything waste not kill in survive, and you will learn live like this, like trash and mud, animalman

>> No.11158984

>>11158050
>not getting drunk before sitting down to write

>> No.11159003

>>11158979
That could actually have some potential. The trashman will have to become dangerously obsessed with one family in particular though

>> No.11159011

>>11158979
>like the razor?
Sort of, it could be a double entendre. First is the play on the garbage man, being the Penn Jillette meme, so calling him Gillette since he's a garbage man is a subtle allusion. Second since it is in fact the razor brand, if your character shapes up to be a very cunning writer, the razor allusion could be as if to say he was a very "sharp" man and writer, hence he is called inyimately by such a nickname.

>> No.11159013

>>11158050
Honestly who the fuck reads books anymore. In 200 years is anyone gonna pick up something from the eartly 21st century and call it a classic. A few hundred years ago all there was for 99% of people was books and now there are many mediums all of them more popular than books.

>> No.11159041

>>11158050
Pen and paper might help.

>> No.11159045

>>11159003
Maybe, i wanted it to be kinda comical but if he becomes obsessed with a family house that just has the strangest shit in their trash that might be cool i guess
>>11159011
amazing, i was actually having trouble writing in thinking of my MC's job but this could just be an entire new thing with my original idea being a sub-plot (it was about a virgin basically trying to live life like the dude from the big lebowski)
>>11159013
Where the fuck do you think you are?

>> No.11159049
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11159049

>barely even shitpost these days
>literally just post pictures of a certain frog, often without text accompanying it
>do however copy down high quality /lit/ posts into txt documents
>after years of this, I've amassed a collection of such quality, depth, and range that it could only have been created by the collective efforts of an anonymous mob
>with a little bit of editing however, it could be believed that it was all done by me alone
>when my publisher asked how I, a simple wageslave without formal education, could have produced such a far ranging and in depth collection of essays, poems, and short stories, I just smiled a secret smile, winked, and said "hard work and diligence"

Work smart, not hard OP.

>>11159003
That's a brilliant idea anon, you should expand on it.

>> No.11159067

>>11159045
Nobody on /lit/ reads books. And if they do they mostly do it so they can shitpost about it afterwards. The reading part is just work.

>> No.11159071

>>11159045
Yeah, it could be a dark comedy about mediocre wageslavery and obsession, e.g. The Cable Guy

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>>11159049
pic
>>11159067
true, sometimes when i want to be part of a thread i just open up a sparknotes of a book i haven't read yet

>> No.11159081

>>11159067
so say man whos only reading is on candy rappers from trash, where you probubly live, and now you use computer from library to curse poeple from books and not dumpster rappers, angry trashman

>> No.11159082

>>11159071
this might actually be pretty good, i'll give it a shot

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11159112

>tfw 4chan drains you of all your creative energy

>> No.11159156

>>11159082
Good luck, anon. Be sure to post results

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>>11159112
>tfw interacting with other people on 4chan has made me realize what person I don't want to be, and interest boards like this can continue to motivate me towards moving away from it

>> No.11159613

Yeah I had this problem OP, do what I did.

Give up on your dreams because you will never have the talent to succeed.

>> No.11159832

>>11158050
You are to writing what icebergs are to the equator

>> No.11160169

Just write. Even if it’s total crap, just keep going. Your words aren’t permanent. You can come back to anything and tweak it.

2,000 words a day can get you a novel in 3 months.

You’re not writing Vathek.