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12471784 No.12471784 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone else feel like a fraud?

When people ask me what my dreams are, I can't say that it's to write something beautiful, a great novel, without being sarcastic or glib about it, if anything. I feel stupid saying it, so I just don't even mention it usually...

>> No.12471802

>>12471784
literally me

I tend to say things like that jokingly and laugh at it with others because of how absurd it is or, just like you said, i don't mention it, i say i'm figuring things out even though my passions are set.

>> No.12471811
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12471811

I'm too embarassed to admit I want to be a writer, basically because I'm so fucking bad. Everything I write, it just comes out awful, and it has for years without any discernible improvement. I've written and deleted around 10k words over the last few years. If I told anyone I liked writing, they would naturally asked to read some of my stuff.
I would choose great literary talent over fame, fortune or not being an incel, I've always wished I could write a novel so great it was added to the Western Canon.

>> No.12471812

>>12471784
i should but i dont

>> No.12471860

Nah OP you should say that and stand for it. People are vain af and will see you as someone who wants to be an artist, they wont scoff. Hell, i'd talk to a person who told me that, thats actually interesting and great to have as a dream.

Only thing that keeps me from saying it is that i dont think i ever will write a great novel and i certainly wont if i tell people i will. All my plans i keep to myself until ive excecuted them, otherwise my brain like accepts the fantasy as some sort of past.

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12471922

>>12471784
Read The Virginia Woolf writers' workshop

Stop crying you big baby.

>> No.12471932

Jesus, you all are pathetic

>> No.12471938

>>12471932
First day?

>> No.12472621

>>12471784
>Anyone else feel like a fraud?

Yes, all the time pretty much. It's such a disheartening feeling. I can't help but wonder about my mental health. Sometimes I'm convinced that I have BPD or something similar. It fucking sucks, OP.

>> No.12472643

Nah, I'm the realest motherfucker alive.