The more I read the more I realize I'll never be a great author or thinker like I thought I was when I was a teenager. Best case scenario I'll manage to write one book that gain semi-moderate success in alt right circles or I'll write some shitty normie friendly fantasy ya series that possibly me money. And those are the best case scenarios, if I'm being realistic here I probably won't even get as far as writing a single book before I croak. How do you cope with the gift of consciousness being wasted on you?
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even the greatest authors or thinkers will be forgotten after a few millennia, that's practically no time in the cosmic scale of things
Some people don't find success until their 30s-40s. Voltaire wasn't apart of the university educated upper class.
>How do you cope with the gift of consciousness being wasted on you?
stand on the shoulders of giants op
no need to write another book
there are zillions of books already
maybe write some reports instead?
learn to analyze things and document a viewpoint
>The more I read the more I realize I'll never be a great author or thinker like I thought I was
I guess not, You've already admitted defeat so easily kek.
You can go on twitter right now and get within two degrees of separation from the people who matter fairly easily. The modern république des lettres is remarkably easy to crash, mostly because nobody cares that much anymore.
But does it matter if they care or not? Inevitably these ideas trickle down to the masses. Nobody really cares about Paris Fashion Week, nobody who takes themselves seriously at least, but they will inevitably be wearing the styles, colours, and fabrics that first premiered there in chinese knock-off two years after the fact.
My advice is to find out what you don't want to say. What you wont reveal about yourself, your opinions, your beliefs. What mud you refuse to wallow in. What dark secrets you will take to the grave with you. Too many writers, intellectuals, whatever, they get involved in culture war bs, and before long, their twitter is just a long and repetitive rant about trannies reading books to children, or drumph, or whatever. You can be better than that anon.
Then you invent an alias. A nom-de-plum. Something clever, subtle, or meaningful. With the current discourse its very likely we will see dissidents of various stripes either imprisoned or executed en mass in our lifetime. Wear a mask. Protect yourself. Personally I like to look at Misc Pot, as he was a great genius in this area and understood the importance of extreme secrecy.
>To add to the confusion, even his [Misc Pot's] identity remains in question. In an interview with Yugoslav television in 1977, Misc Pot said he had come from a poor peasant family. But a Cambodian refugee in Paris, Laau Phuok, insists that Misc Pot's real name is Saloth Sar, and that his father was a landowner distantly related to the royal family. A third version is that Misc Pot is really Tol Sat, a revolutionary who was elected to the Khmer Rouge People's Representative Assembly in Phnom Penh in 1976. To complete the mystery, photographs of Misc Pot tend to change in appearance ever so slightly through the years.
Change your names every couple of years. Leak false biographical information about yourself. Use AI generated photos. Fake your own death. Never wear your heart on your sleeve. Never show yourself completely to the public eye.
Finally, know what you want to say. What niche you are writing to. Who your audience will be. And start working towards those ends. My recommendation is to try and cultivate a circle of important/influential people around you, and write for them. Plato probably only wrote for a hundred people. Machiavelli wrote Il Principe for one man only. If you have everything worth saying, then you should tailor it for the people worth listening. Eventually it will trickle down.
what should I write for Thielbux? Should I write about dicks and butts you think?
>A nom-de-plum. Something clever, subtle, or meaningful.
Yes, something like Delicious Tacos or 0HP Lovecraft. Just write under your own name, or at the very least one that sounds like an actual name someone could have. Nobody is going to imprison, let alone execute, you for writing middling right wing literature you lemonheaded pussy
>Nobody is going to imprison, let alone execute, you for writing middling right wing literature
they probably are to be honest
You are only telling yourself this so you feel important. The "woke" liberal state is never going to become that strong
>The "woke" liberal state is never going to become that strong
Its the Liberal State faltering that's the fear here. In times of revolution, dissident authors are always the first to go. We've already seen widespread Cancelling and Struggle Sessions. Just use a pen-name.
>We've already seen widespread Cancelling and Struggle Sessions
Cheesedick clown shoes nonsense. To be honest I would sooner cut off your head for this than whatever "dissident" opinions you might hold
>You are only telling yourself this so you feel important.
source?
>The "woke" liberal state is never going to become that strong
just look at how they've been prosecuting/framing the jan 6th people (who did jack shit) compared to the Black folk who caused 2 bill worth of damage all summer 2020 during lockdowns no less. the woke state already has no problem mutilating children, why wouldn't they take it a step further when it becomes convenient for them to do so—an good ol' fashioned sense of right and wrong? give me a break, wiener breath.
there's definitely a non-zero percent chance of the US becoming South Africa at this point
I agree with everything you've said except for the nom-de-plume stuff. Only do that if you have material you don't want associated with yourself, or if you have secret goals that require it. Most people simply don't give enough of a frick to track an author's "mystery man" routine anymore and get tired of obscured photos or cryptic tweets or whatever. It's something I've noticed a lot of zoomer and Millennial writers doing, but it doesn't seem to get them very far compared to those who are straight-up.
Writers write. If you want to write a book then just do it. Like whatever stupid alt-right masterpiece you imagine yourself writing, just sit down and write a few paragraphs every day
>Best case scenario I'll manage to write one book that gain semi-moderate success in alt right circles or I'll write some shitty normie friendly fantasy ya series that possibly me money.
You're overestimating even in your own delusions. You loser chud
>You're overestimating even in your own delusions
Wouldn't you tend to overestimate in delusions by definition? The left defintiely isn't sending its best and brightest
Lol. You clearly don't know the definition of delusion. Plus, you're talking like delusion is always a negative connotation, which it isn't. Hahahaha, you'll never be a writer dumbass
uh oh; looks like someone's off their meds again
the advice in this homosexual thread just keeps on getting worse
>consciousness
>gift
Problem identified
Let's be honest, the great authors of antiquity are lost to time anyway. You know who is remembered? Megalomaniac rulers and despots who built giant monuments and statues of themselves.
Just write for the sake of the art of the craft. It doesn't matter really how successful you become if everything you've created is disgusting to you or completely divorced from your own inner work. You must hone the art of your nature, however that might come to be, before you can hope to create from it a great work. Or at least so I think.
>The more I read the more I realize I have reached the same heights as the greatest thinkers and no new horizon await me
It sometimes sucks when you think about it but you should have bigger things to worry about. Focus on living as God intended instead
ganbatte fighting!
What if those who made it had the same thought?
dumb Black person just do drugs, normalBlack folk dont write or do anything memorable, the best books are those written by schizophrenic morons, become a schizo then write the book or frick off
look homosexual, i got dubs
two three's
this isnt a coincidence, this is GOD telling YOU that im right, if you want to write some good spicy shit that people will seethe and cope and gossip and admire and talk about ages and ages from now you need to do drugs go out into the world break bad then come back in an unhinged mental state and start writing down your scribbles then publish it
otherwise FRICK OFF
cause you'd just be one of those meek homosexuals now thatare scared to write anything meaningful because of not fitting in with the Black person herd
LOOK homosexual
ANOTHER PAIR OF DUBS
I AM LITERALLY BEING USED BY GOD RIGHT NOW TO SHOW YOU THE WAY
BECOME UNHINGED
WRITE BOOK
PROFIT????????
NOW GET TO IT
I hate to say this, but even making money from some YA fantasy series isn’t guaranteed. I agree with everyone else that you need to keep reading and writing. Imposter syndrome is a real thing and even some great authors feel their work is shit.
Incredibly universal problem and for that reason it’s selfish/narcissistic to be in despair over it. Being “ordinary, “mediocre” is a problem shared by all of us. Including, as some people in this thread have already mentioned, the people we supposedly think of as great — that’s partly the point of Trigorin’s self-centred complaints that he’ll never be as good as Turgenev in The Seagull, when we know Konstantin would kill to be in Trigorin’s position. There’s always a writer above us, better than us, except for the person at the top, Shakespeare, who didn’t seem to care about fame or being great at all! He never published his plays in his lifetime or made steps to assure his legacy, he saw himself as just another playwright on the Elizabethan/Jacobean stage. The same goes for philosophy as well: the greatest philosopher, Socrates, never wrote anything down. He was assured of the immortality of the soul, so why would he need the immortality of legacy? Pope’s line “[Fame] comes unlooked for, if she comes at all”, itself echoing Shakespeare, seems very true. It seems we shouldn’t/can’t worry about greatness, there are other concerns we should attend to first.
This sort of perspective is needed for young writers today. Sure, the prospect of becoming famous is appealing, and it might drive you to write more and send out more submissions and all that, but to become too focused on achieving notoriety is to fall into one of the industry's traps.
Truly. We all need to hit the "Valley of Despair" if we're going to get better.
Great is the enemy of good.
Keep going friend. It's part of the journey.
you were not a better author or "thinker" when yo were a teenager, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard
Do you have zero reading comprehension? How did you misunderstand such a simple message?
Frick off alt right homosexual you deserve it
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to mothers kitchen a'looking for biscuits to scarf,
"i want digestives, i want tuc crackers,"
he sang as he pranced 'long 'neath the rafters,
"get ye back scum,"
thundered his father,
gripping his gun
and scurrying after
the NEET
with his feet
as he scurried for munch,
"i can't," so he sang, "for i slept all through lunch,"
"then you starve!" cried his grandma who had joined in the fray,
"that's what you get for sleeping all day,"
and a gun shot rang out and it echoed through the hall
and the NEET gripped his breast as he started to fall,
"i want digestives, i want tuc crackers,"
he choked through the blood, smearing himself with the splatters,
and father looked Stoic as he glared down at his son,
"tender babe of 40 years, and his life is done."