What are the best resources for an aspiring writer?
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What are the best resources for an aspiring writer?
What are the best resources for an aspiring writer?
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alcohol
As a barely recovering alcoholic I can tell you it is not. You can't do anything when you're drunk all the time.
that is why you take stimulants with it. Caffeine + nicotine + amphetamine + alcohol.
Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke
Schopenhauer of course
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10714/10714-h/10714-h.htm
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This also. It's the same for great mathematicians, they emphasize the need of having mastered Algebra.
Your mind
learn how to write poetry, then dialogue, then look up how to outline a story
write like you breathe.
breath in breathe out.
read then write
I'm going to be honest with you, if you're an "aspiring writer" liking shitty wojak social media memes about writer as an identity and asking IQfy for advice, you aren't going to make it as a writer. Maybe get into playing paddle ball or something.
This book has some good bits, it's not the most amazing book ever but you see how much rejection the man goes through and it will make you feel less shit when it happens to you. Probably don't listen to morono over here
>Using an image type popular to the board your posting a question means you shouldn't try and write.
It's called knowing your audience, give me a break
People on here will downplay this book because it's by King but I agree with what you said about it.
Beyond dogshit book. Anyone recommending it hasn't actually read it. It's a selfsucking autobiography with about a paragraph of spurious writing advice.
Paper, pen, or pencil if you prefer
I've been in close to 100 lit mags, served in editorial positions, etc. Here's my advice, in brief: start by mastering your mechanics. Get your grammar down to the point where you can explain it to other people and manipulate it at will in your writing. Any time I see unintentional comma splices, for example, in a writer's work, I know they're still green or just plain shit. Then, familiarize yourself with what's out there. Read a hell of a lot, but read closely, looking for techniques to mimic. Write down every word they use that you don't know and try to use them yourself. Try different styles once you've read a few you like. Eventually, you'll find where your strengths are and where your weaknesses are. Once you've found your "voice," you're more or less at the starting line. That's when you have to grind for hours every single day, trying to get out the works that are unique to you. There is no one resource -- you'll need too many to count. Godspeed. (Also, don't be a gay as a writer -- we have way too many prissy homosexual writers already.)
>Any time I see unintentional comma splices, for example, in a writer's work, I know they're still green or just plain shit
The cat must be fricked and skinned in every conceivable (and inconceivable) way. One can have all the structure and plotting in the world and it's worth a hill of beans without a flair for the dramatic. Generating visions intentionally and spontaneously then translating them-- that's catanus. Can't wait for the Muses, nor should you.
>Mr. McCarthy there are too many comma splices, run-on sentences and no quotation marks in your writing
>You really need to work on your grammar and then hammer down your own style to really find your own strengths and weaknesses
>Anyway rejected
for me its the elements of style
You can break the rules, but you should at least give the impression that you know them.
When did McCarthy do that? Great writers aren't like Picasso. They don't usually start by writing one or two tight, formal pieces to show everyone they can. They'll have a style from the outset and develop it from there.
>Any time I see unintentional comma splices, for example, in a writer's work, I know they're still green or just plain shit.
Frick off with your reddit writing advice.
>(Also, don't be a gay as a writer -- we have way too many prissy homosexual writers already.)
>t. a prissy homosexual writer
>Proper grammar is Reddit
The absolute state of IQfy
Still waiting for you to refute
who illustrates the same point in a less moronic way.
Where are your works, anon? Have you written a single thing of merit? Or are you just here to keep the bucket full, crabby?
>Where are your works, anon? Have you written a single thing of merit?
Serious cope. No, anon, I'm not Thomas Pynchon, and even if I told you I have written something of merit you'll just deny it or try to get me to post it here, which I wouldn't do. And when I tell you I'm unpublished, you'll further think you've somehow made le epic move because your reddit brain can only think in israelite terms such as state sponsored "rules" and measure "merit" through its finacial profitiability.
Also I'm an ESL, so I doubt you'd even be able to read my work anyway, seeing as you're clearly infected by the American state education system and likely don't know any non-anglo language.
For matters involving literature, grammar's main use should be stylistic. It seems like you're an english teacher at heart? If you're writing something for school or some other soulless instition, I'd say this is good advice, but you're clearly trying to explain the art of literature and use of grammar through some mathamatical equation.
You got to remember, Shakespeare practically defined how a semi-colon is used due to how he implemented it stylistically in his texts. And even though he's extremely overrated, you couldn't claim McCarthy's writing is "still green or just plain shit" despite the abscence of conventional grammar use.
You may have got confused when loading up your webbrowser. It appears that you're looking for r/writingadvice.
One should know the rules before breaking them. I'm sure McCarthy didn't just go out and start breaking grammatical rules day 1.
And who dictates these "rules"? The publishing industry or education system? I'd be curious to see how you answer this, because as I stated Shakespeare practically defined the modern rules for English grammar through his stylistic use of commas, colons and semi-colons.
The latter, obviously. I'm sure Shakespeare recieved such education, being a playwright and all, so he could know what to add to make his writing flow. Otherwise any idiot could just write like a tumblr post and be seen as a trailblazer.
I don't agree with this. I beleive anyone can write anything regardless of the rules put-in-place so long as they have their own syntax and flow. A social media post is signifcantly less effort than a piece with literary value.
You can write, yes, but you won't be very attractive to the industry with bad grammar regardless if your ideas, prose or drama are good or not.
Why do you care so much about the industry, anon? Do you get some kind of pleasure from appealing to israeli ideals of goodness? This explains why you're so moronic.
You absolute gorilla Black person. You want that steady income of shekels? You gotta somewhat appeal to what the shekelman likes. That's how you get the resources for subsistence and access to valuable things.
Unless you open a patreon or an OnlyFans. Then all I can say is goooooooooood fricking luck.
>thinks appealing to shekelburg to gain shekelcoins is a noble aspiration in life and the be all and end all of creating art
Genuinely, you may as well have a nice day if this is your mindset. Or failing that, go work for a bank or pursue a career in STEM
I never said it was noble you dishonest c**t. If you stopped putting words in people's mouths maybe you could write more interesting characters.
>I never said it was noble you dishonest c**t
So, you admit you're a prostitute enslaved to israelitenation?? And we're supposed to be taking your advice on literature? I think I'll pass, buddy
Well there's nothing I can do about bad grammar
>thinkers beloved of the Muses
>homunculus stenographers goaded by demons
romanticizing absolute trainwrecks and larping yourself into addiction.
These are the kind of questions artists who are afraid of committing proper work into their craft always ask. They always want to be "prepared", "knowledgeable" but never get down to actually doing the work, whatever their field might be (writing, painting, recording/playing music etc.). The fastest and best way to learn is to do the activity (shocking i know) you are learning, if you want to write better then write more. You will come with problem areas as you write and you will solve those by doing research when that problem area in your writing comes up (reading how someone else did it or theory). That's how you improve at any craft and arts are the same. Work, work, work.
I want to say that arts have a very damaging reputation as some mystical activity when in reality it should be looked at primarily as a craft. Writing a good song is virtually indistinguishable from designing and building a good house. Only when you learn the craft, can you infuse the "mystique" into your work, but in reality that mystique is often just the personal touch that is like a fingerprint of an individual person ie everyone has a different fingerprint, you don't need to wait for the skies to open to be inspired, just get to work and work a lot. Then you need a rigorous internal critic, which is your voice telling you when to discard or change things for being shit and this happens a lot in all pieces of art. Some are unsalvageable and will be discarded entirely without publishing, others you will work at until your internal critic says "this is acceptable". This is a piece of art that can be shown to public. It has to be comparable or better to the industry standard. Now at this point when things are acceptable, your internal critic should ask "what can I do to make this even better?", only then you might realize an alteration to some part or a different dynamic might bring your work from acceptable to good. This is the key. Other times you will know a certain piece has a quality that gives it high-end potential (like say a hook that might make a hit song) but it is really rough around the edges, those are prime candidates for you to spend a lot of time on, making sure all the edges are up to par to the main idea which you identified as high quality. This is how you get great pieces and when when even the edges along the main idea are of exceptional quality, you sometimes get a masterpiece. Very rare, most artists do not produce even one in their lifetime even if they have a consistent output of good material. Because it is exceedingly hard to master all aspects of the field. In music, on a great song, it pays to collaborate with specific professionals when you feel like you might have a hit and it needs to be up to par in all aspects. Now the flip side of this, you need to constantly finish your work even when it is not of exceptional quality, because finishing things is a skill in itself that you need to improve. There are a lot of people who come up with partial works and never finish them which is obviously very amateur stuff and you will never improve like that.
>Work, work, work.
the original meaning of ars longa vita brevis is exactly that. life is short but mastering the art takes a long ass time.
>What are the best resources for an aspiring writer?
life. go outside. meet some people. do something. spending some time in a mental hospital really gave me some inspiration and material to work with.
Was you sectioned, anon? If so how would you say it impacted your life? Did it have a positive or negative impact?
I've been thinking of voluntarily sectioning myself. I've been super stressed and somewhat erratic. Although I've been told being sectioned can negatively affect your chances of getting a job later on in life. In the UK, at least.
sectioned no. my stay was considered voluntary. tldr I was suicidal because of some chronic pain issues I've been dealing with. parents took me to the hospital and from there ended up spending time in their mental ward for 5 days. I roomed with a guy that was there for substance abuse and he told me stories about his travels and being in and out of jail. watched a schizophrenic pace the hallway and draw shit on a chalkboard. listened to a man freak out about his foot; think he was bipolar. talked to a few other dudes between their late teens and mid twenties like me that were there because they were suicidal or attempted suicide. the wing I was in had idk maybe 20-25 people in it and all but one were men between the ages of 18 and I'd guess 50. I'd say it positively impacted my life because it gave me some perspective I guess. other than that it was just an interesting life experience.
A good length of rope and strong rafters
methamphetamine and dextromethorphan (just not at the same time)
Just write about your fetishes to get all the cringe out.