You ever write a passage and you're like: "This is so good that I'm gonna save it for a later publication when I'm already an esteemed author."
>>24111172No, I have no self-control and inevitably find a way to immediately release anything I think has even the slightest value.
>>24111172Well you know, they say the measure of a talented writer is the ability to be patient and not reveal too muchI'm lying, I've never heard anyone say this, but it might be true
no one makes it holding their shot. and self-limiting in its implication that you won't grow at all between non-esteemed writer and esteemed writer status
save deez nuts
>>24111281you don't think any accomplished writers had works that they held off on finishing or publishing till later in their career?
>>24111294that's a very different thing though, no? i chose to assume that OP wrote a lyrical passage and thinks it's much better than the current narrative it belongs to. i took offense at the idea of saving something good for when other people have validated you as good, rather than satisfying the needs of the work for sure people return to ideas or save ephemera that doesn't have a home in an idea yet. sometimes you see the furniture of an apartment, say, before you figure out the address
>>24111172Literally everything I writeHow does that make you feel?
>>24111307I was referring to just an isolated piece of writing, like if you kept a journal, some of the passages in their you might not apply to any novel or publication until years later because maybe you feel it would fit better with something you could see yourself writing years later or when you've gained a bit of public traction because you want more eyes on it in particular.
>>24111311makes me want to have violent sexual intercourse with you
>>24111314man, i was totally a dick. my mind was a little prejudiced from a conversation I was having recently that pissed me off. yes, totally. this is the importance of maintaining a place where you collect your fluff from the world and your mind--I do this too. not so much a journal, tho I want to get back into that, but I have a notebook I write thoughts in daily, fragments the fragments don't have a narrative yet, but sometimes I'll be rereading a few pages, and then my mind sees how some of that fluff forms a current inkling into something I can run with. I just feel strongly that when that happens, when an idea stands up as a narrative all of a sudden, you gotta sit down and write it. some ideas are fresh in a way that demands freshness.
>>24111294>>24111307Both of you suck at communicating a thought, holy shitUnreadable
>>24111326all good manyears ago I was super cynical to the idea of writing everyday, because I was like "whats the point of writing 400 odd words a day of garbage that I'm never gonna use?"but for me I think I've gained a lot of awareness about what I consider to be valuable writing just through the osmosis of writing something everyday, no matter how brief it isanother thing I've taken with me that someone told me ages ago is to never delete any writing, just have a scrap folder, but don't permanently get rid of anything you write. thats been super helpful to have the archives of things ive written that i no longer identify with, or passages that have value in some places among the parts that are drek
>>24111333what is confusing to you?
>>24111333maybe you're just slow
>>24111338>>24111341Wow notice how you two had no problem understanding what I said?
>>24111352yeah it's because we're not slowsomething you're clearly having trouble with
>>24111352>"notice how you understood what I said, but I couldn't understand what you said?">this definitely implies that you're bad at communicating, as opposed to me being retarded
>>24111368>>"notice how you understood what I said, but I couldn't understand what you said?"Imagine being this much of a massive, no talent schizo who couldn't write a grocery list
>>24111337it's good advice that i've only started realizing is important a few months ago. looking at the shit you used to write is pretty much the only clear line of sight a writer can get on their work, in many ways. like i can't tell if what i'm writing now is Good, but I can tell that it is transformed in a deep way from what I was writing a year ago. i did not expect the fraily of previous work to help with the daily self-doubt, but there it is
>>24111372>yogurt>eggs>full cream milk>peanuts>bananas>cerealwrote a grocery list, so you're wrong once againkeep trying, what else you got?
>>24111384>like i can't tell if what i'm writing now is Good, but I can tell that it is transformed in a deep way from what I was writing a year agothis is actually so fucking true. I have no way of knowing if my writing is good, but I can absolutely tell it's better than it was a year ago. like the prose is technically better, it's more insightful, and I can write for longer periods of time, and with more clarity as to what I'm trying to convey
>>24111387>keep trying, what else you got?Your boyfriend wrote that for youYou know we can all recognize your posts; all you do is come on here making negative comments; a sad, jealous, no-talent midwit, shaking his tiny manlet fists at God because you don't have an ounce of creativity
>>24111462you're not very good at ragebaiting
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