How do I know if I truly have a unique voice to share or if I'm just another chump who thinks he's different? I've been told good things about my wit by close friends and family, bu those are very biased readings and I take them with heavy grains of salt.
>How do I know if I truly have a unique voice to shareBy speaking to an audience
You have to have delusional self belief and put yourself out there. It's the only way.
>How do I know if I truly have a unique voice to share or if I'm just another chump who thinks he's different?Why does having a unique voice matter? Just write something you would enjoy reading yourself. >I've been told good things about my wit by close friends and family, bu those are very biased readings and I take them with heavy grains of salt.I haven't written anything but I draw and when I draw and show my art to other people I get very little satisfaction. If it's abstract art it's all 'I'm not sure what I'm looking at' if it's figure studies it's 'ooh, I like this one. yeah, it looks like your line work is getting better' and if you're lucky enough to find someone who's willing to critique the advice will always boil down to 'look more closely at your reference' or for you to use more or less detail. It's all stuff you already know. It's very rare that anyone offers insight into your artistic process that you didn't already possess. After a certain point it seems that it's better to follow your instincts and grind than to be constantly looking to others for validation.
>>24726496it is impossible to have a "unique voice" because all humans insofar as they participate in thought are just puppets of the world mind. the world mind functions by convincing you that the thoughts it implants into your mind are your own thoughts. No matter how original or new they seem, it is the programming from the world mind that makes you believe they are your own thoughts so that you will share them. Even what I am saying now I am fully aware that I am repeating what has already been said. Luckily for you even though it is impossible to have a truly original thought, most people are slaves to the world mind and as long as you phrase whatever you're saying in a way that's slightly different from what has been said before they will also fall for it and think that what you are saying came from yourself.
>>24726496When you really study history you realize almost everything has been thought of or done before and often forgotten. What changes is the emergent evolving contexts those repeating phenomena take place in.
>>24726565This is the truth, you don't create art. It appears in your mind spontaneously and you do your best to jot it down and organize it before you forget about it. Artists are glorified stenographers and editors of raw experience. You exert very little control over what you experience.
>>24726496>How do I know iYou have to post your sample in /wg
>>24726640>/wga bunch of bucket crabs who call everything posted in there "shit"
>>24726643>bucket crabsThe only anons I’ve seen use this term are the abject ESL aspies cowering in the web novel general. Most people take critical nitpicking/trolling as part and parcel of this site. Thinking that it’s somehow unique to /wg/ is incredible delusion, and the fact your reaction is to hide where the at-best Reddit tier writers are congregating on this site is just vindicating the people who called you retarded to begin with.
>>24726668Sounds good - until you actually visit one of those threads
where are the jannies? oh that's rightgo back >>>/adv/
>>24727987Reddit writing sounds good to you?
you have a unique voice because no one has your same experiences or genetic code. there has never been anyone like you before and there will never be anyone like you after. don't get caught up on validation or metrics or any of that stupid bullshit. people who actually write do it because they can't do anything else. do it because you have to, not because you want to. and also, even though hard work doesn't mean it'll pay off, the joy is in the work itself. so work hard because you believe in the work.no excuses, anon
>>24726496Berryman by WS MerwinI will tell you what he told mein the years just after the waras we then calledthe second world war don't lose your arrogance yet he saidyou can do that when you're olderlose it too soon and you maymerely replace it with vanity just one time he suggestedchanging the usual orderof the same words in a line of versewhy point out a thing twice he suggested I pray to the Museget down on my knees and prayright there in the corner and hesaid he meant it literally it was in the days before the beardand the drink but he was deepin tides of his own through which he sailedchin sideways and head tilted like a tacking sloop he was far older than the dates allowed formuch older than I was he was in his thirtieshe snapped down his nose with an accentI think he had affected in England as for publishing he advised meto paper my wall with rejection slipshis lips and the bones of his long fingers trembledwith the vehemence of his views about poetry he said the great presencethat permitted everything and transmuted itin poetry was passionpassion was genius and he praised movement and invention I had hardly begun to readI asked how can you ever be surethat what you write is reallyany good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sureyou die without knowingwhether anything you wrote was any goodif you have to be sure don't write
