If you want to write, you have to realize that writing is about failing. And the only good writing has merely failed better than the rest of the dross.>Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
>>24943455That is a nice sentiment. Maybe I will write that thing I've been meaning to write... Why not... Where should I start with Beckett? He has never really appealed to me.
>>24943460>That is a nice sentiment. Maybe I will write that thing I've been meaning to write... Why not...Go for it. It's better to be realistic about what writing is and how it comes about than pure pessimism or starry eyed optimism. >Where should I start with Beckett? He has never really appealed to me.Endgame is the funniest and most clever conceptually. You can watch it on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT2M9mu8p6Y
>>24943463Thanks anon ill watch it later
>>24943455really love Beckett. with other authors, you get the sense that they're behind the scenes, the cunning puppet master, trying to impress you with their perfect illusions. but with Beckett, he's not hiding behind anything, he's right there on the page, almost dragging himself across the page, and you get to see all the frustrations and failures he encounters on the way. i forget which, but there's a story of his in which he starts describing some old building, in elaborate pictorial realist-novelist detail, and then he abruptly breaks off, saying 'no, it's not working, i'm not seeing it,' and he abandons the description and moves on.
>>24943463Endgame wasn't funny to meMade me want to kill myself desuOnly one more depressing was Rockaby Waiting for Godot is hilarious tho
Writing is the willingness to spend countless hours starting at your failure; rewriting, revising, and editing it into something that there is the off chance that someone will understand.
