How do I unfuck my brain if I'm a 23 year old zoomer who only reads manga/comic books on my computer while listening to youtube videos in the background? I haven't finished a book all year. I have no writing talent. My handwriting is atrocious. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
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>>253836441. Get offline more2. Find more offline activities, like going on a walk and sitting on a bench3. Find a book that's interesting to you even before reading the first word4. Take your time, read few pages at the time, away of computer5. Consider things you just read, criticise them, give a praise, hate it, love it, whatever (all in your head)6. Read another one, with having the first one in mind, now you reached the level where you can compare the variables, compare the prose, is it funnier to read, is it harder? Make your judgement6. Read more7. Know more8. Read more9. Rethink what you know10. Profit
Pick a book you know you'll like and read it in stages. Set yourself a goal and then expand it. One chapter in a sitting. 20 pages in a sitting. Whatever. Make sure what you're reading. Read fiction if you really want. Whatever you're reading, just making sure it's interesting will do.Everyone has atrocious handwriting. That's just a matter of practice. This is going to take a while but it's worth it. If you're concerned about your retention, summarise each chapter or section or whatever on a bit of notepad paper afterward, then go back and check it against the text.Attention span, unless you cook your brain with armodafinil and meth, is a bit like a muscle. You can go force yourself through interesting but difficult to read stuff later.
>>25383644Read sci fi novels while listening to instrumental music from youtube. Baby steps. You will be shocked how much better the writing is in any old scifi novel than 99% of comics.
just pick up a book nigga
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>>25383644If you can't "just do it," you'll be 43 with this same problem. Either you fix your life or you're doomed. There are no secrets to anything.
>>25383644Read a short story a day. Build momentum. Start small. 10 minutes a day can lead to 30 minutes a day, then an hour a day, etc.
>>25383644Read light novels.
>>25384963no way fag
>>25383644Believe that you have control over where your mind aims its attention, and make it go where you need it to go. It will feel bad and wrong at first, but if you stay vigilant until you feel the difference, you'll get it.
>>25383679I started like this during high school, reading Hyperion while listening to Tangerine Dream. Best days of my life.
>>25383644>I have no writing talentHow do you know? Do you think they find talented writers at school or what? Just start writing. The worse you start more progress you can see and better it feels. Its like losing weight is so easy when you’re a fat fuck.
>>25383669>consider things you just readRetard alert
>>25383644You could start by reading Watchmen if you’re already a western comic fan Regardless of your opinion of the political/social sensibilities of Alan Moore, the original/complete run of Watchmen is leagues above most comic writing in terms of storytelling and characterization. This could be a good launching point for “”””deeper”””” literature.You could also start with someone like Tolkien, specifically The Hobbit. While it does not venture into the complexities of LotR, The Hobbit has simple characters and great world building that you could use to train your brain into visualizing what’s going on in the text. LotR is the next step in this, further painting Middle Earth and introducing “””morality””” and more complex characters like Boromir
>>25385361Comics were already moving towards more complicated independent stories in the 70s with 2000AD in the UK and First Comics in the US plus everything happening in France. Plus Moore already superseded Watchmen with Miracleman>the complexities of LotR"No!">Writers like Tolkien take you to the edge of the Abyss and point out the excellent tea-garden at the bottom, showing you the steps carved into the cliff and reminding you to be a bit careful because the hand-rails are a trifle shaky as you go down; they haven't got the approval yet to put a new one in.https://worldwithoutmoneyarg.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/moorcock-1978-epic-pooh-in-arena-2-anarchists-in-fiction-2011.pdf
>>25385379Round and round,Stick to the tunePosting on /lit/In the middle of June(But it’s July!)
