Tbh as a kid and even know a lot of the fascination behind the job as writer was all the freedom you get. How mundane you can be while creating something that will resonate even 50-100 years after you passed. You can write everywhere, while you enjoy life and travel to your favourite places and just chainsmoke cigs and binge drink alcohol. (This is the idea i had of a writer, damn you Hemingway) Having said that, i would love to write something that makes other feel like i feel when i read some good books. The feeling that reading that book in that precise moment is the best thing i could do with my life.
But to write something that isn’t complete and utter shit like a lot of books i see, the first thing you have to be is: very cultured and you have to master the language in which you’ll write. In order to get to that point the only thing you can do is educate yourself and read, so as of now i try to read both because i enjoy it and because i feel like i need to get a good vocabulary and idea on how to express a coherent tought that isn’t the most cliché thing you’ve read in your life.
The few writers I know always tell me that the three things I would need for writing are:
Reading a lot.
Writing a lot.
Discipline.
I was told that anything extra I could do like writing workshops, etc, are nice to have but definitely not mandatory.
Iirc another common advice was writing short stories initially, then review them, analyze and piece them appart in a nice structure, then re-write them again.
I think it had different versions of it, but the gist of it was that the Afghanistan of new writers are long novels and short text writing, then reviewing was the exercise necessary for improvement before trying to write the Great American Novel.
In other words, please write and share it with us ;)
Writer
How is it going?
He wrote that comment, so I say he succeeded
I wrote.
Tbh as a kid and even know a lot of the fascination behind the job as writer was all the freedom you get. How mundane you can be while creating something that will resonate even 50-100 years after you passed. You can write everywhere, while you enjoy life and travel to your favourite places and just chainsmoke cigs and binge drink alcohol. (This is the idea i had of a writer, damn you Hemingway) Having said that, i would love to write something that makes other feel like i feel when i read some good books. The feeling that reading that book in that precise moment is the best thing i could do with my life.
But to write something that isn’t complete and utter shit like a lot of books i see, the first thing you have to be is: very cultured and you have to master the language in which you’ll write. In order to get to that point the only thing you can do is educate yourself and read, so as of now i try to read both because i enjoy it and because i feel like i need to get a good vocabulary and idea on how to express a coherent tought that isn’t the most cliché thing you’ve read in your life.
The few writers I know always tell me that the three things I would need for writing are:
I was told that anything extra I could do like writing workshops, etc, are nice to have but definitely not mandatory.
Iirc another common advice was writing short stories initially, then review them, analyze and piece them appart in a nice structure, then re-write them again. I think it had different versions of it, but the gist of it was that the Afghanistan of new writers are long novels and short text writing, then reviewing was the exercise necessary for improvement before trying to write the Great American Novel.
In other words, please write and share it with us ;)
Thank for your advice! I’ve never written anything so ill definitely have to try one day or another. We have to start somewhere anyways.
Ping me when you have it. 👍️