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How do I learn how to write good prose? I've only written
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How do I learn how to write good prose? I've only written shitty poetry, also I know next to nothing about structure and such. Should I just start writing my shitty stuff (which I've already done at some degree) and hope it will get better with time? Or should I learn some 'basics' and so on?
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>how do I learn to be creative?

sorry bud, you're just not cut for it.
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If you don't have an IQ above 140, you will never write what you're hoping to write.
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>>8072616
just b urself
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Take some English courses that emphasize writing. If you are just writing for fun you certainly can learn :)

Funny how people here aspire to be great writers yet constantly put others' aspirations to be so down.
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>>8072637
Nothing provokes jealousy more than poverty and lack of knowledge on how to get out of it
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>>8072619
>coherence and cohesion = creativity
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I've only ever had positive feedback, yet I can't get rid of the haunting feeling that my prose is actually shit in a way I can't even understand.
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