How is it possible to be a great writer if you haven't really lived?
I've never experienced true love or overcome any great adversity in my life. I write everything from the perspective of somebody imagining those situations, without any of the authenticity.
I understand the common response will be 'just use your imagination', however it is difficult to do this without feeling you're a complete fraud, and that your writing thus lacks that special spark.
Any other shut-in's struggle to write?
She doesn't look like that man at all.
>>8179190
Write about the struggles of being a shut-in.
This dumb ass question gets asked every week on this board. Experience helps but its not necessary. There is nothing about literature that must only come from experience. Literature is removal, in fact it essentially has nothing to do with experience. That's literally the whole point - to travel beyond your own borders, to remove yourself from yourself. You're not thinking about it right.
>You do not need to leave your room.
>Remain sitting at your table and listen.
>Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary.
>The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice;
>it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
All fiction is fantasy, with little correspondence to "reality" as you might call it. How much do you think Virgil or Jane Austen knew of the worlds they described?
>>8179196
She looks a little bit like Jewess pornstar Casey Calvert.
>>8179202
That's wrong. In order to write about an experience, you have to know exactly how it feels. Otherwise, you'll come up with vague explanations or generalizations.
>haven't REALLY, TRULY, lived
Do you have a pulse? Are you breathing? Not paralyzed? Oh, you're even conscious and possess a sufficient iq.
Wow that's great, now all that you have to do is get over your inferiority problems and press your fingers to the keys of your keyboard. Your biggest problem is that you're probably a fucking white male and so get sent to the back of the line for publishing.
I have this same problem when finding books that grab my interest. The majority of authors are pessimistic lonely shutins who have few truly fulfilling experiences. therefore the characters they write about tend to have the same characteristics. I myself cant relate to these lonely anxious pessimistic characters so finding authors with enjoyable views on life is pretty difficult.
>>8179202
>it essentially has nothing to do with experience
top fucking kek, of course this opinion would be touted as fact on this board on this website
>>8179202
experience helps in creating your own style of writing. yea you could just imagine up some plot, but without experience to give you your own subjective opinions and beliefs then your just reciting what youve been fed. not saying good art cant be made this way, there are always exceptions, but the best writers in history are such because of the experience and subjectivity theyve compiled into amazingly fulfilling and philosophical literary works
>>8179280
because everyone on this website is a bunch of pessimistic loners lol
>>8179305
Are people seriously arguing you don't need real world experience to be a superior writer?
The more you experience events and emotions, the wider range you will be able to reach upon when describing certain situations etc.
>>8179190
You can pull it off if you're a student of other people, so to speak, with a keen sense of empathy, and an open heart. It also helps to read a lot, and listen a lot, since people these days are very eager to be heard, and reveal a lot about themselves.
>>8179386
reading and communicating with empathy and an open heart is literally experience
>>8179190
By not being a bitch faggot.
>>8179190
>one can live 'more' or 'less
normie ideology
>>8179215
based franco
I couldn't care less if it makes you feel sad or like shit or whatever, but if you made this thread with this topic I'd recommend you to read writers' bios. Unofrtunately for you, I can't think of a single writer worth a damn that didn't live life, even the ones you could call "shut-ins" (literally the hermits).
>>8179658
rec some shut-in authors pls friends
>>8179665
Read "The Life Removed" by Fray Luis de León.
>>8179190
If you want to write about something authentic to your real life experiences, then create a character who faces the exact struggle you're facing in this post.
If you want to write about beautiful, romantic things, then do so by using your imagination and accounts given by others.
There is nothing wrong with either of those things. Leave the ressentiment behind, lose the self-doubt. God speed anon, I wish you luck.
>>8179202
>That's literally the whole point - to travel beyond your own borders, to remove yourself from yourself.
Yeah, for the reader, not the writer
I dunno man, how did mary shelly write a book about Frankenstein if she wernt a Frankenstein.
Makes you think
>>8179190
>i've never experienced true love or overcome any great adversity in my life.
this is most of /lit/ summed up perfectly
a bunch of middle class pseuds who are ''depressed'' because they were bullied, are virgins, weak, pathetic or lacking in another way
''i want to be a cool edgy writer because its so cool to be cool and yeah that will make me cool''
most posters think that they're the ''underground man'' but in reality, they are just wasters who are wasting.
i've on and off visited /lit/ for some 6 years and have only ever seen maybe 3 writers that are actually not trash pseuds, just trying to be writers on the internet because well... biggest problem with the internet, pretty much anyone can use it
almost everyone who posts here wouldn't want to be a writer if it wasn't for the internet. instead, they'd be sat comfortably in their marketing job that they got into through nepotism, at the end of the day they would go home to their fat and ugly wives and live as they were supposed to. it's cliche but they are cattle.
truthfully, not everyone is cut from the same cloth
>>8181961
I enjoy literature but i want to be a fine artist and make paintings.
Check mate fagatron.
HOW DO I PAIN LANDSCAPED IF I NEVER GO OUTSIDES HMMM, TEACH ME HAPPY TREE MAN
>>8181970
>i want to be a fine artist and make paintings
you don't have what it takes
>>8181920
wtf i hate homunculi now
>>8181920
>>8181977
>implying the art world isnt just a money laundering scheme for jews and the mafia and post modern art weren't created by the CIA to combat soviet realism and the only real art left not corrupted by capitalism is performance art
>>8181993
I didn't imply that.
It is true. Every successful modern artist I've seen has a Jewish connection.
Tinfoil hat memes aside, you gots to kno da ryt people, yo.
>>8181920
Wow
Really makes you drink
>>8179190
>How is it possible to be a great writer if you haven't really lived?
Translated from girlspeak: how is possible to be a great writer if you haven't traveled to Europe had sex with dozens of guys?
No one gives a shit whether you've 'lived' or not. Write something that you think is interesting. It will probably suck. Then write again. And keep writing again and again until you come out with good work.
