Submitted 2 weeks ago by nerdhd@lemmy.world to [deleted]
This is terrible writing, but you can still become a writer with practice. It appears as if you haven’t read any books, though. Do you have a favourite writer? Or genre? Or period? Just reading internet comments isn’t really enough. I’m also astonished at the many basic errors in these few short paragraphs. Back to school with you and study! Good luck.
I disagree. Just minimal editing and they’re going to do great things on 4chan.
TL; DR, also because it doesn’t matter what your writing is like today.
If you want to be a writer, then (from what I’ve read from successful writers) the key is practice - writing every day (just like anything else people get good at).
I’m sure there’s also guides, processes, etc you could follow to ensure you’re using different methodologies and techniques to improve your writing.
Boring language. Every sentence looks the same, every paragraph looks the same, etc.
You need to vary many different aspects, like how you form sentences, use long and short sentences, switch perspectives, levels of detail, levels of abstraction…
Not gonna lie your grammar and syntax suck bruh
I am appalled by the number of people who took the bait given the first 8 words were “I wake up to my usual gooning session”
What bait? Rage bait? I assure you I’m not doing nothing of the sort, I was just shitposting
It’s no stupid questions. That’s the point, really.
You can be a writer but we can also choose not to be a reader.
Have you read 50 shades of grey? That crap was horrible writing but enticing to a demographic. Sell a story that minds crave.
You need to capitalize your I’s to start. Also I think your punctuation could be better, it’s for the most part commas and periods, which looks quite flat for creative writing. I’'d say try out using more dashes, semicolons, and other punctuation marks to “spice it up”
yeah, also I’ve seen this font before. and I really only respect writing that’s printed out. so. maybe do that to. but not on white paper. we’ve all been there. on green paper with dark green print. it’s a BOLD choice.
Snowclone is right. Don’t fuck with format just for the sake of fucking with format. Its pretentious and douchey.
Writing is like any art form.
Lots of people do it badly, a few do it pretty well, and a very select few are masters of the art.
But making money at it and becoming famous for it are different circles in the Venn diagram from being good at it. It takes some level of skill, business acumen and luck to be successful at all three.
Some people are natural storytellers but can’t write a clear sentence. Other people know the meaning of all their words and how they interact, but can’t hold a reader’s attention.
Popular writing styles change over time. What you like and what popular culture prefers may vary immensely. Be humble, open to criticism, but find out what YOU value about your writing as well — it’s what makes it unmistakably yours and not somebody else’s.
People like flowers, but part of the beauty in flowers is that they’re all flawed. Same goes for vocal musicians. And the same goes for writing. You need to be self aware enough to realize what your weaknesses are in writing and use them as a tool to shape what you write.
I read a bunch of we novels, and this is definitely the quality of some of the ones I have come across. Youll get lots of comments to suggest improvements. If you choose your premise wisely enough, something with dedicated fans, you might get those people to stick around and keep offering comments.
Something like 'I'm a furry dog person and I got transported to hogwarts' with a NSFW label, and some people will stick around.
Some regular writing schedule would also give you practice and take some of the overly flowery language out - which could be good.
I’d recommend spending more time polishing your grammar and less time polishing your knob.
If you really want to know, this is terrible. If you want to start improving, learn that I is always capitalized in English.
Sure you can! Keep writing, read as much as you can, but also be sure to go out and live. Lived experiences are important, and if you don’t have a lot of them, your writing will be worse off for it.
i advanced forward, toward also, the bathroom
Poetry.
This is the best words ive ever read. I want to buy it all. How much for all these words, so that they’re mine? I’ll give you 0.196 ETH, but you will take it down? So that I own all these words, no one else? And I can read them at my leisure? But no one else can??
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You wrote something. Ergo, you are a writer.
Whether or not anyone ever pays you for your art, that you choose to make something yourself is enough to earn the same title as Shakespeare, King, Rowling, Shatner, Stallone, or Myer. ~Selection chosen deliberately to have a range of quality.~
Keep writing until you have finished a story. Then revise it until you can read it without hating it. Then write something else.
AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
And, uh, don’t get too caught up on that part.
Lots of artists never stop hating their own work. Art and neurosis — name a more iconic duo. At some point you just need to move on and let it be what it is. Perfectionism is a powerful thing, but it must be tamed.
This is especially true when you’re starting out, before you’ve developed an intuition for which paths are worth following. It’s easy to get stuck in a loop trying to “fix” something that’s never going to be what you want it to be. “Quality over quantity” is the more common refrain, but for a beginner it should be the opposite, because what you need more than anything at that point is just practice. Related: austinkleon.com/…/quantity-leads-to-quality-the-o…
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Note that this does not mean “loving it”. If I waited until I loved every single pen stroke I ever made, I wouldn’t have a comic.
That was a double take for the ages, mate ;D