Thread 24495484

>wrote 1000+ pages of prose as young adult
>be 31 year old bürnt out sleep deprived wagié
>ability and motivation to write are utterly decimated
Wát do?

>>24495484 (OP)
read the bible

write a lil poetry

>>24495484 (OP)
Debtmaxx, get welfare, and write

>>24495484 (OP)

This is what you must do, follow these instructions or get the fuck off the board.

Find somebody who has a bunch of muscle relaxers or sleeping pills, you start taking them when you get off work an you will start passing out at around 8 PM and waking up at 3 or 4 AM,
Wake and start writing immediately.

iktf
When I was a teen I used to write fanfics. Yes, it was lowbrow trash, but at least I was writing. Now I can't write more than a few characters before feeling mentally spent.

>>24495511
Im getting laid off soon so I will. I live with parents so I can NEET for a bit. I have 2 story ideas I just don't know how long it will take before that natural energy return, if it even does.

>>24495485
I have.

>>24495490
I've written poetry but it always felt cringy.
I have heard that one's natural poetic talent is mostly exhausted by 25 and that makes sense. But many say you need to be at least 30 before being taken seriously as a writer, in most cases.

>>24495533
Hoping I get some spark from the post dream haze? There's an idea.

I'll consider it. I could go to bed earlier I guess but the wagie rage always prevents me.

>>24495535
Anything's better than writing nothing. At least some people enjoy fanfictions. I have enjoyed some humorous ones if nothing else.

reduce your debt as much as possible, live with parents, go to sleep at a reasonable time. Motivation isn't real, commit the time you have to something productive instead of being on here or phone or PC.

1. Write shorter stuff: short stories, poems, brief essays, commentaries
2. If fiction isn’t flowing try non-fiction

>>24495484 (OP)
If you're gonna be a NEET soon anyways use that time to recover mentally and physically.

>>24495870
Motivation isn't real but writing complete dog shit because your brain is fried is.

>>24495935
Definitely my plan if I can manage it.

>>24495881
What kind nonfiction can your average dumbass write? Besides memoir.

>>24495484 (OP)
>wrote 1000+ pages

Go back and edit it into something serviceable.

>>24497156
I can't, it's full autism and I wrote it for my own inner drive. Now I want to write something to publish. I have another story idea that I'm not quite as passionate about it but it's one I really like and want to write for its own sake because I feel it needs to exist. It's just not as inextricably linked to my own ego. But that's okay it doesn't have to be. It's not like the creative writing I did in school where you phone it in cause you don't want to put your "real" writing out there to the class because that's too intimate. This is different this is something I actually want to write.

But it just doesn't flow like it used to. I'm brain damaged. My vocabulary used to be that of a college graduate despite being a high school dropout and now it's more in line with my station in life.

>>24495725

Your current schedule is not helping and instead of trying to just sum up the will, you need to drastically break your lifestyle and the dream haze and early morning pattern will allow you to work but shift everything else and provide inspiration.

Defeat your
>'revenge bedtime procrastination'
and write

See if the real problem is needing CPAP or not.
You are at the threshold where sleep health goes from "acceptable" to "long term ruins your life", as age reduces sleep quality past mid 20s

>>24495725
>I have heard that one's natural poetic talent is mostly exhausted by 25
I don't know what retard told you that but the only poet I can think of who wrote their best stuff before 25 is Keats and that's because he fucking died before turning 26.

>>24497734
>I have heard
anon soaked up some general doomerism from the boards and applied it to the history of poetry,
many chess breakthroughs are before 30

>>24497734
>>24497740
It isn't doomerism just that poetry relies more on raw emotion and prose on refinement. Those come at different ages. That was how it was explained to me. I mean it wasn't like a study of average poet and writer ages. Just general wisdom.

>>24495484 (OP)
Are you having to use special characters because this low effort shitpost has been spammed that many times?

>>24497911
>twitter screenshit and Andrew taint "philosophy" threads are okay
>asking other writers for their experiences with writers burnout aren't