Thread 24850130

I'm a 32 year old loser (not a neet) with practically no life experience who spent the last 10 years playing vidya and smoking weed although I don't do either anymore. Can I still be a writer?

>>24850130 (OP)
you'll probably peak around visual novel level

>>24850130 (OP)
No harm in trying. Dedicating your life to something is far more gratifying than wasting away forever. This is the worst possible place to ask, though.

>>24850130 (OP)
You have wasted a significant amount of brain cells engaging in such stupid activities. It’s over.

>>24850130 (OP)
go cry in /adv/ you trolling faggot ass

>>24850208
I'm not trolling at all.

>>24850130 (OP)
There have been drug addicts, criminals, inmates, that "wasted" their youth before they decided to write. I like one author that started writing in his 40s. So why can't you?

>>24850327
they've had experiences though. I've literally just wageslaved and distracted myself as a surplus male the entire time. I've never even stolen anything.

>>24850337
There's external and internal experience. If you have an inner world with ideas and feelings worth expressing, you can write. If not... well, that's on you.

Write what you know

>>24850130 (OP)
Anyone can be a writer. You did some writing just now. Can you be a good writer? That's another thing entirely. There's no upbringing that always produces a good writer, no life experiences that universally transform people into good writers, seemingly no key attributes that all good writers must have. The only way to tell whether you can be a good writer or not is for you to write, and when you've written every word you'll ever set to paper, people can look back on your corpus and decide how good you were.

>>24850130 (OP)
This was me but I got a wagie job to make me talk to people to have material for my writing. The book I'm working on is pretty much a collection of the bizarre social interactions I see every day strung together with a loose plot about messiahs

>>24850130 (OP)
Yes, but you won't be, because you decided to make and lurk in this thread instead of writing something

>>24850130 (OP)
>who spent the last 10 years playing vidya and smoking weed
How does this happen? I'm not saying I'm successful, but I've always had the desire to literally go somewhere I've never been and write or create things, learn something new. IOf I saw years passing with just weed and vidya, i'd start to panic the reaper was right behind me

>>24852183
Not OP, but easily. At 31, my instinct is still: why go outside? There's nothing there if you don't know anyone. If you're inept at making friends, or you—god forbid—live in a Nordic country, you can "just go outside" for the rest of your life without anything actually happening, social-wise. Sure, you can pick up solitary hobbies and all, but I'll have you know you can get real depressive being so isolated. This depression makes it very natural to just coast from day to day, escaping the discomfort by easy entertainment and familiar distractions. In place of panic, only the deepening depression of regret.

>>24852242
excellent insight anon, I've always been adept at making friends. I've gone on several 1,000 mile bike rides and I was shocked at how often people would come up to me and just offer a place for me to sleep and throw my tent up, food, coffee, take me out to lunch, give me money. Shocking really.

>>24852242
I am that nordic dweller. 27 years of age, weed and nothing going on but I have written (1) autobiographical book.

>>24852242
I, too, am that nordic.
It's not so bad as long as you're close to nature.

>>24850130 (OP)
create a sheltered loser genre

>>24850130 (OP)
Read "a confederacy of dunces" before you kill yourself

Im29 and dedicated half my life to writing and learning how to write a killer story. If you guys need some organic help. I could use the company. It’s my passion. Sure you came to the worst place. But at the write time Tik tok: remohschannel_official

Read Paul Town's books

>>24850130 (OP)
you know how to use periods so you're already better than f.gardner and 90% of /writinggeneral/

>>24850130 (OP)
Just write about playing vidya and smoking weed.

Lock on

>>24850130 (OP)
Sure. But reality is that there is very little interesting to write about these days unless you can discover something happening. I have been looking for 16 years for something interesting happening and I keep finding the same boring stories playing out at different speeds in real life.

>>24852679
>>24850130 (OP)
I'm also 32 and have lived a relatively exciting life and keep coming back to the safety of my home as we must all tend our gardens.

>>24850130 (OP)
Yes. Get writing.

>>24850130 (OP)
Sorry, but you'll also have to develop crippling alcoholism before becoming a successful writer.

>>24850130 (OP)
Many writers are the most boring mother fuckers imaginable. Knowing how to tell a story is all about delivery. Not how many lions you've hunted in Africa.

>>24850130 (OP)
32 is prime age for mathematics

>>24852242
>absolute state of white "societies"
I'm autistic like y'all but I'm African in Africa and the world is always engaging me, forcing me to engage back. Even when you go to a shop or to withdraw or deposit money at mobile money agent they may try to small talk you. Basically, to you "people" on 4chan I'm effectively a Chad as you say, lmao.

Proof? I was writing a class magazine in high school and was recognized for my creativity. I had a gf in campus and also worked part time in writing with other Africans. I went to the USA courtesy of my writing work. I was part of a TV show again coz of my writing. I have had jobs. I tried my hand in entrepreneurship unsuccessfully but I managed to go to another country with others for a fellowship, etc. I have done all these as an INTJ autist.

I think part of it is your societies. Too individualistic, too detached, too abstract. It's impossible to become the caricature I keep reading on 4chan. Nobody would leave you to play video games for 10 years (myself I stopped at like 14 or 15 that childish stuff), someone will intervene whether be parents, siblings, relatives or friends. I saw some black American kids trash a supermarket. If you do that here the attendants will Woop your arse but in the West they stare or call the police to solve a social issue. Lmao.

Yeah you're rich in the kike world but man. I don't envy your world view and your lives.

>>24850130 (OP)
If you have something to say, sure!

>>24850130 (OP)
>trannime poster
No. You have no chance of ever amounting to anything.

>>24850482
That sounds fun anon, and nice cat

>>24853477
Based

>>24853477
I didn't say I liked it. My whole post was a lamentation on the social isolation and strict cultural code that prevents you from breaking free of it that living all the way up here enforces on you. I don't even fit here all that well—there just isn't any good way to express that.

>>24853477
man nobody wants this. people laugh about how that's the nordic identity or whatever but every serious post online is about loneliness and alienation and how it's impossible to get human connection, and if you ever get to talk seriously with someone the topic is inevitable. i don't even know that the common people should be considered rich anymore. sure they might have a playstation but they're in debt and not financially secure. it's just shit all around.

>>24850130 (OP)
Try writing one sentence or daily. No pressure, just anything that comes to mind. Can also be personal, just whatever. This is hpw ypu start

>>24852770
It's true. The triforce of becoming a writer: Out of control drinking, wanton reading, and weed.

>>24852292
Share a sample with us anon. Let us taste your doom and isolation

are there any examples of good writers who didn't meaningfully engage with the arts until after 30 and who didn't have interesting or exciting lives?

Most writers do so because they have something to say. Do you? And is it interesting? How do you have something interesting to say if you're just a drugged-out gamer loser? What insights did you gave from this experience that literally ANYONE would want to hear? Just because you have the time to write doesn't mean you have anything to share.

>>24853898
What a cope. Becoming a writer involves INTERACTING WITH HUMAN BEINGS. In the end, there is only one subject in fiction–the human condition. And if you have no experience with that, what exactly are you going to write about? Pulling your pud?

Write 2 hours per day. Read 2 hours per day. Think about what you wrote 2 hours per day. For every single day. There, you might make it within 10 years. But it's better than playing video games all day.
I'd add a movie per week, along with the screenplay if you're into that.

>>24850130 (OP)
You can write but it’s unlikely that what you write will be worth reading to many people
A better idea is to start doing something worth writing about and maybe writing about it

>>24853937
It was in finnish so I threw it into gippity and corrected some terms. picked this because I thought it was funny, not necessarily because it's doom-ey or isolated, unless you read between the lines.
Indeed, this text has been printed and published in finland.

>>24855189
Indeed very based. actually not bad writing skill to be quite desu.

>>24855198
I was on psilocybin when I wrote that. If you keep your eyes open, you might see shy threads from me asking about linking my entire book (400+ pages) as a PDF on /lit/. For free of course. I just haven't exactly translated it yet, and I am damn sure I'm the only person in our local industry who has the knowhow to do it without losing nuances.

>>24850130 (OP)
Look into cerebrolyn and don’t give up. Why bother giving up? Just do it for fun. Make fun of your old self in form of the main character, it’s actually therapeutic and believable because it used to be a real guy.

>>24855189
this is the power of the Finnish Doomer? I sense purpose and planning for the future. I sense desire and want as well as talent. Good job Saunanon.

I have always wanted to write. I spent so much of my time reading, I admired authors, and always thought one day I would be able to be like them. But over the years, I've found that I simply have nothing to say. I lack the creativity to come up with anything worth writing down.

>>24855337
Cheers man. I am not planning on writing more or pursuing that kind of carreer, but every (you) I get is a step closer to the kind of confidence I need to translate the whole and post it here. Asked my publisher about doing that and they were cool with the plan. I specifically mentioned 4chan.

>>24850130 (OP)
Don't worry about it. People will use experience or a lack of it as a cope as to why they can't write something of quality. As you are trying to do now, but it's not a big deal.

Sure you can man, as long as you have a desire to share your speck of the human experience you can be a writer.

>>24855391
What's the title in Finnish, since it's published and by translating it the doxx is complete anyway? I'm a little interested at least.

>>24855830
pyhä luvattu sota

>>24855146
I get my fair share of human bean interactions, but reading is king. It trumps everything else in the triforce of becoming a good writer, a good storyteller. By reading you build your intellect; you soak up the writing formula that way from the greats. You cannot write as a storyteller without first reading. You can forgo draining your liver and the zaza, but you can't give up on reading. It's the glue which holds the triforce together. Sure you can travel the world like all the legends did before us but the economy isn't exactly the greatest thing ever and you'd probably be lucky just getting enough days off to be able to enjoy a decent vacation. But you shouldn't just limit yourself to just reading, diversifying to other media to broaden your experiences does wonders too, even Kojima is aware of this, hack that he may be.

>>24855907
>writing is a formula
>waah waah the economy
NGMI
How about traveling to work? Jack London did that. He wrote several books about his experiences doing that.

>>24850130 (OP)
Yeah. Hell, I'm 24 in a similar situation(stuck as a neet because my family refuses to let me get a job or license and I live so far into he middle of nowhere I can't walk or take a bus places) and I just used my misery being stuck as a neet and not accomplishing my dreams as a theme of the book. It actually helped me come up with a start for it too since I was struggling with that for the longest time.

>>24856479
>my family refuses to let me get a job or license
why on earth would they do that? do they want you to be a drain on their resources forever or something? have you considered "running away to join the circus"?

>>24856479
It's your responsibility as an adult to change all of that

>>24850130 (OP)
>smoking weed
If anything this alone makes you overqualified.

>>24857465
Elaborate

>>24856479
Is this some phenotype alien to the American mind? Even Retards want to work in this land of the free and home of the brave.

>>24857534
I can't imagine, as a Finn, anyone wanting to get a job. It's a necessary evil in the best of cases.

>>24857500
drugs and fantasy go hand-in-hand.

>>24857542
Weed is a passivizing drug that leaves you bored, apathetic, and overall listless without any inspiration to spare. It's probably the worst habitual drug for creativity.

>>24857545
I would know. Tryna kick that addiction for the xth month

>>24853477
Say what you want about Africa, at least these negroes are fun.

You wrote this post so obviously not.