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6/25/2025, 11:38:02 AM
Teach yourself to enjoy fiction. Reading is the mentally healthiest way to burn time on the couch. Anons think they don't like to read but then they sit and read this very website for hours on end. It's all about finding the right content for you:
1. Immediately disregard other people's lists and recommendations. Fiction has the most variety of all media. What other people like is probably not what you'll end up liking.
2. Also disregard the literary canon. Those books weren't written for you, and you will not enjoy them.
3. Choose a vidya franchise you like and try the most popular novelization. If you don't like it immediately then just put it down. Treat books like Youtube videos. They aren't sacred relics. Read what you like and just skip what you don't.
5. Keep trying different books and short stories that intrigue you. For me it was short stories, by the way. Look for cool cover art, connections to an IP you already know, some kind of kinship you feel with the author's life story, etc. Could be Warhammer 40k or Star Wars novelizations. Could be girly paranormal romance.
6. You'll know you've found the one when reading stops being a ten-minute break activity you do when you're bored and starts being something you look forward to. You'll dwell on that story even when you aren't reading it, imagining the world and wondering about all its possibilities.
7. Read more of that author until you get bored or run out of his work. Then find a similar author from the same genre or literary scene, probably one of the first author's influences or admirers. I did this and can now read and write for pleasure. I strongly recommend you try it. My starting point and the first work to fully immersed me was Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard. Now I read all kinds of related work. When I'm old I will be an expert on the Weird Fiction genre, but will never have touched Faulkner or Dostoevsky
1. Immediately disregard other people's lists and recommendations. Fiction has the most variety of all media. What other people like is probably not what you'll end up liking.
2. Also disregard the literary canon. Those books weren't written for you, and you will not enjoy them.
3. Choose a vidya franchise you like and try the most popular novelization. If you don't like it immediately then just put it down. Treat books like Youtube videos. They aren't sacred relics. Read what you like and just skip what you don't.
5. Keep trying different books and short stories that intrigue you. For me it was short stories, by the way. Look for cool cover art, connections to an IP you already know, some kind of kinship you feel with the author's life story, etc. Could be Warhammer 40k or Star Wars novelizations. Could be girly paranormal romance.
6. You'll know you've found the one when reading stops being a ten-minute break activity you do when you're bored and starts being something you look forward to. You'll dwell on that story even when you aren't reading it, imagining the world and wondering about all its possibilities.
7. Read more of that author until you get bored or run out of his work. Then find a similar author from the same genre or literary scene, probably one of the first author's influences or admirers. I did this and can now read and write for pleasure. I strongly recommend you try it. My starting point and the first work to fully immersed me was Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard. Now I read all kinds of related work. When I'm old I will be an expert on the Weird Fiction genre, but will never have touched Faulkner or Dostoevsky
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