>>24717849
>cosmic horror and weird fiction & folk horror
for me the appeal of this kind of writing is that it fits so perfectly with solitary walks through the drab and rainy low-density semi-rural zones where i've tended to live. the occult investigators of weird fiction return through to their attic rooms and pore over manuscripts, i to mine and pore over short fiction from preeminent american autists. between the uncanny and the cosy some kind of circuit is set up here that deserves serious research.

>>24717949
interesting. i think i get what you mean. hard to articulate it though. perhaps it's as if the desire expressed in the question already contains within it the clue to the answer, and so the fact they're posing the question in the first place suggests they're in some way alienated from their own desire. 'i want to get better at writing' expresses (i think) a desire to get closer to what you find fun and mysterious in the writing of others, and so the answer lies not with other anons but in those experiences your own soul knows best. same goes for empathy, or being human.

>>24718528
lol

>>24718543
lmao

>>24718714
in one sense i enthusiastically agree. but also you need an audience and a world about which meaningful things can be said. writing about autumn now is not the same as when john keats was doing it, writing about dreams now is not the same as when surrealists were doing it. all you need to write is a pen and paper and an entire cultural world behind you and a meaningful future waiting for you and your peers to bring it into existence.