Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:55 pm Posts: 11320 Location: Brooklyn Gender: Male
It's time to face the fact that I want to be a better writer than I am. Fiction, drama, poetry, it's all shite. There are too many people that I read and think, "what the fuck am I doing? I mean, what's even the point?"
But somehow.... it keeps pouring out. Liquid shit from a fountain pen. :shrug:
I'm really starting to hate fiction, mostly the fact that I'm bad at it.
Fiction hardly ever floats my boat, reading-wise. As for writing it, I have no idea what good prose even IS. My novel has gone through about eight different plots and four different narration styles/ tones, and I give up because I can't make those decisions which mean that I actually finish the bloody thing. I still have no idea what it wants to be, after several years. Yeah, fiction sucks. At least in poetry you have structural and stylistic boundaries (either inherited ones or invented). With prose, you're constantly in the dark.
1) I don't really give a fig about plot, which means I've all but abandoned narrative poetry. Lyrical stuff is where it's at. This doesn't bode well where writing fiction is concerned.
2) Related to point one. I get far too hung up on language - making every sentence absolutely beautiful - to ever be happy enough with an entire novel. If every single fucking word counts (as it does in poetry), I could be claiming my pension before my first novel is published.
1) I don't really give a fig about plot, which means I've all but abandoned narrative poetry. Lyrical stuff is where it's at. This doesn't bode well where writing fiction is concerned.
2) Related to point one. I get far too hung up on language - making every sentence absolutely beautiful - to ever be happy enough with an entire novel. If every single fucking word counts (as it does in poetry), I could be claiming my pension before my first novel is published.
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