How do I improve my writing, /lit/?

>>8228774
whats wrong with it

>>8228774
Generally: Read more and write more

>>8228774
Read the authors you wish to emulate and write as much as you can. Set realistic goals for writing each day.

>>8228774
heavy incantation

>>8228774
Don't. Just to give up.

>>8228784
This.

Reading books about writing helps? Someone here once agued it's much better to read prose than any kind of guide, but I always feel like reading those guides just out of curiosity.

>>8229341
You disgust me.

>>8229341
Just keep reading literature. Lots and lots of every kind. Those guides are for genre writing and are full of imposed rules like the greek tree act model, suspense and resolution, beginning and ending arcs and truly meme stupidity like avoiding adverbs "at all cost".

>>8229371
You arouse me.

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bump. I need to know how to improve my writing as well

>>8229341
>Reading books about writing helps?

nope, they're all trash, unless they're not pretending to be didactic and are only a kind of reflection on craft.

>Someone here once agued it's much better to read prose than any kind of guide

it's true.

>I always feel like reading those guides just out of curiosity.

then do it? it's not our time you're wasting

>>8228774
Become a raging alcoholic and only write during those non-lucid periods when you wake up in the morning so hungover that the thought of drinking another sip of alcohol sends you into the toilet vomiting blood

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THIS POST IS MAGIC

ONCE YOU HAVE READ THIS POST YOU WILL BECOME A TALENTED WRITER

GOOD LUCK AND....

A1WAYS B YOURSELF

>>8228781
Rewrite more too
>giving away secrets

>>8228774
I hear this question a lot, not only on /lit/ but in real life as well.

How does one become great at Art? How does one become a great musician? How does one become a great athlete?

Watching and analyzing others, great, impressive art or technique is very beneficial but no student ever became a scholar by just looking at others work. They put in hours, years into perfecting their work and slowly gain the fruits of effort sowed.

Why should writing be different?

>>8231009
Or heroin, as long as you're doing downers you'll be in prime idea mode