I feel like I can't write fiction because I can never really remember anything with enough clarity to write about it.
Is there a way to fix this?
Also general writing advice thread.
>>8366631
>Is there a way to fix this?
be talented
Just write your ideas in a notebook or something mane
Try to have a lot of 'Madeleine moments' like Proust. But to do this you have to start with ample self-reflection on everything you ever do.
Also diaries probably will help.
>>8366631
do you want to write about things that you'd remember with clarity?
If so then record literally everything that ever happens to you.
If not then don't.
>>8366639
I feel like there's a bot who posts these kinds of replies.
>>8366897
>>8366783
I kind of meant just being able to describe the nuance of something simple like being on a London Overground train through to east London. The cold air, the glum faces contrasted with the inevitable white party goers and the bubble bodied blacks stinking out the carriage.
Stuff like my school life, too, I'd definitely struggle to reiterate that with anything other than a dry descriptor of a snapshot memory like the one about evening Highbury & Islington to Stratford train rides.
>>8366639
This. Or make it up. The fuck kind of question is this.
Spend some more time trying to remember. Smell some shit that might be associated with that time of your life.
>>8366631
Map out your thoughts in a notebook, or you can't be bothered, a notes file on your phone. Let it be scattered if it must, you can reorganize it later.