Is /lit/ doing copywork?

>>8459545
so he also invented Postmodernism

>>8459545
People did this at schools thousands of years ago copying cuneiform texts.

Does it count if I read great literature in part to steal stylistic and storytelling elements from them?

>>8460021
If you do it too much, yes. You should be able to generate ideas on your own from what you are reading.

>not copying by hand

>>8459545
yep
just finished and filed in the café of lost youth. i have about ~40 copied works stowed away. i should probably get rid of them at some point but they're kinda nice

>>8459545
yes i do 30 min every day

lolita, moby dick, ulysses

you think im memeing but im not

>>8460330
and definitely do it by hand

>>8460333
why? what are the benefits?

>>8459545
yes, starting with the greeks, of course

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Damn Senpai.
Ray Donald Pollock started late at 45 or so. At 50 he got an MFA but this is relevant:

What writing techniques have you found most important?

When I decided to learn how to write short stories, I didn’t know anything and I struggled for quite a while without making much progress. Then I read an interview with a writer who said she learned to write by copying out other people’s stuff. For some reason, that made sense to me, and I began typing out short stories by Hemingway, Cheever, Yates, Johnson, O’Connor, on and on. I did approximately one story a week for maybe 18 months and it got me so much “closer” to seeing how they did things like writing dialogue, making transitions, etc. It could be that it worked for me because I’m not a very good reader, but it definitely helped me start figuring some things out. On occasion, when I’m having a bad day, I will still type out a paragraph or two from somebody else.

Copywork your way to Patrician status lads.

only ever done it for poetry

especially back when I had big problems appreciating poetry, yet I really wanted to; I basically went through collections of poems and wrote them all down on a notebook

It's like taking notes in class. If you take good notes you don't even need to look at them again because you've learned the material.

>>8460740
if nothing else, it can be used to improve one's handwriting

some people also find that writing by hand helps them learn stuff