I am a 20-year-old boy in Korea. I dropped out of high school

you dont need an education to write but yeah you're right your life is over at a mere 20 years oh what could have been

>>8596665
My next masturbation session will be dedicated to you. Good luck.

Quality post. That being said, any true fulfillment comes from within. Best of luck.

>>8596665
I believe in you, Asian man. Your works are going to surprise Korea and possibly the world. Just keep faith.

>>8596665
a) I can tell right off the bat that whatever prose you would produce would be pretentious as hell. Tone it down, you are not a special snowflake. I used to be like that, and I'll tell you from experience that your pseudo philosophical ramblings and superiority complexes irk people.

b) You don't have to learn creative writing. In fact, I think you're probably better off not taking courses in creative writing, because they merely work in promoting a very rigid style, with little room for actually being creative.

c) You don't need money to write - Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the first few Sherlock Holmes adventures bored as a store clerk.

d) JUST FUCKING WRITE! Show it to people eventually, and listen to their criticism (not always, as sometimes you have to ignore them)

Good luck man.

your english is already really good, nothing stopping you m8. a bunch of great writers were poor or lived in adverse conditions, if they can do it then so can you

>>8596694
Oh, forgot one:

e) Join a creative writing society, they're good fun and you get a lot of ideas and tips.

>>8596665
Thank you, I dropped out of high school, here in Australia, because of anxiety too and am wondering what step I should take next, now that I am soon turning 19. Keep going, anon.

>>8596694
>prose you would produce would be pretentious as hell
Yes it is. I am aware of it. I try to cut emotions when I edit.
But I am not a special snowflake. 7 billion people are on Earth.
I know nothing about philosophy. I am superior to no one.
I might resemble what you were, but am not its carbon copy.

>>8596694
>b) You don't have to learn creative writing. In fact, I think you're probably better off not taking courses in creative writing, because they merely work in promoting a very rigid style, with little room for actually being creative.
I know. I thought it might be different in America.

I wish to take creative writing courses to meet like-minded people. I am alone. No one is like me where I am. (not being special snowflake. it is just true. i am compatible to no one around here) I thought maybe if I go to where writers gather I might find some people who understand me. It's all wishes though.

>c) You don't need money to write
I know. But getting published takes money and connections, I think.

>d) JUST FUCKING WRITE! Show it to people eventually, and listen to their criticism (not always, as sometimes you have to ignore them)
I write. I post some to Wattpad because no one reads English here. But Wattpad is not helpful because people there only compliment and do not critique. I just post some when I need mere, shallow compliments.

>Good luck man.
Thanks.

>>8596744
>8596744
As suggested, go to a creative writing society. There are websites where you can organise meetups with likeminded people. Find one like that for Korea, and search for a creative writing society. Boom, problem solved.

>>8596665
korean girls are hot

become a k-pop singer or dancer to get all the fine korean chicks

Your dream is unattainable because you can't study creative writing? Do you actually believe you have to do this to be able and write? What?

You have a job that keeps you alive and only demands part of your day. So write and read on your spare time. That's getting somewhere. You're five years younger than me so good luck. crybabby

>>8596665
don't you have gook websites you can post your blog to? fuck off shin

>>8596755
No. I don't require education in creative writing to write. It is just a fancy thing I hope to have. Like pretty clothes to a girl. Something to decorate my life. Not essential.

But my dream is unattainable because I am in Korea and no one reads English. And it is hard to get published in Korean even if I write in Korean. It is hard for even Americans to be published in America.

>>8596770
come to america. you can stay with me and be my qtkorean bf :P

>>8596770
Nowadays you don't really need to be published by anyone. There's digital sales, and self publishing. Location is hardly an excuse to moan about being unable to write, in the age of the internet. Furthermore, if you're really desperate to move to an English speaking country, try to do so (I'm in the process of doing it myself). By no means is it easy, if you plan on doing it the legal way, but it's a chance and a chance is much better than none at all.

>>8596682
>>8596679
>>8596675
Forgot to thank you for your words.
Thank you for reading and empathizing.

>>8596779
Where I am does not affect my writing. Writing comes from the concoction of memories and imagination. Everyone has memories and imagination. It's a mine everyone has within them. You can excavate valuable things from there, no matter who you are, no matter where you are, if you find a way.

I once thought I might get a better chance of being published if I'm "there." But I realized it is extremely difficult even for natives to be published. And guessed it doesn't matter.

I "think" I might be able to send query letters to agents in America from here. If my prose has incomparable quality, they will respond. Otherwise (most likely) will not. Then I will have no excuse because I am bad. Maybe one day one of my stories would save me and bring me somewhere. It is a shameless wish. But it is one of the things that keep me alive.

>>8596770
It's hard for anyone to get published. I'm Swedish and learned English in the third grade. I can probably write as good as anyone. But I still write in my language, even though it's harder and the market is less. Because it's mine. Why would you want to write in English? Do you look down on your own language and history or something? Take it with the good and the bad.

>>8596894
>it's a Swedecuck cucked by Swedish
Who Would Have Guessed.

i don't get people who want to write as a job. do you like WRITING AS AN ART or THE IDEA OF BEING A WRITER? because ART doesn't SELL ffs

>>8596894
No. I just like English because it is more flexible and has more handy expressions. I don't want to confine myself to Korean and Korea. I still use my memories in Korea to inspire me to write. They are my assets.

I have to admit that I hate Korea a bit. But that is because I'm poor. Poor people hate their countries. (Governments.)

>>8596944
North Korean confirmed.

Hail Kim Jong-Un :^)

>>8596946
haha funny

Don't fucking write in English, you idiot.

The english literature market is obscenely oversaturated and full of low quality trash. If you write in your native language, not only will it be of higher quality due to it being your mothertongue, you will get more attention than you possibly will in english.

>>8596705
just dropping in, don't know if you're bullshitting or not, or if this whole thread is a joke, but as someone who more or less went through what you're describing (finished 6th form but went NEET for a year from anxiety) - try to get therapy as soon as possible. I put it off thinking it was useless for me/ too feminine, but eventually i was forced to do something and it has changed my life, without me having any revelations or anything, just talking to someone about things helps you see how constrained you are by your own thoughts and before you know it you're a functioning man again

tldr get therapy

>>8597066
thanks anon, i got some pretty good help back when i was still in school to help me cope with my OCD, and it really helped
not currently getting any therapy but i should book some sessions with a psych at least
thanks

>>8597066
i am taking wellbutrin. thanks to national health insurance it costs like $15 a month. the shrink isn't good though. i don't talk much there. i just go there to get medication. it really helps. i don't feel as much anxiety. still incompatible with society though. its an improvement.

>>8597066
>tldr get therapy
This is just generally a good idea. I'm in the middle of taking a year off after 6th form, because I've only now begun treatment for ADHD. It changed everything.

Whatever your issues are, go to the person whose whole career is unfucking them.

>>8596665
Link to your wattpad stories?

>>8596665
I was gonna give you some bullshit advice about how to make it, but I haven't made it myself so I'm not going to bother. All I will say is that I believe in you, keep the dream alive. You will accomplish it, I promise.

>>8596665
no korean has ever written anything good

>>8597355
t. korean literature expert

>>8596665
you write like a robot you souless gook and you are spooked as fuck too

>>8597302
don't want to let you know my wattpad sorry

i could post some here if you want

but i think you will hate it (deducing from the general atmosphere here)

>>8597355
This is true. I exclusively read foreign literature.

>>8597321
>All I will say is that I believe in you, keep the dream alive. You will accomplish it, I promise.
thanks and i send you back all those words with love. maybe some of us will make it. some always do.

Godspeed K-brother

Who do you read btw?

>>8597413
hesse mishima mitchell houellebecq murakami mcewan bunch of young-adult (HP Wallflower vizzini etc) allende safak pamuk zafon atwood kerouac eco werber camus verne le petit prince kaneshiro keigo burgess

pleb i know

>>8597472
Not incurably pleb.

>>8597408
Here is your choice:
>post lit
>post feet
It's all up to you. I'm fapping either way.

>>8597384
This anon might sound like a dick but he's speaking the truth. Your English is really just a minor problem compared to everything else.

>>8597501

Clouds hang over brick buildings. My eyes follow their movement. Raindrops leave streaks of water on the giant window that I am leaning against. I look into the eyes of my reflection in the glass. Two transparent brown dots. I look down and cars are beetles and people ants on wet streets down below. I have vertigo. In the dizziness-induced darkness, I see myself falling down 76 floors and splattering onto pavement among all sorts of cars and taxis into a mass of flesh, bones, and intestines. I imagine my skull cracking open and my brain splitting. My cerebral functions would stop and all demons hiding in my mind would vanish too. The darkness dissipates.

Although the sun is nowhere to be seen, clouds lit by daylight are bright enough to make my pupils contract. I walk backward to plunge into a silicone sofa. It embraces me like womb. My eye are fixed upon the window in which the shining clouds and building rooftops are still visible.

I think of smashing the window with a hammer. Then I ponder the difficulty of sneaking a hammer into my room and the hardness of quadruple fortified glass. I think fortified glass shatters into harmless, pebble-like pieces but in my mind the glass nevertheless shatters into a thousand pieces big and sharp enough to be lethal. I see the gravity-fueled glass raining down on unassuming pedestrians.

I imagine the innocent pedestrians, their heads pierced by sharp glass, moaning and bleeding on the ground. I don't want to hurt them. People who wanted to get to their school, work, friends, lovers, family, etc. People who breathed freely, who looked without fear. I would never want to hurt them, even though they are never like me.

#

Headlights of the tramway car exhale yellow light into fog. Wet air chills me. A few people are on the platform but no one is in the street. The fog is thick. It obscures the dark window of the delicatessen facing me. My hands are deeply set in my pockets and my breath is visible in the air. The tramway car arrives. I get on. The car accelerates. Before the driver through the windshield, buildings and city structures appear out of fog and pass by. I close my eyes and listen to the sound of the engine.

I wake as the car is about the leave the stop I should be getting off at.

I say, “Wait!”

The driver looks back and grunts as he opens the door. I hop off and suck in air. Cold air is mean in my lungs.

No one is in the lobby as I pass through the revolving door. The concierge nods at me.

>>8596726
his language barriers might be what makes him sound pretentious

even if it's not, if anyone thinks you're a dick just mention english is not your first language

>>8597541
Pretty good I guess. Definitely ability to improve. Excellent fap material. You should do porn.