Why aren't you streaming yourself writing on twitch, /lit/?

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opendoorwriting is streaming live right now!
Check it out
twitch dot tv/opendoorwriting

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These people are hard at work on their novels, how's yours coming along?

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These people will be published before you, how does that make you feel?

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Coming soon to a bookstore near you.

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gud thred

>>8692009
Because I can't concentrate if people are looking over my shoulder

>>8692042
this is the only one in the thread who has nearly a shred of talent

>>8692118
Yeah he's cool. He's streaming live right now.

>>8692042
>38 hours to write 2k

wew lad

Which classic writer would you most like to watch a stream of them writing their own work, /lit/?

I'd love to watch Joyce writing a chapter from Ulysses, one of the denser ones, just to see how he put it together.

>>8692105
No one watches these streams anyway.

>>8692009

>keep calm

Will this ever stop? It has been five years.

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interesting thread op

for about 50 secs

>>8692215
probably Burroughs.

>>8692297
Mate its been a little longer than five years since 1939

Dont want to make you feel old or anything but...

>>8692367

No, I mean since the bastardisations.

>>8692015
>6.5 hours
>339 words
wtf

>people who organize their writing like a fucking programming project
To what purpose
How can there be art if you begin with so much preconcieved structure

>>8692297
plebdom is eternal

>>8692502
but 55 of them are unique!

>>8692541
Yeah, i was watching him for a bit and he's obsessed with unique words

I have no idea why he isn't just using a thesaurus if he is that obsessed with it. He sits there for ages trying to think of a word, and in all honesty it's just as poor as it was before he changed it a lot of the time.

Probably just be faster for him to just write his shit out and then edit it.

So, does any of them write anything but genre garbage?
I'd watch somebody attempt to write a philosophical treatise in real time, verbally explaining their thinking process, maybe even taking feedback

>>8692599
It's on twitch, so what do you think?

>>8692599
I'll do it

>>8692567
>I have no idea why he isn't just using a thesaurus if he is that obsessed with it.
He's determined not to use any words he wouldn't use himself, so a thesaurus would be cheating.
Sometimes he uses the built-in microsoft word thesaurus though.

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>>8692215
>>8692351
Probably Bukowski because I think it would be entertaining as hell. Also DFW to see if he would like check a Thesaurus in the end of every sentence.

>>8692514
because they know deep down that what they're writing isn't special, and that it's just another cookie cutter fantasy / sci-fi novel, so they structure it like one in advance so they won't have to actually put effort into writing it.

>>8692514
But lots of writers write this way. It's actually pretty normal.

>>8692599
I doubt that would be very interesting. I would never watch one of those by anyone without a degree, but this is also the problem. If you watch someone like Kasparov going over chess moves he moves very quickly over most of the moves because he thinks it's extremely obvious why most of these moves are made. This is fine but it means you have to be already pretty good at chess to watch them. I feel it would be the same for this. They couldn't possibly give a detailed description of most of what they do because it would take far, far longer to do that than to actually write the paper. So they would only talk in depth about minute parts of the paper, and even then the level of philosophical knowledge required to follow those would need to be pretty great. And if your knowledge of the subject is that good already why are you watching the stream?

>>8692009
The idea itself is interesting but actually watching somebody writing? It'd be pretty boring.

>>8692162
If the 2k words are good, who cares whether it took 1h or 38h to write them beyond NaNoWriMo faggotory?

>>8692514
There is always structure and different people work around it with different ways, even if you start without it, you'll get to structuring your novel at the first rewriting, which will eat up more time. Do you really think people just write?

>>8692682
No a thesaurus wouldn't be cheating. If you've read at all you'll know a lot of words that are synonyms, you just can't fucking pull everything you know out your ass at will. Poor excuse.

>a stream where you watch someone write

What's the point in seeing the process if it's just someone typing,or occasionally looking something up or glancing at a dictionary or thesaurus?

The process to drawing/art is interesting because you get to see the stages a picture goes through and an artist's unique process.

Writing has no such interesting technique behind it. It's a dude sitting at a desk typing words.

>>8693675
You still would see interesting parts of the process like rewriting (when, how) and generally how they think. Just not enough interesting things per amount of time spent to justify watching that.

maybe if it was a mildly successful writer
who could actually write something interesting
and was engaging to watch and they talked about the process or the work or whatever
then yeah, i could see this being cool.

>>8694676

>maybe if it was a mildly successful writer
>who could actually write something interesting

Any writer worth their salt would never agree to something so gimmicky and navel-gazing.

>livestream drawing
>livestream writing

What fucking next? Watch stream of me cleaning toilets! Hold your breath while I go retrive a bucket and scrape that dired up vomit off the floor!

>>8693473
I didn't make up his bullshit arbitrary rules for writing. You go argue with him.

>>8693675
You get to see the stages of drafting and rewriting that they go through, it's just interminably slow and the writing is terrible.

>>8692018
I write short stories famalam

>>8692009
what program its that?

>>8695219
Scrivener overlaid with a bunch of bullship for streaming with.

>>8692018

>"people"

>>8692018
>using annotations to cover your double chin

>>8693431
>The idea itself is interesting but actually watching somebody writing? It'd be pretty boring.
That's been my general attitude about Twitch. When did watching other people play vidya become a thing? When I was a kid, and I was watching someone playing a video game, it was to tell them that it was my freaking turn to play the video game.

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>>8695658
I'd like to have a go on her iykwim

>>8695668
oh please tell me she's writing on twitch. The idea of her getting these huge balloons to attract attention and still deluding herself that that's just an incidental quality of hers, and she's actually just a great writer and interesting person, while she in actually has degraded herself quite actively into nothing but a masturbation aid is hot as fuck.

>>8695678
No, she's a gamer according to my search engine.

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>>8694973
10/10 would watch tttt

>>8695685
pointlessly self aware then.

>trends

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>>8695678
twitch is real tv mass produced

>>8695584
this is the funniest post i've seen on 4chan in years and the only funny post i've ever seen on /lit/

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>>8695855
have fun in the pokey

live right now, twitch writing is a thing.
twitch fancyschmancytv

Any cute writing girls?

>>8692009
How can someone be so ill-read as to type out shit like that in public?

Not even can become a creative genius but anyone can, you know, familiarise themselves with what good writing generally looks like.

>>8692384
The bastardizations have been going on a lot longer than 5 years bro.

>>8697096
Who cares whether you or some jerkoff critic finds it good or not? As long it sells or in this case attracts attention, it's good enough.

Besides, first drafts are bound to suck.