Sorry for the blog post

Read more. Also go and experience things, Orwell wrote based on his personal experiences.

>>8818100
>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/. Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but ideally those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.

Start with Ezra Pound's ABC of Reading.
Read it until you agree with everything he writes.

Then proceeding to reading 20 pages of The Complete Works of Willliam Shakespeare every night, read at least one book every day, and write at least 20 pages a day (Times New Roman, 12, spacing 1.5). 10 of those pages should be in iambic pentameter, the others formally free.

After a year of this, you might be ready to learn latin and greek. If by age 21 you can't write in these fluently, you might as well give up. But if you succeed, then proceed to reading ALL of the available greek texts, and the essential medieval theology. Continue until age 23.

At 23, you should dedicate yourself to writing a novel and submitting it to an International Writing Competition.

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>>8818114
Read more of what, though?
Should I go with the "start with the greeks" meme, or is there something more contemporary I can use as a base?
>>8818125
Literature can refer to the profession as well, anon. It was a good try though.
>>8818139
>tfw I actually have The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare around here somewhere
This feels baitlike, but that doesn't seem like a bad place to start either.

>>8818100
Here's what I would do if I where you.
First of all read something by somebody who will make you feel something. Orwell and Kurt are good writers (regardless of what you read here), but if you want to write something that's not etiher a comedy or an essay, they probably won't help much. I would start woth something easy but powerful and with some real human feeling in it. I recommend Hemingway. Read up a bit on his bio and then dive right into "A Moveable Feast" (still one of my favorite books to date) which is autobiographical. Hemingway writes about love, despair, happiness and everything in between, plus he writes about writing itself, wich is always inspirational as fuck (if you like him, read The Old Man and the Sea and A Moveable Feast). After this write, write, write; everyday if you can. You will see how much you improve. Meanwhile start reading some of the books on /lit/ beginner kit, and continue writing.

>>8818517
Fucked up. The other Hemingway book is "The Sun Also Rises"

>>8818149
>Literature can refer to the profession as well, anon. It was a good try though.

Are you that fucking dense? No wonder this board has gone to shit.

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>>8818897
>be me
>turn 18
>apply to be a literature
>mfw when they kick me out of walmart and call my mom