How do I get rid of the mentality that I need to read more before

Start writing.

>>9426131
>I've read 15k pages this year alone

Who the fuck counts pages they've read?

>>9426396
>he doesn't use Goodreads to autistically collect statistics

kek

There's basically a VERY good chance you suck at writing anyway. So don't sweat it.

>>9426448
OP might be shit but that didn't stop a lot of writers from being famous and "successful".

>>9426455

Let's look on things objectively. OP is on /lit/. That pretty much says he's never going to be famous or successful at anything.

>>9426131
honestly of all the creatives i know the ones that were the best almost universally loved creating for the experimentation part of it. they didn't really care about being 'wrong' or 'good' so much as they cared about being better or not even that more like understanding "the system" and how things work and why through trial and error

so i guess just try adopting that mentality