English Major and Writing

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English Major and Writing 2017-06-15 12:06:12 Post No. 9638114
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English Major and Writing Anonymous 2017-06-15 12:06:12 Post No. 9638114 [Report]

I made a post about this yesterday but I didn't get any responses. Just wanna see if anybody else feels this way... I'm an English major and I love reading but lately I've been feeling like I don't even know what I'm talking about in the papers I have to write for class. I either feel like I'm overanalyzing the text or that I'm just writing mindless drivel. And it's frustrating because I enjoy writing and I wish I enjoyed it more in the context of my classes, but in the end I just feel like I'm coming up with some bullshit analysis to fill out a paper. I just get depressed a lot of the time when I turn in my assignments. Can anybody relate?

Also books for this feel?

Anonymous 2017-06-15 12:07:51 Post No.9638118
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Anonymous 2017-06-15 12:07:51 Post No.9638118 [Report]

>>9638114
Stop posting things related to literature. It has to relate to women, blacks, jews, plebbit, etc. to warrant replies on here

Anonymous 2017-06-15 12:08:59 Post No.9638127
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Anonymous 2017-06-15 12:08:59 Post No.9638127 [Report]

>>9638114
The best way to honestly engage with great writing, is to write something yourself. Essays are frequently useless. The biggest exception being when T.S. Eliot told everyone that using Joyce's techniques won't make them derivative, because his discoveries were equivalent to Einstein's.

Anonymous 2017-06-15 12:09:19 Post No.9638128
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Anonymous 2017-06-15 12:09:19 Post No.9638128 [Report]

It's all bullshit, but the good bullshit is the bullshit that is confident and convincing.

Anonymous 2017-06-15 02:57:41 Post No.9638716
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Anonymous 2017-06-15 02:57:41 Post No.9638716 [Report]

>>9638127
I would say I've gained an interest in writing recently. I don't think I'd be very good at it, but I think I'd enjoy it.

>>9638128
I'm sort of a modest person a lot of the time and worry that being confident just makes me seem like an asshole or an idiot in my writing.

Anonymous 2017-06-15 03:15:44 Post No.9638764
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Anonymous 2017-06-15 03:15:44 Post No.9638764 [Report]

>>9638716
>I don't think I'd be very good at it
you won't at first, pretty much nobody is
don't forget Joyce wrote some mediocre poetry before hammering out his canon.

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