1 year lurker here, been an avid reader of literature for 6 years. I mostly read in my native tongue but I also enjoy English literature from time to time.
I wanna start writing. I have no false hopes of being published, I just want to be a fluent/cursive writer so to speak. I have this idea that writing will help me enjoy literature even more and really understand what the writer went through. I think I'm more interested in developing the technical side. Should I study grammar?
Give me all your advices and tips and share your experience.
lurk another 8 years
>>9836186
Kill yourself
Once you start picking apart the pieces that make a form tick, you start enjoying it differently. I do stand-up comedy, it no longer makes me laugh and instead it I'm focused on the devices the comedian uses. After a while, you identify more with the performer and begin to understand why they made a certain choice when they made it. Participation in the craft changes your relationship to it and you may wish that you could go back to a time when you could just enjoy a piece on the surface.