/lit/ - Literature★

There's nothing wrong with basing events on your own life, writers are people, of course there'll be some of your own life in your work. I definitely do the same thing.

The best advice I can give anyone is to reread everything over and over again. Maybe even read some parts out loud (especially speech, flow is important.) Also, take notes on small things that are easy to forget, like characters' heights. It'll come in handy later. Continuity makes the difference between good and bad for me. When you've set a long scene to begin at sunset, and a few pages later you suddenly mention the way the sun reflected off a window, and the reader has to go back to verify it wasn't his own but the writer's mistake, that just disturbs the flow of reading immensely.

Something I've realized recently is how important the boring things are. Especially if you're writing something like fantasy or science fiction. Agriculture, materials, sewer systems… You really can't leave anything out when it comes to worldbuilding.

I want to do the same thing, but I'm still to young to have much happen in my boring faggy life. I find it really hard to write for people much older than me. I mean people from 40-60. How someone that old acts or thinks.

I can base things on my life sure, but how much do I really have? I'm not even 30.

>>10555

I'd have said the same thing a year ago, and I'm not even 25. Now I played suicide watch for a friend, then later watched her miraculously wake up from a coma, and that's just two of the crazy things that happened in my life in just one year. I honestly feel ten years older than I am.

>>10558

So magnify on what I already know?

>>10555

You're in a better place than some people. You have no positive experiences to smile at, but no negative ones burdening you either. Just get out there and do shit. Make some mistakes, make some good decisions too. As long as you're not getting permanently traumatized or getting into serious trouble like jail, you're fine. It'll even make you stronger.

>>10558

I feel you, brother. I grew up under an abusive single mother, and it's manifested itself into a dystopian 1984 horror story. What I've enjoyed about writing is that since my life has been gradually improving over time, I have an outline for a more optimistic direction for future sequels, too. People are remarkably durable, and can bounce back from just about anything. Scars almost always fade, even if they were inflicted during childhood.

It makes me feel a lot more comfortable writing now that I know more people do this.

>>10572

I can be pretty bitter about things. most of them stems from being alone. While I have rather thick skin, I find it's not very hard to bring myself down. I worry about the future all the time too. Maybe it's why I like post apocalyptic so much. Maybe it's why I want to write post apocalyptic stories too.