I don’t understand it...

It’s been more than 7 years now and it still won’t work. May be it’s not the right time or the right thing to do. I don’t know what to do with myself. I’ve waited for it to come, I’ve sat at my table and given up after reading the horrible sentences I came up with. I’m plain bad and I don’t like it but I don’t do anything to improve. I am not a hard working person. I like to do nothing, just waiting, sitting at my desk looking out the window. I don’t know what to do with my life and I don’t really care honestly because it feels like it doesn’t matter. A part of me is just saying it’s not the right time and another one is telling me I just need to get to it properly, I can’t wait all my life for something to come.

I’ve been reading what others people had to say about it and I don’t understand it either. All their advices doesn’t apply to me because I don’t feel it. May be I should just give up for now, live my life and if in ten years inspiration strike me like it did do Murakami well then I will write that book. I wouldn’t know what to talk about anyway. I just like writing. It’s easy as that and it’s hard as that because I like it and dislike it at the same time. Every time I read something about someone publishing a book they always speak about the way they write or whatever but never about how they actually write the book in itself. Was it hard ? Was it difficult? Was it painful ? Was it so easy that they just don’t remember it ? I bet it’s hard for everyone but we don’t want to think about it anymore, we’re just glad we did it. Well I don’t know... because I can’t write for shit and I’ve never been able to finish more than ten pages.

Yesterday I was reading and in the story the guy learned guitar really good in a year or so, got in a band and started singing so well the band got bigger and bigger. At one point this dude is just going back to his house then the sun shine on him and he felt inspired, he goes back home and writes 2 phrases of a song, just like that and it was good. I felt so annoyed, first because I was jealous, second because does that really happens in life ? Do we get strike down by inspiration ? Sometimes I can feel words or ideas coming easier than unusual but if you don’t do anything about them they just stay ideas. I feel like everyone think it’s easier for the guy next to you but in reality the guy next to you thinks it’s easier for you. I am at a loss for words. I am at a loss for everything. What to do, what to think, what to dream for. Am I just waiting for something that shouldn’t happen to me just because I’ve seen it so many times ? I should remember that books are not real.


I guess one day I’ll know. In the meantime I just hang out.
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Give yourself a pat on the shoulder and take it easy.
It´s okay to be uncertain about want to do in life.
Enjoy life and don´t be to hard on yourself.;)
 
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@felix.200 already did, made me feel even worse.

@Dodain47 I’m not depressed or anything, I actually feel really good in my life. Sometimes I just wonder that’s all, but thank you for the kind words!
 
That was dense and rambling even by my standards. From that you want to be a writer? Presumably of fiction. However you appear to be in the midst of either writer's block or generally lacking inspiration.

Afraid I don't really know what to say here. I don't care to write fiction (or at least I have any number of things I would rather be doing) or create stories and non fiction technical writings are an entirely different beast. I read a fair bit of it (in spurts right now but eh) and very much enjoy the technical aspects of writing fiction so I will start there.

I quite like https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ogrx6d9oohf6D42G44j1A but it is more for writing than inspiration, if you want to go even harder science fiction then https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g is better yet.
If I am linking things I might as well also link
https://www.youtube.com/user/WriteAboutDragons
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDSmC26Dr0zxiZBRWERzIFA/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ_Yq-hCQ9kmCiNdDeIrbgA/videos
and as I am linking things
https://coppermind.net/wiki/Sanderson's_Laws_of_Magic

There is a choice film clip I could not find wherein the guy says something to the effect of every hour of every day there are millions of people experiencing love, loss, joy, sorrow, elation, triumph, disaster, being the victor, being the victim and you can't think of anything? Real life need not be the setting either -- there are any number of things that can be, or indeed might be better suited, to abstraction of fantasy or sci fi. Alternatively people play role playing board games not because rolling dice is especially fun but because of the stories it can tell (pro tip nobody cares about perfect hero saving the day without issue, flawed hero maybe fumbling with something, something bad happening and then saving the day is an entirely different matter). Better in some cases if you know it (there are entire sites dedicated to looking writers writing the other gender and failing spectacularly).

Have you done much outlining? I know some might not care for it and it might not lead to a story in and of itself but it could help get you somewhere.
Do you ever read anything outside your wheelhouse? Wander down a second hand bookshop, or equivalent, and buy a random 1950s trashy romance novel or something and read that and see what you can learn.
Do you ever read anything and find flaws and ways you would tell something better? Preferably borrowing a theme rather than you writing fan fiction but play it how you will.
 
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@FAST6191 I’m French so I write most of my stuff in French. Sometimes I write in English but as you can see it’s clearly not something i’m really good at. I read yes, (like you, I have period where I read quite a lot then stop), if the book is good i will read it, whatever it’s talking about.I wrote this one night, it’s not really supposed to be anything, just my thoughts on a subject.

And i’m not trying at all to be a writer, I don’t write everyday, I don’t practice or else. I just wait for it to come. I just like it and I have the fantasm that may be one day i’ll really try to write something. Fiction or whatever it doesn’t really matter.

I think that even with what’s happening in the world, if it doesn’t make me feel anything I won’t be able to do it!

I’m not trying to be anything and i’m aware that I will not achieve anything this way, but like I say, it doesn’t really matter :)
 
I love your post, I find hard to find people with this type of reasoning, existential crisis, write about anything, It would be quite ironic if the cover would be called "how I write a book", I don't know if I giving you some advice, I'm just contemplating the beauty of your writting
 
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