Literature is easy dude. Just get up early every morning and write for three hours straight. Works for me

>Literature is easy dude. Just get up early every morning and write for three hours straight. Works for me.

What's your excuse Veeky Forums?

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I don't have anything to write about. I wish I did. Are there any exercises or topics that could help me get the juices flowing?

His life story is actually quite inspiring. He managed to create a vast amount of fiction having only a limited amount of time per day to work on it. It shows that one can have a job that doesn’t have anything to do with writing and still maintain a dense and rich routine of personal artistic-growth and constant achievement.

i'm a faggot who jerks off all day. i'll start jotting shit down when i'm 38. until then i'll shitpost freely.

>OP fell for the hard work meme

stay mad poser

Well, I do the same thing as Shakespeare: I steal plots from other sources and recombine them into new works of art.

I write plays, and generally take plots from old comedies from the 30s and 40s, as well as gangster movies, for example.

I use the same plots – generally fuse two or three together - , but chance the setting, the dialogue and many of the characteristics of the protagonists.

Sometimes I force myself to work with subjects and topics that are not natural or particularly interesting to me, only to find latter that I learned quite a lot about things that I would have never studied if it weren’t for the demands of the plot that I have stolen.

And he didn't just have any mindless job. He was pretty senior in the postal service.
Even if you don't like his stuff he's a very good example that there are no excuses not to write.

Is nice to see a great mind dedicating itself to it's job:

"Newton moved to London to take up the post of warden of the Royal Mint in 1696, a position that he had obtained through the patronage of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. He took charge of England's great recoining, somewhat treading on the toes of Lord Lucas, Governor of the Tower (and securing the job of deputy comptroller of the temporary Chester branch for Edmond Halley). Newton became perhaps the best-known Master of the Mint upon the death of Thomas Neale in 1699, a position Newton held for the last 30 years of his life.[71][72] These appointments were intended as sinecures, but Newton took them seriously, retiring from his Cambridge duties in 1701, and exercising his power to reform the currency and punish clippers and counterfeiters.

As Warden, and afterwards Master, of the Royal Mint, Newton estimated that 20 percent of the coins taken in during the Great Recoinage of 1696 were counterfeit. Counterfeiting was high treason, punishable by the felon being hanged, drawn and quartered. Despite this, convicting even the most flagrant criminals could be extremely difficult. However, Newton proved equal to the task.[73]

Disguised as a habitué of bars and taverns, he gathered much of that evidence himself.[74] For all the barriers placed to prosecution, and separating the branches of government, English law still had ancient and formidable customs of authority. Newton had himself made a justice of the peace in all the home counties—there is a draft of a letter regarding this matter stuck into Newton's personal first edition of his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica which he must have been amending at the time.[75] Then he conducted more than 100 cross-examinations of witnesses, informers, and suspects between June 1698 and Christmas 1699. Newton successfully prosecuted 28 coiners.[76]

As a result of a report written by Newton on 21 September 1717 to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury the bimetallic relationship between gold coins and silver coins was changed by Royal proclamation on 22 December 1717, forbidding the exchange of gold guineas for more than 21 silver shillings.[77][78] This inadvertently resulted in a silver shortage as silver coins were used to pay for imports, while exports were paid for in gold, effectively moving Britain from the silver standard to its first gold standard."

fuck YOU okay?

Sorry. I like to write, so I do what I can to remedy some of my many flaws (like a great inability to come up with new plots).

But don’t worry, nobody cares about my writing.

Maybe more writers should have extra curricular activities
Fielding's consistent anti-Jacobitism and support for the Church of England led to his being rewarded a year later with the position of London's chief magistrate, while his literary career went from strength to strength. Most of his work was concerned with London's criminal population of thieves, informers, gamblers, and prostitutes. In a corrupt and callous society he became noted for his impartial judgements, incorruptibility, and compassion for those whom social inequities had forced into crime. The income from his office, which he called "the dirtiest money upon earth," dwindled because he refused to take money from the very poor.[12] Joined by his younger half-brother John, he helped found what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, in 1749.[13]

According to the historian G. M. Trevelyan, they were two of the best magistrates in 18th-century London, who did much to enhance judicial reform and improve prison conditions. Fielding's influential pamphlets and enquiries included a proposal for the abolition of public hangings. This did not, however, imply opposition to capital punishment as such – as is evident, for example, in his presiding in 1751 over the trial of the notorious criminal James Field, finding him guilty in a robbery and sentencing him to hang.