So how's your book going?

Its been awhile man! So ho-....You are still writing it right? Damm man well why don't you hit me with some of your ideas, Maybe get them creative juices going.

My book is about a traveler who finds a girl lost in the woods and helps her by making a fire and letting her share his tent. Timeskip to the next day and he's leaving the woods alone. It's suggested that he raped her. He goes home, gets a job and becomes an alcoholic. He dies of liver failure in the end.

Want to write my first novel. But after my creative writing class,
I just gave up

Why did you give up mate?

What about it made you want to give up?

t. guy who's considering creative writing class

Bit of a drudge at this point; going through everything I've already written and rewriting it for clarity thematic on-point-ness. It feels like laboriously going over a sketch image with the clear lines that'll be the only things left from the chaotic but fun first lines drawn. You know, the novel is there, you can see it, but it's also going to look like shit until I finish this.

The students who made up the class as a whole and the teacher. I don't know if I got shitty luck when I got put in that class, but the experience put me off from writing after going through that.

Thats a shame, Im assuming a bunch of Pseudos and hipsters?

>Im assuming a bunch of Pseudos and hipsters?
Yes and much worse.

Why was your response to give up? I went to a bunch of creative writing things, saw how bad everyone was and felt motivated to outdo them.
You can often learn more about writing from a bad piece than a good one.