Time for another trip into the tortured psyche of the /r/writoid! Today, shut-in introvert g*mers reassure each other that you don't need to go outside or have interesting experiences to be a good writer.

Tell me if im wrong.

I suspect 85% of these writers are producing erotica.

My mom's cousin told us she was "writer" and i looked up her penname. I cant link it, but I learned that erotica for women has oddly specific genres.

Edit: she doesn't like me cause I said the guy on her cover doesn't look like an actual ufc "heavyweight"

Im right, but she says she looked it up first.

Look. Nobody else is gonna tell you this, so it's gotta be me. You're not an introvert, you're just mentally disturbed. I know, I know, it was a nice little label, you enjoyed it, I know you did. But you're not an introvert, it's not normal that you haven't left the house in one year. That's not "just what introverts do." That's a you problem. Oh wow, you haven't had any human contact in months. How quirky! Wow, you're such a great introvert, haha. Just kidding, that's a personality disorder. You have a personality disorder. Oh, you avoid eye contact when people are talking to you? You can't go to parties because you're too socially anxious? Ha. Doesn't sound like something you should be incorporating into your identity with a label like "introvert." Sounds like problems. Problems you need to solve. Sounds like fundamental personality issues that aren't going to get better if you hide them under the label of "introvert".

Will you?

No. You think I’m about to leave the comfort of my jammies to write an r-slured butt book?

The most interesting literature involves plot points that deemphasize action and prefers either introspection on the part of the characters or revelation on the part of the reader. A book like Rabbit Run, which is about the boring details of a family falling apart, ought to be a lesson to some neet asking about whether their shit butt life experience could be interesting in a novel. Of course it could. But for that to work, you'd need to examine yourself and either find out why your experience speaks to human nature, or be self aware enough to realize that the emptiness of your life is actually the only interesting thing about you.

But the eternal Redditor uses fantasy as an escapist coping mechanism, not a way to explore people, feelings, and ideas.

Exploring ideas is dangerous, you might start having the wrong ideas. Better to have a knee jerk reaction against anything that disagrees with your current beliefs, and only write things that conform to those beliefs.

The introvert NEETs will all have boring experiences, but so do the upper class English professors living in Maine, who write another post-modern, kitchen sink book about le depression. Novellas where every character is conspicuously a well educated, middle aged academic who sometimes smokes weed. Books where nothing seems to happen beyond relationship troubles and the world consists of a home and a university. There's a lot of "literature" like that out there.

The only NEET work of literature that's worth something is Welcome to the NHK. Something beautiful in its honesty and shameless wish fulfillment, and sort of a harbinger of NEET culture. That's probably the best a NEET could achieve, even in that text you could see how limited the author was by his lifestyle (he regressed back into being a NEET after it's publication). It was sort of 4channy in a way that he alternates between incel anger, /pol/ paranoia and /r9k/ coomer fantasies and porn addiction.

They're not wrong, if you're writing for. The mayo bar for "interesting experience" is anout as low as you can go, which is why they like shitty books that are 16 hundred pages of a white collar worker slowly realizing his wife's cooking is shit.

sweet! a writoid thread!!

I'm a fairly introverted, private, and somewhat lazy person.

From one of the best writers of all time

Check out the worldbuilding subs for even more pathetic 'writers'.

>I'd say introverts are more likely to be better writers

Only the in the sense they just spend more time writing and spend more time mimicking better writers.

This shit is how anime became shit. Notice how most anime in the last decade is the most weeby dumb shit compared to 90s and 80s classics? How there there isn't a story anymore its just checkboxing tropes?

It's because anime creators now have no other experience other than consuming other anime. Then it creates this negative feedback loop where future anime creators base their creation on the anime they consume, then the next generation does it again and again.

It's basically creative inbreeding.