/lit/ - Literature

>>18334365
It really, REALLY tires you out. Every painting I do, every book I've written, every sculpture I've created are all my own.
I'd also like to point out that what are being pointed out to you are the success stories. The people that got picked up. I promise you there are thousands of others that never even get an agent.
Worst still you can get an agent and your agent can be bad...or your publishing house doesn't work out and ties you up in an awful contract. A metric ton can go wrong. Nobody will tell you that of course.
I've only published to Amazon and I don't have a name yet. If I was approached by a publisher I wouldn't mind taking my works down and working with them. People are people. They will work with you. There is no pure black or pure white here.
However, what I plan to do is get as many of my works on paper and self published as I can, and when I'm ready set aside a lot of resources for offline advertising. It's so easy to just do the same thing everyone else does, and get the same results.
In order to overcome the darkness we must become shining stars in the night sky. People like us will have to think outside of the box. It is simply how it is.