/lit/ - Literature

>there are people on this board who weren't raised as Catholics
You will never be /lit/.

>>16552272
Making the statue look as masculine as possible is empowering to women?

Literally has the same body type as bruce jenner.

>>15321654
My biggest story, I guess, is that there was a time when I actually got one of those agents, believe it or not. It was with the same fantasy series I mentioned before, an earlier variant of the first book that I think was not as well written as some of the later variants were.

But I participated in one of those Twitter pitch contests, PitMad I think it was, and got an agent's attention with one of my tweets. She asked for the first fifteen pages of my book. Then she went back and asked for the first fifty pages. Then she asked for the whole thing.

But THEN she rejected me, saying something I forget now, something about how the book "wasn't quite what she was looking for." It's still the most devastating reaction I've ever gotten. I'm used to getting rejections for stories and poems, but to get so far and not make it across the finish line really hurt.

In the long run, though, I think it was for the best, because that earlier fantasy novel draft was really not good. Not compared to how I write these days. I was actually on /lit/ at the time this was going on, too, and this was back when /lit/ was first exposing me to writers I wasn't familiar with, like Borges and Pessoa and Gene Wolfe. So the rejection plus my time on /lit/ spurred me to make improvements to my writing ability, to strive to become, not just a writer, but a great writer, someone capable of writing great literature. I think my efforts at improvement have actually paid off. I've become a poet, too, which I wasn't before. If that agent had actually accepted me, and that earlier fantasy novel had gone on to be published, I might have become, you know, somebody like Brandon Sanderson or Glen Cook. Maybe financially successful, and well-known, but not a truly great artist, which is what I want to be now.