/lit/ - Literature

I am not a smart guy and I'm not looking at this issue from a philosophical standpoint or anything, but practically speaking, most of the people that I've known in real life that are greatly into literature and philosophy would end up being caricatures of book characters or would choose to live and think only in terms of dumbed-down philosophical works.

For example, I once knew a girl who who read Sartre religiously and infected everything in her life with her ideas about existantialism and behaving more like a fanatic than a mature person. She later on went to worship Simone de Beauvoir, which made her into a totally crazy, toxic person who went on and on about all these certain weird aspects of life, made a lot of seemingly unimportant things important and turned everything into dramatic situations.

It's hard to explain, but personally I tend to avoid people who trust literature too much as guidance in life. As far as my experience goes, the kindest and most mature people take literature into account of their maturity, but are aware of the more complex aspects of life than one could understand from even the most all-encompassing books.

considering:

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

How do I fucking write good poetry that's not outdated by a century? Not necessarily in english.

/lit/, how do I into Spanish literature? I've been teaching myself for a little while and would like to start reading some. Are there any authors that are good for beginners with the language but are still worth while, or should I start with something easier like Spanish childrens/YA books?

>>6397897
>tfw he's probably going to die before I ever get to meet him

I just want to tell him how influential BotNS was for me as a writer.

>>4768525
>tfw this is true in your own life as well

/lit/, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the whole write query letter -> send manuscript -> get agent -> get published circuit is a sucker's game.

I've been querying for the better part of a year now. In that time, I've taken advice and rewritten and revised my manuscript numerous times according to what my friends, my family, and more impartial critics (like all of you here on /lit/) have suggested. Just in case all my query letters have been shitty, I typically send one to three sample chapters with the queries so that, if they don't like the letter, they might like the writing it's meant to promote. In all, I must have been rejected maybe forty times. And I can certainly deal with rejection- this isn't the first time I've tried to get a book published, so I've grown thick skin. But I've never even had a request for a partial. I don't think I'm a great writer- not yet, anyway- but I do believe I'm a good one, and I know for a fact that worse writers than me have been published.

(cont'd).