/lit/ - Literature

>>23114964
Here is my advice to you:
>learn more about prose, use good prose and avoid cliched prose
>learn how to drive your story with complex characters instead of genre tropes
>develop your style to suit the purposes of the story
>choose a mighty theme and do not give clear answers to every question

So what are you writing?

>>22094875
Is this really that accurate or was Oates baiting when she said this? I can't remember the exact thing, but I recall /lit/ had a discussion about this last year because there was also data showing that a lot of publishers still publish whites more than they thought they did and some literati were bitching and moaning about it. White men I can't recall the data for because I don't think it included all of the correlations between race, gender or otherwise. I could believe that women are published more than men these days, that would at least make sense.
For sake of argument I find it hard to believe that there aren't any houses to publish the works of white men. It is certainly more common to see publishers that exclusively publish works from one point of view and will list it in their About pages (e.g. queer voices or BIPOC voices only), but I have mostly seen that at smaller publishers. While I think this would be rotten if it was far more difficult to get published as a white male, I also find it all the more reason to try to get published because it would give you a spotlight as an exceedingly rare voice in contemporary writing.
>t. white male

"Last man standing claims the permanent name 'Penelope's Bloom' with whatever trip" edition, and it's gonna be me

Ithaca: 22403 words; 6 days
Penelope: 24059 words; 6 days

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