/lit/ - Literature

>>17399045
>Everyone in my white family who grew up in NYC in the 80's

>>17134827
Dude, just read anything that appeals to you. It's like walking into a gym and asking how much you should lift. Reading is a muscle, start small, move on to more challenging works.

Give me a few weeks. I'll put together a poster.

Why don't you try some writing prompts?

You are seriously sabotaging yourself. Take a breath. There are more publishers than Tor. There are more categories than YA.

60k is on the low end for a genre novel. Annihilation and River of Teeth were both short novels. Size isn't your problem.

Find novels like yours in theme and audience published in the last ten years. Send your book to their agent. You have a lot to learn about the publishing industry. Go and learn. It's not rigged against you. It's just really fucking hard. Learn how it works.

If your characters are in their teens you have written a YA book. That's literally what fucking defines a YA book.

>>10177061
I would probably just leave her alone. She seems to be interested in that book.

>>9975535
Board needs less you.

>>9814886

Yeah, I think they're fine.

Notice how this click bait scare article
https://newrepublic.com/article/144029/trump-ruining-book-sales

contains no statistics, but comments from people whose shitty books didn't sell as well as they hoped.

I'm 46 next month.
Been writing since I was a teen.
Still haven't published anything.
I'm almost finished with a novel.
At least five in the drawer already.
I truly believe this one is good.
I truly believe this one will be published.

>>9052406
>also where to meet /lit/ women?

Meetup.com

Don't be a fucking creeper. Just go to like writers group things and try not to be an MRA douche.

Also, dating apps.

>>9021685
>You just pick something and stick with it

Unpopular opinion time.

All practitioners of a craft or occupation undergo some kind of training, yet we expect writers to be natural, exhibiting talent like a precocious zoo animal, or having wild and interesting private lives they can make public for cash as though we were all intellectual strippers.

Read widely, write, read books on writing. Take writing classes. Listen to other writers or how they work. An MFA isn't for everybody and there are a huge amount of problems with academia and diploma mills, but for fuck's sake, stop pretending this is something that just happens.

It's not a god damn birthright lordship. It's a craft, maybe even an occupation, and, if you're lucky, an art.