/lit/ - Literature

>>16631301
I never expected or wanted the lit quarterly to filled with references to greentexts or gay shit like that but it was definitely a lot more interesting when 90% of the submissions were sourced by anons and not the reverse. Tbh it almost feels like an advertising thread that should be banned. What relevance does the publication have to us now? Why should we care? Kyle's admitted he gets way more submissions from outside /lit/ now that the website is up and everyone is free to submit. Now it's just another dime-a-dozen publication with a bunch of women's names on the front, we've been gentrified out of our own neighborhood.

For the first time I feel like my writing is suffering from my utter sexlessness. Up until now most of the romantic themes I have dealt with were subtle longing, regret over past loves, etc.- things I could limp by on, by projecting my own inefficiencies. I am currently working on the longest piece I have ever attempted, a novella, and I am incapable of writing the small romance subplot I had planned. My romantic isolation has made me deaf and mute to these loves, I can't even properly imagine what each character would be feeling or saying. All I know on the subject is longing and rejection. I have tried writing the pertinent passages and each time they're so terribly stilted I can't help but delete them. I don't know what do, I can't move forward.