/lit/ - Literature

>reread my older stuff that I was proud of
>it's fucking awful
>unbelievably bad
>yet I've had teachers show my stories off to their friends, my friends show it to their loved ones who then demand I write more, and total strangers at the library were wowed by my work.
Is it possible to give off such a pathetic vibe that all these people will lie to me about liking my stuff? I feel like everyone I know has been playing a joke on me. And I'm not underage. I wrote these stories in my early twenties.

>have trouble writing the big first novel I planned out, so I switch to some high concept idea I had rolling in my head
>finally manage to write 1100 words in one sitting, no problem at all
>it's a story too smutty to publish regularly but not smutty enough to sell as erotica

>>18346542
I might, but right now I'm working on a non-erotic novel and researching nazi stuff would be too much of a distraction for someone with a work ethic as bad as mine.
Glad you enjoyed the blerb though. In the mean time, I might work up an Anias Nin style short story with concept, since that shouldn't be too hard.

>>18232783
I don't know, OP, but as statistically implausable as it is, you are the only person in the whole of history to enjoy beowulf. Why anyone bothered to preserve the text at all until you crowned out of your mother's snooch is a mystery for the ages.