/lit/ - Literature

What is the point of novelists anymore? Novels are only getting less and less popular as a medium compared to film, television, and video games, and the audience contemporary fiction is very small and only interesting in a very specific type of contemporary literature. The only subgenre of fiction with an audience comparable to other mediums (or even to the audience fiction had in previous decades) is genre fiction: fantasy, science fiction, crime, and romance specifically. If you want to reach an audience of any considerable size, and you have to write genre fiction.
>self publish
Self-publishing literary fiction is a guaranteed straight ticket to obscurity. You'd genuinely be better off just not publishing at all.