/lit/ - Literature

>>10012197
I'm between two. I've become interested in Borges again and, although my career as a literary critic never panned out nor did I ever write the definitive work on Argentine lit, as I told my sister I would, many years ago, I've been thinking about completing something I've been working on for quite some time. Something Borgesque. The other idea has to do with one of the little-known oddities of Scandinavian history.

Not sure.

>>8684641

>"Who is James Joyce?"
>"Who is Wallace Stevens?"
>"Who is Toni Morrison?"
>"Who is Bram Stoker?"
>"Who is Anthony Burgess?"
>"Who is William S. Burroughs?"
>"Who is George Eliot?"
>"Who is Charles Bukowski?"
>"Who is Marquis de Sade?"
>"Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?"
>"Who is James Michener?"
>"Who is Sherwood Anderson?"
>"Who is Henry Miller?"
>"Who is Richard Adams?"
>"Who is O. Henry?"

I think that should give you enough answers to start, OP.

Listen, getting older sucks. I'm a bit older than you, actually. Great work sometimes spills out. Great work sometimes takes time. There is no "right" way or path.

Of course we all wish we were rich and famous and living the comfy /lit/ life by the time we were thirty. We all wish we were the /lit/ wunderkind with our baby faces plastered on the cover of magazines and model faces looking up at us with our cock in their mouth. Truth is, life just doesn't work that way. At least, not always. That's okay.

Keep at it. Keep learning. The worst thing you can do is rush to publish shit just to get something on the books. Don't get me wrong, don't fall in the perfectionist trap either (I did for a long, long, long time), but don't beat yourself up over not being published by 30. There's plenty of life left and an eternity for your legacy.

You'll be fine, kid. I promise.