/lit/ - Literature

>>17571215
That's an interesting fucking take ngl
nice

What happened to literature?
All contemporary books are shit written for entertainment. Is there anything new that could match the greatest classics ever made?

>XXI century
>poetry
Why?

>publisher wants you to write romance
How am I supposed to do this when I'm a virgin who's never had a girlfriend? Like I fucking know how to write actual chemistry.

>>16747929
>try yourself in a short story competition because bored
>write a nice short story, it's pretty good, ask your editor friend for critique, edit some things and send it
>be sure you'll win
>the winner (a girl) is some retarded story written by a teenager with dumb pseudointellectual words and random sentences that make no sense but look smart
>actually it's not even a story, it's a story first but halfway turns into random philosophical sperging about how the greatest things are achieved quietly and other shit like that
Short story competitions are fucking rigged.