/lit/ - Literature

>>3795931
>picking sides dependent upon online trends
>using memes as your defense

>>3752576
I don't understand why people feel that simply because it is a poem, it is acceptable to write half finished (they'd probably call it 'implied') sentences.
>Once upon a time, scorched earth
and thighs.
I understand the idea of isolation, enjambment, line breaks, etc., but that is no excuse to throw imagery at me because you are too lazy to incorporate it within a sentence all the damn time.
mfw

>>3505412
That's a really egocentric perspective on alt-lit.
>literary revolution
Isn't the point to of writing alt-lit to stray from the conventional styling of literature? It doesn't mean they are trying to be different for their own benefit. Breaking literary conventions lead to the creation of the novel.
Also, I'm pretty sure alternative literature was not spearheaded by Tao Lin.

>tfw when you're eighteen and extremely inexperienced as a writer
>tfw you send in your manuscript to agencies anyway and receive many rejections from people who would not even read the cover letter.
>tfw one agency decided to read it, says they love it, and starts throwing money and editors at you.
>tfw I'm nineteen now and they want me to mature as a writer for my first novel and are paying having one of their agents regularly coach me on technique and gotten me private seminars with college professors.
>tfw seeing agents backstab each other, people fighting over who has the right to represent me, and basically throwing bribes at me or even threats.

I'll be honest here everyone that I have no idea what the fuck I am doing. I wrote for fun and had no idea what the industry was like. Now that I have dealt with it I see how cut throat it is.

What the fuck do I do? I have come to realize I am not even that great of a writer and am now in far over my head. They all know the industry better than me, and now I have to fly blind trying to figure out what the fuck to do.

Regularly they try to manipulate me because of my age, citing it as people as young as me never get this far. That's true, and I don't want to let this opportunity slip through my fingers, but I don't want them to put me under a contract where I get shafted.