/lit/ - Literature

Also here is the list I was browsing, ~2 years old. I might have happened to pick the worst guy of the lot.
http://flavorwire.com/378617/the-10-best-millennial-authors-you-probably-havent-read-yet
Matt Bell, NoViolet Bulawayo, Alex Dimitrov, Amelia Gray, Alissa Nutting, Anthony Marra, Mike Young, Evie Wyld, Melinda Moustakis, Kristopher Jansma

>>7184767
pic related, couldn't make it up if I tried
>F Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson...

>>7184792
>>7184819
Read everything
Write what you feel you need to write
Read everything
Find people you trust to critique your work
Rewrite rewrite rewrite
It's worked for hundreds of years. Seriously just google writing advice, there is a shit ton of it out there. Good entry level advice from Steven King in this article. I haven't read any of his "serious" work, but the man has been selling books for decades and is the richest writer on the planet. http://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-king-on-how-to-write-2014-8
Although I'm skeptical about your intellectual receptiveness if you would write off anything as a "progressive crock of shit."