/lit/ - Literature

>Be 19 year old me in 2008
>In a 3rd world post-soviet shithole
>Post my short story in a forum
>One of most popular writers inour country personally contacts and critiques my story
>We start chatting and sharing stories
>Invites me to his house
>Start to spend evenings in his library reading and discussing books
>Get to know his family, friends-writers, publishers
>They also invite me to their house
>Writing everyday
>Everything I write they critique cover to cover
>Show me multiple ways to improve dialogues, story plots, sentence structures...
>Question and discuss everything in depth
>All of them tell me I will be a great writer
>They share newly written stories and unfinished novels with me
>Spending every evening in company of 4-5 established writers and poets
>3 of my short stories get published during summer
>Publisher wants me to write story collection
>One of writers, also prof at local uni. wants me to study there
>I reject everything and go to Singapore study CS
>Barely reply to their emails and lost touch with time
>Graduate and wageslave for years
>Finally say fuck it, quit my job, return to my country and decide to write again
>One of writers is dead, one is dying from Parkinson, others moved to US and Europe

I think i deserve to be a wageslave for the rest of my life.