/lit/ - Literature

>>21047605
>loosely planned out the next two chapters
>read through old work and saw that it was good; dialogue tight, clean narrative, good metaphors and prose
>bloomer core playlist thumping in the background
We're all making it. This is the year of hope.

>>20735898
You didn't fail. You just found out how not to write a story, and you grew over 150 pages of sincere effort. Chin up there, old bean. You're gonna make it.

>>20499508
Your persistent optimism is charming, dear anon, given the state of this thread, and has encouraged me to look on the sunny side. Much appreciation.

>>20475469
He will be successful.
And so will you!

>>20419651
>Where are all the talented iconoclasts?
They're out there waiting to be discovered. Maybe some of them are here. They're growing their circles of elite writer friends, studying the classics and the masters, building up their strengths and writing their works. Some of them might not make it in their lifetime. But genius is always discovered in time. Even Bach was forgotten after he died until Mendelssohn discovered him again. I hope they're here. We need them.
>Why are they not here, of all places?
They are. Plenty of people here have been posting work of increasing quality. Maybe some lurkers are still waiting to post their own work. They might even be trad published already, waiting to be discovered by an innocuous reader with great influence.
>Are all of our brilliant young people too absorbed with video games, drugs, and material pursuit?
Yes and no. Truly brilliant minds can balance the game and their work, or they are consumed by the game. In the latter they are tragic, but not brilliant, because they couldn't make it to the end. Maybe they are brilliant, but as long as they're lost, we'll never know.
>What happened to the artist? Who killed him?
They're undiscovered and unknown. They're people like you and me who are reading and writing and trying to make things like the masters did, or show them that we are even better than them. I know I'm reading and writing more this year than I ever have before. It's my year of hope. I'm going to make it better than anyone who came before me or God dammit I will go down trying.
We will try and we will die. If I'm lucky, I'll have a small piece of graffiti on the world's stage that reads "Anon was here". I'll have made it, then.