/lit/ - Literature

So how do you think the industry will do with its unnecessarily long-winded paid by the page bull-shit now that their
>YEW KIDS DON'T REED ENOUGH CUZ YER LAZY LOWLIVES, DAG-NABIT!
garbage has been essentially disproven with the internet, texting and so on.?

Can you write in English if it isn't your first language? Or are you forever going to be a peasant? Are there any highly thought of writers with shitty language skills?

I've read that a novel needs to have at least 60,000 words to even hope to be looked at by publishers and agents.

I'm working on my first novel and I just don't think I'm going to get much more then 40,000 words.

I don't like filler and I just want to focus on the story.

I look at stuff like Twlight and the Hunger games and they can get over 300 pages and it seems to just work for them.

I just don't get how to do it.