/lit/ - Literature

anyone here ever get published in a poetry journal?

if so, what was the experience like?

i think i'm ok if my writing never grows to anything more than a hobby. i was reading Knausgaard, in the section about his uncle who writes the occasional poem while working a dull, menial job. it really resonated with me. what does it matter as long as i can enjoy making my art and occasionally have it read? the amount of money i would have to make to actually quit my job and maintain my current lifestyle is pretty absurd. even if i got a fucking novel published i would likely only earn 10k. i can't subsist on that.

it kind of feels like i'm giving up, i suppose, but ironically i'm writing more and working harder at the whole process than i ever have.

of course, i still don't really want to stay in my current job for that much longer. i think i'll either find a more ethical programming job (for a research lab, maybe?) or get my phd in computer science. either way i really enjoy reading. 100% not memeing, nothing gives me immersion like well written language.

i get up at 630 every morning. before work at 9 i like to go to starbucks for an hour or so. i write there with my macbook looking like a pretentious hipster but enjoying it just the same.

i work as a programmer. i hate my job. i manage as best i can by listening to interviews with authors, listening to vaporwave music, and listening to previously recorded episodes of cinema fireside (a milwaukee public radio station show about movies that isn't really that good but is great background noise) as i close out bugs.

i go to the gym on tuesdays, thursdays, and saturdays.

after work if my gf is around i'll hang out with her. otherwise when i get home, usually i shitpost on /lit/ or wistfully read /out/ for an hour or so while eating dinner. after which i'll read a book or watch a movie. if i'm feeling motivated i'll write or at least edit for an additional hour or so before bed.

on the weekends, when i can manage it, i like to get stoned, go down to the beach with my laptop, and write for a few hours. its the best feeling in the world, especially on cold windy days. i'm writing a cyberpunk novel that i don't expect will be published. it will be my third unpublished novel.

i used to program indie games on the side but recently my work (in the AAA video game industry) has caused me to be completely burned out wrt video games as an artform. maybe when (if?) i quit my job i'll start playing them again.

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looks like it would actually be really annoying turning the pages

how high do you think tao lin is right now?