/lit/ - Literature

What you have to do is stop caring about the modern theories of man. They are vapor and nothing.

You should stand by the roads and look and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it and find rest for your soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkos3nMxQuk

Children's Literature is the best literature.

Fellow writers, how do you deal with the fear that no one will read what you're writing? That fear makes me so anxious. Sometimes I'm driving and it just hits me and I'm filled with a panicky sort of fear.

See, I'm in graduate school right now, studying literature. I opted for the M.A. instead of the M.F.A. because I write genre fiction, and apparently they don't care for that in M.F.A programs. But I consider myself a writer, not an academic. I'm obsessive compulsively working on a fantasy series right now. Every moment of my day is filled with thoughts of it. I even dream about it at night.

My deadline is to have the first book finished two years from now – not this coming summer but the next. Then I'll send it to publishers. Or maybe not. I might just put it up on Amazon's Kindle store.

But I get really nervous sometimes thinking that no one – not a single living person – will ever read it. What if publishers reject it (as they likely will since it'll be just another unsolicited manuscript) and it just sits on Amazon's Kindle Store, marked at 99 cents, no reviews, unread and forgotten.

I mean, there are hundreds and hundreds, maybe even tens of thousands, of people out there writing their own fantasy series, right? And how many are read?

If I could just have... I don't know... 100 people read my book, I'd be happy. How realistic of a goal is that, though?

Anyone else have these scary thoughts?

>>1166155
Oh wait, yes I do. It's from that Suda 51 game that's coming out.
>>1166116
Terraforming, you say? Cool