/lit/ - Literature

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0 AFTER THE PARAGRAPH

I started writing down a list of all the individual novels I would like to write. Assuming I wrote 1 a year, I'd be 48 years old by the time I finished them all.

Reading this latest conversation has left me in despair.
>have the desire to write
>spend 8 months writing the first draft
>two more months of editing
>realize you're no closer to having a real book than you were when you started writing because you have less than a 0.1% chance of getting published
>you also need to meticulously research the tastes of individual literary agents and find the ones who might be interested in your work, then write a query letter that's unique and stands out while also being informative about your work and background, your potential target audience and is also short, concise and polite
>you also need to have a celebrity-like social media presence to market the book yourself as publishers won't do anything for you despite taking 70% of everything the book earns
There really is no hope, is there?

>send manuscript to 5 publishers at once
>ten minutes after sending realize that after changing a characters name, I had left that character's old initials in one paragraph
FUBAR