/lit/ - Literature

>>14815687
Not anon but for me, it's Juliette being struck by lightning

>>14797222
>I found that nearly 20% of all my female chatacters suffered attempted rape or rape sometime in their arc. More than a third of these characters were raped before the age of 18.

>>14782539
>Ask the editor who threw your manuscript out.
>threw your manuscript out

That's shitty passive writing by your (incorrect) standards.

Write "actively": "Asking the editor who throws away your manuscript." There, all neat and tidy in the present tense. (Or active tense as you creatively call it.)

>>14707488
Probably for the best. These programs turn out the same type of twee pseudo-postmodern-realist bullshit writing. If you're going for the connections and the credentials then you dont believe in your talent and are no better than a politician. Run for mayor of some forgotten MGM backlot of a town in suburban Illinois. Or become a banker if what you really want is to live like an eastside secular bourgeois jew with 'opinions' and a weinerdog, a coop with a few Brooke's brothers suits in the closet, and a feminist wife with a long nose, prominent central incisors and a pearl necklace who will cheat on you while you're cheating on her.

Otherwise, write your masterpieces come what may and then fuck off back to the abyss like anyone else who has had, has or will have that burning desire.

>>14559994
There once was a man from Lacoste
A trial for sodomy he'd lost:
He gave his maid a lovepotion
And bumfucked her ass without lotion,
Now in the Bastille he jacks off