/lit/ - Literature

Let's say I live in a mostly culturally devoid country with a few try hard creative industries desperate to emulate art forms that are bigger and better elsewhere..... Now let's say I have 2 published short stories to my name in good journals. How can I use this to get a job? What sort of job can I get? Just advertising do you think? Or is there more a fiction writer can leverage their way into with a couple of credits they can cite?

How do you guys approach an idea that's not working? I have something I really want to write, it's only about 10, 000 words but I'm nearing the end and it's all wrong. I tried a re-write but I feel so bogged down in the story that I found myself just editting sentences and paragraphs to flow better but not really changing the structure of the story at all. I need to scrap it and start again but I can't even begin to think of where to start from. I don't want to give up though because this is really important to me and I feel like it's the kind of story I've wanted to tell for awhile I just can't make it work. Have you ever been so stubborn with an idea that it paid off?