/lit/ - Literature

>>9059528
If need be, some of the cum guzzling can be cut down... if need be. Also that doc is for the minor parts (the interludes and appendices). Its not *supposed* to be a filter for the more overtly um, creative, contributions, but if it doubles as one then all the better I guess.

Second google doc coming up very soon. This one's going to be for the major contributions so things will get a little bit more exciting, even if it will be largely brainstorming at this point.

Write something off the top of your head and let others rate your writing style:

I'll go first,

I have nothing better to do than mess around on my laptop late at night. It' fun though. At least, it has been, for the last 5 years. (I just realised that every night since 2010, I've messed around on a computer till I fell asleep, which probably adds to around 1,600 nights. This figure will most likely grow at the same rate until I die). Thinking about this is frightening. If someone told me this would happen when I got my first laptop I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have taken it.
When I was young, I tried to accelerate my childhood. I didn't have the foresight to see that I had more freedom then than I do now. Somehow, every single one of us bought into the illusion that as we would gain more freedom as we grow older. It makes sense though, in hindsight. I mean, the idea that an increase in responsibility could ever correlate with an increase in freedom requires a logic so fundamentally flawed that only a child could accept it. So they push it on us, while we are children.
Why though? Would the world stop if they didn't?

Why is getting published so hard? I'm sending a novel to agents, short stories to various journals/magazines, and even pitches for articles to various websites.

Nothing but rejection, after months of waiting.

What gives?