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>> No.23223246 [View]
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The literary industry is gatekept by SSRI zombie cat ladies with no inner monologue or ability to imagine things.

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>>23210889
Why would you want to write like the authors of today when the authors of today are shit and won't be read ten years from now, let alone a hundred?

You fuckers need to decide right now what it is you want. Either you want to play the game of modern literature, like that anon in one of these threads who studied modern writing like a good boy and wrote in unremarkable environmental prose like a good boy and got himself a dozen publications like a good boy... or you want to be a great writer. You want to create unique art that stays with people their whole lives. You want to be read a hundred years from now.

Fair warning: they're mutually exclusive, because despite claiming otherwise there's nothing the literary industry hates more than someone who stands out. So your choices for contemporary literary fiction are:

>I am a brooding, pilled-up woman who regrets her life choices
>white kids made fun of my name/clothes/lunch/I just don't like them
>I am a tranny and ths is a tranny allegory
>this is a two page description of the wallpaper in a room not because it's thematically significant, but because that's what people told me literary fiction is

Make your choice.

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Guy guys guys, I just want you to know that I'm so heckin CONCERNED right now with the way things are going with these writing groups. Yea they're productive but do they realize how CONCERNED I am? I just hope everyone is as CONCERNED as I am about REPUTATION and WHAT OTHERS THINK, because I think all /lit/ adjacent groups need to make a joint press conference live on YOUTUBE.COM AND TWITTER.COM to just address just how dang CONCERNING some things are that I- I mean totally random and uncoordinated people are spamming in every thread about months old very very SERIOUS e-drama.

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>>21597514
>The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Damn, I didn't think any anons would take my recommendations seriously...

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When submitting short stories on Submittable do I actually have to include name, address, and word count at top left of my word doc if they already have that info on the cover page I filled in?

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>>20945286
>I know people in real life whom

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>>20696843
>tvtropes
If I knew where you lived I would jimmy your window open while you slept before skullfucking you to death

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