/lit/ - Literature

i'm not sure if i want to become an academic (in STEM, unfortunately, which is where i have my current education) or keep my comfortable, upper-middle class office job and try to get some fiction published on the side.

being a fiction writer sounds more like what i want to do with my life, but i'm pretty sure that's never going to happen due to my lack of connections. i do have a fair amount of connections and experience in tech. if i was a professor at least i could contribute to public discourse, teach, and not belong to the office park liberal fascist culture that is currently infecting the tech industry. on the other hand, i'm increasingly becoming a luddite and so turning into someone who brainwashes 20 year olds into worshiping the false god of technological progress isn't that appealing either. at 30 it's too late to switch to english now, though, and even if i did ruin my life to get an english phd it's unlikely that i'd ever find a job.

anyway, tonight i ate some spaghetti and listened to bill evans after work. food tastes better when you cook it yourself. after i'm through with /lit/ for the evening i'll sit out on my porch with the spiders and continue writing my novel.

>>8859555
are spooks a meme?

>>6096666
i.e. its far more dangerous to have misaki as your waifu than rei