/lit/ - Literature

>>14877253
try and get it published

>>14877253
>take like a 3 month break and work on another project
>research fitting agents
>write a query and maybe synopsis
>get back to your novel, revisit it
>revisit query
If you're content with the shit at this point, send out like 10-15 queries and go back to another project while you wait. Otherwise repeat.

Realise that literature is a dead artform, it's soiled corpse puppeteered by liberal schizos. Look out the window, reflect upon time wasted. Perhaps, shall you think to yourself, it was the journey that mattered, even if the destination is destitute. Perhaps each treaded step was a stitch in a tapesty you hung upon the unhearing void, and your novel about furry space travellers breeding a super race on planet Calcyon best left to fraternize with mold in some dank cabinet.

Let somebody read it

>>14877270
ironic that a terrible writer would claim literature is a dead art form

>>14877256

Nah....don't even bother.

Leave the book alone. Forget it even exists for about a year. Then go back and read it, you'll probably realize how bad it is at that point.

So then get to work on another, better one.

>>14877270
couldn't understand what you were saying with all the cock in your mouth and hands

>>14877307
you'll just end up doing this forever

>>14877320

No....you'll get the hang of it. But nice loser attitude bro, it'll take you far.

>>14877307
might as well try and get it published though

>>14877396

Why...?

>>14877397
You lose when you don't try either way, might as well roll the dice and lose after trying.

>>14877253
Put it down for a month, ignoring it completely. Then re-read it.

>>14877253
If you're female, black, gay, or any combination of these, then send it to a publisher without delay. You'll be in print within months.
If not, chuck it on a fire and forget you ever bothered.

>>14877445
This. It's time to give up on the publishing industry.

>>14877445
How comes most published writers are exactly the opposite of these?

>>14877445
Biggest advance ever paid for a novel was given just a few years ago to a book by a straight white guy I bet you've never heard of because you only interact with contemporary books through right-wing fora but nice loser attitude.

>>14877486
Nobody interacts with contemporary books. I'd like to see the sales charts of modern literature.

>>14877486
How (((white))) are we talking?

>>14877486
I know nothing about what this book is, but this guy is PISSED that it happened

>>14877532
>I'm not well-read enough to address a book unless a fat guy from Yale tells me it's Officially Good so nobody is

>>14877548
He's not Jewish.

>>14877557
I didn't like the book much either. Just saying, if mediocre doorstoppers by milquetoast straight white people are getting fat paychecks then maybe the narrative about the publishing industry people on 4chan are so attached to isn't the whole truth.

>>14877471
Because wokeness is a relatively recent phenomenon.

>>14877591
Show me the sales charts you dummy.

>>14877270
I'm not even a big reader of fiction and I know this post is awful bait.

>>14877610
It at least goes back to 2016 and since then most published writers are still middle aged white males.

>>14877643
Sales are more a question of the market than the publishing industry. They might publish your straight white male borefest but why would the readers pick it up over millions of other straight white male books unless you have name recognition?

Faggots, niggas and tranny have the advantage of offering something new at the very least; although they slowly kill it by focusing their works on that unique factor.

>>14877654
>tfw that guy just went to the military because he wanted basic rights like health care and education

>>14877262

Not that long. 3 months should work.

>>14877818
Niggers may carry with them the novelty of a monkey that can write, but this is not a quality that will stand the test of time.

>>14877486

That's no surprise. Rothfuss writes terrible books, and gets published and promoted out the wazoo.

>>14877270
>the destination is destitute
Imagine being a destitute destination. Ah well, at least it's alliterative.
>treaded step
The past participle is "trod," but is in this case redundant because the next word is "step". Tautology is such poor form.
>a tapesty you hung upon the unhearing void
Mixed metaphors are even worse. Also, what is this "tapesty" of which you write?
>fraternize with mold in some dank cabinet
This is exceedingly laboured, and once again we encounter redundancy in "mold" and "dank"

When you can't even write bad prose, it's better not to write at all.

>>14877922
> but this is not a quality that will stand the test of time
Applies to 99,9999% of all works ever written.

>>14877933
Is this what kids these days refer as REKT?

>>14877933

Rocks explode.
Plums deify.

>>14877654
someone got the "more like defending isreal" version of this comic?

>>14877818
> Faggots, niggas and tranny have the advantage of offering something new
New varieties of AIDS? No thanks, the Chinese diversity already gave us Corona-chan.

>>14877818
>niggas
Who would make such a post?

>>14878073
Corona-chan is the hero we needed, cleansing the world of boomers.

>>14878089
(((who))) indeed

>mfw just a week ago I'd be seething and frantically replying these racist chuds but I took the stoicpill so everything is mellow

>>14878186
>chuds
Also you aren't a stoic because you weigh 95 lbs and pose a threat to no one

>passive aggressively telling people that you're definitely not seething because you're le ebic stoic

>>14878186
Give me one reason "racism" is undesirable and only when white people do it, as in-group ethnic preference and loyalty isn't a problem for progressives in non-Europeans.

>>14877591
>not the whole truth
I don't think anyone here would dispute that white people with connections, or white people writing something positive for the prevailing ideology, wouldn't get published. Even people of different races trying to write something against the anti-racist feminist globalist line would have difficulty, even with mild criticism, even something not explicitly in favor of all those things at once would have trouble. You have to write about their ideology, and it absolutely helps if you're a 'minority' in the West, but it ultimately isn't required.

>>14878233
I imagine this to be the biggest problem as well. Do you know if that City on Fire book have any affirmative action character or concept? Because desu I think even if your novel has nothing political in it, the sole fact of not portraying a transgender black female as a secondary character is enough not to be published.

>>14878186
Based.

Although it's less of a stoic pill and just acceptance that some people are too dumb to discuss anything with.

>>14877253
Delete it and try again.

>>14877471
Because if publishers only worked with those groups, there'd be no industry.

It's affirmative action, just because they'll give girls and minorities the fast track in the police, doesn't mean they'd give up recruiting white men otherwise there'd be 10 barely passable people, and 500 empty seats that still need to be filled.

>>14877548
hall(((berg))) white
>>14877591
>He's not Jewish.
idk bro his surname has a tint, and other hint is he got paid for shit

>>14877253
How long did it take you to write it?

How long should it take to write the average novel?

>>14879373
Not OP, but it all depends on the length of the book and how much you can write per day. The average length of a book is 64k words, so if you wrote 700 words per day it would take you a little over 90 days to write a first draft.

>>14877270
Everyone is hating on your prose, but we all know they're just butthurt about the message. This was actually very well written. These are the best lines:
>Realise that literature is a dead artform, it's soiled corpse puppeteered by liberal schizos
>your novel about furry space travellers breeding a super race on planet Calcyon best left to fraternize with mold in some dank cabinet
The only problem I have is with a tapestry hung upon an unhearing void. Bravo nevertheless.

>>14879373
Not OP but it took me about 9 years from the time I went "I'M GOING TO BE A WRITER AND WRITE THIS NOVEL" to "fuck it, can't improve it any more, let's get it published." Now the actual amount of WRITING/revisiting time, was about 3 months per revision and 1 month for translation. 100k words. About 2-6k words a day with weeks when I barely wrote 500 in-between.

>>14877933
You had him in the first half not gonna lie. Lost all credibility tho when you claimed he was being redundant with mold and dank. Is mold damp and chilly? Do dank places always have mold? That’s like saying celebrating with friends on a sunny day would be redundant. Do my friends emit light? Not typically. Am I best pals with the sun? Maybe if we got to know each other better. Mentioning both of those things help paint an overall picture of joviality though. Starting to get it now?

>exceedingly labored
See, now that’s redundant. Laboring in that sense already portrays a sense of exceeding the necessary amount effort. Maybe don’t spit game when you have none yourself, boyo. Better yet, maybe quit acting like a nitpicky pseud on an Ethiopian breakdancing forum that’s way past any prime it might have had.
>inb4 my ironic slang is cliche and invalidates my nitpick of your nitpick

>>14880298
>wrekking a wrekt
And now I’ve kekt

>>14880298
Someone wrek the wrekt wrekker now

>>14880310
The ironic slang was a tad cliche for my taste

>>14880318
Wrekt

>>14880318
>NOOO I inb4’d IT SO THAT INVALIDATES ANY CRITICISM
Nah but seriously, ya got me. I myself have now been wrekt

>>14880298

>>14880318
Someone do this one now

>>14880298
based rekt rekker

>>14877933
Cringe lmao

>>14880318
“tad(too) cliche for my taste” is in itself a major cliche. Fuck outta here normie

>>14877654
>Teacher arguing against American rights
>In front of a wounded veteran
Based

>>14880344
rekkin and chekkin has me a kekkin

>>14877471
Because most published authors are dead

>>14877557
money laundering

>>14877654
>marine
Probably deserved to get his legs blown off by some scrap wires and high nitrate goat shit desu

>>14880324
>gets btfo’d
>hmmm better post caveman wojak, that’ll prove I’m not retarded for sure

this thread is gay but I'll bump it cause I'm chaotic neutral like that, aka heavily schizoid and I just woke up so my meds dont kick in for another hour or so.

This thread has been blessed my schizanon, which really isn't saying much since everyone here has some degree of personality disorder

>>14881172
take your pills schi-

oh wait nvm, carry on

>>14877654
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