/lit/ - Literature

WHY WOULD YOU POST THAT?

>successful commercial fiction writer
>got lucky with first contract, auction, six figures
>shit is like playing the lottery, great writing doesn't guarantee a great career
>10 years later I still don't know what the fuck is going on in the business, don't read trade magazines, rarely attend conferences, sit at home and fap all day until I get a call from my agent

Not a real writerly job as of yet, but I do work part time as a writing tutor at my honors college. Seeing the sort of shit honors kids drag in and pretend are their "theses" makes me thankful every day I'm not a general tutor, or I'd blow my fucking brains out.

I only get minimum wage, 7.50 an hour (American). But I'm hoping I can leverage this experience to work in some similar field in the future, perhaps even start a small business as a freelance English tutor.

Thats a bit depressing,yet im still mildly jealous.

>>1698168
>>1698168
smile dog?

Anybody can write fiction and get it published. However, because the industry is competitive, you're likely not to make a living off of it. You may, and this is very unlikely, MAY earn up to a hundred or two hundred bucks for one magazine piece, but don't expect to have your work accepted into a magazine every single day or even every month.

If you're a novelist and have a contract with a publisher, however, you're set, especially if you're writing a series of novels, or at least keeping your work largely within genre so that your work is noticeable to a certain concentration of readers.

>>1698224
>writing magazine anything for a living

pic related

>if you're a novelist and have a contract with a publisher, however, you're set

pic still related. your statement is partially true in speculative fiction, but if your career does not blow up within the first five years (consistently bestseller) big houses will drop you and you will be backlisted into obscurity and therefore financial ruin. after that your only hope is to go with small hipster literary presses nobody cares about and most ethiopian kids in charity commercials can't even live off the amount of money you will make in this situation

in popular fiction, you either hit it big or you fade out after a few novels, there are no middle tier fiction careers

after your first contract, you are not "set". the game has just begun, and will fly high or you will get burned quick

>>1698243
>forgot to post pic
>multiple typing errors

such is life in the drunken new rich aspie novelist mansion

>>1698196
That is not a dog, nor is it smiling. It's fucking creepy.

>>1698268
no it's dog

and it's smiling

it's some shitty creepypasta from ages ago