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My professor just sent this to me.

How do I get published?

>> No.10077926

>>10077922
please post some of your work, just a little bit... I need to know what's being written nowadays

>> No.10077937

>>10077926
Been posting stuff in the critique threads over the past couple of months. I was lucky enough to get compliments.

>> No.10077951

>>10077922
You be a Jew or a wealthy WASP then you get another Jew or a wealthy WASP to publish you

>> No.10078129
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>>10077951
>tfw one of my good friends from college is a rich WASP with contacts in publishing
now only if i could finish anything

>> No.10078152

>>10077937
Please post the submissions your professor mentioned as good

>> No.10078155

>>10078129
You should find some Anon with good stuff and split the earnings with him

>> No.10078176

>>10078155
That would actually be great, I'd give him half the pot, and I'd be the human face, just generally spouting pseud nonsense on twitter and talk-shows and campuses all while this guy pumps out novels and then after twenty years we reveal it was just a prank bro

>> No.10078178

>>10078176
You should write a novel about that scenario

>> No.10078181

Don't post your stuff OP. It will make it unpublishable

>> No.10078184

>>10078176
This is secretly what most writers do

>> No.10078188

>>10078152
I can post the opening line of my best story if you'd like? Pretty paranoid about posting a whole lot.

>> No.10078200

>>10078188
do it, i'm interested

srs

>> No.10078209

>>10078200
Okay, the story title is "Glendenning Listens Why"

Opening:

>"Fred realised, with a sort of laugh, that every joke he had recently heard had been told by himself, to himself, and at his own expense."

>> No.10078212

>>10078181
True. Happened with one of my best pieces that I posted on a critique thread. Should've posted as an image, stupid me.

>> No.10078216

>>10078209
that's actually...not that bad. good luck bro.

>> No.10078217

>>10078184
which part?

>> No.10078218

>>10078209
No man. Delete this. I got rejected by McSweeny's the other day. They told me they were going to publish it, but a quick Google showed I had posted it on a forum and they rescinded the offer. Delete it now.

>> No.10078224

>>10078209
Heh, made me chuckle. Post more please.

>> No.10078228

>>10078218
lol I'll just copy and paste it into another post if he does

>> No.10078249

>undergrad workshop
>Danforth review
>fiction and poetry workshop

Huehuehue

>> No.10078299

>>10078209
it good

>> No.10078327

>>10078209
I swear to God I've read this exact line before.
Have you posted this in other threads on /lit/?

>> No.10078398

>>10078188
>>10078209
Fuck you, that's not me.

Although I live in the city, I enjoy leaving my curtains open to catch natural light. Sometimes I even sleep with the curtains open, letting the sun hit my face to wake me in the morning. Every weekday, mother closes the blinds so the daycare child that sleeps in my room can sleep. When I come home from work in the evening, the blinds are still closed. This bothers me. On these nights, even when I come home late, I open the blinds for only a few minutes before closing them to fall asleep.

I love the sound of rain. I find it peaceful, and it helps me sleep. But I have no netting over my window frame, so I can't sleep with the window open, or else I'll wake up with mosquitoes and moths and blackflies in my room, sometimes hiding away for days at a time and sometimes fluttering around my head as I read. So I undo the locks on my window and raise it as far as it can go, without and proper gap in the frame.

More than the light and the rain, I love the fresh air. My room quickly gets dusty, so I leave my window open for hours at a time, in the hope of ventilating the place. But through the sunlight, in front of the open window, I still see dust float through the air. This frustrates me. Still, I especially enjoy the smell of fresh air during a rainfall. Tonight, as it rained, I opened the curtains, pulled back the drawstring of the blinds, unlocked the window, raised it all the way and stuck my head outside, breathing deeply and counting the stars that poked through the rainclouds.

>> No.10078413

>>10078209

kekekek

>> No.10078432

>>10078398
Is this your story? Or are you just telling us how you like your curtains?

>> No.10079130

>>10078398
Would read more of your autism diary.

>> No.10079278

>>10078432
>>10079130

lmao too funny

>> No.10079297

>>10078209
lul

>> No.10079343

>>10078327
i too have heard this line before, but a cursory google search doesn't turn up anything else.

>> No.10079362

>>10078327
yeah ive heard this before aswell in a critique thread, i remember correctly everyone was shitting on it, and i've seen it more than once. but i like it.

>> No.10079423

>>10077922
Hey it's me, you're professor. Pretty lame of you to post my email on here. Kinda makes me think you're more full of yourself than I thought. I was under the impression that you were a sincere talent who didn't even know what you had. An idiot savant of sorts.

>> No.10079448

>>10079343
>>10078327
>>/lit/thread/S9867699#p9867979

>> No.10079588

>>10077922
>...in the future, please submit only Word docs or PDFs to Blackboard.
What did you send your professor, a fucking .txt?

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10079597

>>10078209
>Book starts in media res.

>> No.10079631

>>10079448
I remember that one. That was a good thread.

>> No.10079641

>>10078209
HELLO MEMOIR ANON ITS BEEN A LONG TIME HOW ARE YOU, HOW WAS THE MONASTERY?

>> No.10079653

>>10078209
gets me every time

>> No.10079658

>>10078398
this is good

>>10078209
this is just ok

>> No.10079659

>Fuck you, that's not me

That was so funny

>> No.10079791

>>10077922
Write a book and then submit it to a publisher that doesn't require an agent OR submit it to an agency who will basically be your editor and grant you access to just about every publisher in the world

Good luck anon leave these fucks behind and never look back

>> No.10079802

>>10079588
Glad I'm not the only one who cares about this

>> No.10079810

>>10079588
It was multiple screenshots of the word document. JPEGs.

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>>10078209
nicely done.

>> No.10079910

never submit your work as text on 4chan. Only send it as an image or a pastebin that dies fairly quickly.

>> No.10079914

>tfw gotten a few short stories published but haven't had anything major in a while

At least I'm doing well as an essayist

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10079934

>>10079810
>It was multiple screenshots of the word document. JPEGs.

>> No.10079944

>>10078398
Fuck you, that isn't me.


Malcolm Ironfist, grasping his gun and staring down at the shivering criminal, said with vengeance in his voice, "I'll let you live if you tell me where Valcone is hiding."
"Wh-what do you want to find Valcone for, anyway?" said the criminal, shivering with cold and also with fear. "He's the biggest crime boss in America."
"Let's just say, he owes me a debt." Malcon Ironfist put out his cigar which he had been smoking the whole time, and then said, "Do you want to live or not? Tell me where Valcone is and I'll let you live."
"China Town," said the criminal, expecting to be freed.
CLICK. The gun was cocked.
"But I thought you said you would let me live!" said the criminal.
"I lied," said Malcolm Ironfist. "But you know what they say: all is fair in love and... revenge."

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10079970

This thread is now for fake pulp.

>> No.10079974
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10079974

Firewall Proxy - A Mike Murdle Mystery

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10079983

Return of the Not-Batman

>> No.10079986
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10079986

The Petals Fall Twice

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10079990

Through a Gentle Techprism

>> No.10080374

>>10078209
I actually like this. Good job.

>> No.10080547

>>10077922
I got no advice just wanted to say well done lad

>> No.10080643

>>10079970
>>10079974
>>10079983
>>10079986
>>10079990

post more

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>>10079974
>pornography leaked out of it like blood

>> No.10080908

>>10079970
>>10079974
>>10079986
these are best 1s

>> No.10080920
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>>10080643
There aren't any more good ones. The rest is poetry.

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10080923

I'll post them anyway.

>> No.10080927
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10080927

8/9

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9/9