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How's the writing career coming, /lit/?

>> No.10286927

I'm hoping to finish the script for my graphic novel before the end of the year

>> No.10286932

>tfw no publishers will even bother to give your manuscript a quick flick-through if you aren't a women/black and don't write about feminism, LQBTIABBQ++, immigration, etc

>> No.10286936

>>10286932
Or maybe it's just because your writing's shit. Post a sample.

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10286948

Not good thanks for asking

>> No.10286952

>>10286186
It’s coming along well but unfortunately my sex life is deteriorating, and the less I’m able to poke the worse my writing gets, and so when I said it’s coming along well what I mean is it’s come to a screeching halt and I’m going to neck myself.

>> No.10286954

>>10286932
>it's another "white guy walks through the city and has deep thoughts" episode

>> No.10286958

>>10286952
If you need sex to write then you were never cut out to write in the first place. "Sex" can be replaced with anything except "reading."

>> No.10286965

I've climbed back on the wagon recently. I've submitted a few short stories to some literary journals, and I've been querying agents about all those stories together as a collection. I also have the collection out for submission to a small press. We'll see what happens.

>> No.10286966

>>10286186
I’m making a script into a short film so there’s that. Does it count if you’re still in school?

>> No.10286980

>>10286958
Okay you NEET bottomfeeder who thinks he knows who is and isn’t cut out to write, thanks for your sagr advice.

>> No.10287100

>>10286186
Sent out 15 short story submissions this weekend. Got to keep the supply up for the steady stream of rejections.

>> No.10287104

>>10286186
Fulfilling as a hobby :)

>> No.10288756

>>10286186
Working on third unpublished novel. First is shit, second is in slush piles across this great land and third is in the oven. I have one short story published.

>> No.10288758

>>10287100
Amen anon.

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>>10286186
>Watch "How to Publish Your Book" on GreatCourses+
>Lose all hope

>> No.10288971

>>10286186
Pretty bad. I submitted something to an agent and haven't heard back anything. It's been two weeks. :|

>> No.10289031

>>10287104
You take the right approach.
I want to be able to express myself freely and be as creative as I want, and not be limited by convention. At the same time it is a dream to get something published. A cult piece. The best I can do is just have fun with it and see where it goes.

>How's the writing career coming, /lit/?
I never had a writing career in mind, always on the side. However, I'm struggling with what to do to get some income when I finish college. I am not fond of what I'm studying.

>> No.10289036

>>10286186
Slow, my prose is shot and I can't wrap my head around planning out an entire story.

>> No.10290396

>>10286186
it's ok, although my current contract expires next month, so i'm planning to have a couple of weeks off and look for a new contract in january

if you're an IT student at a certain university you'll soon be able to see my latest opus, although it won't actually have my name on it. everything i write is published and read widely and yet i am anonymous- such is the exquisite torture of the contract technical writer

>> No.10290424

got published within the last 6 months or so. Since then everything i've sent out has been rejected, though admittedly I don't think any of it was blockbuster stuff. I have about three really big things I'm working on though, maybe 2 are just about ready.

>> No.10290441

Shitty.

Working full time, having any sort of a life, and trying to write on the side feels completely out of reach.

Thinking of going back to study or taking a year off just to get more time.

>> No.10291419

>>10286186
I want to say permanent writer's block but I honestly am starting to think I'm just stupid

>> No.10291426

>>10291419
I think some develop some sort of "natural" inclination towards it; others must first practice before they feel "natural".

>> No.10291453

One day I'll write those three semi-philosophical treatises that I'm thinking about. Just never today.

At least I've gone somewhere.
>tfw 1000+ goodreads non-fiction to-read list, and I actually want to read them; for fun.
Maybe I should just write about the excruciating amount of books I wish to read.

>> No.10291455

>>10286186
Career is a rather grandiose term for it, but it's going alright.

>> No.10291456

>>10291426
I feel like I fit in both of these categories. And in a year or so I will look back in shock at what I thought felt natural. It's always a progression to expressing yourself with honest viscera.

>> No.10291487

Well I've given up on short story writing for now because studies and work and shit, so that's a bust.

I sent out some poems for the hell of it and a critic who works at a kinda well-known journal wants more. I'm afraid I'm not good enough just yet and I will fuck up my chances of getting published in his journal.

There's no deadline but the clock is ticking.