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

>> No.11100577

>>11100527
awful. i wrote one book and maybe ten or twenty people read it. the rest told me to fuck off. even my irl "friends" have refused to read it.

>> No.11100741

>>11100527

Hello again thread. I'm sure people are getting to know me by now. The agent who was so complimentary about my first draft, who compelled me to introduce a private detective character and give the story a redemptive ending, was really shitty about my second draft. Still too bleak, apparently. I spoke to an acquaintance from my newspaper days who went on to write bestsellers about it and she reviewed my first three chapters and gave me a lot of very valuable feedback. I'm now doing a lot of editing and a little bit of rewriting because I still have faith in the project.

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>>11100527
I tried to get a job on upwork as a freelance editor and they turned me down because I'm fresh out of college with no relevant work experience. I can't even find a shitty side job to keep me eating while I work on writing. Honestly kill me.

>> No.11101465

>>11100527
Does an advertising copywriter count?

>> No.11101477

>>11100527
does scientific writing count?

>> No.11101538

>>11100527
I'm planning out a sort of trilogy, but it's all concepts and what not. I have the place, I have the conflict, and I sort of have the character, but for everything else, it's up to debate.

I have this issue where creating a rough draft is next to impossible because I keep going back to a previous section to fix something when I should continue on to actually forge the fucking story. And as of now, the only tangible story I have is an introduction sequence that's already obsolete because the MC's age and occupation changed.

Also I'm thinking of adding in a qt brown reverse trap

>> No.11101554

>How's the writing career coming, /lit/?
Does writing code count?

>> No.11101667

>>11100577
>self published

>> No.11101668

>>11100527
my name is darcy and it’s going v well ty

>> No.11101694

Does writing posting on a nicaraguan rng board count?

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>>11100527
It's going great. Thanks for asking

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>>11100527
Could be better

>> No.11101737

>>11101712
you're not responsible for your actions, Junot. Nature is responsible.

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>>11101737
I'm not a bad guy

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Well, I just had a screenplay rejected from a contest I entered it in. I suppose I was expecting it, but it's still annoying.

I do have a few poems and short stories out for submission right now. Hopefully I'll get something published. We'll see.

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