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So I'm sitting here reading another rejection letter, and I have to consider, we male writers spend way too much of our lives pandering to the white woman. I've often thought there is such thing as "the critically acclaimed story." You see it occasionally in certain highbrow magazines and journals. Astringent, observed, clipped, wallowing in its own middle-style prose and private ennui, porn for certain publications. And I knew from early on how to write the kind of story that would get published. Honestly, had I followed that formula (or style?) if I pandered to a cultural tone set by white women, particular older white female critics, I would have had 10 stories published by now. There's an award that I have been a finalist for, more than once, and in both situations I was the only person who knew that I wouldn't win. I looked at the winner and I look at the judges and both followed exactly the same aesthetic. And they were both cunt bitches as well. I knew right there, what they were looking for in a book and I knew the winner fulfilled it with flying colours, even if it wasn't that great a book. The last contest I wrote in the initial favourite was yet again, "bored suburban white woman in the middle of ennui, experiences keenly observed epiphany." And though we'll never admit it, every male writer knows that they stand a higher chance of getting published if they write this kind of story. We just do.

>> No.11856274

Slit your wrists.

>> No.11856296

>submitting work
We are literally living on the precipice of a second Renaissance where anyone can create and be supported freely, and you still try to peddle your wares to the failing dregs of an outdated system?

>> No.11856301

>>11856296
How can I be supported freely?

>> No.11856305

Stupid frogposter

>> No.11856308

>>11856252
Post an excerpt or you're full of shit

>> No.11856315

>>11856301
Look around you

>> No.11856321

>>11856315
Around me I see plastic shoes with a red pattern, a blue handkerchief, a grey furry mat, a washing machine and curtains with a triangular pattern

>> No.11856345

>>11856315
>you can totally just support yourself brah
>what me? Nah bro I don’t know how just google it lol

>> No.11856411

>>11856321
I'm not him but I think he means it's easier than ever today to get support for your writing than ever. As in if you publish it online it's now easier (from a practical standpoint) as well as more frequent that you'll find someone who will patronize you on Patreon, Insta, and other similar services

Not agreeing with it just clarifying

>> No.11856486

>>11856411
Okay.

>> No.11857721

>>11856345
>Wise guy thinks writers can earn a living without knowing a guaranteed method of making it, wadda maroon

>> No.11857726
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>>11856296
Oh, sure, I'll just do like they did back in the day, and find an archbishop, duke, or prince to pay for all my living expenses while I write. That's going to be easy, huh?

>> No.11857737

>>11857726
yeah, how’re you gonna find a Patron in this day and age?
a PATRON
I mean really.
A PATRON
If only you had some kind of public presence for your writing where you allowed people to donate money if they wanted.