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you ever have anything published? was it hard to do so?

>> No.1211235

Tom Cruise wrote books?

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It helps to be good at writing, you know?

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one must become publishing to be published

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Getting published is easy man

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>>1211576

What he said.

>> No.1211670

>>1211576
Yeah, if you're shooting for, like, the Backwater Boone's Farm Review, or something.

>> No.1211728

WAS EASY. WROTE POEMS SEND TO EDITOR WHO CAME PANTS. SOMETIMES THERES A CHECK FROM THE PUBLISHER IN THE MAIL

>> No.1211736

Yes, once last year. And its not so much that its hard to get published, if you keep sending your work out, someone is bound to take it eventually, its the crushing, crushing rejections that you get on the way.

>> No.1211768

>>1211736
Crushing rejections?

The way I see it, getting published is like winning the fucking lottery. Your story has to run the gauntlet of bitter, slaving readers, who probably don't get any money whatsoever to read piles and piles of slush. And then, if it gets passed them, you have to hope that the editor will like it.

So when I get a rejection, I don't think that I'm a terrible writer. It's more like that the starts didn't fucking align.

Of course, if I get nothing but rejections for the next decade, then I'll actually get depressed.