/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12308633]

How goes the writing career, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.12308643]

Better then yours

[Anonymous No.12308649]

I quit my day job

[Anonymous No.12308790]

>>12308633
Awwww, so cute! I want to kiss his/her little nose :3

[Anonymous No.12308819]

>>12308790
Shut the fuck up!
>>12308633
It's starting to come together.

[Anonymous No.12308825]

>>12308790

[Anonymous No.12308862]

its coming along really well but I need to disclose that I've only written 500 words and been stoned for the last 9 months

[Anonymous No.12308886]

what magazines/journals do you guys submit short stories to?

[Anonymous No.12308943]

>>12308633
It begins sometime soon, i was hoping today but i don't have enough beer...

very nice cat too

[Anonymous No.12309219]

>>12308862
You want to quit or are you a moron?

[Anonymous No.12309444]

dropped it for a stem degree

now i don't have any head hair

[Anonymous No.12311387]

>>12308819
>Me on the top
>You inside the car

[Anonymous No.12311489]

we should have a proper writing general instead of this tease thread

[Anonymous No.12311495]

>>12308790
please be my gf PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[Anonymous No.12311551]

>>12308790
You're cute

[Anonymous No.12311567]

>>12308643
>then yours

[Anonymous No.12311689]

>>12308790
No you do not.
You can't get your face near a female cat. They do not engage in, nor reciprocate head-butting behavior, and frequently mistake a head in close proximity as some sort of affront, which can end in disaster. Not only is kissing the nose unsanitary, and risks the transmission of bartonellosis among other zoonotic diseases, but putting your face against any female risks at least a small pawing to the head to a full-blown scratching. You can tell by the cat-phrenology and patterns that that one in question is indeed a female. This is to say, they exhibit a lower degree of inhibitory control, likely owing to some maternal instinct. Contrast it to the male, indeed, even a feral one, which is less, well let's say 'schizo' than a female cat. I would feel more comfortable getting may face close to a wild male cat, and giving him a headbutt than kissing the cat in question (OP cat) on the nose.

[Anonymous No.12312852]

>>12308825
Aw, what a sweetie.

>>12311495
I'm a guy, anon. Sorry. I yearn for a Mommy GF of my own, too.

>>12311551
Sorry anon, but see above.

>>12311689
Wow, thanks for the information cat-anon. I will keep this in mind for any future cats I find. Sad though, because the one in OP is so cute I just want to kiss her little nose so badly.

[Anonymous No.12312866]

>>12308633
KILl DA CAT!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.12312922]

>>12308886
Just got rejected by Clarkesworld, feelsbadman.jpg
>>12311489
I'd be down.

[Anonymous No.12313281]

>>12312852
>I'm a guy, anon. Sorry. I yearn for a Mommy GF of my own, too.
Why do we have this sudden increase of mommyposters across most of the threads.

[Anonymous No.12313289]

>>12313281
It's just me, anon. I don't think there are any others.

[Anonymous No.12313337]

>>12308633
god being on here is like being around my parents sometimes

>how goes x

shut up worry about yourself gay nigga

[Anonymous No.12313361]

>>12313289
Your obsession is contagious.

[Anonymous No.12313379]

Where do I even submit poetry? I have won some online contests and am thinking of submitting for money.

[Anonymous No.12313500]

>>12313361
Do you mean you never wanted a Mommy before, but do now?

[Anonymous No.12313532]

>>12313500
My mind was clouded by mere lust, but not until recently. So more or less yes.

[Anonymous No.12313677]

>>12308633
Well, to be perfectly honest, it's going nowhere.

I got distracted halfway through the year. Writing has stalled. I am, however, getting reasonably proficient at small animal taxidermy.

[Anonymous No.12314122]

>>12313379
like....everywhere? Fuck, even newspapers will publish poetry.

Get on submittable. Btw, the only places that take poetry that actually pay decent are contests. Most magazines pay nothing at all, or very little, but the main reason you submit to them is to just get your name out there, show yourself off.

[Anonymous No.12314483]

>>12309444
flow my tears

[Anonymous No.12314507]

Career has nothing to do with it. I write because I’m severely mentally ill and channeling the three-dimensional chaos of my mind into an exactly linear single file ordering of words is therapeutic. I had to drop out of college on a medical withdrawal because the hallucinations and the mania weren’t compatible with school. I actually just got out of a mental hospital on Christmas Eve. But I always come back to writing. I probably knew I was going to do this for the rest of my life around 2014, when I posted some poems in a critique thread and some anons traced it to my tumblr. Writing has been good to me since. I got three half-hour scripts produced as part of a screenwriting incubator at my university, I got a short story published in a shitty lit mag, and I did a lot of living and a lot of thinking in the four or five years since posting here. I wrote three novels and destroyed them all in psychotic fits, which is fine because they weren’t up to my standard anyway and the good snippets were either worth remembering or worth recovering. It’s my favorite thing I’ve ever worked on.

[Celestrion No.12314509]

Mines going good, I write poetry not stories though, only really hear good stuff when I get opinions from my close friends, just wish I had more attention, maybe give my gran a look over, some of it’s just aesthetics and stuff like that but I do have some writings on it

[Anonymous No.12314571]

have some stuff published, getting another one published next month, placed in a few contests, have a bunch of submissions floating around out there, and a few stories I'm sitting on or need to polish up. I have one book I'm trying to sell at the moment, no real word on that yet. I have two other completed ones I could try to sell also, but am focusing on the other one first as it's the most "literary" of my projects, and the other two are sort of commercial lit type stuff. I figured I'd at least like to be known to have a little artistic cred before I unload all my commercial ideas on the market.

Other than that....I got a self published book that has yet to sell a single copy besides the few people I personally know who wrote it. I'm kinda proud of that, I mean most utter shit books even sell a few dozen eventually.

[Anonymous No.12314599]

>>12308819
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NroiGfNohPo

[Anonymous No.12314636]

>>12308633
I'm a bipolar alkie with a small drug problem who is nearing 30 and hasn't written more than a few notes to myself at a time in years, so I guess I'm off to a good start.

[Anonymous No.12314654]

>>12314636
Honestly, yeah probably. You're light years ahead of any MFA faggot.

[Anonymous No.12315758]

I sold TWO books on amazon today, holy crap this is an amazing day

pls don't return the books, buyer, I will be sad,

[Anonymous No.12315904]

>>12315758
I sold two books since I published the other day, and only ONE of them is from someone I know. Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.

[Anonymous No.12315915]

>>12308633
Darn you OP, I'm this >>12308790 anon here and I just keep coming back to your thread only to look at that cutie kitty cat again and again :3

You got me this time OP, but tomorrow I'll be stronger.

[Anonymous No.12316144]

>>12315915
I don't blame you. It is an impossibly cute cat. I've got a gift for you, though - a Christmas present. I give you permission to save that image. Please use it wisely.

[Anonymous No.12316196]

>>12315904
we're high rollers now

[Anonymous No.12316242]

>>12308633
I actually managed to complete a first draft of a short story instead of losing interest and abandoning it halfway through like all of my previous attempts.

It's a start.

[Anonymous No.12316307]

>>12316144
OP, you are a saint. Thank you graciously for the permission. I have just saved it and will use it justly in the future. Happy New Years to you.

[Anonymous No.12316356]

>>12314509
Published?

[Anonymous No.12316397]

>>12308790
I'd like to kiss your nose

[Anonymous No.12316410]

>>12316242
i was legit hyped for you but then i reread and noticed it was a short story and not a book. still cool though.

[Anonymous No.12316438]

>>12313361
me on the left

[Anonymous No.12317937]

how many books/short stories/poetry do you write a year?

[Anonymous No.12319027]

>>12316307
And a Happy New Year to you too. May reaction images of cats follow you wherever you go.

[Anonymous No.12319103]

>>12313532
Nice anon, I didn't really understand that fully but either way good job. I want a Mommy so bad and hopefully one day you and I will both have one. For now, I just watch videos of ASMRfu's and pretend they are my Mommy. Do you want to see some? Here, I'll show you.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kCl9nRAlG14
(Watch from beginning, sadly my link starts partway through)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B-oyFWuhlic

https://youtu.be/nXeElPbXcS0

These girls speak to me so sweetly, and comfort me whenever I'm feeling lonely and sad. I hope they can do the same for you. Please don't be mean to them in the comment sections, harassing them like the many rogues on /lit/ have done to other girls in the past.

[Anonymous No.12319121]

>>12319027
Thanks a lot anon, that cutie cat you have shown to me, and subsequently let me save, has genuinely lifted my spirits of the past two days. :)

[Anonymous No.12319626]

>>12308633
>mfw ive had one sale every day since the new book was released