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How goes the writing career /lit/?

Feel free to post about what you're working on.

There's lots of online magazines out there open for submissions (check submission grinder or another site to see open markets and competitions). Plus, any idiot can self-publish now-a-days. So don't give up. :)

>> No.12361255

I've been making fictional romantic relationships in my head since 2010 with entire worlds built around them to cope with my loneliness.

Should I write them all down and publish them?

>> No.12361262
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12361262

>want to write stuff
>have no ideas

>> No.12361346

>>12361233
Do I count as a writer if I write technical instructional documents and test procedures?

>> No.12361350

>>12361346
nope

>> No.12361372

>>12361350
>nope
Bummer. Do you at least appreciate well written instructions over poorly written ones?

>> No.12361379

>>12361346
>>12361372
Don't listen to that guy, some writer once said that mundane, industrial documents are the hidden literature of the 20th century.

>> No.12361395

>>12361372
>. Do you at least appreciate well written instructions over poorly written ones?
i do, yeah. i've applied to technical writing jobs but had no luck.

>> No.12361401

>>12361233
Anyone else have a horrible habit of writing characters who are absolute shitbags and not understand how much people get repulsed by their actions until they've already done it?

>> No.12361442

>>12361395
I was just a test technician but the engineers, once properly critiqued, admitted their inability to properly write the documents - creating a vacuum that I filled.

>> No.12361448

>>12361401
>Anyone else have a horrible habit of?
This is the main reason my diary has yet to be published.

>> No.12361455

>>12361346
I wish I could have your job. How do you get it

>> No.12361459

>>12361401
It's like that for me, except they're all also really jaded, allergic to being kind, and mad that other people have to matter to them at all.

>> No.12361472

>>12361459
Does this fail to capture an audience?

>> No.12361484

>>12361455
>How do you get it
Know the subject matter nearly as well as the people responsible for generating the instructions while also caring about the quality of your writing. The engineers were lazy slobs outside of actual test development. You could probably get a monkey job in any manufacturing facility doing some kind of assembly with little or no experience. From there, you just look for the right opportunity to show them what you can do. Offer to write anything - even announcements for the bulletin board. Become "the dude that does the writing".

>> No.12361486

>>12361401
I mean like casually mentioning a wish for murder or extreme violence btw

>> No.12361491

>>12361262
Just write about a guy who gets mail ordered ideas from some factory and use the ideas he gets.

>> No.12361493

>>12361486
Does it damage the flow of your work?

>> No.12361499

>>12361491
This is unironically good. I can imagine anon dying 50 years from now with this "unfinished masterpiece" that was really just a never-ending idea generator for him.

>> No.12361510

I outline extensively and then just write shit as the inspiration and the mental health allow and fit it to my plan afterward. Is anyone interested in seeing a few paragraphs of writing for this character I’ve come up with?

>> No.12361560

What author platform do you guys mainly use? And is it necessary to have a website before you've even published anything?

>> No.12361578

>>12361560
I wouldn't worry about a website until after you've published stuff. I find it can be a huge timesink to constantly think about your website and tinker with it and make content for it. It's a busywork thing that distracts you from your real goal of writing.

If you are serious you should definitely get a website later on, including setting up an email newsletter - but don't call it a newsletter, call it "Letters from Your_Name" or "Reading Group" or something. More personal. The point is to get the contact information of people who actually want to read your work and have a deeper relationship with you. Otherwise you rely on 3rd parties like social media, which is a risk if they disappear or if you get banned or something. Email marketing is more effective anyway.

>> No.12361877

I sold two books on Amazon this month, yay

>> No.12361942

>>12361255
Nah.

>> No.12361946

>>12361379
The writer who said that must have been quite a big retard.

>> No.12362575

Been working on a shitton of things at once, mostly on my blog (will give link if you are interested)
The one I'm most proud of is a horror short story (again, will post link if youre interested)
I usually try my hand in every genre; fantasy, science fiction, mystery/thrillers, etc.
I've only been writing for about 3 years, but it's been my passion since, my biggest issue is finding inspiration and motivation to create.

>> No.12362758

>>12361233
Gathered a few freaks and outcasts like myself who will never know the right people to make it and we are starting our own project: a literary journal/club/portal, still not sure, which should evolve in a few years into a publishing house.

>> No.12363776

>>12362575
Just post the links you chucklefuck.

>> No.12363798

>>12361233
The writing is going great. The career not so much. I have again been rejected from a /lit/ competition, whereas my GF has been accepted, even though I thought the competition is rigged. It might not be? She writes prose, I write poetry. I dunno.

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>>12363776
No need to be a dick about it, here they are. Omnichan was being a bitch and wouldn't let me use links, so just type out the url.

>> No.12364209

Do you guys think it could be interesting to write a doestoevskyan fanfic ? like, Notes from the Überground

>> No.12364219

>>12364209
As a stupid shitpost to get a couple of laughs on /lit/ maybe

>> No.12364456

>>12361255
At least write them down so you don't lose them.

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12364698

Career? Lol I might as well start selling bricks on the side of the road. I write to write. There's no money in writing fiction. If that's your main goal then you're only setting yourself up for dissapointintment.

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>>12364698
Speak for yourself, sugartits

>> No.12366211

>>12361379
And why should I care about what this writer, whose name you can’t even remember, thinks?

>> No.12367388

It gets harder every day. Close to finishing up an collection of poetry and short stories. Maybe I should try to write something that'll actually sell next.

>> No.12367460

It doesn't. It really just.. doesn't. I never write anything, I just daydream about all the cool ideas for novels and all the deep philosophical insight the world needs to know that I would put into my hypothetical novel, but after spending all day fantasizing about whatever unrealistic bullshit I came up with I'll realize that hey, I haven't done anything worthwhile this entire month, and then I start tearing up like the little bitch that I am. I hate myself.

>> No.12367891

>>12361233
>tfw have multiple agents' website bios bookmarked
>tfw haven't finished novel
>tfw haven't started

>> No.12367898

>>12361255
same, but mine always end in rape when she rejects me