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I'm tired of having my books not published because they are about straight white people. A succesful friend (female) adviced me that I should replace the male leads for female ones, thus writing about lesbian couples, which most modern readers (lesbian feminists) do appreciate and find cute.

I am inclined to accept that idea. However, wouldn't women either label me as a mansplaner (or whatever the word is in America) or as some pervert for writing about young lesbian couples?

>> No.16151382

Kill yourself.

>> No.16151397

>>16151377
what the fuck is your problem? how are you even asking such a stupid question? how deep does your stupidity go?

>the picture you chose to represent you looks like a rigor mortis lemur

>> No.16151419

>>16151377
No but if you were black you could

>> No.16151425

>>16151397
I am legitimately curious.

I want to get my message to the public. If it needs to have either lesbians or interracial relationships, I'd go with lesbians.

>> No.16151426

>>16151377
>However, wouldn't women either label me as a mansplaner (or whatever the word is in America) or as some pervert for writing about young lesbian couples?
publish under a penname

>> No.16151434

>>16151426
The thing is I want the prestige of being an author. If I publish under a female penname (or any penname that has nothing to do with me), no one will take my job seriously.

I know I must be sounding pathetic to most of you, but this is really what I want.

>> No.16151438

>>16151426
Publishing houses usually want someone who can promote the book. They also don't want to take the risk that their author will create a scandal.

>> No.16151440

>I'm tired of having my books not published because they are about straight white people.

Yeah that's definitely why you're not getting published. That's the reason. Publishers literally only care about that one thing.

>> No.16151451

>>16151425
Why are you asking for permission, you're a pussy bitch and that's why your publication wasn't accepted in the first place. Grow some balls and write what your soul tells you to write.

>> No.16151488

>>16151451
I've been writing for ten years and I likely wrote more than all of you combined. I already 'wrote my soul' yet no one cared unless my soul contained homossexuality. Most LGBTQ+ lit that I have been studying is far so poor and emboils genres of literature so broad that it is a fertile field to produce something of quality.

>> No.16151500

>>16151488
If you’ve been writing for as long as you have claimed and as much as you have claimed, yet have gotten no where, I don’t think making it LGBT is going to help you in the slightest.

>> No.16151517
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>>16151377
You can try. Lesbians have written straight white males characters very well from what I’ve read.

Read a whole book on how SWMs Would write lesbians and they were all bad. Villains or just insane.

It is rather weird of the publishing industry to pretend this is in high demand.

>> No.16151521

>>16151488
Why are you betraying yourself, if you truly value your words, why pervert it

>> No.16151556

>>16151488
>>16151521
There's an underlying theme to this whole situation, and it's your integrity to yourself. Do you really think pandering to an uncomely crowd and pushing forward political propaganda would make you happy in the future? You do understand that you're asking permission to write a book through selling your identity right, you know like deception? You might as well sew buttons over your eyes for the rest of your life

>> No.16151587

>>16151377
If DH Lawrence can writer about lesbians, you can too. That is, if you're writing is good.

>> No.16151598

>>16151377
I got an erection reading this post. I am doing the same thing not for the industry but for my penis.

>> No.16151609

>>16151488
Nice damage control

>> No.16151621

>>16151488
From this post alone I can tell you will never make it.

>> No.16151680

>>16151609
he just asked for homosexuality implants

>> No.16151685

>>16151377
Lesbians are asexual hags, so simply switching genders won't work.

>> No.16151686

>>16151377
It's almost like you can't win with those types of people and should just do whatever the fuck you want anyway.

>> No.16151689

i'm saying this as someone knee-deep in social justice rhetoric - try and find some lesbians that you know, or maybe on the web, and ask them to consult about certain topics and whether they're a good idea to write about, y'feel?
killsixbilliondemons is written by a straight dude but he does a good job of portraying lesbian relationships in a realistic light, it's all about being savvy and knowing the background.

>> No.16151697

>>16151438
Controversy sells tho

>> No.16151698

>>16151488
another talentless hack claimed by the left-wing political movement

>> No.16151712
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>>16151488
The only solution is to write the next generation-defining novel that all the Bisphenol A tumblerkin can identify with. Embrace the irony

>> No.16151776

Isn''t "Normal People" about straight white people?

>> No.16151844

>>16151685
>When lesbians stop having sex they are asexual. Drhurhurhur
>Making a couple incidentally homosexual won’t attract homosexual readers.
It would.
Thread seems like weird bait anyway.

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>>16151377
fuck this bullshit. I've been writing about lesbian characters since early 00s when everyone thought it was just awkward, but now, thanks to all the liberal twitter mumbo jumbo campaigning, I look only like yet another bandwagoner after easy money what the fuck

>> No.16152491

>>16151425
>I want to get my message to the public
>I'd go with lesbians
Once you do this, lesbianism becomes your new message.

>> No.16152513

>>16152491
It took me this thread to realize, even without writing any, "lesbians" was my message all along.

>> No.16152544

>>16151377
There is no way you can win. Either you have non-white/non-male characters and get villified for "having the audacity to try to write about the perspective of oppressed peoples" or you write about white, male characters and get criticized for only considering their "narrow" perspective.

You are white, and male, and you are the enemy, and that's it to these "people".

>> No.16152554

>>16151377
SELL

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U
T

>> No.16152575

>>16151377
Literally publish under an asssumed name. “John Smith = Jahlina Smith” and some bullshit, pretend to be black to boot. People will read your writing and that’s the endgame. If you actually want to make money from writing I will come to your house and best your dog to death you yid

>> No.16152803

>>16152232
>implying you weren't a bandwagoner from the very beginning

Being the head of the curve does not take you out of it.

>> No.16152876

>butchering his vision to appeal to dykes and trannies
NGMI

>> No.16152970

Make them lesbians with penises(big ones) and pretend it's a metaphorical commentary on contemporary roles in the everchanging expectations of bla bla bla

>> No.16153153

>>16151377
What does you publisher think of the idea?

>> No.16153161

You can write about whatever you want. However you need perspective on the subject! GL

>> No.16154170

>>16151440

>> No.16154187

>never mention the color of character's skin

It's literally this simple

>> No.16154198

>>16151440

>> No.16154207

>>16151377
Most published books are about straight white people. If you still can't get published, it's because your story sucks balls. A story that sucks balls but also has lesbians in it, will only have it harder.

If you don't have the empathy and willingness to research how to write people who aren't you, it's pretty hopeless either way. Just self-publish on amazon and find another hobby like being a media "critic" on yt.

>> No.16154223

>>16154187
Unless it's set in the future, you'd be just writing colorblind propaganda reducing and miniming the pain of the negros and coloreds, bigot-chan.

>> No.16154481

You can't write about anything. Do it anyway.

>> No.16154495

>complain about racism
>be this obsessed over group idenitity
why are leftists so fucking autistic

>> No.16154513

>>16151517
It's almost like they're pushing it on purpose. Huh. Well that's just weird.

>> No.16154782

>>16151377
it's not like you're writing anything valuable, anon. just write it for practice and have fun. stop seeking validation from a board full of people who hardly read or write anyway, retard.

>> No.16154798

>>16151425
It won't reach the public unless you write something genuinely worth it, which i doubt you will since you're seeking advice from /lit/

>> No.16155909

>>16151377
thats called appropriation and is highly problematic
am trans btw, not sure if it matters

>> No.16156446

>>16151377
You should do that. You should also transition while you are at it, and replace your masculine behaviours with female ones, which most modern leaders (lesbian feminists) do appreciate and find cute.

>> No.16156708

Lesbians don't exist. Not the ones you are thinking of anyway. How about you grab a beer with some sexless traumatized diesel dykes and write a book about that?
Or you could write about how every girl in college claims to be BI only to let that ship sail later on in life when they shack up with a man, or when they realize how insufferable it is to date another woman.

>> No.16156733

>>16151377
Write about straight white males, there more interesting desu

>> No.16156900

>>16151517
>>16154513
In demand is just a matter of mediaman telling you it's 'in'. That's why.

>> No.16156915

>>16151689
Homosexual women seem even more dysfunctional and incapable of relationships than homosexual men. But that might just be the types that associate with it from the perspective of a subculture and lifestylism, the publicised ones. Where do you find healthy lesbians?

>> No.16156934

>>16154207
Most published books isn't publishing a book now for someone who hasn't the benefit of nepotism.

>> No.16157021

>>16156900
What I was implying