/lit/ accomplishments

[Anonymous No.17440984]

>tfw a cute teen booktuber talks about my novel on her latest bookhawl

Is this what making it feels like, lads?

Also, share your /lit/ accomplishments and moments that made all those hours writing worth it.

[Anonymous No.17441000]

>>17440984
Name of the book? It's not yet making it but pretty close anon, congrats.

>Also, share your /lit/ accomplishments and moments that made all those hours writing worth it.
Not much of an accomplishment, but once I sent a ten page letter to a former girlfriend (she was my girlfriend when I started writing it and became my ex before I finished it kek) and upon reading it she told me it was as if I was talking to her by her side. Basically the letter carried my voice to her.

Also this letter lead us to reconnect and start dating again. All around a pretty proud moment.

[Anonymous No.17441028]

>>17441000
Nice one, Anon. Congratulations on writing something so powerful.

[Anonymous No.17441361]

>>17440984
I had a conference paper and a short story published within two months after graduating. I went straight into a professional writing job at at pay scale of an entry level engineer once we were dismissed for the coof, and I've written two operating manuals since then. I found the time to write a short story a few weeks ago. I ran into an old grad student instructor I had and spent about an hour with her walking around campus trying to return a laptop. We had a good talk and she laughed at my jokes. Hope to join her for tea next time I'm on campus.

[Anonymous No.17441535]

The most I ever got was 100 likes on one of my poems I posted to Instagram
>>17440984
Are you R. C. Waldum?

[Anonymous No.17442006]

>>17440984
I was stressing about my undergraduate thesis and the professor who was doing most of my reviewing gave me scathing commentary the entire time. After presenting, I was told by other professors to "heavily consider grad school" and my professor told me that he was proud and liked it, he just refuses to give much positive reinforcement during the process. It's not much but it meant a lot to me.

[Anonymous No.17442071]

>>17441535
I posted a poem on /lit/ once and got 17 (you)s and they were all positive so I'm pretty proud of that

[Anonymous No.17442123]

>>17440984

A friend once recommended my own story to me.

[Anonymous No.17442281]

As a lowly, underachieving undergraduate, I don't have any "accomplishments" to my name, but it always feels good to have my philosophy professors and TAs recommend upper year courses to me based on my writing and contributions to discussion. It's nice to have someone take an interest in your education and possibly even recognize some potential.

[Anonymous No.17442296]

>>17440984
i've authored about 5 copypastas that i've seen reposted many times in various /lit/ humor threads. they almost all involve Infinite Jest or Proust

[Anonymous No.17442309]

>>17442296
>Infinite Jest or Proust
did you read them?

[Anonymous No.17442320]

Finally got out of a slump and began reading and writing regularly again. Planning on submitting the poem I’m working on now to some journals for publication finally. I’ve had one personal essay published before by a shitty uni graduate press but I hated the piece, only submitted it at the request of a professor.

[Anonymous No.17442326]

>>17442296
I've authored a couple of theories about Bolano's 2666 and seen them posted by others in several threads on here and other websites. Feels pretty good

[Anonymous No.17442340]

I got published 4 times by my community college... you can call me mr based

[Anonymous No.17442373]

>>17441361
Nice anon. For anyone who wants to be a writer, but is worried about making money, you can never go wrong with technical writing.

[Anonymous No.17442384]

>>17440984
Great work, anon!
While not as big, I consider a recent breakthrough I made into the Alchemical nature of Saturn to be an accomplishment worth being happy about.

[Anonymous No.17442452]

>>17442340
very nice mr based

[Anonymous No.17442453]

An educational psychologist called me highly intelligent on my dyslexia diagnosis letter.

[Anonymous No.17442585]

>>17442453
How does it feel, anon?

[Anonymous No.17442608]

>>17442585
Like being a smart retard.

[Anonymous No.17442617]

i took an IQ test at a scientology center and the proctor said i was a "fucking genius" but depressed

>>17442281
encouragement from instructors in your life is indeed quite gratifying, remember this feeling

[Anonymous No.17442642]

>>17440984
Writing a lot more and sent my work to a ton of lit mags hopefully at least one of them takes me in. I'm in undergrad rn and most my classes are a bore but my lit professor liked an article I sent her so it was cool

[Anonymous No.17442825]

>>17442642
You wrote the article, right anon?

[Anonymous No.17443613]

I read 200 pages today and just finished drinking a bottle of dry wine, it doesn't feel good bros

[Anonymous No.17443723]

>>17443613

the lit life

[Anonymous No.17445388]

>>17441000
checked and based. good luck, anon