/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18355369]

How's the writing career coming, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.18355375]

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[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.18355377]

Writing for pleasure>writing to be published

[Anonymous No.18355379]

Wonderful! I’m gonna be the next F. Gardner!

[Anonymous No.18355506]

>>18355379
So you're going to get doxxed after shilling your book on 4chan for over a year?

[Anonymous No.18355521]

I've had several short stories and poems published, so I'm actually on my way. Now I'm working on a big work, a mixed work of prose and poetry that will span several volumes. I hope it will be a truly great work of art.

I'm a bit vexed on what to do with it, though. The first book in the story is done and I'm trying to get it out into the world. I've sent it to several literary agents, and haven't received a positive response so far. I know it's not bad, because I've shared it with multiple people and they have all thought it was very enjoyable. So I'm not sure how long I should stick at the agent-and-publisher track before I get off it and try something new.

I've always resisted self-publishing, because I think it's the equivalent of throwing a newborn baby into the ocean and telling it to learn to swim. Without promotion, without marketing, without the backing of a publishing house, I worry my work would be lost and forgotten about, and never get read. But maybe I should give self-publishing a shot? I'm not a nobody any more, reputation-wise. And I have a non-negligible social media presence. Not huge, but I've got more than a thousand followers across all my platforms. And I've built up a minor reputation as a writer and poet. So maybe, given the circumstances I have now versus what I have a few years ago, self-publishing might be fruitful for me, in a way it might not have been a few years ago.

I don't know, /lit/, what do you guys think?

[Anonymous No.18356711]

>>18355369
Got my first book, pic related, published
It got shortlisted for an award but didn't win
Got another book coming out later this year
Still a long way from being able to give up my day job but i do feel like i'm slowly getting somewhere

[Anonymous No.18356723]

short stories,poems and a novella published
got a blog on the side which gets good traffic
also occasionally wrote for a newspaper
I'll say it's coming along fine

[Anonymous No.18356779]

>>18356711
Noice.


>Feb 05, 2020 Dyan rated it did not like it
Absolutely awful. The writing is mediocre at best, and the content is pretentious and hypocritical. The author is clearly a wanker who gets off on his own sense of superiority. Okay, mate. You do you.

I'm trying to get a sense of your book. I like reading negative reviews and deconstructing them for truths. What do you think the young woman's problem was with your book (see review above)? She seems really angry at you. Please give me your unfiltered and highly speculative assessment of this woman.

[Anonymous No.18357190]

>>18355521
I'd get an idea of the advance and marketing you'd be forgoing. You can lobby some indie bookstores to try hosting you but no clue if that'd work.

[Anonymous No.18357197]

>>18355369
Trying to get some essays published but they are already published on Medium. Should I pull them from Medium even if they have barely any views. Do editors look up articles like that?

[Anonymous No.18357206]

>>18355369
I'm not writing a novel. I actually hate creative writing, because I think it exposes a part of who you are to the world, and I have no desire to do so

[Anonymous No.18357213]

>>18357206
>and I have no desire to do so
You feel like you have something to hide. Loser.

[Anonymous No.18357224]

>>18357213
How can you keep it secret from yourself? Do you never write something, and ponder how it reflects yourself and your feelings? And what if you don't like what you read back?