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Daily reminder - don't take this shit too seriously. Anonymous Mon Mar 28 20:03:16 2016 No.7862314 [DELETED]

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Hey /lit/. Your friend here. Just here to give you your daily reminder not to take this shit too seriously. Life's short. Go out and try and get laid. Don't forget to have fun. Your writing will be better for it, too.

>Kafka: Died of starvation, age 40. Burned 90% of his writing while he was alive. Asked his friend to burn the rest of it when he died. His friend didn't and decided to publish it.

>John Kennedy Toole (Confederacy of Dunces): Died of suicide, age 31. Simon & Schuster told him his book was unpublishable and needed major revisions. His mom published after his death.

>Thoreau: Died of tuberculosis, age 44. Published twice in his life to no acclaim. One of those he self-published and hardly sold any copies.

>Poe: Died of a combination of tuberculosis/alcohol/mysterious circumstances, age 40. He was published in his lifetime but was published for little to no money and no acclaim. A notoriously tragic life, he died penniless in a gutter. Literally, in a gutter.

>Keats: Died of tuberculosis, age 25. Some would argue that if he lived he would have lived to see fame. Others say who knows? The point is he died believing himself to be a failure.

>Stigg Larsson: Died of a heart attack, age 50. Known in Sweden as a journalist. His trilogy, beginning with "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," would go on to, so far, sell over 73 million copies, published after he died.

>Dickinson: Died of kidney disease, age 55. Published less than a dozen poems while she was alive. Ordered her sister to burn her writing after her death. Her sister discovered more than 1800 unpublished works and had Emily's first collection published 4 years after her death.

>Melville: Died of an enlarged heart, age 72. Had a brief period of about 5 years of success, followed by a string of unsuccessful failures - including Moby Dick. Considered a minor figure in American Literature until a revival and reexamination of his work, 20 years or so after his death.

>William Blake: Died of illness of the liver, age 69. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, and seen more as a friend than a great artist, it wasn't until a full generation after his death and a biography that changed the opinion.

I could keep going but you get the idea. Keep writing. Keep creating. You may matter and you may not matter at all.

Don't forget to have fun.

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