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So is anybody here actually a talented writer or no ?

>> No.8655797

lol no of course not

>> No.8655800

>>8655794
quite literally where do you think you are right now

>> No.8655802

Is that a picture of David Foster Wallace?

>> No.8655808

I think my prose is excellent, if a bit flowery, but I lack in formatting, characters, and in inspiration.

>> No.8655812

>>8655802
yeah, that's his hairline without the bandana

>> No.8655813

>>8655794
Which decent writer would admit to visit 4chan, that would be a PR disaster. This is a pointless question.

>> No.8655814

>>8655808
Yeah if your prose is flowery in the 21st century that means it sucks.

>> No.8655815

>>8655794

Write
"mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement."

My penmanship is actually excellent. So yes.

Getting anyone to be entertained by what I've written? Not so much.

>> No.8655816

I would be the world's greatest writer if I could think of a story

>> No.8655844

>>8655813

Would it really, though? I disagree.

>> No.8655852

>>8655794
Well people here seem to have a really skewed scale with which they judge 'talent.' So if you're asking relative to most people, then yes some people here are probably quite talented. But if you're asking relative to guys like Gaddis or Nabokov or Keats then no, nobody here is talented whatsoever.

>> No.8655881

>>8655808
And parallelism.

>> No.8655921

I've published two novels and a volume of short stories, if that makes me talented then yes.

>> No.8655929

>>8655808
this post is disgusting

>> No.8655932

>>8655844
Thanks to the simplistic sensationalist media coverage of the recent years is 4chan associated with such things as the alt right, trump, white nationalism, online harassment, hate speech, cyber bullying, pedophilia and hilariously "hacking".

The liberal feminist publishing industry isn't very fond of those associations.

>> No.8655946

>>8655921
It depends on whether you mean that literally, or if somebody else published them.

>> No.8655969

>>8655794
Is this a survey?

>>8655932
please read your comment out loud in a nasal voice and listen to how you sound

>> No.8656484

I'm the best among my peers in my english university class so I consider myself a decent writer.

>> No.8656491

>>8655794
only if john green is among us

>> No.8656573

>>8655808
>prose
>the current year
sorry we're done with that

>> No.8656681

I think what OP means is if there's somebody here who's gonna become a great autor. Well, if we think that those kinds are often weird people, there's a chance.

>> No.8656992

Bump

>> No.8656996

>>8655969
It's not my first language, so I don't know how I sound. Be happy if I give you coherent sentences.

>> No.8657418

>>8655946
I did not self publish if that is what you are getting at.

>> No.8657484

>>8655921

Does it earn you any money?

>> No.8657583

>>8655929
This desu

>> No.8657589

>>8655794
Ça se pourrait, ça se pourrait.
Après 's'agit de définit le "talent"

>> No.8657592

>>8655794
this is still 4chan

>> No.8657608

>>8655932
If I became a sensation as a writer I'd absolutely let people know I browsed 4chan. It would add to my mystique. The repellant nature of this site in the eyes of the popular media would make me that much more interesting.

>> No.8657634

>>8657608
Why would you do that? What did 4chan ever do to you

>> No.8657640

>>8657484
My second novel sold pretty well and drove a lot of attention to my prior book which I was more proud of. The short stories did okay, but I don't think contemporary audiences want to read short story collections. My agent said we would have done a lot better 20 years ago.

>> No.8657647

>>8655794
Who is this handsome fellow?

>> No.8657685

>>8657640
Numbers anon!!

>> No.8657776

bro I can't even get laid

>> No.8657935

>>8657685
I am making enough to live comfortably without writing another book for 2 or 3 years.

>> No.8657956

>>8657647
John Green

>> No.8657959

>>8655794
wat

>> No.8657967

>>8657776
It's worse having sex and being unable to get it again then being a virgin and not having it

>> No.8657974

>>8655813
It depends. If you associate yourself with 4chan "culture" from the start you'll just be "underground". If you get published as a normie and later come out then yeah, it'll be a disaster.

>> No.8657982

>>8657935
Whats your book, I kinda wanna read it now

>> No.8657984

>>8655808
I'm a sucker for flowery prose if it's well-written and the author doesn't sound like he's got his head up his own ass—which is nearly impossible to do. I don't understand people who shit on prose just because it's flowery.

>> No.8657992
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8657992

At least everyone here can write better than the average pleb.
So much as an customer email or a facebook post from one of the infinite monkeys proves English is dead amongst the masses.
>omit needless words
>brevity is the soul of wit
>active verbs
All forgotten

>> No.8657993

>>8657640
Are you Benn Lerner or Joshua Cohen?

>> No.8657997

>>8657992
>an customer
phag

>> No.8657998

>>8655816
aye. ideas are hard. setpieces are easy.

>> No.8658000

>>8657935
Well done, I couldn't make enough from a book to live comfortably for a week. Do you have an ongoing project, or plans for a new one?

>> No.8658006

>>8657997
FUCK

>> No.8658026

>>8657993
No but you're not far off.

>>8658000
I've been starting and restarting a few different stories for the last month. Nothing solid yet.

>> No.8658119

I've been published in a major newspaper and more recently in a small lit magazine. I've no idea how good I am though because I feel like most of the pieces published alongside mine were shit, so I don't know if I'm just hypercritical or if the bar is set very low or if my fears are true and I'm actually a retard unwittingly submitting to retard journals.

>> No.8658138

>>8655932
I first visited this site with the intention of researching "internet culture" in all its ugly and raw aspects. I later got sucked in by the juvenile humor which I still find amusing. I have nothing to do with the alt-right, trump, white nationalism etc and rather hold it in contempt, and anyone in the know understands that 4chan is at its roots apolitical.

What a writer does in their free time should have no bearing on the quality of their writing. It's only in our insufferable PC culture that a writer's actions outside their writing qualify them for publication.

>> No.8658190

>>8655808
you sound insufferable as fuck

>> No.8658216

>>8658026
Can you tell us how you first got into publishing?

I'm sorry for all the questions.

>> No.8659665

>>8655881
>parallelism
>>8655808

im not that guy but this would have been better right:

"I think my prose is excellent--if a bit flowery--but I lack in formatting, characters, and inspiration."

>> No.8659698
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8659698

"I sublimated to a transcendant metaxy. Walked on Nylon to heights beyond the tightrope tension duality of both turntables. High and Low, a slide with some tides, you can sail the sound when you see the love"

>> No.8659742

I reached for her hair,
To pull her strings.
She slapped me in the face,
And I fell to the floor.

i write erotic pottery

>> No.8660864

>>8658216
I met an author who was teaching at my college, he liked my stuff enough to introduce me to his editor, who introduced me to the man who is now my agent.

You all can do it, you just have to work hard and write something unique.

>> No.8662079

>>8657967
why unable?