Has anyone on this board EVER written anything that's successful and/or published?
Plenty of people here have. You think they're dumb enough to use their real names?
>>25127650I don't share my writing with /lit/, I share it with /r9k/.
me>cool bro now dox yourselfno
>>25127650R.'C. Waldun
Someone barely did manage to succeed by naming his book "Netanyahu."
>>25127702*The Netanyahus
>>25127650Several published writers such as Tao Lin, Honor Levy, Gabriel Smith have been known to post here, and in the early days of /lit/ there were suspicions of Pynchon lurking as well. Lately translator Max Lawton has been spotted. You also have lolcows like Waldun and other internet influencers likely checking what goes on every now and then. And these are only the recognizable ones, meaning, those who mentioned /lit/ directly in interviews or books, or posted here under their own name. I suspect a lot more writers born in the last 30 years likely have passed through this board one way or another. I would expect male genre writers to be in here almost daily.As for me, I have published three novels in my home country, have been reviewed by critics, etc. and I've been coming here for 12+ years.
>>25127666Does it make a difference if an anon on 4channel claims it?
>>25127650i once farted and the fart successfully published out of my asshole
>>25127894claims what?
>>25127650I coded and published like 2000 websites. Hundreds are still up.
>>25127875>As for me, I have published three novels in my home country, have been reviewed by critics, etc.no you haven't
>>25127875>there were suspicions of Pynchon lurking as wellPynchon lurked here.
>>25127650And by the way, /lit/ is hardly a 'loser board' like /sci/ (degenerated into IQ posting and haplogroup pseudo-science) and /his/ & /x/ are.
I had a play of mine staged, but it was a long time ago.
>>25128214>there are non loser boards on 4chan
>>25128230/lit/ is the most civilized board, I'd say.
>>25127653of course not they write under pennames that sound more like lgbt africans and chinese women and it helps to get them published. its a very well known practice around here.
>>25127875>there were suspicions of Pynchon lurking as wellThat's crazy, that means he was posting here and on reddit too.
>>25128233nigger.
>>25128243yeah here i am, its me, tomwhats good
>>25127650Yes. Any Questions?
>>25128233One of the more civil places online in general but still less civilized, high minded, empathetic and open to opposing beliefs than 2007 /b/ which at the time was considered the worst thing in human history.
>>25127875Don't forget KK. Wing and Wallace Mack, my favorite authors.
>>25128274are screenplays books?
>>25127875>>25128555You forgot Bret Easton Ellis. I fucking know Ellis comes here, and I'm half-convinced that every thread about him on this board is started by himself. Remember, he's an Xer, not a Boomer, and the Xers were the original Anons, even before the Millennials.
>>25127650I only check in here once every couple years. I wish I would take writing more seriously as my school and uni grades for writing were always good. And one project I wrote for a creative writing class at uni, I got an email from the lecturer asking if they could publish it in some school journal if I made a couple changes. I can't believe I was too lazy/distracted to pass on that.
>>25128210Literary genius over here
>>25129541Damn you really missed your chance to be published in a school journal. Such a shame. You could’ve been the next Hemingway.
I wrote for VICE in the 2010s, which is slightly embarrassing at this point.
>>25129545Hey, might have led to something. Who knows? I live in Australia and actual munted retards get published here all the time.
>>25128274this faggot made this thread just so he could advertise again
>>25128560idk, is shakespeare?
>>25127650All think thanks that write books are here, they are the CIA anon...All shilling is a famous co-writer or in movie or tv show.
>>25129552So what’s stopping you now? Fag
>>25129714I'm still stuck in a COVID concentration camp because I refuse to get the shot.
>>25127650It’s career suicide posting here if you want mainstream appeal. Underground publishing has done some stuff. People like qntm no doubt post(ed) here and now have microcelebrity with their fanfic reaching tiktok mainstream.
>>25127875There's no doubt in my mind Tony Tulathimutte didn't frequent /lit/ either. He references autistic, self-hating internet culture too much to have not done a stint here.
>>25129766Do the publishers run internet shit posting background checks?
>>25127653fpbp>>25127650yes I know because I have but saying "I frequent /lit/" is career suicide, so anyone with half a brain pretends they've never come here in their life. I agree with >>25129878, Tulathimutte had to have been a lurker/poster at some point.
>>25129898Gabriel Smith was posting about Brat here before it even released. Tao Lin wrote it into his novels. I think the poster saying many have at least passed through is right, but I imagine most those would be in the category of "aware of /lit/" rather than "/lit/ user". Of course making it your identity in real life would make you a loser, but I don't think many would care too much to know someone browses /lit/, and 4chan in general has receded a great deal from the public consciousness anyway.
>>25129898>I frequent /lit/" is career suicideAbsolute nonsense. First of all, you're not famous and nobody gives a shit. Second of all, people barely know what /lit/ is. This place has a couple thousand active posters on any given month. You seriously think some kind of outlet or journalist is scouring shitty /lit/ threads hoping to break a scoop about how Jimmy Fuckhead (who sold 3 copies of his novel nobody's ever heard of) browses 4chan?
>>25130015>you're not famous and nobody gives a shittrue on both counts, if I had to guess I'd say ~100 people have read the stories I've published>You seriously think some kind of outlet or journalist is scouring shitty /lit/ threads hoping to break a scoop about how Jimmy Fuckhead (who sold 3 copies of his novel nobody's ever heard of) browses 4chan?yes, absolutely. they're already scouring shitty r/rsbookclub threads, that sub got a shoutout in one of those Muh Male Writer articles. there was (is currently?) a big dust-up over "dimes square" type novels being too right-wing-online poisoned, playing out across a few substacks + nymag. you're forgetting that the market for contemporary american literary fiction is, generously, 100k people large, and 95% of those people have an "IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE" sign out front. Jimmy Fuckhead, Author Of Example Novel, Posts On 4Chan is big bad news in that world. I mean shit look at Tulathimutte, the only reason he "got away" with Rejection is the cute metafictional aside at the end where he basically says "I know this is about online life and I know you think it's bad I also think it's bad please don't cancel me please I'm on your side" >>25129978good point re smith/lin. Lin would qualify as a /lit/ user, I think. just not anymore. >4chan in general has receded a great deal from the public consciousnessnah it's become omnipresent, the entire world uses 4chan terminology. mog, maxx, goon, -cel, chad, based, cringe, -pilled, etc etc. if you're sub-40 and you pay attention to contemporary literature you know what /lit/ is, even if you've never visited it. granted you probably don't know much about it other than "the part of 4chan where they talk about books"
>>25129766I don't think this is the case anymore. Even 4chan's gone mainstream. Honor and those types intentionally mention us. 4chan's mentioned on the news and stuff. It's not the secret club it used to be.
>>25130035>the part of 4chan where they talk about booksIf only they knew the truth>>25130188Yeah… but there are less people here now, which is cool
>>25129898>saying "I frequent /lit/" is career suicideMan Carrying Things is still growing thoughbeit.
>>25130015>You seriously think some kind of outlet or journalist is scouring shitty /lit/ threads hoping to break a scoop about how Jimmy Fuckhead (who sold 3 copies of his novel nobody's ever heard of) browses 4chan?They do this. The lit gossip people actually do this to cripple no-names before they get anywhere.
>>25130188>Honor and those types intentionally mention usPhony astroturfed losers who heckin name drop "us" because they're fishing for an audience. Hasn't worked for ten years and it won't start soon.They are not us, and you are not us, and I suspect there's no difference, so fuck off once and for all.
>>25130313How? Name some examples.
>>25130035>nah it's become omnipresent, the entire world uses 4chan terminologyThey use it with little to no clue it came from 4chan, and without the association to 4chan's old edgy self. Most are totally uninformed, and will know nothing about 4chan. Of those that are poorly informed, if they happen to associate it with something bad you can add "well I browse the literature board, it's different" and it's done with. Anyone out to get someone over using /lit/ is out to get them no matter what, ergo the /lit/ element is meaningless. But if your career and life are really being put at risk by such persons, consider visiting the Targetted Individuals threads on /x/ for help.>>25130313Post an example. Who's having their /lit/ posts exhumed via forensic analysis to have their books pulled from shelves? Saying "I have posted to /lit/" does not mean you have to hand over all the posts in which you called some pseud a nigger. See pic related and Penguin continuing to print copies of his novel.
>>25129566out of modesty, I am refusing to shill my book in this thread
>>25127702Every time I encounter this surname, the natural sound of the last two vowels gets supplanted in my head by the "Yahoo!" cry from Super Mario 64. I have no idea why that happens, as I've never even played that game. It's very distracting and makes following the latest developments in Middle East a tad awkward.
>>25130468>Of those that are poorly informed, if they happen to associate it [/lit/] with something bad you can add "well I browse the literature board, it's different" and it's done with.kek how do you imagine this conversation going>reading this book, heard about it from /lit/. it's pretty good>What's /lit/?>it's the literature board of 4chan>4chan... isn't that where those crazy mass shooters post their manifestos? And where the incel neo-Nazis hang out?>well I browse the literature board, it's different>Oh, okay. So there's not like, mass shooter manifestos there or anything.>no those come up sometimes>Oh. But the neo-Nazis are in another place on 4chan, gotcha.>no the neo-nazis are there too >Oh. Ohh, right, but you're saying they don't contribute to the discussion, like they're an unfortunate reality but in the minority and everyone ignores them?>nah, there's about the same amount of neo-nazis on /lit/ as anywhere else on 4chan, they drive a lot of the discussion actually>Oh. Okay, but like, the incels, you're saying that it's different because there aren't incels?>nah, every other thread is gender war slop, lots of people claim they don't read books by women >So how is this different from the rest of 4chan?>you can't post porn or gore in /lit/>That's all?>you're supposed to talk about books there>Is that rule enforced?>pretty loosely>I'm going to be honest with you anon, it sounds like it's just 4chan minus the porn and gore.
>>25130938Are the neo-nazis with us in the walls right now?
