I have 5 short stories out in pro rate magazines and a dozen poems in reputed literary journals. I’m working on a novel to make or break my career. And I have the literary agents lined up. Ask me anything.
>>24718061How much networking impacts your work? Is it absolutely essential to network? Where do you get your ideas from? How did you find your style? Have you gotten any pussy? How much money is in writing? Do you feel lonely?
>>24718061can i be a published author if im regarded and cant write and have no connections and have no money?
>>24718107>How much networking impacts your work? It helps but I mainly just talk to other pro writers who need critiques. Offer yourself as a beta reader in special magazine discords and they will let you see their work; befriend them by giving good feedback.>Is it absolutely essential to network? No. I don't do it that much but I do talk to magazine editors and such on Discord. They honestly will reject a bad story just because it's a bad story, no matter who wrote it (even Stephen King gets rejected). Your name and status only helps you for book deals, not magazine publications.>Where do you get your ideas from? I research a lot then add imaginative flair. >How did you find your style? I didn't have any style to speak of for about two to three years. Until I just developed my own philosophical views and observations that I could put in the stories.>Have you gotten any pussy? I'm bisexual and got some twink to buy me drinks because I told him how to get a poem published.>How much money is in writing? My best sale was 12c per word. But don't get into it with the expectation you will succeed or get rich.>Do you feel lonely?Yes.>>24718120Don't put yourself down. I'm sure you have interesting insights. Just try to journal first then turn those nubs into nuggets of gold.
>>24718128>I research a lot then add imaginative flair.Can you talk about your research process? I have a hard time adding detail to my stories. How do you take notes while researching?>special magazine discord How would one find such a thing?
>>24718130>Can you talk about your research process?I go to the library and get out as many books as I can lug home. I usually read at the library for hours on end. Best way to use the library is to look up search terms, check appendices, and find books through the bibliographies. Try get out the weirdest books you can think of, like entomological catalogues of bug pictures, then try to make that a story. Trust me, creativity will come if you force yourself to do weird things. >I have a hard time adding detail to my storiesIn what sense? At the sentence level or the overall structure? If you are writing bland stuff, then you need to fill your mind with crazy art. Copy from as many things as you like until it is your own. I tend to try to ape everything from Lord Tennyson to Emil Cioran to David Lynch. All in a day's work.Another tip: Trunk stories you don't want to send out yet then get them up to scratch a few months later. Trust the process. It's all about routine and going back to edit once you let your mind rest and look at it with fresh pairs of eyes. >How do you take notes while researching?By hand or in a word document. But you should write in shorthand for quickness. Don't try to get slogged in note taking; that's the death of many a would-be writer.>How would one find such a thing?Apex Magazine has a critique section in their discord, so does Clarkesworld. You just have to sign up on their patreon to get access, and I think they have very cheap ones you can pay peanuts for.
>published author hereOPs mom just put his latest incessant ramblings on the fridge didn't she?-or-Turns out OP just write garbage for smut magazines and short stories for a scat fetish website.
>>24718177They're reputable pro rate magazines in the speculative fiction genre
>>24718061I have no clue about writing. So, why do people write? Why do you write?
>>24718233>speculative fiction
>>24718061how did you get your "break" or was it a series of independent submissions that were accepted and agents read your work and contacted you?
