This board just doesn't get it.You complain about how the industry is just women writers and publishers now and yet you all talk and act like women.The few who don't, run and hide in 100 year old books as the current time is just a little bit too difficult for them.You were born in the one time that truely needed male writers and yet you ignore the call. Just know that all those old authors you read look down on you in disgust as they watch you let the flame of literature burn out under your watch while doing absolutely nothing.
>>24976761Share something you've written recently. Lits or GTFO
>>24976793Im working on a novel, I may also consider a poetry project of a new type of poetry that the world has never seen before, but the novel has to come first.
>>24976800Nice work, Anon.I've had several short stories and about a dozen poems published, and have been at work on a major project since 2020 that I'm on the verge of beginning to self-publish.Take heart, we're all gonna make it. We WILL save literature.
This board is a containment chamber for idealists who need to justify writing their novels, conflating that with literature still being meaningful. If you disagree, they unleash their pedantic midwittery upon you, choosing to argue over semantics and definitions and completely missing the point. It's basically a place where people who can't accept no one cares about reading anymore come to console themselves, me included.
>>24976800Hell yeah. Admittedly, I'm a better essayist and editor than a novelist, so I don't think I'm going to make the next Great American Novel. I sometimes think it'd be nice to have something of a fraternal literary circle, a digital Stratford-on-Odeon for young men wanting to buck the system. I think the romantic notion of the author being an individual who follows their genius is attractive to a lot of people here for pretty obvious reasons. But it's much more typical for writers to know publishers or other writers, seclude themselves, and then return with their work later. The internet is great for getting good work to the top... but it's fucking shit at developing talent.
>>24976761I'm here because I enjoy reading books and, tangentially, people writing about books.
