Does anyone think it's still worth being a fiction writer anymore? Novels as popular media was already declining towards the end of the 20th century. Its been more of a niche thing to be "into" literature, not like how everyone likes music and movies and video games. At this point the market for novels is very very small and mostly self-important academic women. Or its all fantasy or sci-fi stuff. Or erotica.I think that the value of a novel is based on its content itself and not how marketable it is, obviously, but you would kind of consider if its even worth it to go through all the effort just for nobody except a few professional critics to read it. There's always been a medium for people to present themes and ideas through fictional stories. We had epic poems, then literature, then film and television, even video games. But film and television are a bunch of safely-marketable and unoriginal stuff now. It's all gone to mostly genre specific things and remakes. Which is kind of going the same way literature did. People can tell stories through video games but not everyone plays games, and then not even everyone who plays games plays them for the plot. They're mostly a medium of activity and not story-consumption. What is the future of fiction?
>>24990031not worth it. pointless. makes you look like a performative male trying to fuck some cute 24 year old girl. and you'll easily lose your day job/career if someone finds your writing to be offensive
>>24990044Counter point, nobody reads non-fiction, the market is in fiction and you can simply lie to women.
>>24990031It's always worth it to make art if it influences even just one person. Maybe that person is you. Ideally, its a reader, if not multiple. Maybe it teaches them a lesson it took you years to learn. Maybe you learn lessons while writing. Maybe you inspire them to create. However change comes about, that change will come as a ripple effect and leave a tiny cultural impact on everyone the readers know, should they pass on inspirations or lessons they've learned from you unto others. To me, that's the true beauty of art. Obviously, more is better, but that's losing the forest for the trees.
Writing is not "worth it". If you're writing primarily for other people you probably don't write anything of value.
>>24990031>>24990044>>24990061>>24990089>>24990109Focus on spiritual development. If that includes writing fiction or anything else, so be it. People involved in publishing and literature are some of the worst alive. That would include almost all of the miserable pseuds here. This may be especially the case now, but it has long been the case.> Under the system that prevails at present, literary journals are carried on by a clique, and secretly perhaps also by booksellers for the good of the trade; and they are often nothing but coalitions of bad heads to prevent the good ones succeeding. As Goethe once remarked to me, nowhere is there so much dishonesty as in literature.
