/lit/ - Literature

>tfw I once wrote an email to Harold Bloom and he actually responded

4chan once again being the straw that stirs the drink for the entire internet. And to think, people said we'd become irrelevant.

>tfw writer and poet
>started seriously writing and sending my stuff out a few years ago
>gotten a few short stories published
>started to return to seriously writing poetry in 2018
>gotten several poems published
>even placed one poem in a major journal and got paid for it
>now working on a major story that I'm actively trying to get published
>have a decent following on social media, so if I fail at traditional publishing I can self-publish it
>everyone I've shown the first book to really likes it

I'm going to make in, Anons. I'm going to be a big deal. I'm going to be one of the great writers of our time.

I'm writing a very big story, which will span multiple books, and will be told in a mixture of prose and narrative verse. If I play my cards right, and my talent is what I hope it is, then this will be the greatest work of art of the 21st Century, and people will still be reading it a thousand years from now.

The first book in the story is done. I'm actively writing the second book right now. I of course want to get the first book published. My plan for the rest of June, and into July, is to send out a ton of query letters to agents and small presses. I've heard you can expect numerous rejections, even for a good book, and I've had plenty of rejections in the past for books and short stories I've hoped to get published.

My goal is to get about 30 or 40 queries out. But if ALL of them are rejections, then I'll start looking at alternative means of getting the story into the world, like self-publishing. I'm willing to tolerate a lot of rejection, but not an infinite amount. I know the story's good, and everyone I've shown it to likes it as well. So I want to get it out into the world, no matter what.

>>18385598
I used to hate reading my own writing, but now I like it because I am now a better writer than I used to be.

I'm going to be a famous writer. I can feel it. I can sense it. I'm going to be one of the writers remembered from the 21st century. People are going to be reading my writing a thousand years from now.

>>18164106
Anon, I'm working on it. Stay tuned.

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>>18013436
Oh, don't worry, Anon, when I'm published and people are talking about my book you'll fucking know it, because I'll specifically come here to gloat and lord it over the rest of you.