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Is it doable in this day and age? I look at writers like Elena Ferrante who managed this, yet had some journalist track money from her publisher to her to find out her true identity. What if I don't want have attention? This culture we live in is putting some serious stress on artists, even to the point where things they create are scrutinized beyond belief, and that fiction doesn't exist anymore.
Is it possible to completely skirt the whole media game altogether? I want to write, I want to be published, but I don't want to deal with the hoards of philistines.

>> No.17548822

>>17548771
are you implying that you're good enough for attention?

>> No.17548835

>>17548822
Yes.

>> No.17548854

>>17548771
>yet had some journalist track money from her publisher to her to find out her true identity.

This is exactly what will happen if you try to write or publish anything of any value. Vulture journos will track you down.

>> No.17548865

>doable

Stopped reading there

>> No.17548915

>>17548865
Alright.
>>17548854
Journalists are a different breed of insanity. I'll tell my publisher to pay me in crypto.

>> No.17548974

>>17548835
hahahahahaha

>> No.17549002

>>17548974
Good for you.

>> No.17549030

>>17548771
Pen names do not offer much protection in the end, any legal paper work like contracts requires you to sign with your real name, not legally binding otherwise. So every contract you sign also requires NDAs for anyone who will see it and on and on it goes. There are things you can do to make it more difficult, but it just increases the paper trail and the lose ends for curious people to find. Just do like Pynchon and stay away from the spotlight.

The bigger trick will be getting a contract that does not require you to do promotion.

>> No.17549061

>>17548771
This is a fine DFW I will add to my collection.

>> No.17549113

>>17548771
cursed picture

>> No.17549159

Most people are so goddamn simple, all you have to do is stay off social media and don't do interviews and you will never be bothered by a fan.

>> No.17550079

Zero HP Lovecraft is the only example I can think of. He's publishing a book apparently. I don't think you can be popular enough to make a living from writing and still remain anonymous if you are a huge success or controversial in any way

>> No.17550271

>>17548771
I'd probably end up getting arrested for terrorism if I began writing

>> No.17550334

the bigger challenge is having any success through trad pub at all

>> No.17550630

>>17548771
Create a stage persona and act it. You aren't going to be anonymous, but you can still hide behind a mask.

>> No.17551321

>>17548771
>hey sean evans here and you're watching hot ones. its the show with hot questions and even hotter wings. We close out season 16 here with david foster wallace. you of course know him as the author of the postmodern doorstopper Infinite Jest. he's also famous for many of his non-fiction essays as well as many meme screencaps from that one interview.

>thanks for having me, sean.

>thank you for coming. so dave, how are you with hot foods?

>you know, sean, i've always felt that hot food was a quite lynchian experience. why do we subject ourselves to intentionally eating pain-inducing hot wings? we all go in knowing it won't be enjoyable, that tomorrow morning will be on the toilet with our sphincter being obliterated, and yet, we still do it, and I'm sorry, sean, but I can't think of a reason why we still choose to do it. I suppose that says something about the irrationality of the human conditio-

>oh uh careful around your eyes there dave

>its okay sean my bandana will protect me from the capsaicin [1].

[1] The active ingredient of chili peppers.

>> No.17551364

BAP
Scarlet Kennedy

>> No.17551420

>>17548771
that pic makes me think of a /lit/ that could have been

>> No.17551499

i don't want my work read as autobiography. it is cheapening, base, easy. at the same time, i don't want to know so goddamned much about the authors i read. i prefer the words come out of a void and a vague historical myth. i would not want to see herman melville's instagram feed.

>> No.17551503

>>17551321
cloying, in a really unselfaware undergraduate way

>> No.17551506

>>17548771
This image affirms that DFW was right to end it when he did.

>> No.17551512

>>17551364
BAP got doxxed.

>> No.17552765

>>17551512
>>17551512
Who is he, then

>> No.17552791

>>17549113
Indeed. Reminds me of some comic who talks about people lamenting rock stars dying young. "Kurt Cobain was so young. He had so much more to give!" How do you know? Maybe he was out of shit. We'd probably be seeing him doing a superbowl halftime show with Lady Gaga.

>> No.17552799

>>17552791
Doug Stanhope's his name.

>> No.17552806
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>>17552765

>> No.17552864

>>17552806
>>17551512
>>17551364
Who is this BRAP?

>> No.17552876

>>17548771
Ofcourse you can.

>> No.17552933

>>17552799
That's the one!

>> No.17553683

>>17552799
And that's why he drinks.

>> No.17553703

>>17550079
They just don't care about Zero enough, no offense to him. If he were to get like another order of magnitude more popularity they probably would

>> No.17554013

>>17548771
if you don't want attention trying to make a living as a writer is probably the best way to do it

>> No.17554914

>>17552799
Side note, Doug's a really fucking good writer. He's got a strong voice that translates well from standup to prose and the couple of memoirs he's done are well worth checking out.

>> No.17555061

>>17548771
It's amazing the mental gymnastics by which and aspiring writer's mind will disguise fear of failure as fear of success.

>> No.17555089

Gardner doesn’t use a pen name and his shills his ads here all day, everyday.

>> No.17555208

>>17548835
I like your confidence.
Meet me at my office Monday 9am.
Ask for Mr. Williams.

>> No.17555380

>>17551503
Thanks for the expert snooty analysis of a /lit/ shitpost.

>> No.17555415

>>17548835
post a brief excerpt or poem
you wrote, and we’ll be the judge of that

>> No.17555869

>>17555380
you absolutely deserved it

>> No.17556097

>>17548771
>Is it possible to completely skirt the whole media game altogether? I want to write, I want to be published, but I don't want to deal with the hoards of philistines.
yes. get an anon website, paid for in monero, receive any monies in monero, deal with people via anon email. if needs must, get a series of shell companies in the BVI or worse.
you can be anon if you put a little effort in. some people won't get involved with you though, but their loss.