/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1833627]

>yfw less than 5% of manuscripts submitted to publishing houses are published.

[Tha Keyboard Assassin No.1833629]

It's a lot less than 5%.

>yfw publishing houses at all.
>yfw not superior e-publishing.

[Anonymous No.1833633]

fuck a statistic i'ma get hell of published

[Anonymous No.1833649]

so what? I'll be one of the 5% then, big fucking deal

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 No.1834889]

Then submit 20 manuscripts. Problem solved.

I feel like a boss now. I saw a problem, analysed it, then solved it. Plz thx me.

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xqgOyA No.1834894]

>>1834889
Thank you me since none of these unappreciative asshole will you thank you.

Do I really have to resort to self-appreciation?
You all should feel ashamed of yourselves for making me to do this.

[Anonymous No.1834900]

>>1833649
I like this guy. This guy is a boss.

[Anonymous No.1834907]

less than 0.5% of film scripts get bought and even less ever get made.

Publishing industry is much higher than most others, 5% ain't bad.

[Anonymous No.1835384]

That's that irritating little girl from the "Kids React to Viral Videos" on Youtube.

[Anonymous No.1835386]

and 90% out of this 5% is trash that should never get published in the first place.

[Anonymous No.1835392]

5% is good. I will beat the percentage.

[Anonymous No.1835394]

>>1835386
90% out of this readable 10% will never get a second edition sinking to oblivion after a couple of years.

[Anonymous No.1835395]

And that's why we love e-publishing and smaller/independent publishers.

[Anonymous No.1835397]

>>1833629
Oh yes. One doesn't differentiate between shit and readable shit.

[Anonymous No.1835400]

>>1835395
Oh you mean vanity presses? Oh yeah. Everyone loves a good vanity press.

[Anonymous No.1835401]

>Implying my book won't get published.

[Anonymous No.1835404]

>writing to get published

you fags are hopeless

[Anonymous No.1835407]

christ is there anyone on /lit/ without literary pretences?

[Anonymous No.1835418]

>yfw 95% of writers write stuff that is nothing but their own, personal fantasy extended to over one hundred pages and is written as well as a 14 year old girl writing Twilight fanfic

This is why only 5% get published.

[Anonymous No.1835420]

>>1835407
Of course not. You were expecting otherwise?

[Anonymous No.1835423]

>>1835407
Me! :D

I read the occasional book but only write when I need to get stuff out.

I suppose being an author could be cool, but I don't know what I would write about, so I probably wouldn't be a very good one.

[Anonymous No.1835428]

>>1835420
Thats because most c/lit/s are on their 20´s and still have some hope for themselves.

[Anonymous No.1835438]

>yfw you walk past the cheesy romance novels and realize that shit was able to get published while yours wasn't.

[Anonymous No.1835475]

>yfw less than 5% of manuscripts submitted to publishing houses are published.

Where did you find this statistic? Sounds reasonable but it would be cool to read the original source/article.

[Anonymous No.1835480]

>>1835475
sounds made up to me. it probably is less than 5%. meaning it could be something like less than 3%.

[Anonymous No.1835489]

Depending on the publisher, I'm sure it's generally below 5%. But, I'm also sure that this is a case of knowing how to get published. If you have a good work and you present it right to the right people, you shouldn't have to worry about percentages. That's like worrying about hiring rates when you're over-qualified for a certain job you're applying to.

[Anonymous No.1835490]

>>1835489
yea if you factor out c/lit/s and "writers" that hang out all day in panera bread with their macbook pro.
i'm assuming the odds become much better.

[Anonymous No.1835494]

give up c/lit/s, you´re not going to be the next Kafka. You´re not going to be anything.

[Anonymous No.1835500]

>>1835494
when i read pastebin threads. i feel like i am a better writer than many on /lit/. if only because i don't have terrible grammatical errors in every paragraph.

[SemiAnonymous !!4tV++0AG5iF No.1835503]

who is the chick in the op? she has a pretty face.

[Anonymous No.1835511]

>>1835494
No U

[Anonymous No.1835512]

Lia Marie Johnson

[Anonymous No.1835519]

>>1835512
she's 15.

[SemiAnonymous !!4tV++0AG5iF No.1835520]

>>1835512
thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.1835522]

>>1835519

she looks younger than that

[SemiAnonymous !!4tV++0AG5iF No.1835525]

>>1835519
yeah haha. i'm bored and i was reading about her. she is in fact young. looks like she's only been in shitty movies too. ah well.

[SemiAnonymous !!4tV++0AG5iF No.1835529]

>>1835522
how old did you think?

i thought she might be somewhere around 18 - early 20s.

[Anonymous No.1835532]

>>1835529
i thought she was around 13. maybe its cause all the 15 yo at my school are more physically mature for their age.

[Anonymous No.1835533]

she looks college age to me. but only in this photo.

[Anonymous No.1835535]

OK I'm back after fapping. What's going on?

[Anonymous No.1835536]

>>1835535
op has unintentionally turned /lit/ into /tv/.

[Anonymous No.1835538]

>>1835536
it's not our fault op made a shitty thread.

>yfw less than 5% of manuscripts submitted to publishing houses are published.

seriously. who gives a fuck?

[Anonymous No.1835540]

>mfw shitty thread suddenly became "liawesome"!

[Anonymous No.1835542]

>>1835538
this guy >>1833633 and this guy >>1833649 and this guy >>1835395 and this one>>1835401 and this guy here>>1835438, this >>1835475 and this guy >>1835489
Yup.

[Anonymous No.1835545]

>>1835535
>>1835533
>>1835522
>>1835519
>>1835512
>>1835503

almost as many people care about the girl in op's pic.

[Anonymous No.1835553]

>>1835545
you have to admit it's more interesting than op's topic amirite?

[Anonymous No.1835984]

<3

[Anonymous No.1836566]