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>couldn't handle <40 hours a week

kys my man you're just retarded

>>8420555
night shifts bro, way worse

>>8420551
Couldn't you have written in the projection room if there was really that little to do? Also I quit my last job and wrote a book after, but I didn't quit to write it, it was just what I decided to do after quitting.

>>8420551
You simply don't have what it takes.

>>8420583
Did you get published?

>>8420592
fuck off if you aren't gonna helpt

>>8420603
No, but I wrote it without an audience in mind and the goal was finishing it for the sake of finishing something rather than publication.

>>8420610
not what I'm looking for then, thanks

>>8420613
Lmao. You're going to get a lot of emails exactly like that post if you ever manage to finish it and start querying.

>>8420573
>kys my man you're just retarded

>>8420624
>says someone who's never worked a night shift or written a novel

>>8420622
What the agents are gonna tell me they finished their books without an audience? Kys please

>>8420637
>kys my man you're just retarded

>>8420637
It's basically a fact of publishing that you're going to get a fuckton of rejections no matter what you do. I was laughing at the condescending agentese tone of your post when you're almost certainly going to be spitroasted by those fuckers yourself if you even manage to finish.

>>8420573
No they aren't; so long as your sleeping pattern is fairly consistent. The bigger problem is being a lazy faggot who gives up on himself. When you're exhausted from doing nothing all night (why didn't you just write at work?) you need to the combination of drive and rage to keep yourself going, without it you may as well go flip burgers or leech.

>>8420637
I quit my job and shortly after finished my book which has now sold 2,800 copies

>>8420753
hi jeremy1122

Get a fucking job and keep writing? What kind of dingbat quits without a plan. You've already got a start, keep going. Also if you're writing for the sake of getting published and being /lit/ famous wewlad

OP I wouldn't listen to the detractors in this thread. The fact is /lit/'s userbase mostly consists of teenagers and guys under 23, most of whom have no serious literary ambitions and most of whom have not worked a full-time job which takes up the majority of your time and energy.

I work 45 hours a week in a boring office job and I'm planning on quitting soon. I earn decent money but I hate the job and I realize I'm sacrificing my ambition for the sake of security and comfort. I respect your decision even though it sucks that you didn't write as much as you intended (providing the story is true, that is).

>>8420555
>>8420592
>>8420751
>>8420753
>>8420803
Cancer.

>>8420929
kys my cancer

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>>8420551
>99% of the time all I did was change the reels 5 times a night.

And you didn't write in the meantime?

I'd love to write full time. Problem is I have things that even when I'm home from work prevent me from writing, so it's ultimately a doomed endeavor.

Is anyone here really a bohemian? I work over 40 hours a week as a CPA. I just read for fun.

>>8420551
You need to be more ambitious. I was writing a 13 episode series last year and I had a day and night job. My night job was like yours (radio station for local sports, so I just had to cue the commercials and then fade the program back up) so most of my writing was at my night job. Go back to your old job so you're not broke and just utilize that time where you're already sitting on your ass. If I can write a total of over 300 pages of a screenplay I'm sure you can do the same.

>>8420775
Amazon link pls

OP's life is now a sitcom.