About how good of a writer do you have to be to get published?

Publishing isn't an award, it's a business. They will publish the illiterate if they think it will sell.

>>8529561
YA hacks from reddit get published all the time. The "holy...I want more" guy ended up sending his material to a publisher and getting it published

In short, it's easy but /lit/ assumes the worst and doesn't bother sending their work out

(also most likely a crippling insecurity)

>>8529561
130% as good as the best of /lit/

>>8529582
So what sells?

>>8529650
Soft core pornography and kitchy things catered to hipsters who think they are well read because they checked out the NYT top sellers this week.

>>8529589
Some things are easier to sell than others.

>>8529589
>The "holy...I want more" guy ended up sending his material to a publisher and getting it published
SOURCE

Wasn't that guy just memeing J R?