How's that writing career coming along, anon?

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I jack off 6 times a day, drink a bottle of wine, smoke about 1/2 a gram of weed, eat 10mg of valium.

Its going well.

6 months ago i had a short story published in my local paper. the editor took 400 words out of it without asking.

I just got over the realization that i'm simply not intelligent enough to be a good writer. Everything I write - no matter how good the concept seems in my head, turns to absolute shit on paper. I can't write a fucking short story, much less the grand novel I envision on the ever-brink of tomorrow.

I'm going to spend the rest of my life rotting away as a sad English teacher; constantly reminded of my own inability. I've fantasized quite a bit lately about abandoning civilized life and just escaping into the far reaches of the wild, off the grid, becoming something akin to a feral man who lives on my own terms: making it as king-beast or dying as is just, in nature. I think i'll either end up doing that or just killing myself, i'm not really sure yet.

>>9748508
>English teacher
I'm sorry.

I'm in a weird place where I feel like I may be a good writer, but I can't get published. What's funny is I've received lots of good feedback on my stories, but nobody seems to want to go as far as to publish a lot of them. It's a little disheartening to always hear how good your work is, but then also hear that nobody wants to give it a chance.

>>9748508
I also came to the realization that I'm not intelligent. I'm an engineer but I simply cannot create my own unique thoughts and put them down onto paper well. I can only think linearly.

I blame the garbage school systems in my country for only teaching linear problem solving and snuffing creativity.

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After 6 years of writing and then deleting it all, I have finally reached a point where I am comfortable with the shit I write. I don't know if I just stopped being such an autistic perfectionist or if I actually achieved perfection, but it feels really nice just being able to write without any problem other than the usual writers block.

>>9748798
Sounds like they're being polite. Not to be a downer but you should focus more on your writing because if you're at least getting niceties then it's got to be decent, which means you can improve.

>>9748951
Perhaps you're right. I've gotten a few short stories published already, and I'm working on a novel right now, but I suppose I can always improve.

>>9748971
Have the will, anon. Press onward where others have stumbled - carry on the torch for those who can't. I'll be rooting for you even if you end up dead tomorrow and I never even knew who you were to begin with.

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I'm in a depression that makes me barely capable of functioning, much less being creative.

>>9748508
unironically this, except when I got an English degree I specifically chose not to go the teacher route, as many others did. I think if I attempted to write something it would just read like A Confederacy of Dunces, except probably even more racist, sexist and set in New England instead of New Orleans.