'How's your writing career going?' thread

will finish my novel by next Wednesday

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Shit

I'm working class. Never went to university. I'm not even under the impression anything I write will ever be published

Wrote a novel when I was 20, it is alright, not great, passable with a bit of editing

Got dozens of poems, which I might print into a book and give to my girlfriend

>>9928817
what in god's good white supremacist neo-imperialist cisheternormative capitalist patriarchal name is this?

>>9928886
something from ceit's twitter

>>9928817
>dropped out of uni
>5'4", fat, pug-face, small dick, hispanic
>living with parents, 24 years old
>kissless and hugless virgin, no friends, never held a girl's hand
>work at shitty restaurant where my boss and coworkers constantly make passive aggressive jokes about me
>woke up at noon and then got in bitter argument with my mom for the 20th day in a row
>ate a bunch of poptarts for breakfast, felt like complete shit
>took a massive dump while watching clips of the bee movie and then jacked off, but missed and was out of toilet paper so I had to use the toilet paper roll to wipe my ass and clean up the cum everywhere
>ever since I was young I had dreams of becoming a writer but haven't read a full book in months, always starting them but getting bored and dropping them
>the last book i finished in the last half a year or so was siddartha because it's like 100 pages and super easy
>started a goodreads challenge for a book a week and then changed it to one book/year because of my constant anxiety about it
>wanted to spend last year learning a new language but learned only very basic japanese, spent most of my time watching anime and jacking off to hentai and JAV
>lungs and head hurts constantly and i feel nauseous 24/7 because of my nicotine addiction
>spend like two-three hours making my plan for this year and downloading various textbooks and creating study guides and book reading lists that I will never follow
>jack off again and then eat a bunch of hot pockets
>start to read a new book but then put it down and open my computer and spend the rest of my day alternating between watching cuck porn and writing "my diary desu" and various other low energy memes on /lit/ while chuckling to myself
>it is now 3:00 in the morning

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>>9928910

Got a short story published a few weeks ago. Going to keep submitting and build a resume before trying for a novel.

>>9928910
>Tfw this was you five years ago, aside from the height, race, and nicotine addiction.

Drop the shitty food and porn habits at least and you'll start to feel better. Get help if you need it. Things will be ok if you at least try.

>>9929173
You're having issues because your internal motives are in conflict. Most people don't enjoy most things, and that includes poetry. Either you write for yourself and those who like what you do, or you write for others. Neither is better than the other, but doing one and then complaining about not being able to have your cake and eat it too is stupid. Same reason successful writers kill themselves.

>>9929173
Literally just start a Tumblr. If it's good enough you'll be able to find the resources to start your own poetry journal and publish all the other special-4chan-snowflake poetry that no one on the planet wants to read

If your Tumblr's not any good then why would your journal be?

Three strangers have posted good reviews of a couple of my books on Amazon/Goodreads in the last 24 hours. It's not much but it's a record for me, and satisfying as hell.