/lit/ - Literature

I am more published than 99% of /lit/. I have had numerous short stories and poems published. I've even been featured in a major magazine, and paid for a poem once.

But it's not enough. I want to be better. Be greater. I want to create a great work of art. I want to write something that fills the world with beauty, goodness, and truth. I want to write something that glorifies God and draws men towards the truth. I want to write something that people will still be reading a thousand years from now. I want to do what Homer did, what Dante did, what Shakespeare did. I want to be a great artist. I want to be a great writer, a great poet. I want to write something worthy of Bloom's Western Canon.

I just hope I can do it. I think I can, but even with all my self-confidence, I am sometimes plagued with doubt. Because I've gotten some things published, and I've come further than many. But I need to go further, and I'm sometimes not sure I can.