/lit/ - Literature

>>20242809
>Ready Player One

Fuck Ready Player One. It's Snow Crash fanfiction and a lousy one at that.

>>20038632
So fellow Anons, lately I've been wondering something, and maybe some of you folks have a good idea or some experience on this dilemma.

Basically, I am debating whether or not to stop going to my weekly writing workshop. I like the social aspect of it, but good god is it sometimes just miserable going there.

• Full of SJW/Liberal/Progressive types. I literally got a critique how I needed to make my character a gay black dude to meet a diversity quota, and I laughed in her face.
• I am a board member. Our leader is fucking spineless when drama goes down.
• The vice president is a mid-life crisis, pretentious vegan faggot going through a Buddhist phase while he writes the next YA novel.

Mostly I am unable to get the critique I need. My work is 300K words at this point, and contains extensive worldbuilding necessary to understand the universe and these retards are literally unable to get past the fact that certain things that are patently obvious to friends outside of the group (e.g., that a certain acronym is money based on the fact people are haggling over a firearm's price), so they bitch and moan for the minute and a half each person talks before they repeat the same thing five or six times because most of the people cannot think for themselves. I am willing to admit that I am the conceited one and that I need to apply their critiques, and I have, but honestly, I think I can do better than this from the things places like 4chan and its recommended reads and seminars/YouTube lectures and such, could provide? Does anybody have experience with this, or is this how most writer's workshops are? I don't really find myself enjoying the idea driving halfway across town to sit in an old church for three hours for twenty minutes of read and ten minutes critique time in small groups. Even the virtual option is not particularly fun.

The only benefit I see at this point is that If I do stay, I can get connections to the publishing industry. The leader of the group knows many agents and will put in a good word, and others have stated they would as well, but I am very far from that. Maybe I just bring them simpler works?