/lit/ - Literature

>>19418258
>there's no real powers that be that are stopping you from writing anymore. Nearly every shitty writer is given a chance. I think it's actually hard to get unanimously rejected
I want this to be true because I don't want to be one of these bitter, coping people who blames the world for their failures but the literary industry doesn't strike me as particularly meritocratic, it strikes me as an insanely catty and conformist clique more concerned with politics than writing. At least that's the impression I got from publishing my one (1) short story. Every single magazine, every single editor, every single other published writer were literally interchangeable.

an explanation
why is there such a gender imbalance?

Thoughts?

>>19362424
You don't know one of the most basic facts about the industry lmao