/lit/ - Literature

>>15582471
This. The internet romanticizes the Orthos WAY too much because most of you people have never actually been to a majority-Orthodox country. They've got just as many problems as the Catholics. In some ways they're worse. You only love the Orthos because they're exotic.

I found out in the last two weeks that I'm going to have two additional poems published, one by a website that's published me before and one by a brand new group.

That will bring the total amount of published poems I have to seven. I have also gotten four short stories published.

But how do I move from this stage to "major writer" stage? I've gotten all this stuff published, but how do I go from there to actually being a writer people have heard of, and who can make a living off of his work? How do I make the leap from published-but-obscure to being on the level of Philip Roth, or at least Gene Wolfe?