/lit/ - Literature

>>18240507
I feel like every idea I have ever written is embarrassing mediocre trash. My writing style is sophomoric and reaching. Use of poor grammar does not make one sound romantic.
I'm dyslexic so I was barley literate until 15, now I can write about about a 10th grade level.
look at the quote from Cormac McCarthy
>to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
I mean how does one even come up with something that good.

>writing non-stop for hours into the night, truly believing I finally got something really big here
>wake up in the morning, realizing it was pure shit and what the hell was I thinking

Anyone else experience this?

What books will help me eliminate the slight unreasonable will I have to continue my pathetic life and overcome the fear of death?

>tfw the very first paragraph of my novel has the word "fuck" in it
>tfw it's absolutely essential to the novel's themes and story as in I really, really want to keep it in
>tfw every agent who picks up my manuscript is going to toss it in the trash before finishing the first page
Life is suffering.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/yifen-chou-white-author-uses-asian-pen-name-because-it-helps-him-get-published-more-often-10490578.html

This is it, boys. The literary industry is dead and there is nothing we can do about it. Getting published is now, more than ever, dependent more on fitting an agenda than being good. Are you a woman or a minority? Congratulations! You have a near 100% chance of getting published, simply because of your skin color and/or vagina. Are you a disgusting, cis-white male shitlord? Have fun being at an inherent disadvantage simply because you're white and have a dick! Fuck the white supremacist patriarchy, am I right?

What do you mean it's racist to show preference towards writing by all races but one despite said writing having nothing to do with race? You can't be racist against white people, silly! Check your privilege!

>found literally the perfect publisher for my soon-to-be-finished novel
>turns out they only publish Canadians
>I'm from Burgerstan
JUST

>tfw the literary industry has become an echo chamber for expressing leftist views and your chances of getting published are not based on quality but rather on whether or not you are a woman and/or a minority

>tfw nineteen and STILL not published anywhere