/lit/ - Literature

I have an agent but nothing is happening. Its like nobody cares about you at all , you're very disposable. The publishing industry makes me want to kill myself . I feel like absolute shit

What resources does /lit/ recommend for learning Greek?

>>17721731
Why you should listen to me:
I am talented at writing. It's likely the only true talent that I have, and I mostly attribute it to having a good understanding of the meta-principles behind it. At my 18th birthday, I scored better in standardized sociological essay writing than any university applicant in my country for that year (100k+ peers). Won a national competition on it too, with zero preparation.

What writing is:
A structured distillation of experience to abstraction, aiming to approach truth as close as possible. The advice of >>17721781 is the exact opposite of what you need to do. He advocates for mental vomit, creating a full of uncertainty and vagueness, which the reader has to shift through. When you get stuck, ask yourself: "What do I want to say in this paragraph?". Subsequently, simply write that, even if it is a single sentence, and format your text around this approach. When it comes to writing fiction, you should think of the creative aspect of it as the gun, whose only purpose is to shoot the bullet of the message you are trying to convey. What makes texts boring and keeps them from having the "lightning bolt effect" is an overabundance of filler, forced eloquence; arrogance, pride, vanity and manipulativeness on the part of the writer. Your only job when writing, is to write things that you are certain are true, either on a literal or on a meta-level.

Why you shouldn't write before you're in your forties and over:
You simply do not have enough first hand experience to be able to distil into something original, worth reading. You haven't interacted with life properly yet. The best you can manage to achieve is regurgitate and overanalyze other people's ideas, which makes for trite texts. Best case scenario, you might may be able to form three or four original sentences, and ramble on about them until you have the average New York Times bestselling book, but that still won't make it good literature.

Anyone here finding it hard to get published in the current industry climate?

Ever since I've started coming here I've honestly stopped having opinions. I now understand how difficult it is to approach any single issue consistently, without making logical jumps and how much background knowledge is required on different philosophical models to not miss any sides of the issue, let alone the clean data required to back up the validity of any given argument. I used to dabble around in philosophy, reading normie-tier existentialists like Camus and listening to pseuds, but holy fuck even seemingly simple issues are hard to consistently approach. Going to start with the Greeks, I suppose.