/lit/ - Literature

21
N/A - Studying Marketing

I want to write a good book

18

n3et

kill some afghans child in thw war and rape

>32

>Unemployed

>I want to write a book so ugly, so painful, that people will be scared to finish it or even recommend it to other people

>20

>NEET

>Hoping to die soon, otherwise have an attractive literary gf

>>8269563
I'm an unattractive male with an average intelligence. Being near people makes me anxious, even when it's my family. The loneliness makes me want to weep.

>>8269544
>20
>work at home depo

>write a realistic dark urban fantasy

26
NEET

Would like to make films or write short stories but will probably never happen.

>18.
>College student.
>Impart my lit knowledge upon my future kids so they dont grow up to be plebs.

>>8269649
writing short stories isnt some teethpulling task, just write and improve

>>8269544
>29
>teacher
>read more and find happiness

>>8269653
Teacher where?

What's it like being 29?

>>8269652
Yeah, my main aspiration is filmmaking and i'm a lazy piece of shit. I'm improving slowly though.

>>8269688
Teacher in Russia. Being 29 is ok, I'd say. The hangovers are getting worse and there are loads of people being younger, better looking and more optimistic. On the other side I'm getting married and actually don't feel too bad about it. Everything could be worse.

>>8269573
>>>/r9k/

>>8269544
>23

>I won't say exactly but basically it's a minimum wage outdoor job that fluctuates between full-time and part-time. It's currently part-time and I'm using my free time to read a shit load, minimum 100 pages a day. Currently going through Gravity's Rainbow and it's awesome. By the time I finish it will be full-time and I'll make lots of money to help support me when I try to become a:

>freelance writer of any kind - that's my short term goal: to work from home, writing, in my own time. My long term goal is the same thing only the writing is creative.

>23
>uni student
>get over my fear of writing

I don't even know why, but whenever I sit down to write I get anxious as fuck.

>>8269723
My anxiety prevents me from going to any other board besides /lit/.

>>8269544
23
Work at a library
Find someone who would critically look at my sole writing effort

I have tried the critique thread and get no replies. There is a writing club on meetup in my city though so maybe I will try that.

>>8269736
Are you doing a Masters or PhD?

>>8269879
If you need any critical feedback your work is probably terrible.

>19

>student/tutor

>publish novels and/or be a literature professor

>>8269555
dont. its done. an author in estonia is currently in court because of it. not even kidding. also
>sade

18
Student
To become a meme philosopher, and a philosopher of memes

>25
>student /summer job in a supermarket to make ends meet
Studying to become an English teacher in France (I'm French)

>>8269975
How come you're doing that at 25? What are the ages of the people you are studying with?

Could you greentext your life since you turned 18 please?

>>8269544
>21
>N/A - studying philosophy / liberal arts
>want to become a scholar

>>8269544
>20
>student/part-time waiter
>reviving the bohème lifestyle

>26
>test grader, TA, proofreader
>finish a lit PhD and teach lit, finish some translations and have them published, get an academic book or two published, try to keep a 2:1 conference:publication ratio, have a full-room library with a collection of art/items

>27
>Woodworker/finish carpentry
>I want to write something good enough to be in the Canadian canon

>>8269544
>>>37
>>>Poker Player
>>>Write only 1 Book and have the uppity MFA jerk offs celebrate me, just for me to reveal to them that it was all a meme.

>18
>student/2 part time jobs at call centre and sandwich shop
>to host a homoerotic drinking party at which my friends and I discuss the nature of love

>22

>Aerospace engineer

>Write a book that gets univerisally well-received (be it that title be granted when I'm alive or posthumously) so that my life would've at least had some meaning

>>8269544

>21

>Neet

>To improve on my knowledge on all things related to literature and philosophy because right now I am a flaming pseud who just quit videogames and now just lurks /lit/ to get gist of being more experienced in such an elite subject matter is. Maybe one day I will put my ideas for my own stories on paper, but as far as I know concepts and stories don't mean shit and it's all about how much effort and "literary qualities" you put in it. Also an ambition I guess is to not write so fucking purple.

28
Full stack Developer
Read great scifi

A bit boring but I'm happy

23

I'm a licensed insurance agent that works at a call center

I want to read more. I have a BA in English but I kind of phoned in my degree. I regret it now that I'm out of college doing a job that I hate but that pays too well to find anything else. I'd like to get in to teaching, but the student teach requirement is going to be hard to meet now Tgat I work full-time and have bills to pay.

25
Chef anon

Finish my book, also build some support for my podcast which features my friend and I talking shit about history whilst stoned.

28
butcher
read, maybe someday i would like to write a book, the plot and themes become more clear every year, i've already write some line here and there.

>tfw can't talk about books/literature irl for not sounding pretentious. It's hard to live in a "no books" enviroment.

>20
>writer
>get blacklisted

22
Biochemistry student, part time model

I want to write my fantasy novel that I've had plans for since I was a teen

>>8269544
> 18
> studying
> write a young adult book and get a lot of money so that I can repay my parents and thank them for everything before I kill myself

>>8269544
>25
>funemployed
>get some recognition for my poetry and stories.

25

medical deliveries

i want to develop a comprehensive, secular philosophy that tackles political, religious, social, communal, developmental, and psychological issues by asking the question "what is healthy?" I want to get to the core of these issues and offer a "best practices" overview that will guide people on the broader issues that stem from this core. the bible served this function for the past 2 millennia, but we've entered an age where that's not enough for the masses anymore. I hope to have a relatively short, concise core text, with as much additional literature as necessary going over relevant issues of the day and expanding on the ideas in more detail.

ideally, this would be put together by a like-minded group of people more insightful, intelligent and hardworking than me, but I can't make that happen. maybe I can just spread the meme that this needs to be done and hope someone else picks up on it. :)

>>8270366
No need to stop vidya, just stop playing bad games.

>21
>Student for geology/Walmart Associate
>Get something published

>>8270514
Any good game recommendations?

>>8270529

Funny Pizza Land

>>8270362
I'm same age and a software engineer. I enjoy writing software but feel like my life is meaningless and I'm surrounded by nonlit retards. Any advice?

>>8270536

Make a video game.

>>8270539
vidya games feel like a waste of time too

>>8270529

Crypt Worlds
Yume Nikki
Goblet Grotto
Foreverhood
ZanZan
Space Funeral
OFF
Hylics
Funny Pizza Land
Harvester
Exploding Lips

>>8270512
idk man, to me the bible seems still good

>>8270548
thanks, this is awesome

>>8270551
that poster? ALBERT EINSTEIN

>22
>Ivy comp lit student
>Pioneer a new hermeneutic theory; publish a magazine as successful as Partisan Review

>>8270548
how do you discover more of these types of games

>>8270529
Civ4 with mods still does the trick for me.

>>8270551
>is a great source of wisdom etc.
That's not what it says.

>>8269555

Just read my diary mang

22
I'm a 3D animator. I've been reading since I was little and am thankful for the visual library it has provided for my job. My favorite books are Frankenstein and Dracula and other scary stuff by Meyrink and Perutz. I'm writing screenplays for film ideas for fun, that's the only thing I write, because I'm a strong visual person.

>>8270616

I meditate on the Five Seals until the Old Ones answer my call. An ebony maw opens in the darkness and I hear the sound of a thousand crows, their wretched cawing filling the room lik an auditory plague. And then a black tongue emerges from the maw, tasting the air and searching for flesh. I hold up the sacrifice of a freshly-killed goat and hope that my meager offering will satisfy and the darkness does not consume me instead. It pauses before consuming the beast I bring before it and satisfied, it begins to speak with six voices that fill my mind with the terrible knowledge, bringing me close to madness. Once I have managed to regain my tenuous grip on sanity over countless days or even months, I find myself drawn to these games like a moth to a flame, both allured by the light yet afraid of the inevitable fiery demise.

>22
>starbucks barista
>want to write books and live a life of ease off the royalties. not talking like rich gabillionaire faggotry. just a life where I can provide for my family, go travel for months, and enjoy peace and quiet away from the chaos of the world.

>>8270654
PJ...?

>22
>data entry
>not feel so burnt out after work so that I can actually read when I get home

>>8270674
literally me

27
Developer at DoD
Get published - currently writing a novel, but it's exhausting for some reason

>>8270683

>DoD

Are you going to be the next Clancy and write military novels?

>>8270666
No, I'm not PJ.

>>8270694

BJ?

>>8270679
/lit/erally* me

>>8270686

No, that's gay

It's a medieval fantasy, which is gayer

>>8270700

Hey, what's wrong with medieval fantasy?

>>8270695
No, thanks.

>>8269949
Who? What book?

>>8270002
Very late answer, sorry, I was at work fucking up my spine

>be 18
>be top of my class in HS in pretty much every subject, graduate Baccalauréat (equivalent to the A-level) with a ridiculous score, can't decide what to do with my life
>Fall for the STEM meme
>Do a two-year hardcore undergrad preparation for the Engineering school access exams (very specific to France)
>Do mildly well, be allowed in quite a good School of Chem
>OhgodIhatechemistrywhathaveIdone
>Spend most of my time partying, fail the first year exams, get expelled
>Feel like I have to go on with my Chem studies somehow, commitment and all that (worst decision of my life)
>Enter state uni, get my bachelor's degree very easily
>Do shit at my masters, redo my first year, pass the first semester of my second year
>Fail the second semester due to heavy depression (it was basically a 6 month internship in Wales)
>By this time, I have spent a year abroad (2*6-months internships)
>be fluent in English
>always loved English lit and linguistics in general
>Decide to be a teacher
>State uni back in France allows to enter directly as a third-year Bachelor student (I wanted to enter the Masters programme directly but they didn't let me)
>State unis are shit, I top my class very easily due to being much more mature and cultured than my fellow students (not trying to be cocky or anything, the level in state unis is horrendous)
I initially wanted to go the easy way and pass the exam for HS teachers but my results last year boosted my confidence enough for me to try and attempt the exam for Uni teachers (much more difficult but so much worth it). I hope I won't fail like I have pretty much all my adult life.

Tl;dr I fell for the STEM meme even though I had no passion for Chemistry and ended up hating it.
But in France you always get second chances because Uni fares are ludicrously low
Had I been American I would probably be a bum by now

>20
>neet
>to read a book once

>>8270362
You should read Nausea by Sartre if you haven't already. I wouldn't be surprised if you have, given your conclusion for a meaningful life.

>>8270732
Makes me jelly as fuck. I kinda did the same thing. Undergrad in biochemistry even though I hated it.

Wish I could go back and study linguistics, eng lit and philosophy. But tuition is too expensive, even in Canada.

I think I would like teaching but it's one of those things i think where the fantasy of it would be much better than the reality.

>>8269544

22 y.o.

Librarian assistant, currently. Currently working my master's in Library Science, plan to get a second one in Public Administration. I'd like to be executive director for the whole county someday.

I guess I don't really have any /lit/ dreams. No writer's aspirations. I'm content working through a career surrounded by books and open-access information.

>>8269544

29

1) Lawyer
2) Teach a latin class at 7am local school, and a philosophy class after work at 4.

I want to start a small private school at some point, so I'm trying to learn the 'trade' by teaching at one.

>>8270757
>I think I would like teaching but it's one of those things i think where the fantasy of it would be much better than the reality.

Slightly afraid of this. That's why I'm going for the Uni teacher option, I'm not sure I'd have the patience necessary to teach middle and high schoolers

I do realise I'm lucky to be French. Our country is far from perfect but free healthcare and almost no uni fares is a luxury we should show eternal gratitude for

Don't drop your studies like I did, you'd probably regret it. Get your degree and consider a reorientation once you've managed to earn enough for the tuition. It's never too lat. Alternatively, come study in France, I don't think tuition is that expansive even for foreigners, France most likely has agreements with Canada

>40
>elevator installation tech "liftkun"
>continue to publish books in space opera series (book 2 due out late August)

>>8270601
>felt the need to point out he's at an ivy

you're never gonna make it pseudlet.

>>8270854
jealous

>>8270830
40 is not bad, how areyou holding up?
What's actually the oldest poster who showed up on /lit/? I think we had a guy in his fifties once in a german thread.

20

Forklift driver.

To read a lot of pretty books and maybe write a pretty book with pretty prose myself.

>>8270732
Where in Wales m8?

>>8270819

Yes but it's like 8 euros for a soda there. tres chic pour moi.

>>8269544
>18
>N/A-Studying pre-Nursing
>Want to get around to reading all of Michel Foucault's books eventually

>>8270830
Good luck Gaskun :3

>>8270003
>studying philosophy / liberal arts
Oh, my poor boy.

>>8270992

>23
>Researcher (Doing a master's degree in computer and electronic engineering)
>I want to read enough to one day feel intelligent.

>>8271017
You'll never feel intelligent with that dream.

>20
>English lit, retail slave
>Publishing work in literary journals or big publishing, maybe stand up comedian

>>8271024
Why do you say that?

>>8271045
Feeling intelligent (and being) is all in your head. If you dream to be intelligent you'll be a pseud.

>25
>Copywriter
>Fuck off to another country and write for a while.

>>8270360
Would attend party.

>>8271103

>>8271110
This is meme.

>>8271114

>high school
>want to go into politics
>publish something

>>8270979
Life is not very expensive in France

>>8270975
Cardiff, nothing too original

>28

>Editor at a university press

>write a popular technical nonfiction with literary value

>30
>sysadmin
>going back to finish masters degree

>19
>Odd jobs
>I still don't have it spelled out. At first it was pansophy, then it was enlightenment, now all I want is a sense of identity that I can put into coherence, in a book or two of sorts. They say personal-myth is a powerful tool of psychotherapy, what I'm trying to do is reconstruct my world to my own liking and immortalize it.

The problem is that I still don't hear my calling.

>24
>NEET
>to stop being self-conscious long enough to write something honest

>28

>Im part time painter/carpenter/handyman. Doing lots of stuff.

>Finishing my movie script, then continue to work on TV-show wich i feel will parallel many of the "great ones", i've worked on it for 3 years.

>27
>lawyer
>write novels. Get PhD in English. Write some more. Read a lot.

>20

>Host at a Chinese Buffet

>create a blog/interactive web-crit of Wolf in White Van that compares diction in the book to points in John's songwriting career, pointing out references to songs in the text.

>>8271203
yo i'm actually interested in this, do you have anything in the works or is this just an idea right now

>25
>pizza boy
>i like to read

>>8271135
Where in France?

How much would it cost to rent a cheap room somewhere in a white French town or city?

35
sales coordinator
actually finish a book before getting bored with it.

>>8271136
Which university? Or if you don't want to say, which country?

Also how did you get the job?

>>8271212
How can you be a pizza boy at 25?

How are you not suicidal?

I literally don't understand it. Doesn't everyone else feel an insane amount of pressure to work a "respectable" job here?

>>8271230
I live in Brittany.
A student room in a province city would around 350€ a month I'd reckon.
I used to rent a 40 sq meters for about 500€

>>8271241
You sound like a normalfag.

>>8271241
not all of us have the desire/privilege/opportunities to go to university, back off and let him be a sad neckbeardo

>>8270962
Pretty good, Moving units but not as many as I'd like. The con of being a nobody is that you have to hustle twice as hard. I'm working on marketing and ads right now.
My projected schedule is:

Book/ Release date
1. May 21st 2016
2 Aug-sept 2016
3 Nov-Dec 2016
4 Feb-mar 2017
5. May- June2017
6. Aug-sept 2017
7. Nov-Dec 2017
8. Feb-mar 2018
9. May-June 2018
10. Aug-sept 2018
11. Nov-dec 2018

If you're looking for something big to get into, here you go. It's not going to be for everyone though. A lot of people (even sci fi crowd) think space opera is low tier.
It's exclusive to Amazon until August 20-21st and then it'll be in aggregators draft2digital and smashwords as well as Apple, kobo, Sony, nook, etc.

>>8271236
Australia

> get phd
> don't want to research any more
> looking for jobs
> see ad for editor wanted in my field
> no publishing experience necessary
> retrain on job as editor

it's not bad

19
no job
to write something intelligible someday

>21

>Summer internship at a regional construction company

>Majoring in English and History, writing prose and poetry

>>8271243
Wow that's pretty nice. I'm thinking of living for three months in France, but I don't speak French and I don't want to get ripped off. Are cheaper places available that you know of?

>>8271252
you forgot intelligence

>>8271255
How many have you sold so far?

28
neetu
be oblomov irl

>>8271265
300+
Gave away about as many during a promotion.

>>8271264
i assumed that was implied with privilege

Has anybody ITT ever quit a full-time job with nothing else lined up?

I've worked 42 hours a week since graduating in a mind-numbing job and I'm feeling suicidal at this point. Is it naive and pathetic to quit and take a couple of months out?

>>8271256
age m8?

>>8271188
currently working on my english and history BA's, but is it a totally outlandish idea to take the LSAT just to see what happens?

>>8271142
what are you reading, Doctorow?

>>8271109
have you thought abt teaching english in central Europe? I recently spent some time in Czech and am considering going back for work

>>8270992
what's good femanon?

>>8270796
what country?

>>8271276
You've SOLD 300 copies?

As in more than 300 people have paid money to read your work?

How much money have you made?

>>8271241
because i'm doing much better than when i was a pizza boy at 24, and much much better than when i was a pizza boy at 23. and when i was 22 i was a college dropout neet, and i wasn't doing very well.

i don't have to tell you that not everyone gets by the same way

>>8271276
Your image has frustrated me

>>8271262
The prices I mentioned were for Rennes, biggest city in Brittany (that's not saying much, around 220 k inhabitants)
Brittany in general is quite touristy but I'm sure you can find cheaper in shit places where nobody wants to go. Depends what you're looking for really. I know my grandparents rent a little studio near the coast for under 300€ a month.

If you're coming as a tourist, you might want to consider staying in a hostel or something. Avoid Paris, as nice as it is, it's much too pricey for the penniless traveller

>>8271287
$2.99 - 30% fee - 6%? Tax X 300
?????
Profit


Plus I make money through prime/unlimited. Every time a person gets it for free but reads 200 pages I get a buck. New report isn't out yet

>>8271114
This* is a meme:

>>8271307
Doesn't it tell you how much you've made?

Well done man if you're not bullshitting.

How the fuck did you get so many people to read it?

>>8269544

> 25

> teaching math, about to start teaching middle school ELA

> write something I'm proud of.
alternatively
> Inspire a student to write something they are proud of.

>>8271320
Know your audience. I gave out a buttload of samples at comic book/gaming/MTG stores. Over/underweight guys who can't get dates are my bread and butter

>>8271330
>Inspire a student to write something they are proud of

Cuck mentality

>>8271335
not op but fuck off

>>8271279

I did. Ended up languishing in debt and uncertainty for about a year. Worked at a gas station and did some editing/copywriting to make ends meet (hardly made anything). Finally found a decent job where the pay was shit but I was happy.

It was worth it. I hated my job. I was having panic attacks. I was addicted to weed, addicted to adderall, and on my way to be addicted to benzos.

I can say it was worth it in hindsight, but being unemployed is a terrible feeling. I don't know if I would be saying it was worth it had I not found another position by now, and I was still a night clerk at a gas station selling smokes and liquor to people with less money than me.

>>8271335

> He wants others to be successful, what a cuck xd.

> I can't think in anything but memes.

You're a lot like my students.

>>8269544
>22

>lobbyist

>to learn and to become a better reader.

>>8271241
Mate its 2016, there aren't that many opportunities anymore.

>>8271432
>>8271432
That's simply not true if you're ambitious and hard-working.

>>8271488
sometimes

>>8271488
Depends totally where you live.

>>8271241
you sound spooked as fuck normalfriend

>>8271488
>the american meme

>>8270830
is liftkun gaskun?

i wasn't around for a while

20
Nursery student

Want to finish writting "Revolutione" (a book about a multicultural city)

24
Billing for an insurance company
Get a bigger bookshelf

So many unemployed people on this board. Get a job you bums. Student is no excuse; I worked part time for all 4 years of my undergrad.

>>8271562
He evolved. Pokemon rules

>>8271600
>Get a job you bums.

A bit rude.

>>8271600
congrats on pulling one five hour shift every weekend while you were in school that must have been really tough on you

>>8269544
19

Belletrist

I've already achieved it with my; published novel, collection of short stories, a collection of plays, and an Ancient Greek translation of Das Kapital in verse

18

Student

It's not necessarily /lit/ related but i want to involved in the making of a great story or piece of art

22

I make educational video games

I'd like to transcribe a book I like into a video game.

>>8271643
What's the novel about? I'd be interested in reading it. There's something charming about reading a published book by a young /lit/ user.

>26

>kek

>currently writing a novel, just wanna be published.

19

IR/polysci student and paid intern for a joint art/civil rights museum

Want to revive the parisian salon lifestyle among 'scholars' and genpop alike, pitch a successful pilot for a tv show/screenplay a film, go bohemian for a decade and eventually fuck off to the wilderness ala thoreau or emerson and publish anonymous critiques on everything from government to individual spirit

>>8271600

How about you go fuck yourself you flaming faggot and mind your business like a real man.

>>8271643
>published novel, collection of short stories, a collection of plays, and an Ancient Greek translation of Das Kapital in verse

riiiiiiiiiight

>>8271694
oh, and I forgot
>19

>>8270728
Kaur Kender. The book is Untitled 12

>>8271694
God you're dense

>>8271716
not the first time ive been called that

>>8270514

Trust me, I have beaten lots of good games. I have played through all the good ones and I have had some fun times, but now I just don't feel anything from videogames anymore. I don't know if I have changed or the industry has changed, it's probably a combination of both, but videogames and movies and all that stuff really don't do anything for me anymore and I feel generally hollow and empty towards them now. I am hoping literature will be my saving grace and be a new line of passion for me, a new hobby that I haven't explored but has quite a high ceiling of experience level.

I have a feeling I am not the only one and a lot of people my age may gravitate towards literature as they grow older as a safety net when we realize just how shit everything else is. I hope there is a new golden age of literature in the future desu.

18
Web Developer
I want to read more

>>8271334
Still haven't got my Buddha

19
Biochemistry student/musician

I want to anonymously write completely obtuse critical theory manifestos filled with scientific obscurantism that are only passed around small groups of pretensions academics in the vain hopes of appearing smart by being able to decode it. But in actuality it'll be impenetrable substanceless trash devoid of any meaning.

>28
>nit
>find a part time manual job that pays a cheap room and food and that doesnt involve my mind so i can read and write the rest of the time.

>>8272047
I want to do this too, too bad you're way more intelligent than I, maybe I could help. I know how to post philosophers to make me look smart

>>8271751
I have been in the same boat, my friend, and I think you will be pleasantly surprised by literature filling that entertainment void to overflowing. The more you give, the more you get, Anon.

Regarding a golden age in literature, don't hold your breath, there's plenty of shit out there anyway.

>>8272119
Make who look smart?

>your age
24

>your job
writing grad student

>your /lit/ related ambition
win some awards, get on one of those obnoxious 30-under-30 lists

>your un/lit/ related ambition
work at a marketing firm and make some real money doing creative work until I know enough to start my own

>>8272105
it's called welfare compadrito

>>8271243

Can I live in Mont St. Michel for 500 Euro?

>Your age
19

>Your job
I'm a computer science major so I can have an evolving job that I can be introverted in.

>/lit/ related ambition

I want to write a novel about my grandfather, his life and his downfall. I don't go a day without thinking about it.

>>8269651
This

>>8272262
story?

>19
>Fry cook for the summer, back to physics student in a month
>Develop prose skills I can be proud of but probably never share with anybody

>Your age
I'm 19.
>Your job
I sell drugs and find people who need to be found by the people they owe money to.
>/lit/ related ambition
I want to write the story of a hero I keep dreaming about. It's the only thing I can focus on. It's nothing grand or amazing, just really simple, but at the same time, I can't remember much of my dreams. All I know is that I wake up crying a lot because I want to be him instead of the piece of shit I am.

This is all I want.

>21
>Odd jobs
>Write children's books, comics, and trashy pulp genre fiction.

22
Archivist
I want to have my hundreds page long fantasy eventually be longer than Realms of the Unreal, though I know I will never out-crazy Darger

>>8269555

Wasn't that a South Park episode, only people ended up really liking the book?

>>8271280
I'm the guy considering going abroad. How easy is it to do as an American?

>27
>landlord
>to be a /lit/ meme like DFW, Tao Lin and Pynchon

>18
>Student and a cashier at a grocery store
>I've written three novels. All of them shit. Some people called me a child prodigy. I won a bunch of awards when I was young. Though all that did was instill a false confidence that I have been working away from. I figure anything I write before I'm well into adulthood will be something that will make me choke up and immediately regret writing it. What I'm working on now shows promise though. No first drafts are good after all, unless you're an extraordinary talent.

>>8269544
>23
>robotics software engineering
>want to learn how to enjoy stuff that isn't 100% plot-driven fiction

>>8270520
>Student for geology
same, what are you planning to do afterwards?

>27
>Law researcher

I am writing a novel about Spanish expats in Luxembourg, whistleblowers, and evil.

>>8272478
His grandparents came from Greece and made a great impact in all of their communities. Most of them became business owners and extremely wealthy. I should mention that I'm not blood relatives of him but he has been my grandfather since I was born. Anyways, he was kicked out of his house by his father when he was 18 years old. Not for doing anything wrong but because his father wanted him to make something of himself. he moved to Florida and lived an average life as a fisherman for a while. He moved to Georgia when he was in his mid twenties and opened a business in construction. He was absolutely broke and lived inside of his office. He never stopped working. One day he married his current wife and things began to take off in his business. He was making high into 6 figures and spent most of his time with his wife, the kid they had together and myself. He nearly forgot about the family he had with his old wife. He wasn't there for them and tried to make up for that with money. One day, he figured out that his father had cancer. It was so bad that he was used as research at Emory's hospital. When his father died, the downfall began. He got a call one night and discovered that one of his sons had died of an overdose. A large piece of my grandfather died that night. He felt fully responsible for the death of his son. After that, his business began to dismantle due to the economy. He had millions in property that became worthless over a year. Instead of owning a successful business, he became a contractor taking any job that he could find. On one job, he asked his brother to help him do painting in a house. On the way from the job, his brother was killed by a drunk driver. Debt piled around my grandfather and his marriage began to break down. His wife became a massive alcoholic and addicted to gambling. She spends most of the money that he made. He simply stopped caring about most things. Today, all he speaks about is the business he's creating and how one day he'll be able to retire on the ocean. Where he'll be able to take me on fishing trips like he used to. He's in his late sixties.

Sorry if my writing was bad here. I was just trying to explain and I'm typing on my phone. I missed a lot of details as well but I'm sure you get the point.

>>8272164
no cause welfare wont make you move your body. that is important to have a clear mind to write. and just going to the gym of to walk does not do the thing.

>>8274399
I would read the shit out of that. Sorry for your -and his- losses, Anon.

>>8274439
Thanks anon. It's just life though. I grew up fatherless so he filled that vacuum until it all broke apart. We are very close now though and I've seen him smile more recently than I have in years.

>>8269544
>19
>janitor (not on 4chan), and in under two months a student of philosophy
>publish books

>>8269750
>too much of a loser to go to /r9k/
Holy shit.

>>8274438
Going to the gym or running or walking or cycling will do your body a lot more good than ruining your back hauling crates all day.

>22
>Automation Engineer
>Write something worth remembering.

>>8269544
22
unemployed
sell a screenplay or publish novel before i commit suicide at 25

>22
>none
>none

>>8269736
>I don't even know why, but whenever I sit down to write I get anxious as fuck.

Me too.

It is probably anxiety performance. Read this book

>Freedom From Fear, by Howard Liebgold.

It saved my life, altough sometims I still have bad days or bad weeks, but setbacks are normal and should be expected.

The golden rule is: face your fear and it will go away. Sit down to write day after day and your anxiety will gradually starts to dimish.

But seriously, read the book I suggested: it's wonderful.

>>8274874
>automation engineer
like PLC programming? Or project design

>>8272145
This is me but I'm one year older, I worked at a marketing agency straight out of uni and I'll let you in on a secret. Unless you work for an UBER trendy one, w/ V prestigey kook kook, you will be moving numbers around on a spreadsheet like everyone else.

>>8271280
Go ahead, take the LSAT. I majored in journalism before I went to law school. Though a BA/BS is required before going to law proper in my country

>>8269544

>24

>NEET


>Improve my writing, someday be a published poet/novelist.
>preferably not kill self soon

"I'm working on my novel"

>>8272240
You mean actually IN Mont Saint Michel? I don't think you can live there. I live roughly 20kms away though

>>8275206
leddit

>>8269544
>20

>Janitor, though I may have just gotten a job doing QC for a wire company

>I want to write a fantasy adventure novel

Trying to create a distinct fantasy setting is pretty daunting.