>tfw come from a prominent old-stock family in the agrarian south >tfw drop everything to become a back-water fisherman in order to embrace a bohemian life living with squatters and criminals in squalor and destitution for the sake of achieving literary authenticity >tfw grow walt whitman-esque beard >tfw write a 500 page lyrical prose poetry novel based on my experiences >tfw rejected by every publisher I sent it to, now I'm thinking of personally going to some of my favorite authors houses and dropping the manuscript through their letterbox >tfw have become so poor that I have started to do medical experiments for money >go for help from my family but they slam the door in my face >tfw pawn my beloved inherited time piece from my confederate ancestor for cash >tfw one of the recent trials I did fucked up my vision and balance I signed the waiver not to expect compensation >tfw probably going to have to donate some bone marrow soon to pay rent
I'm posting this from my local public library before they kick me out (they close at 6:30). What should I do Veeky Forums? I want it to stop.
Nolan Sanders
Holy shit the Husserl dude is back.
Carson Kelly
Submit the manuscript under the name Ta'Keem Na'Meen Jackson, claim to be trans or something, watch the money pile up
Easton Rivera
>poetry there's your problem, just revamp it into a gonzo-style examination of the dirty rurals all the city liberals have never seen
Benjamin Roberts
I hate to say it, but this.
Parker Richardson
why were your parents that retarded? did you suck a negro penis or something
Grayson Morris
hell he could even just expand on what he said in the greentext, that sounds like an interesting story itself
Thomas Clark
Family on my moms side once had prominent politicians where did they piss away all that fucking influence huh
Lucas Moore
Get a job you useless fuck
Brayden Roberts
donate plasma instead, it's less likely to kill you in the long run
Austin Cooper
>tfw one of the recent trials I did fucked up my vision and balance I signed the waiver not to expect compensation i know your post is fake but to anyone reading this thread, this contract provision would never hold up in court
Ethan Howard
>tfw come from a prominent old-stock family in the agrarian south
I'm assuming this is some kind of euphemism for descendant of slaves
also
>deluding yourself into thinking a brutish blue collar lifestyle makes you romantic and genuine after growing up with a silver spoon
we have reached peak levels of autistic LARPing
Nathan Cook
That would be a euphemism for the people who owned the slaves, m8
Lucas Jenkins
>the joke >your autism
Anthony Martin
OP here. Thank you all for the advice. Here's the first sentence of my novel:
"During the timeless dusty hours of this town when the streets lie black and cool on the feet in the wake of the sunset and now when the vagrant and homeless have turned up in the abandoned lots or in-between places and cats go forth with arched backs and mangy fur in the grim perimeters around, now in these soot-stained brick or cobbled corridors where streetlamp shadows make a grubby gothic play of saloon doors none shall walk save me."
I would appreciate some advice on some strategies I could use to get my work published so that I can finally receive the financial compensation and critical/public acclaim that my exceedingly authentic writing (more so than any other writer currently living) borne from my lined sweat-stained brow and intense physical/emotional pain so justly deserves.
Nicholas Ward
This is some corncob shit, use a fucking comma.
Eli Green
In all seriousness though, see if you can divvy it up into separate parts and look for magazines/publishers into the weird "outside" literature.
Joseph Nelson
>my exceedingly authentic writing (more so than any other writer currently living) borne from my lined sweat-stained brow and intense physical/emotional pain so justly deserves. you get an anime reaction pic for that one
Kayden Young
Thank you for the advice, I will look into it. I will have to disregard your critique regarding commas since my linguistic acumen, eloquence, and rhetorical vigor is incomparable. If you cannot appreciate my skillful and fastidious use of commas then perhaps reading isn't for you.
Adam Hill
holy shit i haven't laughed like that in ages, godspeed you modern Ignatius Reilly
Nicholas Richardson
>so many newfags on Veeky Forums that they can't even recognize OP except this guy
Levi Hughes
>>go for help from my family but they slam the door in my face I feel like you're not telling the most interesting part of this story: the history of your family and the reasons that they don't want to be associated with you.
William Ortiz
Do you want to play Pharaoh (1999)?
Brody Campbell
It's like an even more self-absorbed version of Cormac McCarthy. I don't mean that in a good way, either.
David Cooper
that game was the shit
Michael Jenkins
No thank you, I only play Backyard Baseball (1997).
While my writing draws from a wellspring of inspiration that is entirely based on my own authentic literary lifestyle, McCarthy was one of the authors who I was considering going to their place of residence, knocking on their door, and handing my manuscript to. All he'll have to do is read the first line where my genius is already self-evident and then he can put me in contact with his agent. If someone could assist me in finding his address that would be appreciated. I will have to get there either by hitchhiking, train hopping, or perhaps if I beg hard enough my mommy will drive her sweet boy.
Parker Brown
he lives north of santa fe, it'll be an adventure trying to find him
Benjamin Thomas
>who I was considering going to their place of residence
Shit grammar, even from a purely descriptivist perspective.
Carter Green
I bet if you just knocked on his door with a manuscript looking like you do he'd shoot you in the face before you could get a word in. Or he's a fraud--there are two possibilities.
Jaxson Smith
We need more LARPing threads like this.
Daniel Lopez
OP again. The sexagenarian librarian here at Iberville Parish Library in Carville is kicking me out for the night. I would appreciate if people would continue to reply to this thread to help me with my travails, I won't have internet access again until tomorrow, I still haven't caught my dinner for the night.