>For five years after leaving school, he lived an isolated existence... without seeking employment or new social contacts >He wrote a letter to the pulp magazine Argosy complaining about the insipidness of the love stories in the publication > The ensuing debate in the magazine's letters column caught the eye of Edward F. Daas, president of the United Amateur Press Association who invited Lovecraft to join the organization in 1914 >gets published due to the equivalent of an internet argument about the quality of a fiction magazine
