We're not so different, you and I

>we're not so different, you and I

>all of a sudden,

>rumbled into life

The book that pic related was taken from just won a £10,000 prize in my country

is that John Green?

Holy fuck that was bad. Like a piece of creative writing I would have made in middle school. Does it at least have a really compelling story or something?

It reads like genre fiction, it's probably not very good

You guys should check out more for your local and regional (state or provincial) writing competitions. There's not much real competition going on and runners ups also get hefty cash ins

Kek what the fuck is this shit

I was thinking it wasn't irredeemably bad until I got to the third paragraph.

same here

"A Portrait of the Not-Artist as a Young Man"

Fuck. I've read fanfiction better than this.

I'm sorry that your country's literature is so shit, user.

>...one of whom I killed in a misunderstanding. But other things happened in the first twenty-two years that I should explain first.
*Record scratch* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation...
Fantastic

Pic related is the author. He's a literary agent. The book is about a kid who becomes a window cleaner and moves to London where he eventually gets to wash the windows of the Shard (huge modern building).

>writing for plot meme
>it's a unprivileged authors deserve special treatment episode

What do you mean?

...

Everything that won in my state was middle aged women talking about underprivileged people.

seems like an easy way to make a quick buck. Get busy writing, WHITE MALE.

>in the distance somewhere, a dog barked..

>dat nose
Nigga got punched in the face by some Veeky Forumsizen

It almost makes me want to go trans m8. Tell people my life is shit and my parents hate me because I was born a black girl in a white male body.

I sent a short story to a contest arranged by a relatively buoyant literary magazine of my country. As I wait for the verdict, which will be made public in september, I read about the magazine having changed its director: the new guy is gay, has written some papers or shit about gayness in literature and has published several volumes of gay poetry and short stories written by other gay authors. Don't know what to expect about the next number of the magazine (which will publish 10 of the stories from the contest) desu.

That's a good deal for you, just offer to suck his dick if you're mildly attractive.

Same.

no one could stop you if you think about it.

as soon as someone accuses you of being a fake or a con artist you could figuratively bury that person for either harassment, transphobia, racism or transmisogyny (hell, all of the above)

Go to bed, mr. new director.

Yeah. The writing itself is solid word-to-word but the content is god awful.

pretty much exactly what I was thinking

>name is Glass
>becomes a window cleaner

Wow... Really makes you think.

no, no, liberals dismiss out of hand any 'transracial' people. it's laying it on too much

my fucking sides
this reads like something Elliot Rodger would have written

It hurts to think how many critics and academics fellate this fucking hack.

Hi plebeian.

>*Record scratch* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation...
ayyyy, I was thinking the exact same thing. This is pretty awful.

Hi pseud.