I’ve been lurking Veeky Forums for years and I keep reading all these threads with publishing horror stories, and how it’s impossible to get published if you aren’t a trans-latinX-trans-womyn or some shit like that, and I believed it.
I can’t believe I did. You guys are fucking stupid. A creative writing professor encouraged me to submit a very literary story I wrote for her class to some magazines and I literally have 3 acceptances within 2 weeks, two of them are at publications you’ve all heard of. I can’t believe you self-defeating, pathetic losers actually think it’s cause of some conspiracy/decline of culture/anti-intellectualism/whatever the fuck that your work isn’t published. You’re all talentless losers.
I didn’t go through an agent, I’m not a “underprivileged minority,” and literally the only thing I had going for me is my last name (which they didn’t even look at; I had my dad check with his contacts and they confirmed that my submission was accepted without knowing my family background) and I got in on raw talent. You guys are fucking pathetic. Time to leave this board.
Sebastian Carter
>I literally have 3 acceptances within 2 weeks >I’m not a “underprivileged minority,” >a “underprivileged minority,” >a underprivileged
REEEEEEETARRDDDDDD
Brandon Rivera
>I literally have 3 acceptances within 2 weeks, two of them are at publications you’ve all heard of.
proof or you're lying
Bentley Flores
Where and what did you publish? I'd love to read it.
Sebastian Brown
Bad bate, opie. Do your homework next time. Damn near no magazines of any repute respond within two weeks.
Luke Barnes
FUCK
Camden Foster
> I had my dad check with his contacts and they confirmed that my submission was accepted without knowing my family background
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Jeremiah Perry
Exactly. How could they possibly have known that?
OP, sorry to tell you this, but you got accepted only because of your family name.
Brody Bailey
laughing at people being jealous
congrats OP, you are a better writer than 99% of the people here. The only people here who have things published, write shitty genre fic
Wyatt Ramirez
It's Barron
Jack Parker
>sheep tries to bait Veeky Forums
Then again it's Veeky Forums
Isaiah Adams
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Liam Clark
Not him, but I know you from your reaction image name and childish hijinks. You're the single biggest cumstain of a poster on this board. If it's any incentive to leave, nobody wants you here.
Congratulations getting published. You're right, this board is hyperbolic about the difficulty. That said, I've only ever had short stories and opinion articles published; a novel would indeed be infinitely more difficult.
Isaac Scott
PROOF in form of an acceptance letter screenshot. At least give the name of the pub that will be publishing your work, and a rough description of the story. Repost to gloat when it comes out.
Jaxson Hill
Not a chance, my friend. I'm not about to reveal anything that could be traced back to me.
Gabriel Perez
Not happening, sorry. I'm not volunteering any information that could possibly reveal my identity to a website notorious for being a sociopath clubhouse.
Owen Scott
Yeah, I won't be doing that, sorry. I don't want to put my career and safety at risk by putting anything close to personal information here.
Jaxon Jenkins
You didn't happen to mention the name of the professor that recommended you submit, did you? In your letter to them, I mean.
Benjamin Hughes
Shit, sorry about this. Didn't mean to triple-post. But the point still stands.
Brandon Kelly
just wait for my recueil that i havent started writing yet im sure it will cause a storm.... ha ha.. .. .
Jordan Ramirez
Oooooooops! Didn't mean to fucking Q U A D R U P L E post! Sorry!!!
By the way all who read my story shall forget it by the time they have brushed their teeth in going to bed.
Levi Nelson
That's alright, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Jeremiah Rivera
>Not him, but I know you from your reaction image name and childish hijinks.
I saved that image a few days ago from Google and used it in one thread to troll some Russell Brand fan. So it can't be me you're talking about.
But now I'm curious who you are talking about. Or who you think you're talking about.
Angel Gray
The only story to forget about is the one you're telling right now. You're bullshitting.
Levi Lewis
>the only thing I had going for me is my last name (which they didn’t even look at; I had my dad check with his contacts and they confirmed that my submission was accepted without knowing my family background) and I got in on raw talent
Josiah Evans
Precisely you. I recommended Brand as an insult to OP, not because I liked Brand. This was clear in context, moron.
Errr....Right then. I suppose it's a good sign that I've only been published once and I'm already being plagiarized, heh. Believe what you'd like.
Kevin Reyes
TRALATIO MELIOR: ATQVE CEVERE SOLEO.
Thomas Price
you sound really insecure op
Owen Rivera
*clears throat* PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN
Hunter Foster
Don't mind these stoner dudes, OP. You're a hardworking, intelligent person who deserves the position you're in right now. Whining and complaining, instead of improving your skills, doesn't get you anywhere. It's about time the sophomores here realised that, and put some effort into it rather than making awful posts here continually.
Aiden Howard
Thank you. I didn't come here to gloat. Rather, I wanted to inspire my old chums at Veeky Forums to actually make something of themselves.
Hunter Diaz
such subtle samefaggery
Charles Ortiz
You miser.
Leo Allen
Using "a" instead of "an" is a common dialect feature of African American Vernacular English, meaning that OP is black.
Connor Rivera
>I had my dad check with his contacts >raw talent
Almost had me there.
Grayson Adams
it appears that OP is proficient with the tool commonly known as "inspect element"
Justin Sanchez
>LARPing on Veeky Forums
Gabriel Myers
Hey guys OP here. No idea why so many shitposters are pretending to be me (maybe trying to, for even a fractional second, satisfy their dreams of being a published writer? Even if it's as pathetic as pretending to be someone else on Veeky Forums?).
No, I will not tell you the story/publication, since it will be quite obvious which story is mine when you guys see it.
I have decided to go with one of the two nationally-known publications, so rest assured that sometime in the next 2 - 3 months you will be reading a story by one of your fellow "Veeky Forumserates."
Thanks to all of you with kind words. And yes, definitely try to have a little less resentment when trying to get published, it's only hurting yourselves.
Nope.
That's what I heard, but I didn't really go through the standard submission process. I just tagged along with my mom to some fundraising event and dropped left drafts with some Senior Editor-type folks.
Nathan King
>That's what I heard, but I didn't really go through the standard submission process. I just tagged along with my mom to some fundraising event and dropped left drafts with some Senior Editor-type folks.
>raw talent
my fucking sides
Brandon Nelson
>Jokes for Minecrafters - Barron Trump
Jeremiah Mitchell
It wasn't funny the first time you made this joke.
Levi Murphy
It was me the first time but not the second.
Blake Ross
>didn't really go through the standard submission process >senior editor type folks at a fundraising event >raw talent
c'mon dude, at best you got picked for wicrowaved talent; at worst you got picked for your mom's (very) raw talent.
are you by any chance of the paolini family?
Hudson King
>wicrowaved talent
Is this a real expression?
Eli Ortiz
If there is no conspiracy then why was he canceled?
Jayden Rodriguez
Yeah, I won't be doing that, sorry. I don't want to put my career and safety at risk by putting anything that can be traced back to me her here.
John Wright
Hey guys OP here. No idea why so many shitposters are pretending to be me (maybe trying to, for even a fractional second, satisfy their dreams of being a published writer? Even if it's as pathetic as pretending to be someone else on Veeky Forums?).
No, I will not tell you the story/publication, since it will be quite obvious which story is mine when you guys see it.
I have decided to go with one of the two nationally-known publications, so rest assured that sometime in the next 2 - 3 months you will be reading a story by one of your fellow "Veeky Forumserates."
Thanks to all of you with kind words. And yes, definitely try to have a little less resentment when trying to get published, it's only hurting yourselves.
Nope.
That's what I heard, but I didn't really go through the standard submission process. I just tagged along with my mom to some fundraising event and dropped left drafts with some Senior Editor-type folks.
Zachary Ward
Is this pasta?
Camden Baker
it is now
Christopher Gomez
>I'm owning you ACROSS THREADS AND TIME! >misconstruing what I said >shitting meme reaction images with zero insight posts >owning
Parker Rogers
no idea, but it's definitely not raw
Elijah Hernandez
IT'S RAW
SHUT IT DOWNNNNNNN
Grayson Nguyen
That's the joke.
Holy Christ Veeky Forums, how could you be so bad at reading. >getting owned across threads and time
Noah Thompson
To clarify: the joke is that he got in through nepotism (his dad's contacts).