Tfw rejected for publication again

>tfw rejected for publication again

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>not selfpublishing

>look mum I shit posted again hah

Would you share your writing?
If not here, send it by email?

>falling for the self publishing meme

I'd be interested in reading a sample OP if you don't mind linking it

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Is there any legit argument against it?

It's not as if publishing houses are the curators of great literature. Take one glance at a best seller list and try to say otherwise.

Also, if you're a fucking white male they will actively discriminate against you.

Here's a poem I've published before.

The plane drones across mattress kapok
to follow the crease-marks of the atlas
over a blue haze where outer islands
rise amongst dolphins, humpback whales.
Islands there, pulsing with breadfruit sap,
unwrap tapa mats from coconut cordage.
The flukes and tails of those islands thwack,
then shimmer back beneath ocean spray.

Outer islands under trade wind flags sail,
showered in storms of frangipani stars.
Untamed sea horses swim with them through
nights maned in swirls of dark rum;
and garlands of surf decorate them.
Days, lit up with guava fragrance, bud
into banyan roots, flowers of wild banana,
candlenut trees, sweet mango’s sacrament.

Only now does the smudge of the Great Wall
of China café burning become visible.
Only now do rusty freighters and fleets
begin to leak as if they cannot stop,
and the jelly-green glass wobble with tadpoles
that strain to break into toads the size of trucks.
The sky drains its kava bowl, the sea chucks
up a tsunami of canned Pacificana,

and a jack-in-the-box is surfacing
amid shoals, reefs, sands, as a sign:
a drowned volcano risen on a raft
of birthstones loosened from the globe’s grip.
A scorched cinder cone, it climbs and shines.
It might herald the re-entry of Christ
into the Pacific, or a radioactive atoll,
ringing an alarm for the end of time.

Are you sure you wrote that?

Ok, David.

>tfw there is a huge wall of female agents that will reject you if you aren't female/PoC and your book isn't full of progressive bullshit

Of course.

I am extremely prolific.

Keep telling yourself bud
I have had several poems published with the whitest name

>submitted several stories to a magazine
>they always send me rejection letter within 1 month
>for my most recent submission it's been 3 months
>know just fucking KNOW it's not an indicator of anything
>still get my hopes up that this means something else
>re-read submission over and over
>"surely, surely this time"
>receive rejection letter
>re-read submission
>"jesus fuck what a mess of course this bullshit got rejected"

I've had stuff published too, but a book is a whole other story. Lit journals, for all their poz, are not a big industry. They're not even for profit -- it's literally a labor of love. Now try selling a labor of love to a bigshot (((NYC))) (((agent))). Not so smug now, are we? I sure wasn't.

When agents state specifically that they are looking for "underrepresented voices" and "lbgtq" fiction, it's fair to say that there is a campaign being waged in this segment of culture against white maleness. If you don't believe me check out this turd of a book that I came across while researching agents the other day (suffice it to say I will not be sending my project that way):

amazon.com/Symptoms-Being-Human-Jeff-Garvin/dp/0062382861/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435324084&sr=1-1&tag=irenegoodmanl-20

The prose is literal CRASH! tier. But as long as you're willing to conform to the ideology it doesn't matter.

>Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. But Riley isn't exactly out yet. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in über-conservative Orange County, the pressure—media and otherwise—is building up in Riley's life.
>character named Cavanaugh written by Jeff (((Garvin)))
>"you conservative Catholic goys really need to lighten up and engage in sodomy like us elites"
>fiction in 2016

>all those positive reviews

The readership is likely positive as well.

P.S. I first clicked on the link to that book because I thought it was a fashy Hitler haircut on the cover. "Finally, an agent I can relate to!"

Liberals need to get off this board and out of my country

HIV hasn't been relevant in western nations in decades lmao

Just change your name to Tanisha Q'quranshiiina or similar

Here's a poem i've published before

I miss the old Kanye, straight from the Go Kanye
Chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye
I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye
The always rude Kanye, spaz in the news Kanye
I miss the sweet Kanye, chop up the beats Kanye
I gotta say, at that time I'd like to meet Kanye
See, I invented Kanye, it wasn't any Kanyes
And now I look and look around and there's so many Kanyes
I used to love Kanye, I used to love Kanye
I even had the pink polo, I thought I was Kanye
What if Kanye made a song about Kanye
Called "I Miss The Old Kanye"? Man, that'd be so Kanye
That's all it was Kanye, we still love Kanye
And I love you like Kanye loves Kanye

The person who wrote that poem has several books out including volumes of poetry, and is in their 50s.

I don 't believe it's you.

>their 50s
That's not my pronoun.

>Is there any legit argument against it?

>What are economies of scale?

Change the words to be better.

going to rewrite, hello thesaurus

The plane flies over tree, many tree
over land that is also on map
it is blue and islands
in water, also in water are dolphins and humpback whales
Islands there, have sap of tree,
unwrap mats made from cloth tied up with coconut.
islands are moving, like whale. Also there is water..

more islands, wind is for bartering,
stars are like rain which smells like flower.
seahorse is wild animal, swims
in night. Night reminds me of rum.
more water against coast, much froth.
days smell like guava, one with
tree roots, wild banana flower, different smell.,
different trees, sweet mango is holy.

Only now is Chinese walll
or is it café on fire, now visible.
Only now many ships much rust
leaking, maybe no control, will continue,
green glass moving because of tadpoles
constipation of toads, big like trucks.
it rains, the sea chucks up itself
Pacific sea,

surprise on surface
coastal images are significant
undersea volcano is on surface
rocks in air
tip of volcano is hot. Shining on surface
maybe is significant for Christ
pacific ocean or radioactive coral in rings
ringing an alarm for the end of time

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Terrible. You have altered my literature, and the result is just terrible. Please don't post again.

'plain english poetry'. or maybe just a bit spastic? pretty bored atm

>the pressure—media and otherwise—is building up
>the media
>somehow against all this gender nonsense
There is no way they can be this delusional.

Not this shit again.
You might as well blame the Jews for everything senpai.

It's an established fact that the publishing industry is primarily female at a level of ~80-85%. You can assume that the remainder are nu-males or homosexuals at rates greatly disproportionate to the national average. The publishing industry is also concentrated at the coasts and NYC and LA in particular. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that 95% of the publishing industry voted for Hillary Clinton.

Is it any coincidence that literature is in the sorriest state its been in ever since liberal women became the gatekeepers for emerging artists?

sh-shut up, you're j-just paranoid, you... you... you virgin!

>NYC and LA in particular.
no there's no publishing in la.
it's all new york. nyc. nyc that rules America's publishing. The world's publishing.

>>literature
the original is not that great,

There's literally nothing stopping you from slapping your brilliant redpilled novel into a pdf and having it freely available to anyone with an internet connection.

Literature isn't a commodity. It doesn't need a publisher's stamp. It's art. It speaks for itself.

you sound like a real SJW

>the free market will fix it