>we're not so different, you and I
>>8284378
>all of a sudden,
>>8284378
>rumbled into life
The book that pic related was taken from just won a £10,000 prize in my country
>>8284378
is that John Green?
>>8284561
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?
>>8284567
It reads like genre fiction, it's probably not very good
>>8284561
Kek what the fuck is this shit
>>8284561
I was thinking it wasn't irredeemably bad until I got to the third paragraph.
>>8284659
same here
>>8284561
"A Portrait of the Not-Artist as a Young Man"
>>8284561
Fuck. I've read fanfiction better than this.
I'm sorry that your country's literature is so shit, Anon.
>>8284567
>>8284649
>>8284659
>>8284759
>>8284776
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).
>>8284811
>writing for plot meme
>it's a unprivileged authors deserve special treatment episode
>>8284821
What do you mean?
>>8284635
Everything that won in my state was middle aged women talking about underprivileged people.
>>8284851
seems like an easy way to make a quick buck. Get busy writing, WHITE MALE.
>in the distance somewhere, a dog barked..
>>8284811
>dat nose
Nigga got punched in the face by some /lit/izen
>>8284860
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.
>>8284851
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.
>>8284904
That's a good deal for you, just offer to suck his dick if you're mildly attractive.
>>8284659
Same.
>>8284884
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)
>>8284909
Go to bed, mr. new director.
>>8284659
Yeah. The writing itself is solid word-to-word but the content is god awful.
>>8284759
pretty much exactly what I was thinking
>>8284811
>name is Glass
>becomes a window cleaner
Wow... Really makes you think.
>>8284561
my fucking sides
this reads like something Elliot Rodger would have written
>>8285034
It hurts to think how many critics and academics fellate this fucking hack.
>>8285872
Hi plebeian.
>>8284801
>*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.
>>8285890
Hi pseud.
