Thread 24608747

Have any of you guys ever been published in a literary magazine?

>>24608747 (OP)

that would mean doxxing ourselves if we told you but yes. Many have.

Yes.

>>24608767
No, I'm afraid you haven't. You were merely the wallpaper of the deception. I am truly the only one to have ever been published in a literary journal, like our great benefactor A.G. in his time.
Salutore.

>>24608747 (OP)
I have submitted to many. I am (rightly) blacklisted in my home city and many other important ones because of an incident with a girl several years back. I promised her and her friends that I would remain invisible to civil society and stop writing. I have made good on the former promise but fucked up on the latter. I write compulsively. I should have just offed myself when the stuff went down. The only reason I didn't and don't is because I'm a coward under everything. Anyway, I submit very frequently under constantly changing pseudonyms, but my combination of genius-level IQ and severe emotional instability makes me fairly recognizable. I will probably never be read, not really. I will pass from this earth without leaving a positive mark. That's what it is. If only I could wipe away the negative too. I'm so sorry. I know some of you are on this board too. I really am so, so sorry. I'm a monster. I don't deserve to live.

>>24608779
What did you do, anon?

>>24608747 (OP)
Yes.
>>24608808
Being edgy without the skill to back it up judging by his post.

>>24608817
>>24608808
It was a complicated situation.

>>24608779
Use your genius level IQ to figure out a way out of it Anon.

>>24608825
IQ is not a magic bullet, especially when devoid of real-world experience and hampered with severe emotional instability. I am a high outlier in verbal acuity and abstract problem solving. I am a low outlier in social acumen and other basic life skills. Besides, the idea of quarantining myself from the general population still appeals. My self control is just too bad for me to stick to it.

>>24608821
You are an evil cocktease bastard to post that and nothing more. Either repent your sin or commit to the creative writing.

>>24608861
I'm sorry. The short version is that I got into bed with a girl I had an on and off thing with during a psychotic break. Nothing happened between us, but I was being invasive.

>>24608869
I am charmed by your mental illness, and repelled by your claims of being a genius. On what basis do you believe this?

>>24608905
Sorry. I know it's maladroit.
I am not a genius. I have genius-level IQ. There is a sharp distinction between these things. A genius is a particularly accomplished person. Someone with a genius-level IQ is only someone who has, or once had, the potential to become a genius given the right conditions and absent the wrong ones. This is one reason why actual geniuses are so rare.
I have very superior pattern recognition. In particular, I performed at the Olympiad level in math as a kid have the ability to learn new languages to conversational level in about a month and full productive literary fluency in about six. This is coupled with alarming social behavior, self-harm, and suicide attempts from age 7. I was never going to be a genius. I am a textbook case of what often stands in the way of producing geniuses.

>>24608808
he committed rape. already wrote about it some time back

>>24608921
I see. Do you mind listing some of your alarming social behaviour?

>>24608931
Rape is a fundamental male right, nothing wrong with it
I will die on this hill

>>24608949
Surrender your hole then anon

>>24608944
Monotone, staccato speech cadence and body language, irrespective of language or social setting. Long, unblinking eye contact. Frequent shifts to extremely dark subject matter. Compulsively testing people by saying things to make them deliberately uncomfortable and seeing how they respond. I do possess empathy, but I tend to behave as if I don't. That said, my sense of guilt is acute and recursive, seeking escalation rather than resolution. On the cognitive level, I don't really believe it's possible to make up for anything.
I have been tested and am not autistic. I withheld details about past psychotic breaks when last tested simply because I would rather die than be institutionalized again. I am probably somewhere on the schizoid spectrum.

>>24608949
Don't joke about that.

>>24608962
Is that an exhaustive list?
To what extent do you experience pleasure? Do you feel there is anything abnormal in your attachments to other people?

>>24608970
Non-exhaustive.
I don't generally experience pleasure.
I recognize happiness in others, and in early childhood assumed that they were faking it, maybe maliciously. With maturation I accepted that there really is such a psychosomatic phenomenon with fairly consistent presentations. I can't say I've ever experienced it.
I experience physical pleasure, and with it immediate guilt. It terrifies me to slip out of control. It terrifies me more that I haven't earned it.
I pushed others away insistently throughout early childhood. Later, I became desperate to be fully understood, and developed full obsessions with others. This is one reason why I am socially quarantined.

>>24608963
I never joke about rape
I am fully sincere

>>24608958
Holes have to be won by force or drugging

>>24608986
You interest me a great deal. I know myself, and I think I would come to like you. I recognise your self-imposed social quarantine, but it seems to me a masturbatory punishment. Are you sure you wouldn't be at all interested in socialising--with me--on another platform?

>>24609008
My website is hartglass.neocities.org

>>24608986
Do you still use Discord?

>>24608986
>>24609042
(We’ve talked on there before)

>>24609042
>>24609049
No

>>24608747 (OP)
Yes in a reputable literary journal.
>>24608986
Stfu.

>>24608747 (OP)
What the fuck happened to this thread? Jesus Christ.

Anyway, OP, to answer your question, yes, I have been published in a literary magazine. Several of them, in fact. Both poetry and short fiction.

>>24608747 (OP)
Once in a college press, several times on alt-online presses.
It was unrewarding.

>>24609050
If I use the guestbook feature on your website to share my email address, will you email me? I’d like to talk to you.

>>24609060
Sure.

>>24609049
What the hell did you have to talk about?

>>24609060
And you? Lmao

>>24609056
>>24609058
Any particular method to where you submit your work? I‘ve almost got enough good output under my belt to want to try but don‘t know if I just google "Literary magazines in my area" and pick the ones that aren‘t all DEI or what.

>>24609078
Unironically ask AI but never ever copypaste from it.

>>24609066
Different things, but we primarily talked about poetry. I published some of his work a couple of years ago.

>>24609079
AI has led me to websites where literary agents/publishers are looking for specific genres
I'd start with perplexity AI

>>24608747 (OP)


YES; IT IS RELATIVELY EASY; WHAT IS REALLY DIFFICULT IS WINNING CONTESTS; CONTESTS ARE OFTEN RIGGED.

>>24608747 (OP)
Tons. I get published quite frequently. I used to edit for one, too.

>>24609221
I've entered a bunch of poetry contests over the years, never placed in any of them. Really sticks in my craw.