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 Originally Posted by BennyLaRue
In the new literary world, isn't the standard much, much lower? I'm not meaning to insult your work, since it's very possible it surpassed even the old standards - I just don't get why you need the opinion of several faculty members and a roundtable to generate "optimism". The barriers to entry are lower...get that shit e-booked up already?
1) I would like to teach higher-level education, and being published by a major house is like an automatic job in that field.
2) I don't consider marketing myself, working connections, etc to be my best qualities. If I have a concept that raises a lot of eyebrows and a writing style that makes people think that I have potential, then I would like to polish that into something that would make a publishing house pick me up and do that stuff for me.
3) I have high aspirations for this project and a) don't want to give up on having it be published by a major house until those aspirations are appropriately crushed and b) wouldn't want to self-publish a "good enough" draft of the novel. If I'd gone through with my first draft of this novel, I would have a million regrets right now. Until I've hit a wall in terms of ideas for improvement and/or avenues for potentially getting published and/or young enthusiasm, I'll keep forging ahead.
4) The barriers are much tougher for literary fiction than they are for genre fiction.
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