Rejection from 55 literary agents

is still better than wanting to die.

I have been writing stories since I was very young, producing newsletter-like content since the days of LiveJournal. In my early life, I was deeply uncool and largely friendless. I made MANY connections (a bunch of which I still have 25 years later) from writing on the internet and banging out my most personal secrets on a typewriter, photocopying the p…