Comments on: Justifications and Pretenses

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:25:37 +0000

Telling everyone I was going to move to Hawai’i was maybe 30% of my motivation to actually move there, because I would have looked like a loser had I NOT moved there. So after a few weeks of talking it up, I was like, ‘well, I guess I have to move to Hawai’i now,’ and bought a plane ticket. So at least for me, more people I tell about things, the more it gets me to actually do them. It tends to work that way with writing also. That might be kind of a messed-up way to do it though…

By: Molly

Molly — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:47:33 +0000

I absolutely agree with Adam.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:07:58 +0000

Here’s why it’s worth doing — you’re good enough that you could actually do it. Those of us who aren’t will be really pissed at you if you pass up the chance.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:51:21 +0000

One reason why I gave up on the idea of getting published - and subsequently dropped work on any long term writing projects - was that I realized that getting published is a totally different beast from writing. I enjoy writing; it’s creative. But getting published is the complete opposite, at least the first time out. It’s a lot of repetitive work, mailing and mailing and e-mailing, and then you have to do more and more drafts for agents and for editors and it adds a year or two onto a project that you thought was done a long time ago. And then, 90% of the time, it comes out to no fanfare, gets forgotten, and theres no financial reward for all your work. It seems like it would be completely frustrating. The web isn’t as satisfying - but I prefer putting my creative projects there; its a lot more immediate, and doesn’t do as much to destroy the happy feelings writing can give me.