Been thinking about this one today as I was frantically scribbling some notes down while on the bus home from work.
I’m not meaning ‘who really needs to be published anyway?’ as an open question, just a personal one. I always had the idea fixed in my mind that it was somehow extremely important that I finish something and get it published.
Excellent Idea, but why? What’s the big deal about that?
Well, now there is no big deal. I have no real interest in getting my work published. That’s not to say that that may never happen but, really, why has it become such a big deal?
Not any more it’s not. I’m having more fun coming up with the concepts, characters, locations, technology and all the other stuff that pops out when I let my imagination run riot that thinking of the long term and “published” is just a distraction.
After all, I’m doing this for personal gratification, not for a quick buck.
August 7th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
I think – being totally honest, that any writer that’s in it soley for the money gets really disheartened really quick. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’d looove to be paid for my fiction, but that’s not why I write – its never been why I wrote.
Go for the ‘fun’ factor first – if its meant to be, the rest will fall into place really fast.
Whilst we’re on the whole commenting thing though, you wanna come down and visit at any point
?
August 12th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Yeah, it was just something that had been happening recently, the need to write something and get money from it. I don’t know when the change happened.
But I’m back on the path of the Light Side now so there’s nothing to worry about.
And visiting would be cool.
I’ll have to get more settled in my two part-time jobs first, but yeah that’s sound.
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