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Comment on Round, round, get around, I get around… by DebE

DebE — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:49:41 +0000

Yes, I’d get a little pissy over reading the same stuff from different perspectives. I mean, it worked in the New Testament, but even then I was getting a little bored by the end.
It’s about picking the right POV for the scene… usually it’s intuitive, sometimes less so. I have been ignoring my gut instinct on this one, I must admit. Feeling so much better sine I decided to open the floor up to Jonas.

Comment on Round, round, get around, I get around… by Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:00:30 +0000

It’s interesting to have a story told from multiple POVs. But Orson Scott Card annoyed me when he rehashed “Ender’s Game” multiple times in different books, retelling the same exact story from different characters’ point of view. I thought it was hackneyed and commercial, worse than George Lucas and those infernal Ewoks.

Comment on Doing it for the love of it? by DebE

DebE — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:53:14 +0000

That course sounds cool. It can be just as tough to get short pieces published, but at least you don’t commit years to a short story (I hope!), so you can try a few things on your way to finding your novel story.

Comment on Doing it for the love of it? by lovelee90

lovelee90 — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:47:24 +0000

Thanks for the advice! Yes, funnily enough I’m not in that position of money abundance… maybe one day! I’ve been trying to write something I’m happy with for years, so that’s my first battle is finding something I think worthy of trying to get published! But I am studying a creative writing course which supports you in submitting pieces for publication, so hopefully one day I’ll get lucky and just write that first piece that gets me out there! And ha, I do have the benefit of the day job, and not having a toddler as yet haha! So I do have the time to keep at it, and to try and put myself out there Thanks!

Comment on Doing it for the love of it? by DebE

DebE — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:39:07 +0000

Wow, well, thank *you* for stopping by! I linked because I think we all battle that blank page at times. It comes and goes…
It is a difficult dream to stick to, this writing gig. It’s fine if you’ve won lotto and can live on the interest. It’s fine if you’ve got some sort of inheritance keeping you afloat. But I bet most writers are not in that position. Most of us *should* be working a real job or, at least, *should* be working a better paying one, but perhaps we opt for one that lets us daydream while we work… There is no shame in dreaming of making money at this gig. We have to be realistic and realise there’s more to it than putting a story to paper… If you really want to make money, you have to put MANY stories to paper! And preferably good ones… and hopefully those good ones find an audience. It is no get-rich-quick scheme, that’s for sure — unless you get lucky. But even then, there will have been years of hard work and sacrifice leading up that that luck.
If you can write while keeping your day job, that’s a very good idea – and believe me, it’s easier to write while working a day-job than while raising a toddler! (the baby wasn’t too bad, and when he gets subsidised kindy from 3 it won’t be too bad… but this year is tough!).
But if you want to make a career at writing, you have to 1) put yourself out there to get published and 2) be prepared to market, market, market. If you want to sell, you have to find ways to get the book in front of readers (without pissing people off in the process). But most importantly, you must write the next book!

Comment on Doing it for the love of it? by lovelee90

lovelee90 — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:06:31 +0000

Thanks for the pingback on this! If anything because it led to me to your blog- I love this post and I completely relate to how you feel, I don’t think my family will believe in or support my writing until that hopeful day I get published- until then they don’t see it as a worthy aspiration! But I think it is and it’s not worth giving it up for the sake of other people, congratulations on getting yourself out there and published!

Comment on Doing it for the love of it? by DebE

DebE — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:31:04 +0000

Exactly.

Thanks, Dean. That is an inspirational quote!

Comment on Doing it for the love of it? by dlombardo2012

dlombardo2012 — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:23 +0000

Inspirational. I once read in Writer’s Digest a feature story about a mother of young children/newly published author who, upon hearing the gripes of less encumbered writers who stated that they didn’t have the time they needed to write their novel, replied, “No one has time to write a novel… but some people do anyway.”

Comment on Doing it for the love of it? by DebE

DebE — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:15:43 +0000

It is tricky being from little ol’ NZ, trying to call attention this way. Hard enough getting our books into our own bookstores!
Yes, you get it. We shouldn’t have to justify our art, but us writers can’t just bust out a painting and say “Check this out”. It’s years of work & then no one can be bothered looking at it until someone else has said “It’s worth it”.
It *is* a bodily function. So true.
And it may not “succeed”. We’re mad fordoing it. But we gotta do it!

Comment on Doing it for the love of it? by DebE

DebE — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:08:04 +0000

Thanks, Brian. I like to think I still have the passion for the current book. It *is* better already, and my writing continues to improve. My main problem is that I have so few moments to hear my own thoughts and even few to hear my characters like I used to. Perhaps I should take up meditation?