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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 14, 2018 23:59:36 GMT
My goal for today is to look up 3,000 Christmas/ Winter season words to put in my word search book. Let’s see how I do.  What are your goals for today? |
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Post by kateelizabeth on Nov 15, 2018 21:28:44 GMT
I met my goal earlier: to get a cheesecake for dessert after my husband and I take our daughter out for her birthday. She loves cheesecake.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 15, 2018 22:40:53 GMT
Excellent goal, @kateelizabeth! I approve.  I worked really hard last night but after deleting a ton of repeated uses I only ended up with under a thousand words. I need to go through it again cos there are still repeats. My puzzles may end up with fewer words and puzzles, or maybe I'll do a mixed puzzle book or something. Not sure. But my new mantra is to always be cheerful and to not worry about the future. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 16, 2018 22:45:08 GMT
I applied for a copywriting job, but I won't find out if I got it for two weeks or so. But if I get it then I'll have someone giving me words that I have to write. So that will be nice. I need deadlines from other people with real consequences. I try to give myself deadlines but I don't take myself seriously. I can't even make my cat behave. So I'm definitely not up to the task of making myself behave. (shakes head) No, siree, bobcat. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 17, 2018 7:11:05 GMT
Most of my writing lately has been in my head. I am trying to reconstruct my futuristic fantasy secondary world, and I like to do that mentally before I commit anything to paper.
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Post by kateelizabeth on Nov 17, 2018 18:53:46 GMT
Good luck on the copywriting job, K'Sennia! I've been thinking up scenes in my head for the past few days, which is a lot more than what I've been able to accomplish lately, writing-wise.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 17, 2018 19:01:59 GMT
Good luck on the copywriting job, K'Sennia! I've been thinking up scenes in my head for the past few days, which is a lot more than what I've been able to accomplish lately, writing-wise. Thanks! Head writing should totally count as writing, especially if you're a pantser. Very few writers start writing completely cold with a blank page. So all of the pre-writing stuff is just as important as the actual writing. As long as we get around to the actual writing, eventually. |
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Post by possiblyderanged on Nov 20, 2018 14:34:45 GMT
Good luck with the job!
I'm thinking -- when I actually get around to it -- about whether I want to keep fooling myself that I'm ever going to get out of this hole of not writing, or if I should just let it go and focus on something else. I let myself get knocked down by someone about the whole "have to write to market or fail" thing, and it killed the momentum I'd built up (months and months were I wrote more days than not).
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 20, 2018 20:54:46 GMT
Good luck with the job! I'm thinking -- when I actually get around to it -- about whether I want to keep fooling myself that I'm ever going to get out of this hole of not writing, or if I should just let it go and focus on something else. I let myself get knocked down by someone about the whole "have to write to market or fail" thing, and it killed the momentum I'd built up (months and months were I wrote more days than not). "huggles" Well, technically, you did just write. You wrote this message. And, yes, you should focus on being happy. If you can find a way to be happy while you write, then awesome! But if doing so is causing you too much stress, then do something else for a while. It's always okay to take a break. What sort of things interest you right now? What's something you'd love to do? Whatever it is, you should absolutely go and do that. And don't feel like you can't hang around here. Even if you decide you hate writing and never want to write or publish anything ever again. You can still hang out here and chat, if you want to. Just don't put pressure on yourself. Just breathe and enjoy whatever you can about life. *more huggles* |
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Post by dormouse on Nov 20, 2018 21:55:29 GMT
I let myself get knocked down by someone about the whole "have to write to market or fail" thing, and it killed the momentum I'd built up (months and months were I wrote more days than not). Most of what people say is rubbish and you're best off not paying it much attention. Even me. JK didn't get where she is by "writing to market". She was lucky enough to get out there and then the market found her. Success in writing to market depends primarily on productivity and marketing skill. Without those, your likely income would be in the range Nil-Very Little. So, if that's not you, and it isn't what you want to write, I can't see that there is any point in thinking about it - or in discussing your writing with people who think like that. What you need (maybe) is a supporter that helps maintain your belief and productivity, an advisor/critic/editor/reader who will discuss the quality of what you are writing in its own terms, and someone who can guide you on the best way to market the book(s) you do write. I don't know how much reading you have done about writers and their lives, but you might be interested in Catherine Cookson's autobiography ' Before I go" (if you are interested in more, it would be worth reading one of the biographies (To Be a Lady by Cliff Goodwin possibly best, to give a more complete picture). Available very cheap from time to time. |
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Post by dormouse on Nov 20, 2018 22:16:40 GMT
JK didn't get where she is by "writing to market". That said, in recent years she's been flogging a horse so dead that it can only be kept moving by a couple of actors in its skin. And even with the original, there's no doubting that Book 1 is higher quality than Book 7. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Nov 21, 2018 4:55:16 GMT
Good luck with the job! I'm thinking -- when I actually get around to it -- about whether I want to keep fooling myself that I'm ever going to get out of this hole of not writing, or if I should just let it go and focus on something else. I let myself get knocked down by someone about the whole "have to write to market or fail" thing, and it killed the momentum I'd built up (months and months were I wrote more days than not). This whole "write to market" mantra is really corrosive and straight out harmful IMO. I believe there is no one market, but a lot of small, overlapping markets. None of us are completely unique and what we like to read and write will also speak to other people, even if there's only a handful of them. We only need to find them.
So just write whatever speaks to you and figure how how to market it later.
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