Hi hotshots.
I'm finding more and more that the idea of being a writer is kind of terrifying.
Right now, my plan is to be published by next summer (which seems do-able, until I sit in front of a blank screen and ask myself a million under-mining questions.)
There's a whole world out there, and I, as a writer, am going to try to make some of it my audience. Nowadays, a lot of that seems to be incorporated in websites like WattPad, where you upload stories and have people read/vote for them. But what if no one reads what you write? Granted, a lot of stories can wind up getting lost in the whirlwind, but does it mean you're a bad writer?
I'm pretty sure I'm not. Then again, what do I know? I'm not that in tune with my own generation, how can I be in tune with what my "audience" wants? And that's a bad way to think, anyway. My audience should like what I write, and I should write what I want to, in order to create works worth the time spent on them.
I'm not frightened of sending a manuscript off to publishers, because that kind of rejection is outright, and doesn't mean the next lot will have the same reaction. But what about actually writing the darned thing? What if it turns out to be awful, or worse: mediocre? The sort of book that people have no opinion about? I want them to be emotionally invested in my characters, but there are so many stories that I begin, setting the scene, and then think "well, this was nice, but that's that."
The basic storyline, I know, is "stable situation - something disrupts it - characters attempt to find a new stable situation."
I have no idea what I'm doing. Words are cheap, ideas cheaper, and somehow, I'm meant to turn those things into a book that people spend money on.
By next summer.
And this summer is meant to be the time where I get the writing done.
I don't want to be an aspiring writer, or a rejected novelist. Rock and a hard place. The only way to definitely get away from one is to write a novel. A thing with anything from 20,000-60,000 words, and beyond.
Oh, boy.
Okay.
Argh.
I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't want to be an aspiring writer anymore, but I don't want to be a rejected author either. Rock and a hard place. Only way to get away from one concretely is to write a book.
