Wow, you're productive on the writing front. (I had a few drinks the other day and went from "I'm not sure if this is interesting or appealing to anyone but me" to "Imma send it off to this magazine's story contest and win a thousand dollars!" ...I'm probably not going to win a thousand dollars.)
Can you banish the year with glitter? I'm tired of "Who died today?" (Sadly, I don't expect 2017 to be any better, although I am planning to actually do the Writing Week In The Woods I've been fantasizing about for ages.)
Yes, Tumblr! Enthusiasm for things! Don't just tell me it has lesbians, tell me if they're being interesting and doing the kinds of things I like to read about! (And don't tell me I should enjoy it because Disability Representation, like that means I'll relate or have anything in common with the character, because there's a lot of stuff that's legitimately good representation of the lives and experiences of some people with disabilities that I nonetheless have no interest in
( ... )
1. Statistical evidence on my sending-people-things to getting-paid-for-things ratio is against you. 2) at least you've found a distraction mechanism that produces underappreciated genius?
(Good news - the reason why I'm up this late is because I gave one of my stories a massive rewrite and now have it in publishable form, and have identified a possible market, and will be throwing it at them within the next few minutes!)
EXCELLENT! (It will be very safe bits of woods, with an exceptionally low risk of dying.)
So many wannabe Puritans on Tumblr! They're all about Improving Fiction, shunning sinners, and making up rules everyone's sexuality must conform to.
1. Pitching novels is a lot harder than selling short stories. 2) Unfortunately, underappreciated genius is less fun to produce than regular genius.
(Two things are out!)
(Woods-woods. It will be in the summer when I'm back in the US.)
"If we've ditched the idea that everyone has to be cis, het, and no-kissing abstinent until married, it's totally okay if we dictate the acceptable identities and sexualities, and shame people for having desires that are about bodies, right? We're doing it in a different direction!"
Yeah, they're both long enough odds that "Write what you want" makes sense. (Unless you're seriously in it to make money, in which case, producing large quantities of mediocre erotica to self-publish on Amazon seems to be the way to go?) 2) Underappreciated genius would be the regular kind, wouldn't it? Appreciated-in-one's-own-lifetime genius seems rarer.
(May turn into A Thing Of Some Sort!)
"What else would we do, value individuals and their desires? That's just crazy talk!"
Well even writing mediocre erotica and self-publishing on Amazon doesn't appear to be exactly raking in the lolly at the moment, which is quite galling given that you're meant to be able to just scratch whatever itch and go flailing your way to cash.
(fingers crossed).
... yeah. Funny how "individualist" society actually... isn't.
Based on what my friend who's making a surprisingly good percentage of her income says, it's all about quantity. Like no particular story makes that much money unless you're literally Chuck Tingle, but if you keep producing, all the pennies ad up.
Individualism means responsibilities are handed down to the individual, not freedom, silly! What, you thought it meant you could do things you actually want? No, of course not. It means that every time something systematic is broke, you, the individual, are required to hug away racism or shop until the environment's fixed or donate your way to a functioning school system.
Clearly I do need to keep up the slog but I honestly don't think I could manage that amount of butt-licking or whatever without wearing my brain to sand.
Oh I see, it's like libertarians, but instead of "you jack, I got mine", it's "fuck me, jack's my responsibility".
Can you banish the year with glitter? I'm tired of "Who died today?" (Sadly, I don't expect 2017 to be any better, although I am planning to actually do the Writing Week In The Woods I've been fantasizing about for ages.)
Yes, Tumblr! Enthusiasm for things! Don't just tell me it has lesbians, tell me if they're being interesting and doing the kinds of things I like to read about! (And don't tell me I should enjoy it because Disability Representation, like that means I'll relate or have anything in common with the character, because there's a lot of stuff that's legitimately good representation of the lives and experiences of some people with disabilities that I nonetheless have no interest in ( ... )
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I AM BLOODY WELL INTENDING TO BANISH THIS YEAR (good luck in the woods, please don't die)
"Should" just won't work. Don't these dunces remember school? Like, "this book is Important" did not make anyone eager to read the Scarlet Letter.
It's very puritanical. And unhelpful.
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(Good news - the reason why I'm up this late is because I gave one of my stories a massive rewrite and now have it in publishable form, and have identified a possible market, and will be throwing it at them within the next few minutes!)
EXCELLENT! (It will be very safe bits of woods, with an exceptionally low risk of dying.)
So many wannabe Puritans on Tumblr! They're all about Improving Fiction, shunning sinners, and making up rules everyone's sexuality must conform to.
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(YES I BELIEVE IN YOU GET THAT MARKET NAILED DOWN! WOO!)
(woods-woods or jungle-woods?)
Almost like the dogmatism and abstinence part of their upbringings has not actually left them.
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(Two things are out!)
(Woods-woods. It will be in the summer when I'm back in the US.)
"If we've ditched the idea that everyone has to be cis, het, and no-kissing abstinent until married, it's totally okay if we dictate the acceptable identities and sexualities, and shame people for having desires that are about bodies, right? We're doing it in a different direction!"
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(YAY!)
"What's bad is that the policing is being done the wrong way, not that it's being done at all." SIGH.
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(May turn into A Thing Of Some Sort!)
"What else would we do, value individuals and their desires? That's just crazy talk!"
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(fingers crossed).
... yeah. Funny how "individualist" society actually... isn't.
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Individualism means responsibilities are handed down to the individual, not freedom, silly! What, you thought it meant you could do things you actually want? No, of course not. It means that every time something systematic is broke, you, the individual, are required to hug away racism or shop until the environment's fixed or donate your way to a functioning school system.
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Oh I see, it's like libertarians, but instead of "you jack, I got mine", it's "fuck me, jack's my responsibility".
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Yep! It's trying to construct an opposing ideology while buying into all of the same assumptions of what you're against.
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