This IS the organized version

[cleolinda]

Okay, I am tired of this. I am done. I am done, ironically, with not being done. I am tired of not finishing things, like a book I've been working on for eight years while every bandwagon in the world saddled up and passed me, and I am tired of being jealous of writers whose only sin was ACTUALLY FINISHING SOMETHING.

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[hearts_blood]

THIS.

I am printing this out and sticking it on every wall I own (and possibly tattooing it very tinily on the backs of my hands) because YES.

Especially this:

So all I can think to do is talk about the fact that writing can be hard, while I get myself productively indignant enough to fight my own insecurity. Because I'd rather get mad than pitiful. And maybe, once I've burned off that self-pitying fog, I can FINISH SOMETHING.

Thank you.

[greedyskunk]

I will be printing out a copy for myself, too.

[wyz_azz]

You write it, I will buy it and read it and love it. Even if it isn't available for Kindle;)

[editornia]

THIS.

[piccgirl]

Good luck, and I've had the "can't find it on the computer! Where is it on the computer!" then finding the handwritten draft issue too.

[elizardbits]

I had a some Thoughtful And Introspective things to say initially but now all I can think is OMG TACOS.

sigh. pms.

[cleolinda]

TACOOOOOS

Man, I had been craving jalapenos for two or three days now.

[mmaresca]

I know that. Four years ago I was totally that guy who had that book he was always talking about but not actually getting written.

Now, that book? Done. Shelved away, but done. Two other books, done. Third one, rough draft done. I have an agent and a book is starting its journey through him to publishers. Things are happening.

This is my roundabout way of saying: GO YOU. Get it done. Because it can be.

[cleolinda]

YAY!

Part of my problem is that I see it as an eight-book series, very neatly divided in the middle with a Big Event, and I've front-loaded the whole stupid process with working out what could happen in the future books, because I'm obsessed with foreshadowing. I'm having to let go of that.

[supervillainess]

As a person who loves foreshadowing (PWLF, in the future), let me weigh in w/ NO ONE uses it very much (in my reading experience anyway). Which gives you the advantage in that any foreshadowing you build in will be more than fans of it expect. Plus, there's that thing where PWLF will see it where there wasn't any, so you benefit from that too. ;)