Comments | myaru: Splitting the stream of consciousness.

myaru

Splitting the stream of consciousness.

Mar 21, 2012 01:30

It has always been hard for me to split my time. We all know (well, many of us know) how terrible I used to be at managing my time for school work, but the problem doesn't end there. I'm bad about chores at home, which doesn't affect many others besides myself, and I'm terrible at managing when I should (or want to) work on something of my own ( Read more... )

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starlitlady March 21 2012, 12:09:38 UTC

I think you should define what exactly publishing means to you, specifically. Then figure out which avenue to take in publishing (novels, lit mags, online journals, contests, etc). Maybe having a more concrete definition of it in your head will make things easier ( ... )

myaru March 23 2012, 03:33:15 UTC

That's a hard question to answer. What publishing means is changing so much, but getting into print is what it has always meant to me. Publication in a magazine or journal, a hard copy book on the shelves in the bookstore, etc. Ebooks would feel a lot like just posting to my fic journal ( ... )

hooves March 21 2012, 13:25:53 UTC

Gotta agree with Starlitlady, especially re: what publishing means to you. Once you work that out, everything else will probably be a lot clearer ( ... )

myaru March 23 2012, 03:39:46 UTC

I can certainly relate lately with loving and hating it. I have both great and bad associations with it. :/

But interestingly, for me, the instant gratification aspect is sort of split down the middle too; I don't really need it with original fic - not as much, anyway, as I still get the urge to post it sometimes - but with fan fiction that's hugely important, and probably one of the reasons I stuck with it so long. Yay attention! But even when I wasn't getting attention, there was something satisfying about seeing it up there in text.

And when you've been stuck in a house for a long time, well...it can be doubly hard to feel motivated

I know how this is. The year I was injured and not walking was pretty much me sitting in a chair in my room 24/7, and it destroyed me. That sounds exaggerated, but it's really not. Inertia is so hard to break.

I still don't know how to balance fan and original, and I've been trying almost as long as I've been writing both of them.