"You want to be a writer?" · 1:45am Jun 9th, 2014
So
There's this writer
He's like, kind of a big deal in the writing world
But that's only important because he's been asked to speak at a writing conference
So he's at this conference
Where he's going to talk about being a writer
But before his bit
He goes and gets drunk
Not just a little drunk
Like really, totally, smashing drunk
Then he goes to his talk
He goes up on stage--
And it's obvious he's drunk
--He goes up on stage
And walks up to the microphone
And he goes
"How many of you want to be writers?"
Every hand in the room goes up
(Except
like
one guy in the back
but he turns out not to be important)
And so he goes
"Well,"
The writer says
"Well, why aren't you home writing?"
And he walks off.
So basically-- I dunno. I just know I've got to somehow get some more keyboard time in. Maybe I'll be less social around here for a while? I dunno.
(If you're worried about the RP I intend to still be around there. Just not quite so much here.)
I go back and forth on wanting to be a writer, which I suppose isn't a great sign for me actually doing it. There are just so many things I love doing. Right now, statistics seems more fun, I think. Tomorrow, who knows.
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Not to be anything against you personally, but I kinda hate you right now. [1] This makes it look like it comes easy to you. Combined with how much you've written, especially compared with how much I've written, it looks like it comes really easy to you.
I want to be writing these things, and I want to get stuff out. That's why this. And then you come along and it's just like "oh, well, whatever", and that's just incredibly annoying that you, apparently, have it, and I don't.
(Part of it is keyboard time, which has nothing to do with you, but it's still frustrating.)
[1] Which isn't a good sign and you don't deserve and I may even be overstating things a little bit. But.
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It varies. Sometimes it's easy. "Princess Luna Likes Coffee" was me getting so upset over a Skywriter story that he told me I needed to write something to vent my frustration, and basically took two hours from inception to publishing. "(Robot) Dog" was also pretty quick. I had an idea, and I just wanted to run with it.
A lot of times, though, writing is incredibly painful. "Three Nights" took me almost three months, and felt like me beating my head against a wall pretty much the whole time. The Luna+CMC story I'm working on right now is similar; I can only write it in little chunks, and it's taking forever to get anywhere. That's most of what writing is for me. If I can force myself to sit down in front of the keyboard and crank out words, I get somewhere eventually, but so much of it is just constant frustration. But the payoff at the end is usually really nice, seeing the reception the story gets. That's one of the things that keeps me going.
Anyway, no, most of the time it's not at all easy. Especially when I'm writing stories I really care about; those are the worst. But if I didn't have fun doing it, in the long run, I wouldn't be doing it—so there's that. And from my perspective, I publish incredibly slow. Maybe it doesn't look that way to other people, but for me I'm constantly beset by the fact that I don't have a new story at least once every month... I really wish I could manage more keyboard time myself.
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I'm not saying that it is easy. I'm just griping that it feels like you're dismissing my own frustration with not doing more writing.
Which I hope explains at least one thing.