Publish or be damned? There is this amazing word called 'and'... · 8:55pm May 10th, 2016
Yes, another chapter of No Room For Regret has appeared, after a whole year of bugger all and nothing. I actually sat on this for a very long time, trying to re-write it, trying to improve it, because I had become obsessive about the words. Trapped in the... the filler, that's how I felt.
Of course I was also very nearly dying from a lack of essential bodily fluids, which never helps, but the real issue was that my confidence was gone. Finally I've been poked and prodded and acquiesced to the demands, and published what I had. The alternative was never moving forward. Is it my best writing? Absolutely not. My best writing happened nearly fifteen years ago and everything since then has been a slow spiral into mediocrity... but at least it's something.
I'm going to go and write something else now. I just hope the year-long gap hasn't completely destroyed the plot.
Just happy to see this finally continue. Will read later.
DON'T STOP WRITING KEEP GOING DON'T STOP OR YOU'LL DIE MAYBE NOT BUT HEY WHO KNOWS JUST FUCKING WRITE.
~Skeeter The Lurker
MFW I motivate you to do something.
Huh. What'd you write fifteen years ago?
3935822 A vampire story, Simpsons fanfiction and a spy movie script.
3935732 o7
Time to read.
Even at the risk of distracting you from writing more, I can't honestly believe this:
Is accurate. Experience does count, and counts a lot.
In any case, the massive flood of music and writing and everything else in the modern world has a crippling effect on a lot of people. We end up comparing ourselves to the best, and give up because we can't match them, instead of being happy with being able to do all right.
3935865 And now you know why I drink whisky and gin all the time.
3937007 On top of all that, it's probably nostalgia glasses as well.