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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i can completely understand your discouragement, but i really think it's a shame that you should let it stop you. i've given up things i loved for lack of time and regretted it, but i do understand that. but giving up something you love because the world is populated by philistines is no good reason. please keep writing, even if it's not as much as before (for time...).  |
I'm not particularly sad about my decision. I'll have written everything I think I'm capable of by the end of this year, and that's going to be quite a lot (inclusive of everything I have still waiting to be edited). The writing is on the wall, pardon the pun, for the whole industry. It's going to be more and more of the same, sequels, serial killers and vampires with a heart, jingoistic quasi-military pablum and rehashed romance. I'm even finding myself reading less and less lately because there's less and less that interests me being published either in the mainstream or outside. Every so often you find something beautiful, something that doesn't repeat everything you've ever heard before, and then you realise its a fluke, not the norm.
I'm rambling, in any case I'll have accomplished everything I set out to do come New Year's. I can relax knowing that my ambition of touching a few people with what I wrote, came true. That's enough
