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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i really do understand what you mean, but 1. that's the beauty of feedbooks : you don't have to write sequals, serial killers and vampires with a heart (etc.) to be read there. 2. you can't know you'll have nothing left to say ; from what i know of you, that will never be true. just don't stop because you decided you should, when a new story comes into your head.
you have touched more than a few people with what you wrote, and i think we all will be grateful to you for that forever. but just because the industry is going down a road you don't want to follow (and i support you in that) doesn't mean you should let that dictate whether you write or not.
like verencat said, i don't want to pressure you (well... actually, i kind of do... but i'm trying to keep it in check  ) but at the least don't close the door completely. just... write if you have something to say, and don't force yourself if for a time you don't, but don't make it into a question of principle. please ? |
I can't not act on principle, it's impossible for me (as I suspect it would be for you too)
Never fear I still want to do Atlas Hugged and The Wish of Music before the end of this year, which should be a hell of a lot of fun for everyone . And I still have The Song of Insects / Mortgage of Ghosts / The Murder of Shadows to come as novels, plus about two hundred other shorts. When I do stop I'll have written a fair bit of fiction, so I can be happy with that. But life must move on, there must be times when you make a decision and stick by it.
I've made the decision to stop and must stick by that decision. I'm not sure I can sum up how I feel at the moment over all this, only, maybe the Marx Brothers quote comes close:
I wouldn't want to be part of any kind of club that would have someone like me as a member
even that isn't really what I'm thinking. Up until this point in my life I always imagined my future sat in front of keyboard writing stories, but that's a future I just don't see any more. I think it will be the same for a lot of writers, published and unpublished as we transition over to digital. Self-culling I think it's called