Writing

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Should writers take rejection slips personally? Should editors take writer's comments personally?

I've practically given up writing. I still pop out the occasional story but I don't have time to spend on serious writing. Everything I write now, and have written in the last 2 years, has been either academic papers or silly bloody journal entries.

The Novel is on hold. It's a complete story but still needs finishing. There are other stories in my head.

-A fleet of alien ships are wondering what to do
-an anthropomorphic flying fox is tired of having a broken arm
-Mavrik wants all his short stories "joined together."

It would be nice if writing was fun again.

Comments

[haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com]

I write a fair bit...Nojak the Rogue is my true tour de force, it's like 11,000 words, or 17 pages of A4 and still nothing like finished yet. And it's so filled with amusing moments that I still read over it and get amused...and I wrote it several years ago.
And yet I can't help but feel that it would be rejected by an editor if I sent it in.
But then again, I didn't write it for the editor to like it, I wrote it because it was fun. And so should everyone.
The true writer is too busy writing to worry about whether or not he'll get published or not...