Doing Nothing
My writing has stagnated over the last week and a half. I have spent said time thinking on the World of Darkness character I will be playing tomorrow, and listening to the Harry Potter Audiobooks. I have also started listening to the Wheel of Time books on audiotape as well. Having left of years ago at book six, I started again with it.
Watching movies, playing video games, drawing the WoD character, drinking, modeling the ships and fighters of the Commonwealth Armed Forces and just chillin.
I guess this is just a bit of time off. Time to let my life come back into focus, time to get ideas and meet people so my writing doesn't suffer.
Question:
What good is writing endlessly if it's going to be bad and have to be rewritten anyway? my deadline has been pushed back to june 1. thats seven months, but at the same time, I want this to be good. I need to stop and give some time to short stories, get them published and start making a name for myself before I throw everything away on one story. I also need to figure out where my life is going. The only way I can survive on writing is publishing around 6 short stories a month at $250 each, which would put me up to what I make a month now, paying the takes and shite with it.
Hmm.
Not gonna happen.
I can expect something like $6,000 from my first novel, up to $10,000. If I can put out 3 novels a year, I will be making enough to live on, having to pay taxes quarterly with the self-employment tax of 15% as well as all the others.
the lack of lucrotivity is not the reason I haven't been writing though. I guess it has sorta become a second job type of thing.
as of next month i think i will start writing again, using the stockpile of ideas and interactions i will be hoarding over the next couple of weeks.
Watching movies, playing video games, drawing the WoD character, drinking, modeling the ships and fighters of the Commonwealth Armed Forces and just chillin.
I guess this is just a bit of time off. Time to let my life come back into focus, time to get ideas and meet people so my writing doesn't suffer.
Question:
What good is writing endlessly if it's going to be bad and have to be rewritten anyway? my deadline has been pushed back to june 1. thats seven months, but at the same time, I want this to be good. I need to stop and give some time to short stories, get them published and start making a name for myself before I throw everything away on one story. I also need to figure out where my life is going. The only way I can survive on writing is publishing around 6 short stories a month at $250 each, which would put me up to what I make a month now, paying the takes and shite with it.
Hmm.
Not gonna happen.
I can expect something like $6,000 from my first novel, up to $10,000. If I can put out 3 novels a year, I will be making enough to live on, having to pay taxes quarterly with the self-employment tax of 15% as well as all the others.
the lack of lucrotivity is not the reason I haven't been writing though. I guess it has sorta become a second job type of thing.
as of next month i think i will start writing again, using the stockpile of ideas and interactions i will be hoarding over the next couple of weeks.
posted by Hadrian: Dark One at 12:35 PM
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