I'm sure a lot of people relate to this.
As I'm trying to become a Viable Published Author, it's hard to look at everything and... realize I don't have anything for publishing. (It's even tougher to swallow that the project I've been working on for over a decade likely won't be that project, because trilogies are harder to sell than stand-alones and I want to make life a little easier on myself when it comes to publishing a first novel)
So I start a new project and immediately get overwhelmed with "so THIS will be the story I use to break into publishing"... then I don't write it, or everything I write gets frustratedly bad (because it's a first draft+ I'm trying too hard instead of letting myself have fun), and I end up not writing.
I want to Be Published. I feel that, by this point, my credibility is in question if I don't publish relatively soon. But in the drive to Be Published, I forget why it is I write and why I enjoy writing.
Anybody else relate?
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