Some great advice this morning at The Kill Zone. A discussion of how to face the harsh realities of the author game without becoming despondent or cynical or throwing your pen across the room and giving up.
It comes down to remembering why you
write – because you love it, because you wouldn't do anything else.
Because you get caught up in the thrill of discovering a story and
exploring the worlds you invent with the characters you create. Not
because you're looking for an easy way to get rich. We all hope we
will, or at least we hope it'll help us pay the bills. But remember, it ain't easy,
and the odds are stacked against us. We all hope we'll be the one.
Just don't borrow money from the mob based on your estimate of future
writing wealth.
Dream big, but do the math.
He also talks about the luck factor.
You can't control luck, but you can tilt those odds in your favor by
working hard, learning your craft, being productive, being brutally
honest with yourself. Then, when luck saunters by, minding it's own
business, you'll be positioned to mug it and rifle its pockets for
opportunities.
WIP UPDATE – Saturday was terrific.
Wrote 2,551 words, boosting the total of the first draft to 11,667.
It was material that I really like, although I have no idea if it
will remain in the book. I think it was stuff I needed to know as the
author. I'm not sure yet whether the readers will need to know it.
But either way, I had fun writing it, so even if in a few months I end up cutting it, it won't have been a waste of time.
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