Monday, January 02, 2006
I was thinking today of what is the toughest part of this breaking into the business thing I harp about endlessly. I'm not talking of actual impediments such as a shrinking market or publishers hating to take a chance with an unknown. I'm talking about the whole mental game of the thing. Is it when you receive that rejection notice that tells you the project you spent so many hours on isn't going to sell at that company? Or worse yet, when you wait for what seems forever, only to never receive a reply?
These are certainly bad moments. I've experienced them with my short story writing and they're no picnic. What seems hardest for me (at least today) is those days where nothing seems to happen. No emails from artists working on your projects, no new leads on places you can get your work published. Just another day where you have to pull out pencil/paper (if you're old school) or sit at your computer and work on that new project, flesh out that new idea and, all the while, try to shut out that voice nagging in the back of your brain, is this ever going to see the light of day? Am I wasting my time here? Will I ever see this dream move forward?
What can you do? I guess you can give into the voice and go watch a rerun of Friends. But most writers who have made it, have done so with a little bit of luck and a lot of perserverance. So you perserve, push the nagging doubts aside, and wait for that break. I must admit that sometimes I seem Pollyannish on this thing. "Just do it.", "Never give up." But it is these maxims that other writer's have applied and made it. As trite as it sounds, you have to just do it; you have to never give up. Great my life has turned into a commercial or William Bennet's latest book.
Whatever works I guess.
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I've started writing news stories for Scryptic Studios so check those out. It's a great website for writers and not just comics.
These are certainly bad moments. I've experienced them with my short story writing and they're no picnic. What seems hardest for me (at least today) is those days where nothing seems to happen. No emails from artists working on your projects, no new leads on places you can get your work published. Just another day where you have to pull out pencil/paper (if you're old school) or sit at your computer and work on that new project, flesh out that new idea and, all the while, try to shut out that voice nagging in the back of your brain, is this ever going to see the light of day? Am I wasting my time here? Will I ever see this dream move forward?
What can you do? I guess you can give into the voice and go watch a rerun of Friends. But most writers who have made it, have done so with a little bit of luck and a lot of perserverance. So you perserve, push the nagging doubts aside, and wait for that break. I must admit that sometimes I seem Pollyannish on this thing. "Just do it.", "Never give up." But it is these maxims that other writer's have applied and made it. As trite as it sounds, you have to just do it; you have to never give up. Great my life has turned into a commercial or William Bennet's latest book.
Whatever works I guess.
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I've started writing news stories for Scryptic Studios so check those out. It's a great website for writers and not just comics.
