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Writer PSA from BlueSky

Link to from post: https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

Years ago I was in a local writers’ group with a woman.  We lost contact, but every now and again she comes to the Big Box Store where I work.  Well, this woman finally got published (good for her.)  Once I told her that I wrote fan fiction and she looked “Isn’t that nice. No, I don’t give away my work for free.”  I felt puny, like my writing doesn’t count.  I’d love, love, lovity, love to get paid for it, but that’s in the future.  Someday.  Anyhow, I ran into her again yesterday.  She said she was published (again, yay for her) and she asked if I was still writing.  I said that I had posted chapter fourteen on AO3 a couple of weeks back, but that lingering, stinky self-doubt hung around and I didn’t tell her the title of my story.  I should’ve shouted “Yes!  Storybrooke PTA has gotten really good reviews!  I’m doing research for future chapters and my editor hardly had to correct a word for chapter fourteen!”  (And it’s not because I’m sleeping with my editor, who is also my husband.)

“The most important caveat of all, of course, is that there are countless factors that shape a writer’s creative output, of which sleep is only one — so this isn’t meant to indicate any direction of causation, only to highlight some interesting correlations: for instance, the fact that (with the exception of outliers who are both highly prolific and award-winning, such as like Bradbury and King) late risers seem to produce more works but win fewer awards than early birds.

The most important point, perhaps, is a meta one: A reminder that no specific routine guarantees success, and the only thing that matters is having a routine and the persistence implicit to one. Showing up day in and day out, without fail, is the surest way to achieve lasting success.”

What Makes a Writer

Many of us who love to write nonetheless feel that we can’t technically call ourselves “writers.” At Strange Angel Press, we encourage you to embrace the title! Check out our (non-exhaustive) inventory of accomplishments that make one a writer.

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