It also occurs to me...
Oct. 15th, 2012 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritThat I'm not paying attention to the Business Side of the writing business as much as I ought. This was borne out when (rather than writing), I had a look at my spreadsheet and realized that I entered a story in a contest back in May and hadn't heard back from them. Turns out that the winners were announced at the end of May. So that story's been sitting fallow for nearly five months. And I've got several others that I haven't flipped. And possibly a couple that I ought to query on or at least check the status of the website.
Sometimes it feels like I'm just banging my head on a wall, you know? I've been at this for years and had a bare handful of stories published. The quality of rejections has been getting better, even on my older stuff, but it's wearing.
This is part of the reason RP is so seductive, especially the way my main partner and I do it when we're on AIM together--there's the insta-grat "OMG THAT IS AWESOME" feeling. BUT, while we're using our own characters in our improvisational collaborative storytelling, I can't help but feel that it's really just a bare step up from writing fanfic, in that there's no way we're going to get paid for this no matter how awesome it is.
But, hell, I'm not getting paid for my writing anyway. Right?
Welp. Five hundred words. RP tag. Fiction subs. Nose to grindstone.
Sometimes it feels like I'm just banging my head on a wall, you know? I've been at this for years and had a bare handful of stories published. The quality of rejections has been getting better, even on my older stuff, but it's wearing.
This is part of the reason RP is so seductive, especially the way my main partner and I do it when we're on AIM together--there's the insta-grat "OMG THAT IS AWESOME" feeling. BUT, while we're using our own characters in our improvisational collaborative storytelling, I can't help but feel that it's really just a bare step up from writing fanfic, in that there's no way we're going to get paid for this no matter how awesome it is.
But, hell, I'm not getting paid for my writing anyway. Right?
Welp. Five hundred words. RP tag. Fiction subs. Nose to grindstone.
