tri - quite honestly, that article made me physically sick to my stomach as I read it. It also made me want to scream and destroy things.
I, like all of my lovely, talented, hard-working writer buds, have been struggling for a long time, to just get a tiny little break. Some have just started to get publishing deals after years of working and trying; some, myself included, are still stuck in this circle of hell (possibly forever). These are people who work at their craft, who revise and polish and fix, rinse, repeat....
And this Todd person gets six-figure deals and a Netflix movie deal when she started writing on a whim?
I'm all for respecting my fellow writers and I'm in no way disputing the fact that everyone's journey is different. But writing was never a dream or a craft or a career choice for this woman. It was a fluke. She started it because she was bored and her usual supply of fanfiction had dried out. A little bit like the FSoG person, sounds like. Ugh.
In the meantime, here we are. Working so hard, often for years... Begging for scraps of validation from agents or editors... And for what?
I'm sorry if any of this seems harsh. I just can't with stories like this one.
For me, the only valuable takeaway from that article is something that a group of writer friends and I have been chatting about for a while now: the publishing industry model, unchanged since the dawn of time and featuring its series of rules and gatekeepers, is seriously problematic.
Now excuse me while I go throw up.
Once I'm done with that, I guess I'll start to peruse Wattpad more seriously than before.
I, like all of my lovely, talented, hard-working writer buds, have been struggling for a long time, to just get a tiny little break. Some have just started to get publishing deals after years of working and trying; some, myself included, are still stuck in this circle of hell (possibly forever). These are people who work at their craft, who revise and polish and fix, rinse, repeat....
And this Todd person gets six-figure deals and a Netflix movie deal when she started writing on a whim?
I'm all for respecting my fellow writers and I'm in no way disputing the fact that everyone's journey is different. But writing was never a dream or a craft or a career choice for this woman. It was a fluke. She started it because she was bored and her usual supply of fanfiction had dried out. A little bit like the FSoG person, sounds like. Ugh.
In the meantime, here we are. Working so hard, often for years... Begging for scraps of validation from agents or editors... And for what?
I'm sorry if any of this seems harsh. I just can't with stories like this one.
For me, the only valuable takeaway from that article is something that a group of writer friends and I have been chatting about for a while now: the publishing industry model, unchanged since the dawn of time and featuring its series of rules and gatekeepers, is seriously problematic.
Now excuse me while I go throw up.
Once I'm done with that, I guess I'll start to peruse Wattpad more seriously than before.
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