I've wanted to be a writer ever since I was eleven, but the truth is, I already was a writer a long time ago when I wrote my first novel. I already am a writer.
So what is my goal? To be published! I'm looking up how to publish my book, but Google doesn't really say how I get into the publishing business. So I compare myself to other aspiring-to-be-published writers. They apparently all have blogs so now I have a blog!
But no one reads my blog! There's only one fourteen-year-old that reads this and occasionally I show posts to my friends. That's my entire audience.
How sad. That just goes to show how introverted I am. If I was good with people and everything, I'd be diving head-first into the writing world, but people kind of scare me. In order to be published though, I must deal with people no matter how much I don't want to. For the first time in my life, I will have to figure out how to be popular becuase the well-known people are the ones who get published.
Also, there's another problem I have with the publishing industry. You're not writing for you, you're writing for everybody else. You start to become insecure and wonder if so and so will like the story. You try to figure out what they may not like and try to correct it, but you realize that what you did was not fixing anything, but making it worse. Ick!
No wonder J.D. Salinger drank his own urine.
When I get insecure, I just hand some of my manuscript to someone else to look over and ask if anything needs fixing.
Just writing about the publishing industry makes my heartbeat quicken. There should be a college degree specifically for authors that want to learn the ropes of the publishing industry. I will think of a name for that degree later.
-Sigh- I'm a writer. Yipee. How do I become more than just a writer?
Dude, read this post. Then read this one. Do you have any idea how many of us are introverts, including yours truly?
ReplyDeleteAnd you know what? You do write for yourself. You just do it with the assumption (and hope) that none of us are so completely unique that what appeals to us won't appeal to other people, too. Maybe lots of other people.
I'm not all the way there yet, but I haven't gotten as far as I have by being anything other than myself. I have never been either popular or outgoing.
As for learning about the publishing industry, there's no better place than AgentQuery Connect. Seriously. We boast the whole range, from newbies to agented writers to soon-to-be-published to already-published. Anything you could want to learn is there.
I read the two posts and there were some good points. Introversion can help us in many different ways, it's just hard to get ourselves out there sometimes.
DeleteI've been thinking about joining AgentQuery Connect for a while now...Maybe it's time I finally did.