You don't have to believe it will be a cult classic that will sell thousands of copies for you to take a chance. Isn't sharing your work with as many people as you possibly can an essential component of being an author? You should want people to read your work all the time.

And to top things off I think you do want people to read it but you are scared to face their criticism of your life's work. If you didn't want people to read your novel you wouldn't even let them know you were writing it and that's exactly what this blog was about.

Hopefully you regain some confidence and are able to finish the novel because it sounds like it's something you really care about. And if you are truly passionate about something then you will undoubtedly do an amazing job.

IskatuMesk

Canada969 Posts

December 03 2010 16:30 GMT

#22

I'm more worried of plagiarism than anything. In the communities I come from, much of my work has already been stolen from my mods without my consent and efforts to stem this have failed. All of my work is private because of that, now.

-Frog-

United States514 Posts

December 03 2010 16:32 GMT

#23

That makes a lot of sense, but I was really referring to this quote by you:

"One of many reasons why I keep the writing private and do not plan to ever release it."

That is what seems fundamentally wrong to me - not your preference to keep is secret while you are still writing.

Thrill

2599 Posts

December 03 2010 16:40 GMT

#24

Well, like it or not you've become part of TL now. I first read your name wrong - as "IkatskuMengsk" so that's what you're known as to me, but the point is that you're known: a recognized character in the TL saga.

So don't drift of too far into space in your pursuit of an alternate universe - the one we're already in is pretty awesome.

You should have snow now over in Canada right? Just think about how mind boggling the concept of snow is for a moment - a cold rain that transforms nature, eliminates color and warps the texture of our planets surface. Imagine the hypothetical fascination of a member of an indigenous tribe who's never seen snow before when confronted with it for the first time. Our world can be pretty amazing and is the source of all imagination :>

Random()

Kyrgyz Republic1462 Posts

December 03 2010 16:45 GMT

#25

Heh, the title is about me too.

I have to finish writing my PhD thesis asap. It's like 70% complete and I know what I want to say in the rest of it, but it takes me soooo long to put my thoughts into words that I get really mad at myself for being so slow and dumb. It is really such an annoying feeling, knowing EXACTLY what you want to say but just not being able to translate it into words quickly.

IskatuMesk

Canada969 Posts

December 03 2010 16:56 GMT

#26

On December 04 2010 01:32 -Frog- wrote:
That makes a lot of sense, but I was really referring to this quote by you:

"One of many reasons why I keep the writing private and do not plan to ever release it."

That is what seems fundamentally wrong to me - not your preference to keep is secret while you are still writing.

Meh. People have tried to argue about it before. I have a lot of reasons, but that's one of the big ones. I've never desired a big audience for my writing. I have a half dozen or so readers. Most others I asked never responded to me after much less provided any kind of feedback, so I just stopped looking. I don't know many people. I don't think that mindset will change after the first book is completed, if it's ever completed, anyways. Maybe by then I'll know more people on TL enough to trust them? We shall see...

We had snow for like... half a day. I wish we got more.

Mothra

United States1448 Posts

December 03 2010 17:34 GMT

#27

Your writing is pretty good. Much better than most stuff randomly posted on internet.

Roe

Canada6002 Posts

December 03 2010 18:18 GMT

#28

That's nothing kid. There are people MUCH more stupid than you, especially me. I've got nothing to offer to the world and I thought I would be a good writer, and always fail at it. At least you have good writing, and people will like it, I know it. Trust me, you've got it better off in life if you just publish it and take a chance.

Dance.

United States389 Posts

December 03 2010 18:43 GMT

#29

Stupidity does have its disadvantages...

onmach

United States1241 Posts

December 03 2010 18:46 GMT

#30

I always figured if I was going to write a monstrous book, I'd make a brief outline on the major points. Then make a short draft filling in more detail on every point, then write the pieces of the book in whatever order I felt like until it was done.

The idea of doing something from beginning to end having to perfect every piece along the way seems like a recipe for failure. The perfectionist in me would completely sabotage everything.

besiger

Croatia2452 Posts

December 03 2010 19:34 GMT

#31

just dropping by to say hi, and to let you know that theres one person more who likes reading what you write and create, your universe, or what I've gleamed of it through your blogs interests me.

ShaperofDreams

Canada2492 Posts

December 03 2010 19:36 GMT

#32

I believe in you iskatu. 600,000 words is really impressive! That's gonna be hell to redraft. i like your writing from what iv seen, remember a lot of the editing process is cutting stuff out, something Robert Jordan did not understand haha.

Just keep swimming!

OrderlyChaos

United States1115 Posts

December 03 2010 20:16 GMT

#33

I've always enjoyed your blogs, and I liked the excerpt you posted. Just wanted to support what you've been doing so far.

IskatuMesk

Canada969 Posts

December 04 2010 00:19 GMT

#34

On December 04 2010 03:46 onmach wrote:
I always figured if I was going to write a monstrous book, I'd make a brief outline on the major points. Then make a short draft filling in more detail on every point, then write the pieces of the book in whatever order I felt like until it was done.

The idea of doing something from beginning to end having to perfect every piece along the way seems like a recipe for failure. The perfectionist in me would completely sabotage everything.

It's not entirely from beginning to end. I have pieces from near the end of the book, near the end of Segment 3, and most of Segment 1-2 written. However, the revision must be written from the ground up, because it's so enormous of a revision that I would only be making more work for myself by trying to revise the stuff later on that's likely to change once again due to the content changed before it (or content that doesn't even exist yet).

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