Write you…
Photo by Tirachard Kumtanom on Pexels.comA lot of advice I received in creative writing classes was pretty much write whats popular. Writing popular themes might get you up there. But then again. I’ve also read people who have done that but never succeeded. By Then I was already writing what I wanted to write. When Awaken the Elements was originally named Munched I had attempted to get it out there, but well the denials spoke for themselves. The rejections I received were mostly-we don’t sell that genre or not interested at the time.
I never let it get to me and continued to write. Writing is my therapy. It keeps me sane in my crazy world. In my worlds I can kill off people that get me mad and I won’t get arrested. I try my hardest to research enough to make my stories seem real enough. I try, I really do, to make a great story. I am not perfect, and no one really is. But my stories scream to be written in my brain. I lose sleep as the stories talk to me. I will tell you one thing I never expected to be an Author. Really I just like to write. So I write what I like to write, and usually it isn’t popular or in.
Not once did I ever think I would be published, I secretly wanted to be, but then again I get nervous when I think of people reading my stuff. People can be cruel, but I learned that I am my worst critic. I have to remind myself that and move on to my next project. Originally I was picked up by a small publishing company, and well lesson learned when the person who ran it closed down and took all the money. So I moved over to self-publishing. It lets us writers not stick to one genre. We can do weird, and there is no one telling us we don’t publish that. So I can write whatever I like. If you want to read it then please do and if you don’t then don’t. But maybe down the line I will create something you might enjoy so keep me in mind.
