The neverending feeling of incompleteness

[Liz]

So...I just started my third book (don't plan on doing the agent dance this time just want to go straight to self-publishing.) Anyone wrote books themselves? I'm I ever going to feel the need to stop writing books? lol

[Rayanne]

Liz wrote: "So...I just started my third book (don't plan on doing the agent dance this time just want to go straight to self-publishing.) Anyone wrote books themselves? I'm I ever going to feel the need to st..."

I made a conscience decision to self-publish my romance novels because the traditional publishing industry is an unsustainable business model in the long-term. Have just completed my third manuscript which only means I have several more months ahead of me on editing processes. Plan to publish that by 3/1/15 and begin work on #4.

I suppose you will stop writing when/if you conclude there are no more stories to tell, or you are otherwise incapacitated/precluded from writing.

[Abigail]

Pretty much agree with what everyone else said. You'll stop when you no longer feel the call.

[K.P.]

I went to self publishing after getting the 600th form rejection letter stating that "This isn't exactly what we're looking for". Despite my making sure the publisher published the genre I was writing for.

The Agency series took me 10 years to write. I was finally done when I got the story told the way it was meant to be told. It came out in two different versions which I didn't like. I could either pull a mainstream pile of crap out my butt and make mooga bucks, or write the story the way it's supposed to be and be broke, yet satisfied that the way it's written the way it is now. and very few people "get it". >_>

Yeah, rewrites suck, but no one pulls bestsellers out their butts the first time around.

[S.]

owww..the title of this thread is interesting..

[Liz]

Thanks for the feedback. its always interesting to hear about other writers and their experiences. But thanks all...there is always a story to tell....don't know whether its a burden or a gift!

[L.F.]

I've been writing for fifty years...see no reason to stop now :)