Originally I wanted to be illustrator or an author. I always loved reading. I've tried writing books and comics since fourth grade. School tried to kill my love of both and succeeded in killing my desire to write for years so I focused on drawing. However, I grew tired of creating characters and beings with no world or narrative to inhabit. So for last year or so I've been actively trying to seriously write a book. I do it on the side as opposed to it being my main career which pays me well. I personally dont like the idea of doing it as my main job because I want to write and create what I want. Doing it for a living I would no doubt be forced to write things I dont care about to keep food on the table and have a stable living. Pay attention to what is selling and all that. I feel making it a "job" would kill my love for it. Plus it's less pressure doing it as a hobby.
I've started writing down all my ideas in a note app and have two years worth of ideas and various chapters. I've written and rewritten things a ton. It's difficult. With drawing I could track my progress easier with writing it's a bit of a toss up. It's like trying to find my way in the dark at times. I have my friends read it and bounce it off them. It helps that they write as well. Self doubt is one of my biggest impediments. I swing between fuck it do it to are you sure you wanna do that? You go to the writing reddit and it's full of self doubt as well so at least I have company. I've given up trying to write what I think will most appeal to others and focus on writing something I would want to read. After awhile the best advice comes down to read some books and just shut up and write. So that's what I've been doing.
At this point I have an idea of the main chunks of story and where I wanna go settled. Sometimes the words come out easy other times it's like pulling teeth. But I've always had the urge to create something all the time. So I keep at it. The genre I want to write is a combination of horror, lovecraft, sci fi, and shounen anime tropes.
Once it's written I would like to illustrate it myself because I can see the world I'm trying to write in my head and I can draw a bit so hopefully one day it will come together. At the moment I'm just focused on not giving up.
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Reply to Do any of you plan on being an author? by NubbyNob
Originally I wanted to be illustrator or an author. I always loved reading. I've tried writing books and comics since fourth grade. School tried to kill my love of both and succeeded in killing my desire to write for years so I focused on drawing. However, I grew tired of creating characters and beings with no world or narrative to inhabit. So for last year or so I've been actively trying to seriously write a book. I do it on the side as opposed to it being my main career which pays me well. I personally dont like the idea of doing it as my main job because I want to write and create what I want. Doing it for a living I would no doubt be forced to write things I dont care about to keep food on the table and have a stable living. Pay attention to what is selling and all that. I feel making it a "job" would kill my love for it. Plus it's less pressure doing it as a hobby.
I've started writing down all my ideas in a note app and have two years worth of ideas and various chapters. I've written and rewritten things a ton. It's difficult. With drawing I could track my progress easier with writing it's a bit of a toss up. It's like trying to find my way in the dark at times. I have my friends read it and bounce it off them. It helps that they write as well. Self doubt is one of my biggest impediments. I swing between fuck it do it to are you sure you wanna do that? You go to the writing reddit and it's full of self doubt as well so at least I have company. I've given up trying to write what I think will most appeal to others and focus on writing something I would want to read. After awhile the best advice comes down to read some books and just shut up and write. So that's what I've been doing.
At this point I have an idea of the main chunks of story and where I wanna go settled. Sometimes the words come out easy other times it's like pulling teeth. But I've always had the urge to create something all the time. So I keep at it. The genre I want to write is a combination of horror, lovecraft, sci fi, and shounen anime tropes.
Once it's written I would like to illustrate it myself because I can see the world I'm trying to write in my head and I can draw a bit so hopefully one day it will come together. At the moment I'm just focused on not giving up.