"The biggest problem with writing your passion project is the possibility that your skill will leave you disappointed in how it’s progressing. While it’s possible it will just go beautifully, for most of us, it can be very frustrating when the vision of a book we have in our mind doesn’t match the thing coming out on the page. I’ve known people who get very discouraged by this and quit writing."

@sim One of the reason why I'm not sure if I wanna get into writing, especially since I'm a complete beginner with no prior skills at it

Second point is that it basically won't have any local publishing potential

@coolboymew @sim I've written some normie stuff under my real name and I have little hope of it ever finding a wide audience. I write anyway because I enjoy writing.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad @sim I've always been like that and I should stop

I never start doing anything because it'll most likely end up in failure or failing along the way

@coolboymew @noyoushutthefuckupdad "Turn off your internal editor. Understand that your first book just isn’t going to be very good, and that’s just fine. Practice writing it, because that’s how you’ll learn to write. Do it consistently. Set a time every day or every week you write. Consistently keep that time or goal. Work on your books. Don’t let yourself write a first chapter, throw it away, and write another one, throw it away, and write another one. Force yourself to finish."

@sim @noyoushutthefuckupdad Yeah, pretty sure I've read the same thing at some point too. I really gotta shut up and get to it

@coolboymew @noyoushutthefuckupdad Yeah. Look into Brandon Sanderson if you want more motivation to shut up and get to it. ;) He even has a writing lecture which you can watch for free on youtube.

@sim @coolboymew I listened to Sanderson's podcast once and he had some dumb feminist on who said that even more handouts need to be given to womyn, homos, and pock. even if Sanderson wanted to contradict her, he couldn't, not without harming his career for questioning someone higher on the social justice caste system.

I like the guy's books, and I don't blame him for not wanting to start a fight with some lying apparatchik who could destroy him despite his money and fame.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad @coolboymew Yeah... that is a sucky situation to be in. It's one of the things that put me off from trying to make a career out of writing. I'd have to deal with these people who have infiltrated it. Not worth starting a career-destroying fight over. I just know I'd be an outcast.

@sim @coolboymew Vox Day has made a career out of being both a writer and a thought-criminal, but he's also an egotistical twat that no one wants to deal with.