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Feb. 1st, 2010 06:57 pmI'm almost done Faeriestone; I've got five chapters left to write (it'll be 22 chapters when finished). I love how it's turned out, how the characters have ended, how everything has progressed. I have two people betaing it for me, and both they and one other have all loved the story as it has unfolded, and it's made me happy to write it.
But the closer it gets to being complete, the more anxious I've been getting, because when it's done that means I have to start trying to get it published. That terrifies me.
I've heard of all the difficulties; I've read websites going on about how to get yourself published. I've even looked at self publishers, but those all seem to not only cost an arm-and-a-leg, but to be full of scams and horror stories. I know my best bet is to find an agent and then work with them to get a publisher, but I hate talking to people. I don't like trying to sell myself, or my work, and that's exactly what I'll have to do.
Just thinking about it is making me anxious and tense, and that's the last thing I need while I'm still in the middle of school.
I've also been making myself frames the past few days, and they're fun and have been turning out really pretty. But last night my mom suggested maybe trying to make a little profit off my frames and door signs and the like, and after looking into entrepreneurship a bit today I see even that is hard to do.
Why is it everything I'm good at is hard to use as a career? I'd really like to just win a million and disappear from the world now, I swear.
But the closer it gets to being complete, the more anxious I've been getting, because when it's done that means I have to start trying to get it published. That terrifies me.
I've heard of all the difficulties; I've read websites going on about how to get yourself published. I've even looked at self publishers, but those all seem to not only cost an arm-and-a-leg, but to be full of scams and horror stories. I know my best bet is to find an agent and then work with them to get a publisher, but I hate talking to people. I don't like trying to sell myself, or my work, and that's exactly what I'll have to do.
Just thinking about it is making me anxious and tense, and that's the last thing I need while I'm still in the middle of school.
I've also been making myself frames the past few days, and they're fun and have been turning out really pretty. But last night my mom suggested maybe trying to make a little profit off my frames and door signs and the like, and after looking into entrepreneurship a bit today I see even that is hard to do.
Why is it everything I'm good at is hard to use as a career? I'd really like to just win a million and disappear from the world now, I swear.
