I didn't know that you were a writer! How neat! Shouldn't you write because you enjoy it rather than write to have to revise to try and publish?
That's the naïve stance; once you've switched from that to the latter model, you can't go back: You can't help but think "what would be the point of putting all that time in if no one but yourself and a few friends are ever going to read it?"
Of the things you've written(completed or not) what has been your favorite to write?
Oh, that's tricky. I'm not sure. Possibly The Puzzles of Perepiton, as I was still writing blithely, if not so skillfully, away at that stage, and I remember being quite upset when I finished the novel and no longer had the characters for company in my head—they just froze at the point where they were when the novel ended.
What have other people liked the most?
Don't know. I've never got people to do a comparative! (I can tell you what I liked the most—the stories I'm the proudest of—but that's different.)
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Date: 2007-09-09 09:27 pm (UTC)That's the naïve stance; once you've switched from that to the latter model, you can't go back: You can't help but think "what would be the point of putting all that time in if no one but yourself and a few friends are ever going to read it?"
Of the things you've written(completed or not) what has been your favorite to write?
Oh, that's tricky. I'm not sure. Possibly The Puzzles of Perepiton, as I was still writing blithely, if not so skillfully, away at that stage, and I remember being quite upset when I finished the novel and no longer had the characters for company in my head—they just froze at the point where they were when the novel ended.
What have other people liked the most?
Don't know. I've never got people to do a comparative! (I can tell you what I liked the most—the stories I'm the proudest of—but that's different.)