what-hos-there:

msstarlight:

@onceuponsomechaos replied to your post “I am in a really funky mood today. Have sort of settled into this…”

I still love ya. 🙂 And I’m pretty sure the bipolar-ish feelings on writing are also normal.

I think I may have hit upon the secret to novel writing. (At least, MY secret to novel writing.) Letting go of the idea that “I’m going to publish this someday!” has been really helpful. I’m less anxious about every word I write. Not so hard on myself. So I’m just moving forward with the attitude of “Well, this is what pleases ME, so I’m going to do it.”

Might not be a great attitude to have when it finally comes time to edit and revise, but for drafting it’s been really nice.

Plus, getting a book published is so damn hard and the chances of it actually happening for me are so low that it almost doesn’t bear thinking about anyway. Like, if it turns out other people like it and it goes somewhere, great. If not, whatever. Not giving a damn can be pretty great. 

I am totally with you about how much more wonderful it is to write for oneself, with no end goal of publication in sight!