3rd Post in a Row

[oy_angelina]

::Pushes Tumbleweeds off the screen::

Okay - let's be honest, Aspiring Authors: how do you see your career in professional writing turning out? Is it going to be part-time work, modest earnings and minimal fame, or are you expecting to be a bestseller with JKR/Stephan King bank?

I just want to see where people see their talent taking them.

Comments

[ellajobberknoll]

Apologies that you seem to have to keep starting off all these topics! I'm actually just finishing reading a VERY well-written book, so I may be posting a bit on that soon to see if anyone else has read it. That's something, right

[ellajobberknoll]

Ugh just ignore that 'what I expect' bit above because it hardly makes any sense.

And excuse my terrible spelling, *worth not forth.

Wow it's 11:15 p.m. Maybe that's why my typing's off par.

[shrk_bait]

I would also like to have the fame of JKR (i mean, honestly, who doesn't?) but I don't see myself that way in the future. To be quite honest, I don't think my writing is all that great and certainly not worthy of the praise JKR gets for Harry Potter.

I would be satisfied just getting published. I wish I could say I expect to get published and become somewhat mainstream, but I can't honestly say that. I don't expect much from my writing. It makes me happy and while all my dreams would be fulfilled if I could only get published (not even famous), I'm happy just to write.

Writing, as much as I adore it and as much as I want it to be my only profession, probably won't end up that way. I will most likely end up a part-time writer who doesn't make much and is practically unknown. That, or (i'm struggling not to be pessimisstic) I will spend my entire life trying to get published. Do I want more? Of course.

We'll see. Maybe if I get inspired by a good idea and work on it, things will turn out better than I expect. :)

[omnifairyous]

Similar to shrk_bait's comment, my future in writing will probably not be at the level of bestsellers. Considering my goal is to publish *something*, I'd say I wouldn't even be a lesser-known writer. I'll just be a tiny dot in the history of literature... but I'll die happy if I get to publish one book!

[ellajobberknoll]

Oh yes if some actually DARED to say I was as good as Jo, I'm almost certain I'd be screaming, "BlASPHEMY!" at the top of my lungs. She deserves every bit of praise she's gotten for creating Harry Potter; she's a legend in her own time, for Merlin's sake! I could never get even near to what she is right now; I'm not sure anyone can.

[ellajobberknoll]

Ahem. Yes that word is "BLASPHEMY" if you can't tell. Apparently the 'l' didn't get capitilized in my rant.

[oy_angelina]

I would personally like to be in similar circles to Neil Gaiman. If some of you have no idea who he is, I've made my point. Gaiman is a legend to handfuls of people, a recognizeable name to some, and unknown by the rest. He makes enough money to support his family on writing alone, he is known for a few wonderful books, and doesn't have his life pinned under the media scope

[shrk_bait]

haha good point! :)

[anokam]

Good question. *laughs* I've no idea. But I see myself - if I ever get published, that is - as turning out to be a mildly sucessful author, with modest earnings and very minimal fame. *shrugs* Turning out to be bestseller would be beyond amazing, but...I really don't see that in the future.

What about you?

[redhead10]

Hmmm... well, I definately ASPIRE to be an author, though I'm not certain if it'll work out. I definately WANT to be published...but I don't know if I'm good enough. I'm fourteen, after all.
I kind of picture myself a really lesser-known author, but one who can support themselves okay. Hmmm. Of course everybody wants to be a bestseller, but there's a .0000001% chance of that happening for me.