[ SECRET POST #2395 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2395 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Most Popular Girls in School]


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03.
[Welcome to Night Vale]


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04.
[Gerard Way and Frank Iero]


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05.
[Mastumoto Jun]


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06.
[Macdonald Hall]


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07.
[Downton Abbey]


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08.
[Generator Rex]


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09.
[Neil Oliver]


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10.
[Star Trek]


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11.
[Star Trek: TNG]


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12.
[The Vampire Diaries]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 025 secrets from Secret Submission Post #342.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: be honest

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who actually aspires to be a professional writer, I find it slightly offensive that everyone is cool with dismissing artistic life choices as stupid, but oh noes don't you dare criticize stay at home moms!

You just have to be creative. No, I realize I probably won't be the next J.K. Rowling, but that doesn't mean you can write. I've worked for a tourist agency, for example. I made text for brochures. That's also writing, albeit not so creative.

Re: be honest

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT. Hope the writing works out for you! Yes, the double-standard in this particular sub-thread irks.

I think the artistic choices are discouraged because it's harder to make it financially. However, for those with talent and those who really love doing what they do, I think you should take the chance. And you sound more realistic about what's involved - I think some of the artistic ones that are being discouraged are those where people think "everyone will magically see my talent and I will make it big!" Forgetting that people who do make it still work damn hard.

Anyway, like I said. Good luck & best wishes with the writing! (And yes, I'm being absolutely sincere and not sarcastic, BTW.)

Re: be honest

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! Work's been a bit slow, but we'll see. I think what most people don't realize, that once you start dividing your attention between what you love and "plan B" it actually diminishes you chances of getting the job you want. I have done some shitty temp jobs just for the money, but I never saw them as anything but temporary. Being an artist is not crazy if you will settle for just being one, and not being famous. It's the being famous that's a one in a million chance. I come from a family of musicians. Not famous musicians, but people who made a living that way. I know a few actors, too. But they sing in bars, or act in local stage productions and have modest incomes. However, if that's what you love, it beats an office job.

Re: be honest

[(Anonymous)]

Uhhh 'artistic life choice' and 'non-artistic job' are not opposites. JKR had a non-artistic job. Most published writers do. Wanting to write, and wanting to be published, is not the same as wanting writing to be your source of income. It's a shit source of income and I know I'll get far more joy from writing if I do 'divide my attention' as you put it.