[ SECRET POST #2466 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2466 ⌋

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Notes:

Late day at work, sorry.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Still no. Do you think there's no published writers out there who have ever gone through a period where they got so discouraged they gave up on writing? And does doing so somehow invalidate any writing they've done before? All this 'you're not a writer' stuff is seriously such a shit thing to tell someone, especially while they're feeling discouraged. How tremendously unhelpful. Writers are not some special club of magical creatures who never hit roadblocks, and to jump on someone for feeling like giving up when that happens, whether you think their reasons are petty or not, and tell them that they're not really a writer is ridiculous. That accomplishes nothing except discouraging them further.

[(Anonymous)]

OP can do with some discouraging, if you ask me.

[(Anonymous)]

Going off the actual content of the secret, this is not someone who is going through a dry spell feeling discouraged. This is someone who's ragequitting writing and saying they don't want to write anymore because someone they deems Unworthy is popular. How, exactly, are you still a writer if you've decided you're not going to write anymore, because you're not going to cast your pearls before swine? We have no way of knowing whether OP has ever even done any actual writing. TBH, my money is on "No."

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe we're reading the secret slightly differently? I'm in no way saying that the OP has a good attitude (my original comment was more directed at the idea that people aren't really writers if they're not a certain way, and I was thinking more in general terms than just the OP's situation), but I'm not reading it so much as 'this Unworthy person is popular so I must ragequit' but more like 'I've realised that talent isn't the only factor in people being published and I haven't figured out how to deal with that reality so I'm lashing out at the unfairness.' I would hope that they do get over that attitude. It's pretty crap. But I also don't think that acting like that now somehow means they'll never get over it.

So curious what you're defining as 'actual writing'.

[(Anonymous)]

Anything that involves expressing, organizing and polishing your thoughts in order to convey them to someone else in the most felicitous way possible. So short stories, poetry, newspaper articles, book reviews, fanfic, essays, nonfiction, novels, plays--anything from a one-paragraph blurb in the newspaper to a seven-book fiction series to a mongraph about agricultural economics. On the other hand, I don't count posts on forums, or RP chat logs, or character profiles, which are basically just notes for yourself, like a to-do list. To me, the crucial part is that you are doing the work of expressing yourself in an organized way, as precisely and even gracefully as possible--the work of writing to be understood by someone else. (Including your future self.)

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Oh, and one more thing, which I suspect you'll disagree with: actual writing requires that you finish something now and then. People who never finish anything (like me) are not writers; we are playing at writing.