Comments on: Let me Crush Your Dreams For You (7/3/2013)

By: E L Jasmine

E L Jasmine — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:03:51 +0000

OH MY GOD. You got me with the first sentence alone. Many people today are jumping on the Kindle revolution bandwagon because they keep about all these new authors that are making millions of dollars.

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By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:52:46 +0000

Don’t rip out your own tongue – how will you then taste wine, curry or beer ?

By: Pabkins

Pabkins — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:22:49 +0000

I guess I’ll never be a writer haha – not that I have the huge desire to. It makes me wonder just how many people out there go “Hmm I should write a book someday” but yeah like you said – a writer would just DO it!

By: Sierra Dragon

Sierra Dragon — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:30:38 +0000

Write on!
From the perspective of a pure amateur writer you are exactly right! I’m a professional engineer and project manager who likes to write but has never entertained the illusion that I’m the next JRR Tolkien, Tom Clancy or Steven King trapped in a dead end salary job that doesn’t allow me to express my creativity. I don’t “write” because I expect I’ll ever replace or even supplement my very nice six figure salary. Unlike most, I actually like my job. I get great satisfaction actually creating actual value out of the bullshit bureaucracy and stupidity that inevitably spawns out of any large human endeavour. I’m happy with the justification that I might improve the life of the average shareholder that “the powers that be” have duped into investing their pensions into the multinational corporation I work for.
I write because it’s feels nice to every so often escape from the world of writing nothing but technical opinions, project management plans and risk contingency strategies to once in a while to withdrawal from writing Technical Papers, Project Execution Plans and Risk Contingencies to write something just for myself and maybe my kids.
Am I a writer? I read somewhere that you’re not a real writer until you’ve published. Well I’ve “published” more material than pretty much any but the most prolific novelists. It’s just that the vast bulk of my word count has a watermark behind it labelled “confidential” and never sees the light of day.
By the commentators definition? Probably not. Is that going to stop me from writing? Not a chance!.

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By: Michael P

Michael P — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:47:39 +0000

Thank you. Thank you -so- much for putting this up.
“In that time there were fallow times, years long, were I didn’t work on my stories at all. Was I a writer then? Not sure. Did I want to be? Yes. Should I have given up? Apparently not.”
That statement alone describes how I have been feeling. Five or six years ago, I felt as though I was able to churn out more, to work more steadily on pieces, even if they’re not going to be published or seen by many other than a few friends. And now I’m at a point where I might write on pieces, new or old, only a few times a year. I -want- to write, but there’s often a conflicting interest in my mind that’s competing with that spot, with that drive. Does this lack of writing make me less a writer? I highly think not, and frankly, the statement that started off all of this is indeed an ill-conceived and probably not a well-thought-out tweet by someone. Or maybe, in some way, it’s their own attempt to get people to look at their writing habits and kick it up to the next gear.
So thank you, as a published author, for looking at this and responding as you did. It certainly helps people like me understand what it’s like for -you- and other published authors, and what we can do to strive towards some of our own goals.
Keep on writing, and I’ll keep on looking for dragons.

By: Charles F Bond

Charles F Bond — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 07:07:14 +0000

Hello Stephen. I have only scratched the surface as far as reading your work goes. I was introduced to The Adamantine Palace as a tool for enhancing my own writing. I loved every page and certainly glad you came back from that short spell of not writing very much. I have just come back to it myself, having spent the last year working on a piggery in Perthshire, I loved every day on that farm, but I have learned that that wasn’t what I really wanted to do.
I look forward to getting more copies of your work and wish you well with your current projects.
Charles.