Comments on: On Giving Up on Fiction Writing http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/09/on-giving-up-on-fiction-writing/ Writing | Photography | Web Design Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:48:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike Brotherton http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/09/on-giving-up-on-fiction-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-63372 Mike Brotherton Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:34:27 +0000 http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/?p=427#comment-63372 I wind up taking off relatively long periods myself but never actually formally "stop" and you don't have to either. Keep thinking about stuff, and when/if it has to come out, it will. Don't worry about forcing it. The bug will bite when it is hungry and you don't have to feed it regularly. I wind up taking off relatively long periods myself but never actually formally “stop” and you don’t have to either. Keep thinking about stuff, and when/if it has to come out, it will. Don’t worry about forcing it. The bug will bite when it is hungry and you don’t have to feed it regularly.

]]> By: Kim H Peres http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/09/on-giving-up-on-fiction-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-23716 Kim H Peres Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:46:58 +0000 http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/?p=427#comment-23716 Just came across your site from Google blog search. I can empathize. There are times life takes over and writing is the furthest things from my mind. In fact I don't submit anything I write to anybody so I can't imagine what rejection would feel like because I don't even put myself out there that way. I hope things get better and you find your way back. Just came across your site from Google blog search. I can empathize. There are times life takes over and writing is the furthest things from my mind.

In fact I don’t submit anything I write to anybody so I can’t imagine what rejection would feel like because I don’t even put myself out there that way.

I hope things get better and you find your way back.

]]> By: Nathan Ballingrud http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/09/on-giving-up-on-fiction-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-22693 Nathan Ballingrud Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:56:54 +0000 http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/?p=427#comment-22693 Life, and your happiness with it, is far more important that writing will ever be. It's important to remember that. I sold my first story to F&SF back in the mid nineties, and then gave up writing for about ten years. I needed to for my own reasons; when I was ready, I came back to it. And I'm better for it -- a better writer, but more importantly a better person. If you feel it's time to stop writing for a while, then do it, and do it without regret. It'll always be there for you when you want it or need it. Life, and your happiness with it, is far more important that writing will ever be. It’s important to remember that. I sold my first story to F&SF back in the mid nineties, and then gave up writing for about ten years. I needed to for my own reasons; when I was ready, I came back to it. And I’m better for it — a better writer, but more importantly a better person. If you feel it’s time to stop writing for a while, then do it, and do it without regret. It’ll always be there for you when you want it or need it.

]]> By: Paul Raven http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/09/on-giving-up-on-fiction-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-22687 Paul Raven Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:36:07 +0000 http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/?p=427#comment-22687 I hope you'll come back to writing, man, because I think you're good at it - you care about what you do, which seems to be the major dividing line between the hopeless and the hopeful. But hell knows I understand the time pressure thing - all those advice posts about scheduling time every day are all very well, but there are situations where you just don't have the time spare if you want to keep paying the bills and looking after your family, and you shouldn't feel guilty or bad about that. It shows you're not selfish, if nothing else. ;) I'm not going to stop following your doings, at least - in an admittedly vicarious internet way (but no less valid for that), I count you as a friend. Good luck! I hope you’ll come back to writing, man, because I think you’re good at it — you care about what you do, which seems to be the major dividing line between the hopeless and the hopeful. But hell knows I understand the time pressure thing — all those advice posts about scheduling time every day are all very well, but there are situations where you just don’t have the time spare if you want to keep paying the bills and looking after your family, and you shouldn’t feel guilty or bad about that. It shows you’re not selfish, if nothing else. ;) I’m not going to stop following your doings, at least — in an admittedly vicarious internet way (but no less valid for that), I count you as a friend. Good luck!

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