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Originally Posted by purpledaisy
Take advantage of the urge to write!
I'm active in a regional nonprofit group for writers, and I really want to encourage you to find a similar group in your area.
Especially a group that has a critique group. That's vital to all writers. Writing is such a solitary act, and you need feedback from other writers. Not feedback from a spouse, parent, good friend -- unless that person happens to be a writer. You need writers to point out what's good and what needs a little more work, and you need to do this before you send it to an editor or agent.
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I've never heard of this before. I used to belong to a web site... that I can't remember the name of... Anyway, it was full of writers and you would write and post and then based on something they would choose so many a month to be sent to an editor or agent or something. That's when I did my last 12 chapters of writing. It was great to get feedback and from people who don't know me at all and so won't sugar coat things.
Well, then they changed the format and how things worked and it was stupid, so I lost interest. But then I found authonomy.com which is owned by Harper Collins and it's similar and people can read your work and comment and then based on votes every month they choose 5 works to publish. I re-joined the site a few months ago but can't get anything together to post...
I've learned that no one you know, not spouse, friend, or family member, will ever read what you've written. They just don't care. I started a blog sort of, except I was trying to make each post a chapter. I would upload the link to Facebook each time I put up a new chapter. My family, who always go on about what a great writer I was and how I should have worked harder to get published, didn't even bother to view it. Didn't even both to push "like" when I would say "I'm trying to get back into writing." And of course that's not the first time that has happened.
So, I took the whole thing down when I was depressed.