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Originally Posted by jenna26
But I write more for me than other people, and if that's all it ever comes to, I guess I will have to be happy with that.
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I read an interview with the guy who got me started on writing (Bob Salvatore) and he said something that has stuck with me since then:
When he was aksed by someone how to write to sell, and how good a living you could make, he said the money can be great, but write as if you will never sell a thing, write what you want to write and would want to read, with the thought that you will be the only person that will ever see it. If you thik like that and still feel the need to write, then you have the first step at what it takes to be successful.
There are talented people out there with no passion, and it shows through. I stopped reading Koontz because it felt like he wrote for the paycheck, not the passion.
I write because the stories play out in my head regardless of if i put them to paper or not, so I might as well try to make a living out of it :)