Friday Rants and Raves - May 30

[sarillia]

Hello everyone! It's another Friday. How is the writing going? Anything to celebrate? Anything you need to vent about? Let's hear it!

This week's picture is by Zdzisław Beksiński. He is another favorite of mine and I definitely recommend looking into his work if you're like me and enjoy fantasy and surrealist art.

Comments

[sarillia]

I'm feeling very motivated lately.

I set a goal of 5,000 words for today. I've written a thousand so far and I'm making good progress on a short story I've been working on for a while. I would love to finish it today and that might actually be possible. Then I could spend the next day or two revising and finally send it off to beta readers so I can start getting experience with getting feedback. I've been writing for years but I have almost no experience with responding to critiques so I'm nervous and excited to see how that goes.

I also picked out a pen name the other day after making my last post. I've set up several accounts under that name, including a Wordpress blog.

I have another goal for myself too. I want to start subbing a story by the time I go to my next psychiatrist appointment next month. Getting to talk to him about meeting a goal is always a great incentive for me. I always feel good about talking to people who have seen me at my worst about how well things are going.

[ljwrites]

Congratulations! Getting feedback can be scary and a bit painful if there's critical stuff in there (and there usually is in the most useful feedback), but I hope it'll be helpful to think of it as an opportunity to grow rather than an indictment on your writing. Story subbing is a great goal too, and something I just did for the first time in my life. More on that in a separate comment.

[sarillia]

Thanks. I think I'm ready to go in with the right mindset. I never would have believed it but I think I have developed rather thick skin. I tend to worry about these sort of things before I do it but then I'm okay once I'm actually dealing with them.