This is a terrible, terrible flowchart because it opens with four questions instead of one. And then, whichever direction you go you end up in the same place. Which… okay, fine. That’s true. The answer to, Should you be writing right now? is always going to be, Yes.
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Kandace Mavrick
Paul McLaughlan
Decoy
07/11/2012
I disagree. Occasionally you should be editing or proofing or submitting or sleeping.
Kandace Mavrick
07/11/2012
Pfft. Editing and proofing still count as writing. Submitting is that thing you’re in denial about. And I am excellent proof that A: sleeping is not as necessary as everyone seems to think, and B: You can still write while doing it.
Decoy
07/11/2012
Oh… well I can see how the definition of writing is extended to things that are not directly putting words on a page. I still contend that just because you can avoid sleep or get very little doesn’t mean you should. You do seem to get sick more often than many otherwise notionally healthy people I know… Also going to cons, going to cons is important. It made you meet that person who said nice things about your words.
Kandace Mavrick
07/11/2012
That’s because I don’t have an immune system, not because I don’t sleep. Or I don’t sleep because I… never mind. That way leads to madness. You may have a point about the conferences though. Although I sort of lump that in with ‘submitting’ in my head and try not to think about it too much lest it make me go mad. Mad-er.
Julia
07/11/2012
I’ve dabbled in this submission thing, but then they want to actually SEE my manuscript. Then I realise how appallingly awful my book really is, freak out, put the book in a folder I will never look at again and start something new. One day I am really going to have to go all the way (as the someone non-sexual said to the someone else giving it a sexual connotation).
I’m with your head on that one.