Excellent. I'm in a similar place with a novel I'm writing. While I was doing the first draft, I dreamt of how easy the second draft would be because I LOVE EDITING!! Of course, I'm now full of self loathing on the second draft and remembering the first draft as the good old days!
Hey, I'm a young writer from India. And I just discovered your Substack. This post was really relatable, although I'm not working on any novels, I've been working on many short stories that I'm trying to get published in some literary journals.
I've been struggling as a writer, and most of it probably comes from me being inexperienced. I've been giving way too much time on my writing which is eating into the time for school work. I'm interested in this, and I don't really give a fu*k about academic scores. So naturally, I didn't study for 10th finals, but somehow I scored above average which landed me in a high school that takes studies super seriously. All of my classmates in that school are serious about their studies, while I'm not falling behind in scores, I can't relate to what they keep talking about.
I can't even say to my parents that school is not my first priority because nothing in writing in working. Yet, I can't go back to just studying. Guess, I'm stuck in a weird situation now, which makes me laugh at myself.
This post caught my attention cause I was eating an orange literary two minutes before opening Substack.
Excellent. I'm in a similar place with a novel I'm writing. While I was doing the first draft, I dreamt of how easy the second draft would be because I LOVE EDITING!! Of course, I'm now full of self loathing on the second draft and remembering the first draft as the good old days!
Love the intro to this. I was right there with you eating that satsuma.
Hey, I'm a young writer from India. And I just discovered your Substack. This post was really relatable, although I'm not working on any novels, I've been working on many short stories that I'm trying to get published in some literary journals.
I've been struggling as a writer, and most of it probably comes from me being inexperienced. I've been giving way too much time on my writing which is eating into the time for school work. I'm interested in this, and I don't really give a fu*k about academic scores. So naturally, I didn't study for 10th finals, but somehow I scored above average which landed me in a high school that takes studies super seriously. All of my classmates in that school are serious about their studies, while I'm not falling behind in scores, I can't relate to what they keep talking about.
I can't even say to my parents that school is not my first priority because nothing in writing in working. Yet, I can't go back to just studying. Guess, I'm stuck in a weird situation now, which makes me laugh at myself.
This post caught my attention cause I was eating an orange literary two minutes before opening Substack.