This is not one of those, I’m done, I quit posts. It’s not. What it is, is just this. I’m NOT burnt out. I’m not. Okay, maybe I am. I don’t know. I still love my work, but I am completely disconnected from it. I have tried everything I can and I’m still sitting down and having bursts of work, then I’m sitting there, time passes and it’s just like there’s nothing between my pen and whatever I’m working on.
Oh, I can write like crazy and I’ve written hundreds of scripts, but I can’t draw in anything but short bursts. It’s very upsetting. I’m sitting in the middle of covid land in Texas. I’ve been in a house of people always around me and I don’t have a private space to work in, with a door.
So I’ve written, and written, and written. Then I began editing and working on writing better (and drawing better, btw, when I can, because I’m still trying to KICK it back into gear. I submitted a book, got an ask for the full manuscript. That is actually good, that one submission equaled a call for the manuscript, but it stopped there, probably because I need an editor to go further.
I put out a request to editors to see what the pricing was like and I received a message back from someone who loved the world and the characters and wanted to help polish it. Someone, who btw, has edited and chosen best selling novels by popular authors. That is special. She is on the high end of editors, but her experience would make her invaluable and erk, I was told a ten day scheduling date and went, oh…. Kaaay…. I was under the impression these things took much longer to get going!
So I am currently at, I need to make a change and I need to polish one book to send to agents, because this one isn’t a just put it on Amazon and see what happens, it’s a, this is the one that needs to be in front of people’s eyes. She offers four packages. Two might as well be millions, because they’re unattainable, that leaves a $1,000 tier and a $2,500 tier. I’m going for the lowest. It’s not a full manuscript read, but her insight and experience would be invaluable and she’s choosy. It will cost me another $1,000 later for a general edit.
At this time—yay covid—that’s even more difficult. So I’m just putting it out there. I need to make a change and open up new avenues. It may be years before I can get it picked up and if it doesn’t, I will go on to publish the entire series of a dozen novels on Amazon and self publish. It’s just that I would like to take the chance to really try to seek traditional publishing first.
So, this story I’m doing is parts and pieces of the Dragonfae things I keep doing in Patreon. This one is the lynchpin that holds the entire universe together starting witha little fairy princess ‘tricking’ a wild Dragonfae prince into being her friend. By tricking, I mean, she leaves him little bundles of treats in the forest with her smell all over them until he begins associating her with the treats. 😀 Why, yes, they do become friends… and stuff happens, lots of cool stuff! I promise you, it’s fun and not your standard fairy story, because these guys live in Texas.
I’m throwing it out there and adding, yes, I am still trying to get my comic work done. I know it’s going to get worse before it gets better. I have to sit on top of my daughter who has been out of the house four times since March. :/ School is NOT going to be fun, because it’s now all at home. 🙁 This is what’s destroying me… but I can still write.
Thank you for reading all that if you got to the end. I’ve stopped mentioning the issues with working, because it’s not going away and I’m just a broken record. I just want to write and create and draw and be left alone for 8 or 9 hours without anyone talking to me. 🙁
– Tiff
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Vote For a Story!
I have begun writing the story and you can find samples in Discord!
So far, I’ve ordered everything except the CPU. Price fluctuations caused the amount I raised to not be enough. Price jumped way high after the sales period I posted this in. 🙁
Welp, I am in the writing mood and have been for awhile, because it’s FASTER than comics and when I’m stressed, it seems like writing is a lot easier. Various disasters in November have me in the hole by $700 after eating all my funds for the upgrade. So here is the plan! I need to earn $500 ASAP so I can get the parts to upgrade my desktop into something I can actually use. Part list here. This is what I’m after. (Case has been purchased and removed.)
NOW, how to get it. I’ll write a minimum 25,000 word story featuring two characters and a theme if the $500 goal is reached. There will still be a short story if it’s not, it just won’t be as long. You get to choose the two characters, one male, one female, and the theme. So you make three choices. ONE from each list. Donate to the Ko-fi or paypal link and note your choices. $1 = 1 point. (Tallies will be updated here too!) At the end of two weeks, I will tally up the points and begin writing. The story will be posted here for all to read in its first draft form.
This Vote ends on December 8th when I get up!
Goal: $500
Total amount Raised: $500 – Goal met, but the prices went up so am waiting for them to hopefully drop again soon!
Male Character
- Darius – 392
- Syrys – 0
- Vincent – 0
- Kel – 0
- Darrik – 0
- Lucian – 108
Female Character
- Sheana – 0
- Delia (That girl wolf who likes Syrys) – 0
- Celina – 362
- Brynn – 0
- Silver – 30
- Tira – 108
Theme
- Lost – 0
- Love – 362
- Shipwreck – 138
- Mission – 0
- Miscommunication – 0
- Resolution Day (Christmas) – 0
- Resolution Day (Thanksgiving) – 0
- Suggested Theme added here – 0