What is something you're certain you would never do, yet find yourself dreaming about? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for sharing your experience, and you are completely right about "chop wood, carry water." I spend a lot of time wondering if I would love or hate signing books for fans, and whether I would want to be involved in making the Netflix series or not.

In other words, I'm not a serious writer. It's a daydream. Intellectually, I know that even if I were to sell the book, or even self publish, it wouldn't change my life. Thousands of books are written and published every year, and success has as much to do with tenacity as it does luck, neither of which I believe I possess is sufficient quantities. But I dream about it the way one would dream about winning the lottery.

You put in the effort, and you should be proud of what you accomplished. Your words and ideas will live on as an indelible testament to your life. Unless it was something weird like hentai fanfic, in which case it's probably better lost to history and you should keep that to yourself.

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