Greetings all. Now I have to admit i consider myself an atrocious writer but I keep struggling because for some reason I feel I have a story to tell (one of life's greatest cruelties i guess. What we can't obtain we dream about, and what we dream about we seek to obtain). I love the fantasy genre and am always trying to get out a novel in that vein though not the child becomes hero types, for myself the interest is in the social/racial/political aspects of it. My biggest weakness...too imaginative. I can barely get out a sentence before I'm off thinking about something else which is a pain in the backside I must admit. Anyway, hopefully I can offer some meager advice and recieve some super advice in return!
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Hello! I love that quote ^ and I find it quite true. [Also, this is my first time trying to quote someone in a reply sooo I hope it works.. ] As long as you feel you've got something to say, you should say it! Err, well, you should write it, I mean. I wish you the best of luck and hope you don't give up on your writing. I myself find my own work rather "atrocious" to say the least, and I've been told to give it up. But I'm so incredibly passionate about it, and I've come to believe that's all that matters. A friend of mine, who also happens to be an incredible writer, once said something along the lines of, "It doesn't matter if I can write for the world; at least I can write for myself."
