Do you write for its own sake, or for wealth & stars against your name?
I started writing fiction from an academic background. I was taking a kind of sabbatical and toying with the dream of being a novelist, only to find that fiction writing is arguably harder than academic work, at least in the sense that there is only your own imagination to rely on, and you have invent everything yourself.
Like every other writer here I wrote until something like a novel emerged, and then I sent it out with great expectations. Alas the story from here on has many familiar elements, including endless waiting to here back from an agent or publisher, and then the rejections without even a single word of any manuscript being read. Continue reading »