(August 1, 2015 at 3:24 pm)Exian Wrote: I get the feeling that you're delusional.
I get the feeling that the OP is kind of stuck in a frustrating place in life and has invested all her emotion into the hope that this will make everything worthwhile.
On the plus side for the OP, all this work she has put into does not have to be a waste of time and effort because it could still be a learning experience. But if she refuses to listen to constructive criticism on how to improve then it's not even that. It's a common mistake that people make to think that they already have the necessary skills to compete professionally. This is why there is so much dross being published for free on Amazon Kindle. All people think is that they just have to write a book. They don't realise that you first have to develop the skills and that this means that your first attempts either need to be constantly rewritten or thrown away.
My mum publishes on Amazon and gets loads of positive 5 star reviews. She spends hundreds of hours writing and her first books were scrapped. I've always loved drawing comics myself and last year I decided to see what I was capable of. I spent well over a month drawing just five panels of a scene. There was no colour and the cartoons were simplistic but they were a quality that I would be happy to see in other people's cartoons. An experienced professional would have done them in a couple of hours (if that). I'm proud of what I achieved but I was never going to be able to compete with other people who have gone to art school.
My advice. Stick to just one book. Concentrate solely on the writing and be prepared to spend hundreds of hours on one single book alone. Don't try to do movies and books and everything else. You only have so much time and potential to learn. Devote it to one single project and make it perfect.
