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Time for me to "fight" back.
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Time for me to "fight" back.
I've been on this forum for a while, though I've been lurking for several years. I just wanted to say that the debates I've read here and the people I've chatted with have made up my mind on an issue very important to me.

I'm somewhat of an amature writer, mostly of fantasy, though I tend to avoid magic or the supernatural. I've never been published, but I've learned a lot and I've had some life changing experiences along the way.

I've just always been too afraid that I would fail to risk publishing anything. It's sad and it's depressing, but every time I try I'm always crippled by dread. I've been told that I write very well (and no, not by my family and friends), but until now I haven't had a subject to write about that's felt like it had a real, definitive purpose. I haven't had something vital and valuable to me, something that I thought was worth laying all my cards on the table for, so to speak. Now I do.

I'll break out of my shell, finally. Today, I'm going to start writing a book. I'm not going to let myself fail this time. It'll be fantasy, but I won't use that as an excuse to make flat characters and nonsensical magic. It's going to be realistic, as emotional as I can make it, and It's going to be firmly pro-atheist in a land where the church is law.

Some people say that a good book can change the world. This one isn't going to. Honestly, what are the chances it'll even ever show up in major chain stores? But I'm going to try, and I'll consider it a job well done if I can even make even the smallest mark on the world.

What falls away is always, and is near.

Also, I am not pretending to be female, this profile picture is my wonderful girlfriend. XD
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Messages In This Thread
Time for me to "fight" back. - by Aegrus - September 28, 2011 at 8:09 pm
RE: Time for me to "fight" back. - by Minimalist - September 28, 2011 at 8:13 pm
RE: Time for me to "fight" back. - by Erinome - September 28, 2011 at 8:14 pm
RE: Time for me to "fight" back. - by Rhage - September 28, 2011 at 8:34 pm
RE: Time for me to "fight" back. - by The Grand Nudger - September 28, 2011 at 9:07 pm
RE: Time for me to "fight" back. - by Shell B - September 28, 2011 at 9:38 pm
RE: Time for me to "fight" back. - by Phaedra - September 29, 2011 at 3:00 am
RE: Time for me to "fight" back. - by Kayenneh - September 29, 2011 at 3:11 am
RE: Time for me to "fight" back. - by KichigaiNeko - September 29, 2011 at 6:55 am
RE: Time for me to "fight" back. - by The Grand Nudger - September 29, 2011 at 10:14 am
RE: Time for me to "fight" back. - by R-e-n-n-a-t - October 2, 2011 at 12:07 am

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