tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263988256560129564.post8274375986948705017..comments2023-10-30T08:00:54.059-04:00Comments on Laurel's Leaves: Confessions of a closet rebelLaurel Garverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657218435228802535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263988256560129564.post-44141750570159981432017-11-25T10:17:43.047-05:002017-11-25T10:17:43.047-05:00Thank you for this post! I have so many stories I ...Thank you for this post! I have so many stories I want to tell but I have allowed myself to lose my joy in the process because of all of the ifs. "Who will want to read a story about an unsuspecting snarky princess pulled into another dimension to save the world?" Etc, etc, etc. I am the queen of second guessing myself. My inner rebel has gone quiet. I need to fire up the theme music from Rocky and get her back into fighting shape!Isabella Norsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07061000772050590951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263988256560129564.post-76437070346890566002017-10-12T11:32:11.144-04:002017-10-12T11:32:11.144-04:00Indeed, creativity asks us to bring our authentic ...Indeed, creativity asks us to bring our authentic self to the desk, not the perfectionist naysayer. I jokingly call her my "inner rebel" because she's not that interested in rules, but in being real. Laurel Garverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03657218435228802535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263988256560129564.post-77000314737706368852017-10-06T08:27:49.487-04:002017-10-06T08:27:49.487-04:00This is a really good post. So true in so many way...This is a really good post. So true in so many ways. But yay for your inner rebel! There's probably nothing worse for writing than doing what you "should" do -- all the best books seem to have been written because the authors were writing for themselves and not for any perceived reader or market.Deniz Bevanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17134553551048836979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263988256560129564.post-76619366298316987502017-09-30T22:08:34.185-04:002017-09-30T22:08:34.185-04:00Thanks, Tyrean, for the encouragement. I think muc...Thanks, Tyrean, for the encouragement. I think much of Brene Brown's insights into expectations and shame have made me realized how much I've let that belittling voice hold sway. And the Ender series is a great example. Thank you! He sure did release those books in an odd order, but that didn't lessen their popularity one bit. <br /><br />I'd initially begun my current fiction project as a bonus feature novella, but the ideas kept expanding. If I have to renumber the books later, so be it. I think my inner rebel is on the money about this one. Laurel Garverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03657218435228802535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263988256560129564.post-72386120071403749112017-09-29T18:23:24.745-04:002017-09-29T18:23:24.745-04:00I agree with your inner rebel! Writing about produ...I agree with your inner rebel! Writing about productivity in the midst of real life is important. It's good to know that real writers exist, not just super-fast writers. Real writers with real lives deserve the cape of super-hero, too. :) However, I know how that voice sounds - the belittling one. I realized this year that the last four years I've been benefiting from a decade of rough drafts ... and now I'm back to rough drafting projects, all out of order and not even related to each other. It may take me another year or two or more. Then, I might be able to release of flood of material again. I'm a drought and flood writer, or a draft-for-years and then release-a-lot writer. :)<br />I also think you can release books out of order. Orson Scott Card has released books every which way in his Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow series - both very successful series based on a short story/novelette he wrote many years ago. There's even a prequel series and novellas he wrote that fit within one of the novels, as bonus material. You are just making your readers happy - never mind that it's out of order. Tyrean Martinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15356604721537744361noreply@blogger.com