AMN - I have 4 big brothers, so it takes a LOT to intimidate me. It's the procrastintating that kills me.
I'm a putter-offer, and a slow poke, and a perfectionist. But I am not afraid of the rejection or the critiqueing.
To get paid or to get read? That's easy - to get read. Money is gone in a wink, but people will remember your words - in a good way or a bad way lol. The hard part for me is finding any market paying or not. They all say they look for new kids, but that's where ALL the new kids go...sigh.
And it's hard to get in those doors too, with all the competition. There is only room for so many stories, no matter how many are good. so it's hard to know which are good, and if any of those are mine.
Hard to believe so many people want to be writers. You'd think they'd all wanna be actors, musicians, something cool.
Which is okay. I got nothing better to do than fight for this if that's what I want - I got all this stubborn for a reason, right?