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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michelle Lyons" data-source="post: 236369" data-attributes="member: 5217">First of all, if you feel that you would rather not have entered it because you're deeply attached to your work, then cool. Understandable. It's hard to part with your baby. I'm not here to criticise you for any decisions that are so obviously your right to make. I will, however, comment on something you said in your most recent post.  Actually, yes you can. The people who have one really great idea, write it down and it becomes a great best seller, taking on a life beyond what they'd originally envisioned... those are authors. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is a great example of this. So is "Gone With the Wind." If you feel this is where you're headed for, then by all means go for it. May genius come and sit on your computer keyboard. I wish it would come sit on mine. But.Professional writers (and you can make a living at it, even in the RPG industry, depending on where you live) are people who write for a living. What they write is their craft and their product, not their next-born child, and picking up a half-baked idea and creating a useful, salable work from it is exactly what they do. You get an idea/assignment, you write the piece, you make it the best damn 5,000/10,000/30,000+ words you can write, and you do it all over again the next day. You practice until you can do this regularly, because waiting for writer's block to pass is a luxury afforded to those who aren't counting on this assignment to pay next month's rent.Amateurs don't often get this idea because they get really wrapped up with their own creation, just like Pygmalion and Galatea (er... well, hopefully not /just/ like that). But eventually, if you really want to write for a living, you join a writer's group or get an assignment where you have to produce good material and do it quickly, and then you get to listen as people who know what they're doing tell you how to do it better the next time.Again, this isn't intended to be criticism directed at you. It's just late and I felt the need to comment. If you want to be a professional author, more power to you. If you want to be a professional writer, then by all means keep working at it. And if you figure out how to get genius to come sit on your keyboard while you work, by all means let me know. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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