Growing up with creative aspirations, it's easy to assume that there's going to come a point when you know you've Made It; when you're secure in yourself and never doubt thereafter. But that's bullshit, I think. Even the best artists in the world have moments of self-doubt.
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"Stay afraid, but do it anyway." That's what Carrie Fisher said, and in honour of her glitter-flinging, bird-flipping spirit, that's what I'm going to do. Stay afraid, but do it anyway.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
So several things here: 1. I feel that there is a pervasive attitude that new writers should just take what they get and like it, that intersects in a difficult way with the feelings you're having about being Friends. What I mean here is: it's not all you.
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2. One of the problems with the cultural bias against talking about problems in industry relationships--which, you're right, is huge--is that we don't get data points for how many other people have been knocked down by similar experiences, or how knocked down, or how similar.
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Which means that we don't get the data on how they got back up. What helped, what didn't help. ...I think many of us have had at least one point in our writing lives when we really, really could have used that data.
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3. I feel like as a field we are going through major shifts in discussion of how we consider professionalism. But it feels to me like up until now the main discussion of professionalism has been "oh my GOD not like THAT how did you not KNOW it was not like THAT."
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I have even seen, right here on twitter-dot-com, at least one person pushing back on the concept of professionalism as spoiling their fun. (DON'T EVEN WITH ME.) And I really hope we are getting past these throes of adolescence. But...
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Replying to @MarissaLingen @fozmeadows
But I think that it has meant that a lot of people have just gone with "of COURSE you don't have to put up with THAT and you should just know how to set that boundary" when, actually, a lot of data pointed toward having to put up with "that" and no, we don't know.
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Without wanting to overgeneralise, I think the extent to which new SFF/YA authors now are not only encouraged, but *expected* to have an online presence plays into this. Because if we're already doing that for fun, we're being ourselves - but suddenly it should be a Performance.
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Especially when you've got people whose existing social media presence/personality is predicated on being political and honest online - which is viewed as a marketable plus! - but once it becomes seen as a Brand of sorts, suddenly they're meant to intuit new limits.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
New limits in both directions, too! You HAVE TO post on this topic--it's your Brand--never mind if you're ill or at a family funeral--but you CAN'T post on that topic. Oh, it's a lot.
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