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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The word “on-boarding” is too business jargon-y, but the on-boarding process for writers in the field is not great…
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Yeah, it... really isn't. There's aspects of it that remind me a lot of working as an admin in a place where everyone is very friendly and encourages you to treat them AS a friend right up until you (in their view) fuck up, and then suddenly you get smacked with a hidden stick.
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