@lilly-white replied to your post.
I listened to one of this guy’s writer rants and I really like him too! (And it’s also always nice to hear a british accent when it comes to new podcasts/youtube content xD) Honestly really intrigued by this challenge since you first mentioned it. And yeah, 100% agree with this. It’s hard to let ourselves “practice” writing when writing anything that’s not The Novel feels like procrastination rather than, well, practice.
This is actually my first introduction to him. (Agreed on the accent!!) I really like how he views writing and the ways he’s looked at everything. I’m now super intrigued to listen to more of his podcasts.
And yes! I wonder why it fell into that kind of thinking – that if you’re not working on The Novel, you’re wasting your time. Probably to do with deadlines or the sort. (And a good way to ‘devalue’ non-published works.) Which is weird because I don’t look at my fanworks to be a waste. I can see the growth there as a writer. Hearing it put out like this, though, breaking it down further to equate to the parts of me that do understand the important of practice, it really struck home.
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