Re:Advice needed / wanted - 08/25/2006focus on long term gains..don't decide based solely on money..
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CksBabydoll
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Re:Advice needed / wanted - 08/25/2006The way I look at it is that it is all your perspective. If the subject is so horrible and is throwing you for a loop that bad... than I say to jsut let if go. BUT... if it's something that you think that you could grin and bare... I would do it. It might take you a while to get it flowing and the porject in motion... but I know you well enough to know that if you really want to do it... you can. It would not only give you that paycheck, but it would give you more documented experience which is something that you need considering that you want to go somewhere with your writing. So I think that it all depepnds on what you REALLY want to come from this.
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helene
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Re:Advice needed / wanted - 08/24/2006It depends... it is true that you have to like what you're doing - otherwise it isn't worth it. BUT, if you're looking to build in the experience department, I would grit my teeth and do it. Later on, you can be pickier with your projects. For now, if you're spicing up your resume, Just Do It. (THIS IS NOT A NIKE COMMERCIAL.)
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Robert the Bard
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Re:Advice needed / wanted - 08/23/2006I think if you are having a problem, maybe it's the subject matter that's getting to you. Along with loving what you do, you need to have an interest in what your writing about. No interest==hard to get going on it.
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antryg
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Re:Advice needed / wanted - 08/23/2006You gotta love, or at least like, your work. Otherwise you may as well be working where I do. Now ask yourself, Do I want to be that bitter and beaten down? If the answer is yes then keep going. If the answer is no then stop. (Unless you are over half way done, it's all downhill from here and entropy always wins)
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FalconDance
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Advice needed / wanted - 08/23/2006Ok, guys. I'm having a mini fight within myself and so I thought to ask you.
Here's the deal: There is money to be made in non-fiction writing. I have a shot at a relatively decent short-term contract and have done a little bit of preliminary work. But I am SO not motivated to do this project! It's not as if it's difficult, theoretically I could finish it in a relatively short time. But the words just don't flow, the spark / desire is not there (and that ought to say something drastic is wrong, when *I* turn down a paycheck!). When I do work on it, it's like I'm slogging through lingual quicksand, the words fight me.
Should I try to find a way to slog through (and hope I get the contract and then fight through the whole project) or should I just decline and try not to kick myself in the arse every time I think about the (possible) money turned down?
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