What's your hurry?

**Androxine Vortex** · 8-18-12, 8:22 PM

We all want to get published here but do any of you feel pressured to get published quickly? Believe me, I want to get publsihed but I am in no rush to do so. I am not a perfectionist but I feel like I should take my time with my work and not rush through it. I have had a recent change in the pace of my life and find that I have little free time now. I very seldom have time to get on the forum and I must admit I haven't sat down and worked on my WIP in about two weeks. So how about you? Are you trying to get published asap or are you going to take your time?

**Reaver** · 8-18-12, 8:45 PM

I'm definitely in no hurry. I've been working on a trilogy of books for 7 years now.

**JadedSidhe** · 8-18-12, 9:09 PM

I want to get published, but I am not in a huge rush. I want the story told right and I want it to be told well. As hokey as it sounds, I want to do justice to Zephyr and Storm.

**Phil the Drill** · 8-18-12, 9:32 PM

One great thing about being a writer is that there is no real "time limit." Of course if you want to self-publish, there's that route, which doesn't tend to take as much time, but for traditional publishing, I think it's feasible to expect it's going to take much, much longer to see your name in print. Make sure your writing is as good as it can be and then start submitting. It's nice to have short term goals for yourself though. I try to do that. My short term goal at the moment is to have my WIP finished by October, edited and all. If it doesn't happen, oh well, but that's my aim.

**WhiteRaven** · 8-18-12, 10:16 PM

I like the idea of "doing justice" to your characters and story. I think they deserve that respect, and I think a writer owes it to him/her self as well. But I think we have to find a happy medium point between holding on to the work and letting it go out into the world. I get to the point where I can't "see" my work clearly anymore, and then I know that I'm done with my initial editing and have to give it to another pair of eyes to look over.

**Akahige** · 8-18-12, 11:11 PM

If I believe my work is competent in its story telling and in the writing itself, I'll likely release it. As nice as it would be to be highly polished as a writer before putting work out there, I think quite a lot of the polishing takes place along the way and at some point you just have to jump in and begin.

**Androxine Vortex** · 8-18-12, 11:47 PM

I just realized this might be appropriate for the publishing and writing questions section so if any moderators feel that it belongs in publishing I apologize in advance and feel free to move it if you so choose.

**Svrtnsse** · 8-19-12, 12:55 AM

If my plan was to get published in order to make some money to put some food on the table, then I'd be in a hurry. Fortunately it's not. It'd be cool to be done and start trying to get my stuff out there for people to read, but at the pace I'm going now it'll be another couple of years before that happens.