Annoyingkid
Banned
It's taken me 12 years to master drawing, to learn how to write well, to get a degree and to write and illustrate about 2/3rds of my graphic novel trilogy. These are long stories with high detail.
I think that is realistic progression.
Bear in mind I do not live with my mother and I have my own place, so this is'nt about "getting me out of my mother's basement".
But people in my family love to mock that my art is not pulling in income after so long. They haven't written a thing themselves, don't care to read any of mine, don't know anything about it. That's how they judge worth: income. Be all and end all. My brother proudly claims he has no ideas, my mother considers herself a "songwriter" even though she hasn't sold a single song. So it goes to show the hypocrisy involved.
She thinks i should quit and work on a masters degree instead. Cos that's right, when something is hard, you quit. Non writers seem to unanimously think they can write a bestseller in a couple of years, only to be shocked that their school education didn't prepare them for writing fiction at all.
A writer or artist who has yet to break through gets NO respect in this society.
But when you break through you get all the respect in the world and people want to pretend that they were with you the whole time.
But if I do make it? I'll remember who my doubters were. And I'll remember the people who supported me.
and I will have the last laugh. At them. Who ha ha's last, ha ha's best.
I think that is realistic progression.
Bear in mind I do not live with my mother and I have my own place, so this is'nt about "getting me out of my mother's basement".
But people in my family love to mock that my art is not pulling in income after so long. They haven't written a thing themselves, don't care to read any of mine, don't know anything about it. That's how they judge worth: income. Be all and end all. My brother proudly claims he has no ideas, my mother considers herself a "songwriter" even though she hasn't sold a single song. So it goes to show the hypocrisy involved.
She thinks i should quit and work on a masters degree instead. Cos that's right, when something is hard, you quit. Non writers seem to unanimously think they can write a bestseller in a couple of years, only to be shocked that their school education didn't prepare them for writing fiction at all.
A writer or artist who has yet to break through gets NO respect in this society.
But when you break through you get all the respect in the world and people want to pretend that they were with you the whole time.
But if I do make it? I'll remember who my doubters were. And I'll remember the people who supported me.
and I will have the last laugh. At them. Who ha ha's last, ha ha's best.