How Serious Are You About Writing?

As I don't want to be published then I must be a 2...

 

I think I'm at number 8. But I haven't submitted anything yet. I will wait until it's finished and edited as much as I can first.

 

I'm at an 8

 

I think I'm a 4.5 as well, and I intend to get higher up the scale, but I'm so easily distracted, it may take much longer than I'd like...

 

Somewhere between 5 and 6. I don't write as consistently as I should, but I have been trying to get published. So far, all my stories have been rejected, but I have a couple more sent out that I'm waiting to hear back on.

 

Definitely 4. Hopefully will become 5 or more in three months.

 

I fluctuate a lot. Honestly, all these tiers feel familiar.

I think the problem with this question is that it assumes the level of effort you want to put into your writing is equal to the level of effort you actually put into your writing.

 

9. I'm thinking 8 might be saner. And 7 would be rational.

 

Definitely an 8. 8 is a nice number. ^^

 

I'm an 8. I think.

 

Being very new to all of this I will have to say I'm a 4, hopefully one day I'll be a 9 or a 10.

 

I think your scale really only goes up to 9...

I'd be somewhere between 8 and 9. I make money from writing, but not enough and I do care about being poor. But having generated an audience and made some money I can absolutely taste the ultimate goal of being a full time professional writer. It is that close that it invades my daydreams all the time now...beguiling me and potentially imperilling my (reasonably) highly paid day job.

 

Dark One, I'm not envious of you; honestly! heh

 

How serious?

Apparently not very...

 

Maybe four. . . . I genuinely think my writing is very slowly getting better (it still sucks), and I do dream of myself one day at least publishing a book, but I just can't find the time between everything else I'm doing to write more now. I'll probably finish my book when I'm old and retired. Like Bilbo, except I won't have the privilege of living with the elves.

 

And neither should you be. A little bit of success is a dangerous thing. It makes you utterly crave for a bigger, more permanent taste...to the point where you can't focus on anything else.

I sometimes see myself as analogous to the Lame Boy (a recurrent figure in my literature) who's had a glimpse inside the magic mountain but is doomed never to get inside for good.

 

I don't fit into any really. I have 'winding' down breaks like now.
My routine is usually an idea psrings into my head and wont go away. I plan, and write it. When I'm in the planning phase I'm like an athlet warming up. I gradually do a bit more each day, until my brain is living and breathing the story. I'm not always done planning when I get this feeling, but I start writing straight away, becuase if I wait that 'power' phase will pass and I'll go flat.
Then I write like mad for a month. I just get it down in one really crazy typing marathon, all day, all evening, and sometimes all night until ike 3am.
Then I have my 'winding' down phase. I just muck about and do other things, this can last and month or two. Then an idea springs to mind and I'm off again.
It rarely takes me over a month to finish something, my last book was just short of 120,000 words. Some writers take a year to finish, some do it in mad bursts - thats me lol. And I would love to be Published, not for money or fame or even for people reading my work. But I think when you have anything you're really passionate about you want to be good at it.
For a violinist it might be playing at the Royal Opera House, For a jockey making the Grand Nationals on a speed Horse, for a writer it's getting Published.