The Story of My Writing

Описание: If you are an aspiring writer, too, please share your experiences in the comments!

A couple of notes on the video:
I hope it's clear that the self-deprecating, somewhat tongue-in-cheek tone of some passages is all a function of quite how awkward I found talking about this! I've always been very secretive about my writing, so it's a big step for me to discuss it on the Internet :)
My views, either current or past, should not be taken as a criticism of other people's choices. In particular the fact that, for most of my life, I wasn't interested in self-publishing (and my views might actually be changing there!) is not meant as a put-down of self-published authors. I know self-published writers, and a few authors I admire are big proponents of self-publishing.
I realize the video contains more than a little self-commiseration. Apologies for it, I've since snapped out of it :)

A couple of short stories of mine that were published over the last few years:
"Xirsi," about a struggling restaurant, published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn:
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2023/08/...
"The Ducks Opened the Hostilities." What do these ducks want from me? Published in Underland Arcana:
https://www.underlandarcana.com/matti...
"Wombat," about turning into a wombat, published in Planet Scumm:
https://www.planetscumm.space/blog/fu...
"Fading," about time travel, in the White Wall Review:
https://whitewallreview.com/fading/

Beyond these, you can find links to my published stories on my Twitter page, on which I post rarely and badly.
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