Why I’m Not Publishing My Novels & the pressure to publish in the writing community

Описание: TIMESTAMPS:
0:34 - WHY I DON'T WANT TO PUBLISH FOSTERED
0:42 - Reason 1: I am uninterested in publishing, the books' age & genre categories, and the books are too disjointed
2:11 - Reason 2: It would be an insult to my current craft to put out work from the early stages of my process
3:10 - Reason 3: I am an advocate for consent when it comes to sharing work. What I share is what I want to share
3:30 - Reason 4: I love that these books are unpublished
3:42 - COMMON QUESTIONS I GET ABOUT NOT PUBLISHING
3:42 - Question 1: Isn't writing to shelve a waste of time?
4:49 - Counterpoint 1: We have gotten into a poor habit of equating a work's value with whether or not it is published, AKA monetizable due to capitalism & the publish or perish mentality
9:10 - Question 2: But you could earn money! (counterpoint same as Q1)
9:51 - Question 3: But I bet it's good! Don't be so insecure
10:33 - Counterpoint 3: We need to normalize allowing writers to make the decisions they deem necessary for their own work and cease the imposition of judgement, especially upon people we don't know in real life (evidence: parasocial relationships)
14:48 - Question 4: How do you become so in love with something you'll forget about in six months? The work will have no legacy.
16:00 - Counterpoint 4: We need to stop treating shelving a project as an act done out of failure and self-hatred
18:31 - THE PRESSURE TO PUBLISH AS A RESULT OF THE EMERGENCE OF THE ONLINE WRITING COMMUNITY
19:05 - The writing community needs to address the obscene pressures to publish ingrained in blog posts, vlogs, etc and particularly the impact that may have on younger writers
20:32 - The online writing community and commodification
22:05 - The negative effects consumerist culture on authortube and other writing platforms on young writers
23:26 - The responsibility of authortubers and other content creators to be aware of their influence
24:52 - The online writing community as a means to an end (money) rather than a community & the necessary balance of community & profit

REFERENCES:
Neil Kakkar: "A Short History of Capitalism" https://bit.ly/32Shd4Z
Wikipedia: "Publish or perish" https://bit.ly/3bp032E
Seema Rawar & Sanjay Meena: "Publish or perish: Where are we headed?" https://bit.ly/3lGO0CJ
Find a Psychologist: "Parasocial Relationships: The Nature of Celebrity Fascinations" https://bit.ly/3bp48nv
Rebecca Swift: "Creativity and commerce" https://bit.ly/32SLhNY (my apologies for getting Swift's name wrong it is Swift not Smith!!!)

LINKS
Writing updates: https://bit.ly/3fOsIAf
Blog:   / coffeeandcalligraphy  
Twitter:   / rachellwrites  
Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2qdKsyM

Want to read excerpts from my books?
Moth Work intro page & writing updates: https://bit.ly/3k31Puu
Feeding Habits intro page & writing updates: https://bit.ly/31kBnE7

MY WORK
→ "The Species is Dead" in Minola Review (short fiction): https://bit.ly/2WVNuXw
→ "Mama Lives in My Mouth" in Young Voices (flash fiction - fc. Fall 2020)
→ "Primary Organs" in The Malahat Review (short fiction - fc. Winter 2020)
→ "We sell skin on sale" in Augur Magazine (poetry - fc. Winter 2020)

ABOUT ME
Hi y'all! I'm Rachel, an eighteen-year-old writer from Toronto. I've been writing for six years and will be starting my second year as a writing undergrad in the fall. On my channel, I document my writing journey and try to post once a week (usually on Fridays). You can read my work in issue 25 of Minola Review, Grain Magazine, The Malahat Review (fc. Winter 2020), Augur Magazine (fc. Winter 2020), on my blog, and elsewhere!

ASK ME ANYTHING: http://bit.ly/2q00dJv

Outro: This is not a joke by Monplaisir

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→ Sit-down mic: Blue Snowball iCE
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