Ohh! Success is something everyone has to define for themselves, and it doesn't necessarily mean name/fame/money. My mom's friend knew someone who loved books, spent a whole life with books, and apparently died surrounded by books. My mom's friend didn't understand that mentality, but to me, that person lived a wonderfully fulfilling life. I also have a friend who refuses to work for companies like Google because their work culture is intense, live/breath/sleep code. On the surface, if you say you work for Google, people look at you in awe, but unless you fit in with that culture, it's best not to go after the Big Name. So it doesn't make you lazier/less motivated! It just means you know what you want and have the courage to go after it, which puts you ahead of the people who don't know that and get swept away by society (though they may at times live "easier" lives simply because they look like what society defines as success).
It's hard for me to write stories that look like my life, so I end up disguising it as something very obscure lolol. My pilot story was modern day imperial drama with an undisciplined mix of east/west+traditional/modern culture. The imperial setting is blatant when it comes to what society expects of a person's role, which was why I tried that, and nothing I write will be separated from modern technology, hence the undisciplined mix. It was just a conversation between two characters during a lunar eclipse, but it was a format that allowed me to write the specific world visuals I had in my mind and to touch on the crazy mix of issues I wanted. Alas the conclusion I wanted to present didn't have the punch I was aiming for OTL (when I reread it 3 months after I wrote it, I got hit by a completely different line, which is probably going to be the thread I focus on if/when I get to the novel version lol)
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Date: 2017-05-06 03:32 pm (UTC)It's hard for me to write stories that look like my life, so I end up disguising it as something very obscure lolol. My pilot story was modern day imperial drama with an undisciplined mix of east/west+traditional/modern culture. The imperial setting is blatant when it comes to what society expects of a person's role, which was why I tried that, and nothing I write will be separated from modern technology, hence the undisciplined mix. It was just a conversation between two characters during a lunar eclipse, but it was a format that allowed me to write the specific world visuals I had in my mind and to touch on the crazy mix of issues I wanted. Alas the conclusion I wanted to present didn't have the punch I was aiming for OTL (when I reread it 3 months after I wrote it, I got hit by a completely different line, which is probably going to be the thread I focus on if/when I get to the novel version lol)