Watch This If You Feel like Giving up on Writing (Adrian Tchaikovsky Writing Motivation)

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[JLchevz]

I think Adrian could make it big, I know he's getting now the recognition he deserves but I think he's got the potential to be a very very successful author internationally.

[timjohnson]

We are now reading Adrian T at the absolute peak of his powers and it's just incredible to be part of it.

[toddherzman]

15 years. That's tough, but I love the perseverance.

[starbright]

I am writing crime fiction books but I really don't care if I get publish, get a contract from my publisher for me to get a literary agent fast, become a New York times best seller, a book deal, my book become a movie or TV show, if I do get all of that then congratulations to me I will love that. But my main goal is to become a police officer, that's what I really want more than becoming a best selling author. Yes I will still write my books and use a pen name or maybe go anonymous to keep my writing private but becoming a police officer is what I really want.

[belovedsantoryu]

That was an amazing little video… thanks!!

[joshportal]

The book ecosystem is tricky. I have written a few books and my favorite books I am currently writing never got published. 2 books I wrote because I lost a bet became published and I absolutely hate it. All profits from those 2 books go to charities the books complain about. The one book I wish never to become published, a book I written in a drunken rage is doing the opposite of what it was written for.

I don’t want to be remembered for the things I hate but what I enjoy. Tchaikovsky had a similar experience before the works he enjoyed writing finally became published.

I say never stop writing because your work will either be a masterpiece for future generations or a stepping stone for future writers and readers down the road.

[Ingens_Scherz]

He is brilliant. I'm just now reading Children of Memory which dropped into my Kindle from the ionosphere yesterday. I paused reading Shards of Earth because I simply couldn't wait to start this Children instalment. I will get back to Shards when the time comes, of course. A reassuring backstop when Children of Memory runs out.
I am a Science Fiction lover, of course, but (or maybe so) I'm pretty picky when it comes to contemporary stuff - mainly because there's so much of it and most of that - apologies for the generalisation but based on samples - is pretty derivative. I'm the type of old codger who thinks "true" SF originality ended with Burning Chrome - and I have to read a lot of other stuff too, mainly for work, and there's not a lot of time for long, undisturbed reading sessions like there seemed to be in the past.
So I have to pick Mr Tchaikovsky because his works never fail to fundamentally enrich my life experience in some unexpected way, a bit like Dickens or Graham Greene or EM Forster or LP Hartley and the rest. For me, at his best (which is almost all of the time), he really is that good.

[Chris-yfzs]

0:25 Adrian T on 15 years to get published

[freedom_aint_free]

Man, 15 fucking years receiving "NO" in your face every single fucking time...Talk about perseverance, actually it's borderline obsession, it's one of those textbook examples of how thin the line that separates genius from madness is.