Never give up on your work, because you are one of those rare people that are brave enough to be different. Your work will inevitably make an impact once it gets in the hands of the right people, but for that to happen, you cant give up. Fight for your creations, fight for your characters to see the light of day, and tell their stories because they deserve to be told. You have the opportunity to change the lives of your readers, but only if you do everything you can to get your work in front of people. Search every nook and cranny for your niche group. Your perfect audience is out there, craving work that is just like yours, but struggling to find it. Make it easy for them. Employ SEO, post blog posts, market on every platform, network with other creatives, collaborate, advertise in local settings, pay for advertising, commune with fellow lovers of your most influential authors, support others, and tell everybody about your work. But most of all, don’t stop creating, and don’t stop trying. Nothing will become of your opus magnums if you don’t devote yourself to them.
As a multi-medium creative with a surplus of projects, here is a mere segment of all the journals i usually refer to multiple times a week when im being creative! Its so overwhelming but I work best in a maximalist environment. There are 4 other stacks on my desk like this with boxes of stickers, binders, books, junk journals, etc…. I need my inspiration close. Feat my plushes from the 1950s in the back.
I think with my most recently finished fiction novel you have to be a lover of classics to truly understand/appreciate it, given how anachronistic the prose and dialogue is. The characters all seem straight out of another century, yet exist in the modern day. I almost strictly read 20th century and 19th century fiction, and that is veryyy prevalent within my prose.
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