In 2003, I began writing my first novel.\u00a0 Out of all my story ideas, it was the one I felt most passionate about.<\/p>\n
No, it wasn\u2019t The Alpha And The Omega<\/span>.<\/p>\n Unlike A&O<\/span>, this \u201cfirst novel\u201d was sci-fi.\u00a0 But like A&O<\/span>, it also had elements of horror and religion.\u00a0 In other words, it was so \u201cout there\u201d, I decided no agent or publisher would ever consider it from a first-time author.<\/p>\n So 200 pages into the first draft, I abandoned it.\u00a0 Rifling through all my other story ideas, I chose the one I judged to be the most \u201ccommercially accessible\u201d and began writing it.\u00a0 And that\u2019s how A&O<\/span> became my debut novel.<\/p>\n Did I sell out?\u00a0 I rationalized that I didn\u2019t, that I would\u2019ve eventually written A&O<\/span> as my second novel.\u00a0 (But aren\u2019t rationalizations just lies, giftwrapped with pretty bows?)<\/p>\n Have you ever \u201csold out\u201d (artistically or otherwise)?\u00a0 Have you ever chose \u201cproduct over passion\u201d?\u00a0 If so, was it ultimately worth it?\u00a0 (In regards to A&O<\/span>, I guess time and book sales will tell\u2026)<\/p>\n PS \u2013 I\u2019m currently back to writing my \u201cfirst novel\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2003, I began writing my first novel. Out of all my story ideas, it was the one I felt most passionate about.<\/p>\n No, it wasn\u2019t The Alpha And The Omega.<\/p>\n Unlike A&O, this \u201cfirst novel\u201d was sci-fi. But like A&O, it also had elements of horror and religion. In other words, it was so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}