The Unnoticed

The greatest scarcity is attention, the struggle to get noticed is counterintuitively exacerbated by the free, the open and ubiquitous. How do you combine the desire to get noticed and solitary chamber of a writer? You don’t! Just Jen – the enchanted 15: the end:

“The thing that I find to be the biggest pitfall in writing on the internet is that spoiled child that screams: NOTICE ME. It’s the thing I have to struggle against not just daily but hourly, the desire to be read is the desire to be noticed, and this is the thing I believe can kill writing more than any other negative tendency. Because even if you are on the best seller list and greet millions of readers, still the act of writing is essentially solitary; it is something you do, day in and day out, without being noticed. Even a best-seller has hours and hours of unnoticed efforts and sacrifices that went into it, and no number of accolades or readers can make up for that sacrifice.

You have to kill that child that wants to be noticed in order to be able to do something good. Because the best things in life always arise from the things we do without being noticed. To work, silently, bravely, and quietly without being noticed will always bear more fruit. This is the truth that must be believed in order to live.

If being noticed by other mortals is the ultimate goal, it will not carry you. You will always allow your time to devolve down to self-pleasing activities. To escapes and to laziness and to hedonistic pleasures. Because the notice you receive–if you ever receive it at all–is always going to be delayed. So if what you are looking for in your writing is to be NOTICED, your energy will be less than what it could be. You will always feel weary, tired, and close to burning out.”