Questions for Freda Warrington

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By the way, have you had anything published?

Hey I thought we were the ones asking questions .
In fact I haven't. (unless you regard high school and university magazines as being published)
I blame various reasons:
-I write in English and live in Belgium (not that there is a market for any writing in Dutch besides: non-fiction (read as: "the horror the horror!!" and if only it had been horror, that would have been much easier), detectives, children's books, derivates from colums in magazines)
-I am 'only' 19 and hence I tend to play around much and am searching for a normal pattern to build my life on (as in for example: I'm searching a stable girlfriend (preferably non-suicidal or homicidal)). University; which means I have papers to write (hence writing downtime).
-I never have sent anything to an editor/publisher because I tend to 'know' beforehand it won't be good enough.
-I hate editing and finishing stuff (numerous files with ideas and a few pages from a storyline fill my laptop)

I do get the reply:
-you should get this published.
Then again, there is a major difference with the reaction:
-you could get this published.

In the end I should really blame my lack of focus and the fact that I can live with 'not being good enough to get published' without even trying to.

'Oh sweet lazyness, why do I love you so?