writer's angst | writer's angst
Jul.08.2008
There are those days, the days when the "Nos" and the "Not good enoughs" ring out. And today was one of them. One big rejection on my novel yesterday. Two big rejections on my novel today. My least favorite phrase in publishing: "I just didn't fall in love."
ONE...
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May.05.2008
I recently came across a list of Depressed Thinking Distortions and, in a stunning epiphany, realized that while I'm not depressed, historically, my relationship to my writing career has been. Ugh. I've sworn to change, to recognize my "distortions," and so far, it's working really well...
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Apr.02.2008
There it sits on the dining room table, the printout of the second draft of my novel, THE OAKLANDERS. I look at those 323 pages, a pile of black-on-white promise, and I feel a slow surge of excitement and pleasure and fondness: "Oh, there's my story about Kira and Adam and Polly!"
My...
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Feb.11.2008
Here's a place to comment, share review experiences (good and bad), and generally applaud or lash out at all those *&E#T% reviewers....oops, getting off-track here...and I'm a reviewer. Oy.
So, have you got something to share? Thanks!
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