Today is hump day. Hope everyone is having a nice week. It’s cold where I live and this morning I woke up to a light dusting of snow on the ground. Yeah….white stuff already. Me thinks it’s going to be a long cold winter people. Me thinks Jamaica sounds just lovely come February thanks.
Anyway, a few things that have been rattling around in my brain. The first one I’ve already blogged about but it still rankles and astounds me. Yeah, I’m talking about the number of rude, arrogant and self involved authors who like to comment on various blogs. They just dont’ know when to shut up. They are not respectful and they really don’t give a shit who they trample over, all in the name of getting their opinion heard. I just find it funny, that usually their opinion goes against the grain…kinda like, I say white and you say black. How do they ever, evah….get through life is beyond me. To attack another author,yeah..that’s bad but when you start slinging piles of shit at readers…potential readers that might buy your book? Just tacky. K…nuff about that.
I heard from my lovely editor Esi on Monday and my revisions are coming my way next week. Yikes….scary…but I’m totally pumped and looking forward to it. It seemed like I sold and then everything came to a standstill. But with revisions…well, hell…now I feel like a real writer. squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! So right now I’m reading Dark Revenge again. I haven’t read the first 3/4 of the book since I queried for agents in early June. I have to say it’s kind of fun and I’m totally getting my head back into these characters and the world that they live in. Exciting times! I have my crit partners reading it and I’m a little nervous about that…..only one person has read the entire book…well, save for my agent and editor…will they like it? I sure as heck hope so!
And finally….a shout out to a fellow scribe who had a heartbreaking pass on a ms this week. It made me ponder why exactly we do this? Why do we continually put ourselves out there with something as personal as our thoughts and desires and fantasies? Our stories mean so much to us, and it’s hard to put them in someone elses hands…and yeah, sometimes we get lucky and that someone else loves our work….but all of us have had the big fat R. And they hurt. Like being the last one picked for Red Rover.
So why do we keep at it? Because we’re gluttons for punishment? I don’t know. If I hadn’t sold to Avon and my ms was passed over by all the houses that had it, would I still be working on something else?
You bet your a$$ I would! I love it too much….I love the friends I’ve made out here in the cyber world too much. Or maybe I just love the challenge….whatever the reason I’m still here and totally pumped about the endless possibilites in front of me.
What about you? what keeps you doing the things that you’re passionate about? Be it writing, cooking, baking (ick) or being the resident workout nut? What keeps you coming back for more?
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We…ll, I don’t bake and I am most definitely NOT the resident workout nut (my shoes get more miles being carried in the dog’s mouth than they ever will on my feet) so, yeah, maybe the whole writing thing is all I have left?
NOT…it is a disease. Those first R symptoms just make you eager to catch the next bug and get a bigger R <lol><tears in the beer>
Sorry you’ve encountered more web witches. e-Harl doesn’t really prepare you for the sort of vicious bitches that are really out there, does it?
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Lainey…we really need to get together for a drinkie….seriously…we just might be sistas separated at birth!!!!!
and yeah, eharl is so incredibly supportive…very different from most other places I’ve visited…weird, but the bad ones…I just lurk about and shake my head…..it’s like a bad train wreck…
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I had a few of those bummer "why do this??" moments earlier this week and I had to step back a bit and get reacquainted with the actual writing process. It sounds weird but it’s certainly worth it once the creative juices start flowing and I’m getting to know new characters and their world. That’s probably my fave part.
The industry can be rough at times.
Everyone seems to be slinging dirt at one another which is weird because there’s enough readers and writers for everyone! But I’ve learned there are some places online that aren’t very welcoming. I won’t go there because of the venom or pettiness and the places I do go always have such awesome folks (like ehar boards and my writing group, etc). They make it all worthwhile, too!
Hope you’re having a good one!
Rae
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hi julie i love reading your blog love the name too will see you soon i hope maybe feb i talk to your mom often and miss her i need some sister time so thinking maybe feb.dont let those name callers get to you people who do and say things like that are not worth the of day .
love you
aunt wendy
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Rae…glad to see you managed to get your creative juices flowing again! I think we all have that moment of doubt…some of us more than others. I am kinda feeling it now….wondering if my jags will be the only thing I sell….dunno…I’m working on another proposal that I’m quite excited about…but we shall see!
Happy Halloween!
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Aunt Wendy!
How goes it in the province du frog? haha…glad to see you here again and yeah, it would be great if you came for a visit in feb…I’ll be gone from the 15th to the 23rd…we’re taking off to the sun of Jamaica mon! So make sure you plan your trip for when I’m back!
ciao for now