Steps of a Dancewriter

Yeah, I'm on a roll. A NASTY roll. LOLOL. I'm also on a lot of loops and groups and one just recently posted this thread: What is everybody working on???

Does anybody -- any other competitive author -- REALLY want to know how well everyone else is doing? What they're writing? Beating them to the finish line so to speak? I seriously wonder. 

Everybody pops out of the woodwork to post, of course, lest they look like a dead head. Kind of interesting to read ( and therein is the reason for this thread, I guess ) what other creative ( yet competitive, come on, admit it. They're on the bookshelf and you're not ) minds are thinking about.

Is this a case of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer perhaps?  

(( shrugs)) Not sure. I keep a real, REAL low profile on these loops, lest I get caught in a tangled noose.

5 rejections thus far - they're ( the rejections) getting longer, wordier and more passionate this time around -- but lest you think they're anything but stock rejection notices, they are still STOCK rejection notices.

Perhaps the wordiness is an attempt to pacify off the spurned-writer-turned-stalker? (( shrugs)) 

One request. Full. 

Waiting.

Whilst I wait, I am getting review copies of NAILED ready to send out for the Sept release date.

YAY!

I'm submitting my latest ( one of my latest, lol ) WIP's to agents and editors again. Dangit the query letter is strong. The novel is strong. I remind myself of the story, the characters, the power in the message and I hope some agent/editor sees what I see in the experience of the read. Submitting is not for the weak-hearted. Like aging, the ugliness of rejection ( or the lines, wrinkles and sags - of aging ) are hard to take. I hate it. At the same time, for national distribution, this step is necessary.

But you  know me. If the 37 agents I've chosen to query say "no thanks" it will only mean I'm onto yet another of my own creations. Creating my own work from conception to publication has been tremendously satisfying. I love it.

What a difference.

Crossing fingers.

 

I may eat my words about loops. I was on one today as a guest author in a chat and actually had a woman read my excerpts and say they sounded interesting. Now, the book is on her TBR pile. What do you know!

But here's the most interesting part: as I reread my own material, choosing which sections to post, I realized I could post with pride. If you let enough time go in between reading/writing your work you forget A) why you do B) that you do it well.

If you've been rejected lately, if your editor's handed you back a huge stack of edits/changes, if you just read the most magnificent book since Fighting Reuben Wolfe and think you can't write one more word without it sounding like crudola...open your latest WIP or pubbed book and read a few pages. Be reminded of what you have to offer. There's nobody like you.

The pub biz closes down on the 15th. Stays closed till sometime in Jan.  Time for a break. I'm heading to Absolute Water Cooler


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