Ahh, the summer begins. The Genesis contest is over, at least it is for me. I've received the comments back and they were very good. I have someone working on a web site for me. At conference it was suggested we have a web site for promoting ourselves. So..... I suppose this means having a www. I saw no way of making this happen and talked to a friend about this dilemma. She talked to her son and he has agreed to build me a web site. *WOW*
On other areas of the writing front, it is so nice when you hear from a critique partner/friend that they have heard from an agent/publisher that they want to see their whole manuscript! I mean, really! How can you not be excited for them? (And not a little jealous?) I know my writing is just as good as theirs and I've been giving and getting as much in the critique group as the next guy. Yet she is getting the nibbles and I'm not. But then I chastise myself. This is NOT a competition between she and I. We don't even write in the same genre. She isn't querying the same people I query. So I step back and smile again and I want to shout. I helped! I gave her good feedback on that story. We brainstormed together over just how she wanted a scene to go. I helped. Like the little girl on the old TV commercial. It's Shake-n-Bake, and I helped!
Then we have the people we know who ask us..... How's the writing going?
I think it's going just fine. :o) I'm participating in the online courses and reading the how-to-books and attending my local critique group and working on my story. Life is good and I'm still writing. So why do I feel like that question was more of a ... So are you still deluding yourself into thinking you can write - question? Maybe because I know these people? LOL. The joke will be on them when I get my phone call or e-mail asking for my full manuscript. And as the song by John Waller says.... While I'm waiting, I will serve you. While I'm waiting, I will worship. While I'm waiting, I will not fail. I'll be running the race, even while I wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-M7oGrOa2I&feature=related
Keeping my dream alive.
~Susie
Sunday, June 12, 2011
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