you may not have sold them yet, but you've finished, what? two, three novels?
Three, and I'm on p. 175 of the manuscript of the fourth.
And thank you for reminding me that to be able to keep writing with everything else I've dealt with the past 4-5 years is an accomplishment in itself. Because I can always find someone who writes faster to compare myself to. Though I'm not sure I know anyone who writes faster AND has as many non-writerly responsibilities. A lot of days the only thing holding me together is sheer stubbornness. I'm not going to stop writing. I'm just not. The universe can't make me, no matter how much it tries.
You made those stories, those characters real. You saw them, and you brought them out into the world and made other people see them. That's a huge achievement.
Thanks for this, too. It's hard, it really is, to see other people pass me on the road to publication. I'm 100% thrilled for Allyson and Jilli and all my other friends who've sold in the almost 7 years I've been at this now, but there's still this little voice inside me saying, "What about me? When will it be my turn? I'm good, too, I really am." And then when something like this Cassie Edwards plagiarism scandal goes down...well, then I get a little angry at the universe.
Interesting op-ed piece about misogyny in America from the NYT:
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Just peeking in to say
Happy Birthday msbelle!!!
Happy, happy birthday to msbelle! With cupcakes and lots of happy.
I meeting-makered in a meeting with Grace. That's something I need to do more often during the day.
What does that mean?? All I can think of is "prepare to meet your maker"!!
George Pelecanos(apparently) spent his twenties getting high and selling appliances.(Sometimes at the very same moment.) This is my very favorite making of a best-seller ever.
And then he wrote about people doing exactly that! And could barely get published in the US for years.
I think one of my dream jobs would involve small kids. Shocking, no? But there have been several, and there will be several more, I'm sure. I don't hang too much on them except when I actually try to work towards them. Knowing has never been half my battle; acting has been 3/4.
It's been increasingly difficult to find the particular insulin and needles I use the past couple months. I don't know if there is a supply issue, or my timing is just wrong. Tonight, safeway manage to not have BOTH the insulin and needles. Sheesh.
I think my dream job would be teaching cats to use killer robots.
But...but...no opposable thumbs! How do they control robots?
::picturing my cat with a joystick/control pad, trying to maneuver Robby the Robot around::
Hey, the roomba has a remote with a directional wheel. No thumbs needed!
