Thursday, March 29, 2007
It's funny...
Now that I have a few books under my belt, I think I have even less conviction and confidence in my work. I think, "What am I doing?"

I know this is a constant struggle for writers after talking to several of my friends, so I am not terribly surprised, but it is still hard to overcome the dreaded doubtmyselfitis.

Having said that, I have been working on a couple of polishing revisions of a book I want to send out SOON and I think, it's not so bad. But I don't know. . . It has all the right parts girl meets boy, boy acts all crazy and girl and he spilt, girl kicks bad guy's patootie and boy realizes he cannot live without her--see it's all there. I even let Ames read it and made changes, grudgingly at first even though I knew she was right.

So why am I afraid to put it out there? Why do I think it will be met with, um sorry, you suck. . .

Whoever said it was easy to write books, show them to me so I can kick their patootie!

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Written at 8:46 AM by Denise McDonald.
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Blogger Bailey Stewart said...
When you're unpubbed, you think - what the hell; when you're published you think - what if I can't do it again. Sort of like the person who has a hit record, and then doesn't know what to follow it up with because it might not be as good.
March 30, 2007 5:06 PM  
Blogger Ballpoint Wren said...
Even Margaret Mitchell went through this. How do you write a followup to a blockbuster like Gone With the Wind?

She let it keep her from writing anything else, and then she died too soon to change her mind.

So you see, even the authors of blockbusters can feel this way. (Just so you know, after you publish YOUR blockbuster.)
April 08, 2007 11:48 AM  
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