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Joe,
Here is the link to my blog: A Written LifeJoe,
Thanks for pouring out your heart to us. While the causes are not the same, my issue is the same. What makes me think I can be a writer? It is always in the back of my mind and since my classes in the program have ended, it’s come back tenfold and has crushed me. I cannot seem to find my stride anymore. I’m not even writing morning pages where I used to be religious with them.
My blog is suffering as I only manage about one post a week. I have started too many draft projects and have not gotten back to them. I can’t pinpoint what is going on with me because this stay-at-home order has not changed my life really at all. I’m very isolated where I live. Partly it’s my husband being home and the nonstop TV news in the background, but that is just an excuse and I know it.
I love LeGuin’s work, but didn’t know she’d written something for writers. I appreciate you sharing that and the other pieces that have touched you.
I don’t have any solutions, but know that you are not alone.
SallyHi Nikita and Joe and all,
It’s funny that I feel any need to cope at all, as isolated as I already am. But it is different. My online students are clearly worried yet some are working more with adults at home now monitoring what actually goes on in day.
I love LeGuin, she was one of my first introductions to scifi/fantasy back in grade school.I should be producing a ton of work, but, I’m not. Still feeling stuck.
I am reading both Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea, and Kim Richardson’s The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. I’m also listening to Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes. I’m struck by the story construction present to past to present in Picoult’s novel, the idea that there were pack horse/mule libraries in rural Kentucky in the Richardson novel, and Morgenstern’s work is incredible, the idea that a story labyrinth exists where there is such reverence, worship even, of every story every thought of.
Stay safe!
SallyThank you, Nikita. I have the audio version, but probably just need to get myself a hard copy. I’ve heard great things about it.
Thanks for your encouragement! I have a lot of options for stories I need to get back to. I just need to make myself get back to them.
Joe,
Thank you. You just helped me give myself permission to save the 50 bucks I was debating using to renew my subscription to Duotrope. I’ll look into Submittable.I’d like to say that I have, but no. For the life of me, I cannot figure out where it disappeared to because I know it is on my computer.
I am trying to get out of a slump, so I’ve pushed it to the back burner for now. I had to get a bit of grip on myself and force my writing habit back into place. I still need to find the right publisher for my novella as the one submission I’ve made came back as “this isn’t for us” basically.
You both have great irons in the fire and I simply feel lost. I need to get my work out there but am fumbling around. I’m not finding Duotrope to be very user friendly and waste a lot of time looking for a niche.
Kirk, I read part of your novel in one of our classes and was totally hooked, so consider one copy sold!
Nikita, I’m in awe of what you have built!
And Joe…I’ve been a fan forever.
Nikita,
I’ve never numbered drafts, but can attest to the multitudes I’ve done of any given piece. It strikes me as smart because only this morning I was searching for the latest draft of a piece and still, for the life of me, cannot find it. I found plenty of other drafts, but not the one that had the most recent work. Ugh.This is an interesting infographic:
How Long Did It Take to Write the World’s Most Famous Books?Joe and Nakita,
These three short posts were enlightening. I’d just seen a commercial on TV for one of these types of companies, and they made it sound soooo easy.
I’m trying to decide whether or not to query some agents. I particularly want to get the second novel I had published by a small publisher back out there. They went out of business about two weeks after they published my second novel, so it wasn’t not really out there for long. I think it has a lot of potential but I’m not sure how the fact that it was published will play out.
