I love this topic, Irene. Thanks for bringing it up. I think so many unpublished writers see published writers as having "made it" and we all know this isn't exactly true, now is it?
I have had a lot of ups...maybe ups others might not characterize as so but I tend to adopt the belief that it is never the event that makes us happy or sad, but our own response to it.
With that said, my biggest up had to have been when I Skyped with a group of students who had read the book. The librarian emailed me afterward and told me that they wanted to nominate me for an award. I was blown away at their enthusiasm. To know that my book had moved kids like that was worth every tear, headache, neckache, permanently furrowed brow, sleepless night ...fill in the blank.
My downs so far have been more related to those really bad writing days. The ones when I am sure my first book was a fluke and that sooner or later someone is going to figure out that I really am a fraud! And it seems that whatever I put on the paper is such drivel that I wouldn't let my dog read it :)
I have had a lot of ups...maybe ups others might not characterize as so but I tend to adopt the belief that it is never the event that makes us happy or sad, but our own response to it.
With that said, my biggest up had to have been when I Skyped with a group of students who had read the book. The librarian emailed me afterward and told me that they wanted to nominate me for an award. I was blown away at their enthusiasm. To know that my book had moved kids like that was worth every tear, headache, neckache, permanently furrowed brow, sleepless night ...fill in the blank.
My downs so far have been more related to those really bad writing days. The ones when I am sure my first book was a fluke and that sooner or later someone is going to figure out that I really am a fraud! And it seems that whatever I put on the paper is such drivel that I wouldn't let my dog read it :)
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