Critique sentimentalist

[mrissa]

There is a curious hollow feeling that comes from sending a draft of novel off to be critiqued.

It has been eating focus, attention, concentration, energy-it has been monopolizing as much brain as is available and then some-and now it is done. Gone. Off to other garner other people’s thoughts. Not productive to fiddle with it any more for awhile

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[sartorias]

Oh, that week sounds heavenly. Wow!

[thanate]

Huzzah for in-between spaces to write new stories. :) I hope the workshop thing proves worthy!

I was just reading Fran Wilde's acknowledgements for Updraft, (which is full of people I know, plus our VP class en masse) and having a moment of realizing that if I keep up with this writing community thing, at some point I'll end up name-checked in the back of someone's book, and it was very odd. I don't think my brain has caught up with all the implications of writerly community yet.

[mrissa]

My dear and wonderful in-laws once wrote to me to ask if I knew that the book they had checked out from the library was dedicated to me. So there'll be the point where your brain catches up. And then there will be the point where other people's do too.

It's neat.