Which may seem like a good problem to have, except I'm supposed to be editing. Since I finished my novella, I've written five short stories, and just signed up to write another... and I've only edited, partially, one chapter of my novel. I know I need to focus on editing, or the writing was for …
Rejection
I often feel like I'm in an unresolved quantum state of love/hate toward my own writing. It fluctuates so quickly sometimes that I can't even read it. Nothing cures that like a rejection. Rejections magnify all faults and mute all positives. Now, maybe I can actually look at this story long enough to work on …
Waiting
The hardest part of a rejection is waiting for it... I'm at the point where it's been long enough that I'm starting to think they might accept it. Which, if untrue, will make the rejection more sad than it usually is. Also, I have to keep waiting before I can send it somewhere else!
Exploring
Writing a story based in a city I've never been in is interesting, and fun. I wonder how writers did it before the age of the internet. I can drop down into the streets and virtually walk them to get a feel for the city. I can look up bars and restaurants and read reviews …
Leveled up
I feel like I've gained a new writing power--the power to do multiple things. I wrote two short stories in the past week, and went back to my novel without a problem. In the past, whenever I paused anything, even for a short while, to do something else, I'd lose all interest and never go …
Jonas David 