I'm trying not to do that anymore.
Seriously.
I've probably disappointed my parents and everyone else and I apologize. I didn't mean to do that. What you read from my last post was some great emotional backlash from unwanted pressure and build up of emotions.
After I got done writing the last post I grabbed my copy of Twisted and hurled it at my door. My door is where things tend to get chucked. I once threw my MP3 at it (another story for another time.) And the book ricocheted off of my door and landed splat in my garbage can.
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At the time I was like "good!" while sobbing. I figured that's where trash needed to go.
My family had other ideas. I got...it was at least 30 minutes of a pep talk reminding me that I have only been published for a month. It takes time.
My personal copy of Twisted is incredibly beat up. I'm not going to quit. It's just taking a lot of grit teeth to keep going.
In other words I'm trying to fake it until I make it.
Which may take a while before I make it, but you know. Why not me? Why not Twisted?
Oh and for the record, it took me a really long time how to learn ricochet. It is not spelled the way it sounds. If it were it would probably look like this: ricoshay. =D
Good for your parents in giving you the pep talk. I hope you're doing a little better today. And I hate words like ricochet--especially when my spelling is bad enough that Word doesn't recognize it to give me the correct spelling. It gets a little frustrating when you know what you want to write but you don't know how to spell it. By the way, I love Mark Twain for a quote of his: "I have no respect for people who aren't creative enough to spell a word in more than one way." :)
ReplyDeleteYeah the spelling was a killer for me when I started writing. Now it's impeccable (most of the time) rhythm was the biggest nightmare. Every time I thought I had it right I didn't. Sigh. Words. =D
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