tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31121848.post8136030656318325470..comments2024-02-19T15:11:41.227-06:00Comments on Catholic Writer Chick at Large!: Back to the Drawing Board...er, Writing DeskJannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06725527285837338560noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31121848.post-46925149987320732742006-12-28T22:41:00.000-06:002006-12-28T22:41:00.000-06:00Ideas: $0.25 each. I've got a cartload of 'em and...Ideas: $0.25 each. I've got a cartload of 'em and only the same 24 hours per day you have, to write 'em all down.<br /><br />You sound as though you are stressing over your burnout. I hope this isn't true. None of the factors that fed into your burnout were in any way your fault. They constituted your life, not your writing, and as you know, those two areas sometimes work at cross-purposes, no matter how we'd wish it otherwise...<br /><br />And as far as the rejections, someone is gonna take a look at this book and fall in love. I should know...I did.<br /><br />T2Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13100565897627429788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31121848.post-56584638709085863662006-12-28T19:49:00.000-06:002006-12-28T19:49:00.000-06:00My heart goes out to you because I can so relate t...My heart goes out to you because I can so relate to this post!! I've been through those years of burnout and wondering if you were cut out to be a writer at all. Just lately, I've had some pretty good successes and I'm slowly coming into being a "real" writer. <br />My first book sold in July--a children's mystery. Finished the revisions in Oct. and am waiting to hear if they meet with approval. As if that wasn't enough of a good thing---two other ladies and I met at a writer's meeting, got to talking and dreaming and through a mutual friend we approached the editor of our local paper. TA DA! We are now co-authors of a monthly page for children. In '07, we are hoping to start syndication.<br /><br />And yet----just at this time, I'm having some serious doubts, sleepless nights and worry sessions over a new series of ms. I've been writing for children. I strive seriously never to write anything that could hurt children. I take my craft and my moral responsibilities very seriously. <br /><br />My main character is a bit of a Tom Sawyerish child--she knows right from wrong but often tilts more wrong than right. Through the books, she does come to the right conclusion and sees her actions as wrong, even learning the moral way to behave. I see the ms. as the real struggles children face in wanting to do right but being pulled by the world to do the wrong thing.<br /><br />Okay, enter a crit partner. She expressed some honest doubts about the moral rightness of the character. Can't tell you how many hours I've prayed and worried and written page after page of notes about what I'm trying to DO with this character. Do I move ahead and start sending the ms. out? Or is she right and I start from scratch and revamp all the life out of the character? Ahhhhhhhh!<br /><br />And we do this to ourselves! LOL- I'm sure a job at Wal-Mart is less stressful.<br /><br />If it's ideas you are after---I've got about a hundred I'd be willing to share!Donna Alicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04242871850994009888noreply@blogger.com