I’ve been so busy editing over the last however-many-months, I haven’t posted anything besides a few book reviews, a note on querying (which was mostly for my own benefit), and the weekly Friday Morning FYIs. So here’s a short (<900 words) thingy I banged-out, oh, probably a year ago. I wrote it one day when a strange, naggy little idea way-too-small for a novel broke through the topsoil in my mind, and watered itself.
Enjoy!
Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI, my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.
This week’s FYI is all about you knowing you:
What do you want to do (today/tomorrow/for a week/for a career/before you die)? If you’ve figured that out, go do it, doubters and naysayers be damned. If you haven’t, work on that before anything else. How, you say? Try things. Talk to people. Take chances. Experience. If, in the end, you still haven’t figured it out, maybe all you wanted to do was search.
Thanks for reading,
{RDj}
Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI, my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.
This week’s FYI is all about patience:
Sometimes we have to work on someone else’s schedule. Or with someone else’s schedule. Whatever. The point is, you can’t make your phone ring, and the Refresh button is not your friend. Walk away. It’ll come when it comes.
Thanks for reading,
{RDj}
WARNING – hastily-written, unnecessarily-long, thought-streamy post ahead.
So I’ve started querying for my 57,000 word high-concept Middle Grade Contemporary Fantasy (whew) novel. If you’ve never written a book, you couldn’t know what an emotional rollercoaster it is from start to finish, including the part where you pitch it to publishing professionals. Let me explain.
Continue reading “Aaaaaaaaaand ‘Send’: The Courage to Query”
Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI, my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.
This week’s FYI is inspired by good old positive thinking:
We all get upset, and angry, and sad. What you do then and how you get out of it is what matters. Hanging on to bad feelings is like clutching a red hot fork. The fork doesn’t care about your hand. All you’re doing is burning and scaring yourself. Let. It. Go.
Thanks for reading,
{RDj}
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