You've considered mentioning your cat in the acknowledgments.
You listen to the people in your head more attentively than your family.
You have a "day job," instead of just a job.
You use terms like MC, query, galleys and partial in casual conversation.
Showing posts with label writers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writers. Show all posts
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Tinfoil Hat Brigade
When I started writing my first novel, BAGASTANA* back in 2007, I immersed myself in the online writer's communities.
What I found was:
WRITERS ARE A BUNCH OF LOONS.
Yup: writers are even crazier than psychologists, and that's saying something. As far as I can figure it, people become psychologists to self-treat, while people become writers to give the voices in their heads something to do.
So, I'm slightly concerned that I fit in so well.
Fiction Groupie had a great post yesterday about
Writer's Insomnia," and EVERYONE COULD RELATE. Our imaginary friends keep us up at night.
Do non-writers have this problem? Is this the reason we become writers, or is it a result of choosing to write?
* this book has been preserved in manuscript form as an example of how NOT to follow the show-don't-tell credo. Someday I may rewrite it as a first-person narrative from Darwin's point of view, but Maddie and the Ganzfield world are my focus now. Every writer should have at least one unpublished novel in a drawer somewhere. It keeps us humble--sort of.
What I found was:
WRITERS ARE A BUNCH OF LOONS.
Yup: writers are even crazier than psychologists, and that's saying something. As far as I can figure it, people become psychologists to self-treat, while people become writers to give the voices in their heads something to do.
So, I'm slightly concerned that I fit in so well.
Fiction Groupie had a great post yesterday about
Writer's Insomnia," and EVERYONE COULD RELATE. Our imaginary friends keep us up at night.
Do non-writers have this problem? Is this the reason we become writers, or is it a result of choosing to write?
* this book has been preserved in manuscript form as an example of how NOT to follow the show-don't-tell credo. Someday I may rewrite it as a first-person narrative from Darwin's point of view, but Maddie and the Ganzfield world are my focus now. Every writer should have at least one unpublished novel in a drawer somewhere. It keeps us humble--sort of.
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