The two things that work against me as a writer are distraction/ procrastination and dealing with rejection. I thought had 15 rejections in a row but then I counted and it’s more like twenty. Usually I can shake off a rejections, realize it is nothing personal but a business decision, not a reflection on my writing per se so much as on the journal's content . But you know what it’s like. Sometimes you place a little more hope in a submission, and you think: maybe this … [Read more...]
Words don’t fail me
Hiya. It's been 16 days since I last posted. Wish I could say there was a reason but . . . maybe there have been a couple, the first being that I have been unmotivated. Sometimes I feel like I am drowning in blather. FB, Twitter, email all bring me information that proves to be superfluous and sometimes distracting. Kim and Kanye share space with the 200 kidnapped girls in Nigeria. Lately everything seems noisy to me. So I feel disinclined to add to the chatter, especially … [Read more...]