The sun is out. I am awake. There are no thoughts in my head.
I sit down, duty-bound, to write.
I had a dream last night. A couple of students did not want to enter my classroom because I was boring and useless. I had woken to let the cat out and was wondering at that strange hour (2.22 am) why I was feeling so bad. The previous day had been a good one. I have my AWOL submitted to five literary agents and I am quite pleased, if not a little scared; I hate rejection.
AWOL has taken up many hours of late, the editing and re-editing and the re-re-editing and the pitch, the elevator pitch, and the synopsis (with spoilers). I really think that have tried to do it justice. I really think that I have done the best that I can do without stealing the soul of Stephen King.
My easy route out of all this is to not put myself through it.
I could self-publish and count the pennies coming in on a monthly basis. I could count the reads it receives on my blog. I could count the reviews and stars. I could count myself lucky that this really doesn’t mean all that much to me. But I could count on the ‘new me’ to remind the ‘new me’ that it does count. This is the path that I have chosen and this is the path that I am on.
In the meantime, wish me luck. I have taken the time to acknowledge the existence of a supreme deity as an insurance policy.
Please, please, please…

I wish you the very best of luck!π I’m very excited for you!π
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Many thanks. I am just going to go for it, whatever the ‘it’ is.
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Good luck. You may regret trying, but if you don’t try you can’t fail. That fail is the first, anything else is unknowable. We can live with regrets, not what-ifs?
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Fingers and other whatsits crossed.
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There’s only real failure if you don’t do something…once you have it becomes an experience x
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Yes. Still a little daunting.
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I can imagine Mike π
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Throw the dice in the game?
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