Are both at times hell. As some of you know I’ve made snarky comments (which I probably shouldn’t have, but meh…) about the one sales statement I’ve got so far this reporting period. Since I usually do that, and since I’ve long assumed my statements are the greatest form of fiction in the world, and other people’s MUST make more sense, imagine my surprise to find I wasn’t the only one with concerns.
Amanda Green writes about the kerfuffle rattling the windows of the publishing world. http://amandasgreen.wordpress.com/ Well worth reading the whole thing as well as the blogposts she links to. (In fact, if you intend to work in this field, you should be following both Krish Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith.) [I highly recommend their workshops, too, which give solid value for the money. I’ve taken any number of them.]
Mind you this might all die down and quickly too. We writers are simple folk. The next idea for a story comes along and we forget reality and as long as we have a roof over our head and a place to plug our computer, we’re easily pacified. OTOH my feeling is that this is the beginning of something — something I’m not sure I want to deal with. Let’s just say my blogpost on anger last wednesday might have been all too apropos.
And look, I JUST want to write. That’s ALL I’m really interested in. If I can make enough from writing to help Dan keep this house going and to have some very mild fun with Dan and the kids, (our version of fun runs to museums and walks in the park, okay?) I’m perfecly contented. A cutting-edge lifestyle I do NOT have.
However as Ulysses (and George Washington!) found, sometimes even the most devoted of private citizens have to leave their plows behind.
Did I mention I NEVER asked to live in interesting times?
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