Welcome to yet another monthly post for The Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG). Our awesome co-hosts this month are Feather Stone, Janet Alcorn, Rebecca Douglass, Jemima Pett, and Pat Garcia!
This month’s optional question- Some common fears writers share are rejection, failure, success, and lack of talent or ability. What are your greatest fears as a writer? How do you manage them?
Since I spent years in the querying trenches and now I’m in the submission trenches, you’d think I would be inured to rejection. But alas. It’s not so much a fear anymore, but it remains my biggest insecurity. I’ve just learned how to use it as fuel.
Here’s another thing I use for fuel: music. Enjoy! I’ll see you next month.
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I really enjoyed the elephant story. I wonder what it would be like to live so close to these giants? Glad he didn’t destroy to much and no one, including the intruder were hurt.
Thanks for co-hosting our June Blog Hop.
Agreed! Thanks for dropping by!
Music helps me too. But sometimes it hinders me. (Brings the wrong mood.) I have to be careful about that.
I think timing is everything with music.
First getting an agent and then a publisher, so you have to go through the process twice. Ugh.
Right?
I like your strategy – turning something undesirable to useful. Very wise, you are. Blessings
Thank you! Blessings to you.
It’s never fun no matter where you are in the process.
No it’s not.
Rejection ? You’d think, after so much practice, we could just shrug and move on…
Doesn’t work like that for me, inbox just as bad as the doormat/[postbox used to be….
Agreed!