I hate saying this... but I have neglected this blog lately.
I come back and notice my friends faces don't upload. hmm, but they are showing on my control page. That is sad. It is also hard to type blogs if you are unsure if anyone is reading it. oh well! Write on, I always say. You must write for yourself and no one else. If someone reads what you write, then that's cool, if they actually enjoy it, then that's a bonus.
As some of you know, I like writing. I always have. I was writing before I knew how to write letters, before I knew the alphabet. lol. I took my parents novels and my own children books and scribbled lines of 'story' in their books. My poor parents. They would find me going through their books with a pen. I was writing the story! don't they know that...
Once I knew how to write real letters I would write anything that could be strung together to form a sentence. I spent many years (and many notebooks later) writing poetry. That I'm not sure made any sense at all. And I took up this weird habit of writing it all backwards. It was so easy to do, which is scary when I think of it now. I could hold the poetry up and read it in the mirror. Wow.
anyway, that's not what I meant to blog about. but in a way it is. I am a woman of contradictions.
I've been spending time re-writing, revising, resurrecting, revamping, and all the other re words there are, my story that I've written. I'd love for all those reading this to one day read it.
Now I've come to the conclusion; the only way my book is going to be published is through a miracle from God. That's not to say my novel is too awful to publish. No! (I have to have some level of pride in this) It's because it is sooo damn difficult a task to get it published. There is much against me. Where I live on this planet, the length of my novel (a big secret) let's say it's BIGger than average, my inability to Sell, Sell, Sell, my fear of hundreds of rejections, leading me to believe that it is not good enough.
All of that is to do with me, then I have to find an agent who is suited to my genre. Those agents have hundreds (not exaggerating) of query letters a day. They have to really want to see your work - first. Then interested enough to go further. I'm not certain if anyone in the States would be willing to take on anyone overseas. I say the States, because there are only a small number of agents in Australia, and even less publishers. They all seem to only take on celebrities, or rebellious teenagers. And defintely not fantasy! omygoodness! I'm not helping myself, am I?
Back to my initial comment. For God's sake and because I believe in God and his miracle working power, and his purposes for my life; if my book is published, it is because God wanted it to be. Pure and simple. Because honestly, I don't think it could happen any other way. ok, maybe I sound down about it right now. I admit that.
but that's why I haven't given much time to my blog, not that I don't like my little blog - I do - I've just been busy getting my story tightened up and ironed out.
also, I've tried to update my story on one of the links. Hope it's clear for you.
thank you for reading!
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that's it! as soon as I get time, I'm redoing my blog. Bigger and better! .... when I get time.
ps. thank you to all those people who commented - on my facebook!
