Last Edits, My Personal Best, and Being Present…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under ...the writing life..., Musings
The past two weeks have been a blur.
I’m in the last stages of editing my novel, The House, that is due out later this year, and times have been quite interesting.
It’s funny what happens when you reach a point of having to let go of a book and “put it out there” so to speak.
For me it’s a scary time.
And particularly so, since I’m self-publishing. My first work, Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident” a collection of short stories, was brought to print by a traditional publishing house.
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Faith, Our Personal Best and the Work We Do…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Musings
But I want to stay with mothers, because so often when we write we, and the world, does not take seriously what we do seriously, particularly if we choose to operate primarily as a mother, and a writer second.
Those of us who choose to place our writing second do so because I think on some level we know that we will never reach our personal best at crafting stories until we have nurtured our children to an adequate point in their and our lives.
This is not the only way to come to writing. This is our way.
Tags: art, attorney, author, child rearing, children, dedication, family, mother, novel, parent, patience, personal best, Presumed Innocent, publish, Scott Turow, skill, talent, the work we do, women, writer, writing
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