tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396875931357506685.post6781522410410212588..comments2024-02-10T02:12:10.516-08:00Comments on CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE: Tuesday worries and rantsCarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02724359857107668407noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396875931357506685.post-21724699992136078552009-03-04T11:28:00.000-08:002009-03-04T11:28:00.000-08:00For what it's worth, I don't know a writer worth h...For what it's worth, I don't know a writer worth her (his) salt who DOESN"T have these worries. I blame the industry for making us worry about the shmoozing part, but the rest just goes along with being a creative person, I htink. Be of good cheer! You are writing! You are writing great books! You are doing all you can to promote them and they will find their readers.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the Kunzru quote, Gayle. That really says it all.Clea Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10810838253598050028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396875931357506685.post-71144348873297550332009-03-04T00:45:00.000-08:002009-03-04T00:45:00.000-08:00I thought you might appreciate these words from Ha...I thought you might appreciate these words from Hari Kunzru (from the great article in the Guardian, "Writing for a Living: a joy or a chore?"<BR/><BR/>"I get great pleasure from writing, but not always, or even usually. Writing a novel is largely an exercise in psychological discipline – trying to balance your project on your chin while negotiating a minefield of depression and freak-out. Beginning is daunting; being in the middle makes you feel like Sisyphus; ending sometimes comes with the disappointment that this finite collection of words is all that remains of your infinitely rich idea. Along the way, there are the pitfalls of self-disgust, boredom, disorientation and a lingering sense of inadequacy, occasionally alternating with episodes of hysterical self-congratulation as you fleetingly believe you've nailed that particular sentence and are surely destined to join the ranks of the immortals, only to be confronted the next morning with an appalling farrago of clichés that no sane human could read without vomiting. But when you're in the zone, spinning words like plates, there's a deep sense of satisfaction and, yes, enjoyment…"<BR/><BR/>There are great quotes from several other writers as well (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/03/authors-on-writing) but I thought you'd especially resonate with this one. :)<BR/><BR/>xoxo<BR/>gaylegaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03745788005478202736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396875931357506685.post-48621221125712136062009-03-03T17:45:00.000-08:002009-03-03T17:45:00.000-08:00Caroline the only award I would give you would be ...Caroline the only award I would give you would be the most prolific and generous writer award.<BR/><BR/>Really and truly.<BR/><BR/>I constantly feel like I am not working hard enough. Sometimes its true, sometimes it's not. And I seem incapable of believing in myself as much as I would like or others do. Sigh. But I have faith that this can change. And tell myself that I must be doing something right to be able to do what I love to.Gina Sorellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15651102053639300887noreply@blogger.com