IShouldBeWriting.com
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I Should Be Writing
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For God's sake, send it out!
I just got back from Trinoc*Con, our local scifi convention. I have to say it was the best ever. This year I had the awesome Jim Kelly there to introduce me to people, so I had lunch with Jim Kelly, David G. Hartwell (senior editor of Tor) and Kathryn Cramer (writer/editor) * , got some time to record an interview with Jim Kelly and John Kessel (writer and NC State Univ. Faculty of their MFA program) which will be posted soon, and met authors like Gregory Frost and F. Brett Cox. I briefly spoke with Gene Wolfe after a panel, and he and his wife are such nice and gracious people, they're amazing. Wolfe is unexpectedly funny. I'll tell that story in the next podcast...
But I never really identified with not sending stuff out. Ever. Jim and John were talking about writers they knew who were talented, but they were waiting to send stuff out until... What? Perfection?
It's actually kind of scary how many people are waiting for this magical time. They ignore the reality that they will get rejected. They ignore the truth that rejection and criticism are actually good things; your work cannot exist in a vacuum, you need outside eyes, to gauge your work and give you a sense of how it is. I know people who have resisted crit groups as well as submissions. I wanted to yell, "So how the hell are you ever planning on getting published?" But I'm polite, so I didn't.
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