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[MsWizard]

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Visit: http://aliciawinski.com/

See it. Buy it. Use it to level out your wobbly dressers or tables. Just put the cash in my pocket and I'm a happy girl.

Is that promotion shameless enough or do I actually have to try harder? Cuz Im pretty tired already. Let me know. I'm sure I can be pretty decently shameless tomorrow if required to be so.

<<<------------------just waiting for the flaming arrows to start flying...

[Father Luke]

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Over a month has passed with no flaming arrows, Alicia.
Evidently most published writing is treated with the utmost respect at Mary.

Hope it's been going well for you.

[MsWizard]

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Oh, it's the shameless promotion I thought would attract the arrows FL! I'm well aware of the respect Mary has for the written word. This is why I joined this site. It was not the book itself I thought would get panned,although I have to be honest, when I read it now, I mentally kick myself in the ass and wonder WHY I didn't change this or that. I never seem to be satisfied completely with what I've written.  

The book is actually getting good reviews. Thank you for asking. However, it's sure difficult to self promote and get it out there. I wonder how others do it ...

How are you FL? Is life being kind to you and yours?

[Father Luke]

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Oh, it's the shameless promotion I thought would attract the arrows FL! I'm well aware of the respect Mary has for the written word. This is why I joined this site.

I know. However not all are like that, as you know. Some see Mary not as a workshop
to improve their writing, but rather as a blog where they may show off what little
they don't know. Which is okay, because no one really cares, you see. Not about show-
offs.

It was not the book itself I thought would get panned,although I have to be honest, when I read it now, I mentally kick myself in the ass and wonder WHY I didn't change this or that. I never seem to be satisfied completely with what I've written.  

Yes. I know that one. I think most writers do, Alicia. When my first book came out
I wouldn't go out of my hotel room for nearly three days, and I felt sick to my
stomach. Mostly I rocked back and forth curled up in a ball.

The book is actually getting good reviews. Thank you for asking. However,

You bet. You've been a friend of Mary since before you joined. Your writing is still crap, but your participation here has been joyful for me. And you are growing.

it's sure difficult to self promote and get it out there. I wonder how others do it ...

Word of mouth. If you build it, they will come, Alicia. Keep writing.

How are you FL? Is life being kind to you and yours?

Kinder than I deserve. Thanks indeed for asking.

 

[MsWizard]

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I've come to the conclusion that I'll never be completely satisfied with my writing but I've also come to the conclusion that I'm willing to learn one day at a time so I guess something good has come of all these conclusions I come to.

I will always be a friend to Mary, FL. I respect her owners and I respect the writers on the site. And I respect the opinions I get of my work, good or bad, harsh or kind because they're honest and they generally always have something constructive that I can use. I'm thankful for that~

[Father Luke]

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To this day I'm still not satisfied with my writing, Alicia. While I find comfort knowing I can write,
I'm not satisfied with what I have accomplished, despite any praise, or accolades I may yet receive,
or those I have received in the past.

Not that those people who enjoy my writing are wrong. But compared to what I want to do? It's crap. My
writing is crap. My only hope is that I never become so smug, and complacent with myself that I'm as
happy with my writing as other people are. Funny, too, because I don't write for anyone but myself. As
in most things concerning myself, I'm rather deaf to what other people want for me.

And okay to all this, too.

[MsWizard]

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There have been only two pieces that I've ever been completely happy with. One of them I prostituted myself for, changing it so that it could get published. I've never read it since and don't want to. The other one, I started to change, then refused. It did not get published, but I still love it. The rest ... well, if I'm not happy with my writing, then that's really is ultimately what counts. I write to express myself well and in a manner others can relate to, and if they can't, I lay the fault at my own door. I imagine life will continue that way since very few are harder on me than I am on myself but that's ok ... I can live with it ... and I can keep trying ...

[Father Luke]

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There have been only two pieces that I've ever been completely happy with. One of them I prostituted myself for, changing it so that it could get published. I've never read it since and don't want to.

Writers do this all the time in the fourth estate. poets, too.
Mostly through bad editors.

The other one, I started to change, then refused. It did not get published, but I still love it. The rest ... well, if I'm not happy with my writing, then that's really is ultimately what counts. I write to express myself well and in a manner others can relate to, and if they can't, I lay the fault at my own door. I imagine life will continue that way since very few are harder on me than I am on myself but that's ok ... I can live with it ... and I can keep trying ...

When I need help I turn to those I trust to help me over bumps. A few are at Mary, and the rest I
have scattered in my private life across the internet, and close to home.

But for writing? No. I never write for anyone other than myself. I mean I get fucked on a daily
basis by life why invite it?

BTW? It would be nice to have a job where I could write, and have an editor tell me:

Naw. Drop the third paragraph, and we'll cut you a check.


I mean, really. Where do I sign?

[MsWizard]

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I have very few I trust to look over my work. That's why the ones I have an immensely troubling time with, I bring here. Harlequin Death is one such piece. I'm STILL rewriting. But I'm rewriting it based on the critique of writers I admire and whom I trust to tell me the truth. When it is finished, I will repost it. And some may like it. But I'll probably continue to find something in it to pick apart.

I applied for a job as an editor this week. If hired I would tell the writer whose work I was editing to run like hell and never never never let me pick it apart.

I could never have another piece picked apart by someone I dont know. And I'll never prositute myself again either. I've had dozens of people telling me that part of being a successful writer is having an editor tear something apart to where I no longer recognize it. Clearly, I'll never be a "successful" writer. But at least I'll be closer to liking my own work.

[Father Luke]

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I have very few I trust to look over my work.

Good editors are something good. I have one I really like, and I guard that relationship.

That's why the ones I have an immensely troubling time with, I bring here. Harlequin Death is one such piece. I'm STILL rewriting. But I'm rewriting it based on the critique of writers I admire and whom I trust to tell me the truth. When it is finished, I will repost it. And some may like it. But I'll probably continue to find something in it to pick apart.

Yeah. I know that one. When I got published the editor I mentioned sent me some small praise about
it, which I managed to express thanks for, but I never believed it, you know?

I applied for a job as an editor this week. If hired I would tell the writer whose work I was editing to run like hell and never never never let me pick it apart.

I could never have another piece picked apart by someone I dont know.

uh. Who's hiring editors again? I missed that?

And I'll never prositute myself again either. I've had dozens of people telling me that part of being a successful writer is having an editor tear something apart to where I no longer recognize it. Clearly, I'll never be a "successful" writer.

Ever read about the trouble Lish is having becuase he did that with Raymond Carver? What you said:

editors tearing apart...

it's not entirely true.

But at least I'll be closer to liking my own work.

[MsWizard]

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There was an opening for a copy editor at The Leader. I applied. And as with most everything else, have heard not a word. It's unfortunate that potential employers aren't polite enough to even acknowledge resumes that are sent in. But politeness and social niceties are going down the toilet along with the economy so I guess I better get used to it.