Smiles and finding this site...

I am in a wonderful position and I'd be an a-hole if I didn't acknowledge it. I love writing so much that I have to run and put on extra deoderant when I'm on a roll. With my novel, I've gotten a fair number of rejections, some with handwritten encouragement and two from big-time agents asking me to check back with them (over the moon on those two, I'm tellin' ya.) And now I've found this place. I can say what I want. I can ask for feedback and get it because anonimity frees people to say what they really think. This place feels like home. You people are so fascinating and brilliant.

I may never get published. It seems to me that it's 40% talent, 40% persistence and 20% luck. I'll take those odds. My life has unfolded in this wonderous time and place where I might get paid to make sh** up. God, that's cool.

And if I don't, I can take my mental vacations and write them down... at least people I know will enjoy them. My friends and family love to roll up their sleeves and get into it with me. They make me better... they make me love the process. I hope I can put their name on an acknowledgement page someday. they deserve it and so much more.

I will not suffer for my craft... I don't need to. (Other than the pangs of thesaurus related anxiety.) I am so fortunate. I should be struck by lightning if I don't recognize it from time to time.