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As a person with one foot in the writing community and one foot in the psychiatric community, I have conflicting feelings about the narrative that the work of dutiful writers never ends. My querying journey was commenced on the 22nd, and I received my first rejection on the 23rd, which was not devastating for me. I am betting that the rejections this week will be the first few to sting. Since then, I have been concentrating on adding to my agents list, and I have started to question when I am going to return to Microsoft Word and create a new world. But . . . I have no desire to move on. I have other ideas that I adore, but I do not feel an impulse to write them at this time. My manuscript has absorbed my leisure for more than half a decade. As much as I love writing, there is nothing that sounds less appealing than fussing with queries in the afternoon and fussing with my prose at night.
Questions: What are the honest passtimes that you are turning to throughout this time? If you are actually venturing onto the next project, how have the words been flowing? Is the current querying experience positively or negativity effecting your motivation?
I might be the writer who receives endless rejections for the next year with nothing else completed and immediately at the ready, but I am also finding excitement returning to neglected hobbies, continuing language learning, motivating myself to do the social-media-thing, and discovering that the hype around Netflix originals might actually be deserved. I've come to the conclusion that my version of coping in this process might be non-writing-centric as blasphemous as it sounds. I think about the mental health of writers because we are among the only creatives/workers who have the theoretical ability to be productive at any hour of the day and day of the week, which can normalize guilt and obsession within us.
Questions: What are the honest passtimes that you are turning to throughout this time? If you are actually venturing onto the next project, how have the words been flowing? Is the current querying experience positively or negativity effecting your motivation?
I might be the writer who receives endless rejections for the next year with nothing else completed and immediately at the ready, but I am also finding excitement returning to neglected hobbies, continuing language learning, motivating myself to do the social-media-thing, and discovering that the hype around Netflix originals might actually be deserved. I've come to the conclusion that my version of coping in this process might be non-writing-centric as blasphemous as it sounds. I think about the mental health of writers because we are among the only creatives/workers who have the theoretical ability to be productive at any hour of the day and day of the week, which can normalize guilt and obsession within us.