here's a fun little poem about the depths a writer feels when agents/publishers don't like their work. a little rhyme-y, but it was the mood i was in...
UPON ANOTHER BOOK REJECTION:
There is no beauty in despair
I am thwarted everywhere.
What I want to do, I can’t, I won’t.
What others think about me, don’t.
All around this big green earth
I seek the place, I want my birth.
I want to own the clouds, the trees.
I have nowhere to bend my knees.
There is no happy ending here.
And, although I don’t feel fear,
I realize that my dreams now lack
That faith, and I don’t want them back.
--hlg july 2010
(PS--don't worry, i'm okay now, and planning to continue to write. this is the melodrama of the author...)
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Update on Otherworld
Well, here I am, still agent-less and crestfallen. However, I feel remarkably chipper when I re-read your lovely comments on Otherworld. The sad truth is that this book is on the very short side of adult fiction (at 50,000 words, as opposed to 80,000). So, my options are...
1) Add about 30,000 more words to my basically complete story--half the size of my book.
2) Write another book--definitely longer in length, and POSSIBLY more Christian (in other words, don't mention Wicca or anything that doesn't fit into the Christian fiction "box").
3) Write another book, of sufficient length, throwing caution and possible popularity with Christian pubs to the wind, about something I think is important.
So, I think option three is looking the best right now. I'm thinking of writing a follow-up book to Otherworld or something completely different.
I love that you all are so hungry for more of the story. I wish I could give it to you! For free! But I think it's something that people may pay money to read. The end is just something that I don't think you'll see coming.
And a huge SHOUT-OUT to my pre-agent, Diane, for picking up the pieces of my miserable self-esteem as a writer and telling me that I can write, that I'm a good mother, and that the world is just not as black as it seems sometimes.
I truly appreciate you all and love all your comments. Someday, I will get a book into your hands, written by Heather Day Gilbert. And hopefully, it's the end of this book you've been following faithfully!
--Heather
1) Add about 30,000 more words to my basically complete story--half the size of my book.
2) Write another book--definitely longer in length, and POSSIBLY more Christian (in other words, don't mention Wicca or anything that doesn't fit into the Christian fiction "box").
3) Write another book, of sufficient length, throwing caution and possible popularity with Christian pubs to the wind, about something I think is important.
So, I think option three is looking the best right now. I'm thinking of writing a follow-up book to Otherworld or something completely different.
I love that you all are so hungry for more of the story. I wish I could give it to you! For free! But I think it's something that people may pay money to read. The end is just something that I don't think you'll see coming.
And a huge SHOUT-OUT to my pre-agent, Diane, for picking up the pieces of my miserable self-esteem as a writer and telling me that I can write, that I'm a good mother, and that the world is just not as black as it seems sometimes.
I truly appreciate you all and love all your comments. Someday, I will get a book into your hands, written by Heather Day Gilbert. And hopefully, it's the end of this book you've been following faithfully!
--Heather
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