The book packager sent an e-mail to let me know they received my chapters and to tell me I should hear something within three weeks. It's gonna be a long three weeks... But the only way to deal with it is to be working on the next project. For me, that's "The Dead Mothers' Club," and I'm back on it and feeling pretty good. I have to keep reminding myself that I'm just trying to write the "shitty first draft" that Ann Lamont talks about in Bird by Bird, as I have a hard time stopping myself from constant revising as I go.
There's a difference between torturing yourself with every word, which prevents you from making forward progress, and recognizing when you're stumped for your next sentence/chapter because the previous one was so wrong that it has lead you to a mental dead end. When I feel "writers block," it often means I'm trying to proceed from a point that can't be proceeded from, if that makes sense. Going back and taking a different path usually helps me.
Writers Block can also be caused by other stresses, such as when I get so pissed off at some member of my family that I can't focus on anything but HOW I WOULD KILL HIM/HER IF I KNEW I WOULDN'T GET CAUGHT. Sounds like a novel... hmmm....
DON'T YOU DARE WRITE THAT DOWN, BY THE WAY. THAT MAY BECOME THE TITLE OF MY NEXT BOOK.
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"REVENGE OF THE SOCCER MOMS"
Never underestimate smart, funny, and slightly bored stay-at-home moms, especially when they get angry.
Teenage drivers, abusive husbands, vandals, and child molesters are no match for these women.
But when does Neighborhood Watch become Vigilantism? And when the Moms kill a cheating husband
and the 24-hour news channels camp out in their neighborhood, will their lives ever be the same?
Never underestimate smart, funny, and slightly bored stay-at-home moms, especially when they get angry.
Teenage drivers, abusive husbands, vandals, and child molesters are no match for these women.
But when does Neighborhood Watch become Vigilantism? And when the Moms kill a cheating husband
and the 24-hour news channels camp out in their neighborhood, will their lives ever be the same?
About Me
- Myra Levine
- I have edited a new and much-improved versions of my first novel, and am on the hunt for a new agent. Meanwhile, I'll be working on my second novel and dreaming of book deals and movie rights. Like all writers. Back in the 80's and 90's, I ran a video production company for many years and wrote dozens of TV and radio ads, political spots, and training and marketing videos. Then I adopted my daughter from China, met and married David, adopted a son from Vietnam, and began writing fiction. (Some of the political ads were fiction, but that's another story.) Now I'm revising my second novel, and caring for my mother and mother in law, both diagnosed with dementia. If I can turn my personal circus into a best seller, it will all be worthwhile. Otherwise, it's a daily root canal.
HERE'S THE QUESTION
Can a smartass mom achieve commercial success as a novelist? My husband and our creditors sincerely hope so.
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