It's
time to rock the neurotic writing world!
With the
With the
I was cooking dinner
yesterday and realized how much I enjoyed cooking and the joy I felt doing the task. I'm
no gourmet, believe me, but at least my family eats what I feed them. I was curious about why the feeling caught my
attention. Was feeling joy, odd? No, the odd thing was that I noticed it. Stranger still is that it made me question what
it was that had stolen my happiness in the first place. I reviewed the prior
week.
Was writing stealing my joy?
Couldn't be, last night I
wrote 3000 words from a dream that will go into my next book and writing it was quite satisfying, especially as book 4 is
coming together, and that feels great.
It's not the writing that steals my joy; it's all the other things that go along with
it. I'm beginning to think that writing
in a vacuum would be more joyful than trying to jump through the hoops that are
required to find an audience and convince them to buy your book.
Marketing steals my joy!
There's Facebook and
their desire to have their cake and eat it too. I mean who wouldn't want to
turn billions into trillions. On FB regular posts no longer reach but a few people, you want more folks to see them, pay for a
boost. Everywhere there are fees for this and fees for that. Not to mention the
fact that folks are fed up with seeing 'buy my book' on any social networking
site. Because of spam, no one wants to share an email address, so good luck finding
an audience for your newsletter. I think it's
time to go back to the highway advertising road sign, just say'n.
I find myself wondering if
real joy means turning off the computer, deleting all social networking sites,
and going back to the things in life that bring true happiness? You know,
painting the porch, cleaning the garage, and putting that closet organizer
together, yes, these are all tasks I've been putting off.
What steals your joy?
*****
Today WEP-Write…Edit…Publish is announcing the winners of
the Spectacular Settings Challenge.
That exercise did bring me joy, and if
you've taken the time to read all the great entries, you'll agree.
Please stop
by the WEP Headquarters and give your congratulations to the winners.
1st place – Elephants Child
2nd place – L. G. Keltner
3rd place – Samantha Redstreake Geary
