Re: how to get published
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:06:30 +1000
> Are you really happy with it?
>
> Scottie B.
THIS
Now THAT is the question each and every writer must ask themself.
I've been struggling with that itchy coiled python that is my writing
career recently. Doesn't every writer? I pared it back to the fundamental
question: why?Why bother? Why not be a dentist? A therapist? A hypnotist?
Why any of it? And I realised that the only answer that you can truly build
a career on is: because I want to. The assertion that must always remain in
your mind no matter what is `I AM WRITING FOR MYSELF.' Not to further my
career,
not for my agent, not for the guy who said he'd turn it into an Oscar
winning filmscript with me, but because this is the story I want to tell.
Then the rest falls into place. That burning desire can be the only place
your writing comes from.
It's strange the way one spends one's whole life working to get back to the
place of simplicity and clarity one was at at seven years of age ...
8 rejections 2 expressions of interest 0 acceptances but several
international performances later...
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com