tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056792574534014889.post1932289813002448518..comments2023-09-15T09:55:04.468-06:00Comments on beautiful chaos: why i'll never sell to a publisher and a guest post at Brooklyn ScribblerMichelle Gregoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05747275507200268417noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056792574534014889.post-60408187428014005762011-07-07T14:36:00.799-06:002011-07-07T14:36:00.799-06:00I've never published anything but still I'...I've never published anything but still I'm trying to get back to writing the way I did before I knew a thing about how publishing works. <br /><br />I keep telling myself that it never mattered to me before, getting published, what anyone thought, back when I wrote the work I'm proudest of. I wrote for one or two people, and one of them was me.<br /><br />I'm still trying to find the yellow brick road back, though. It's hard to forget. "You must unlearn what you have learned," Yoda said, and that freaking Muppet was pretty darn smart.<br /><br />Unlearn, we have to unlearn.<br /><br />Wishing you luck with your Kieran in the sequel- (and wishing me luck with getting back to writing my own Keiran!) and wishing you writing that speaks of your heart and that feeds your soul.<br /><br />You're a gem, Michelle. As a writer but more importantly, as a person. Don't pressure yourself, just rest your mind and your soul and hopefully, the cries of the battlefield (in the story) will be so strong after awhile that you will simply have to write them down for the world to hear as well.<br /><br />love,<br />bruFebruary Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01078037856070486022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056792574534014889.post-49814960177666320122011-07-07T07:56:34.600-06:002011-07-07T07:56:34.600-06:00I don't write for myself or for others. I writ...I don't write for myself or for others. I write for the story. The story is alive and real and it needs me to tell it. The story has to be the only thing in my head. It needs to consume me while I'm writing it. Then I know it'll be the story I want to tell.Sarah McCabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10985261436020635823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056792574534014889.post-9166733552574443422011-07-06T21:29:48.407-06:002011-07-06T21:29:48.407-06:00Don't burn any bridges. Recently, a publisher ...Don't burn any bridges. Recently, a publisher picked up on a self-pubbed book that a network person wrote. You're a good writer and I think if you learn to grow as a writer you could get traditionally published and/or picked up by a big house. I loved your book, Edala. <br /><br />Just write. Don't worry about what other people think. Some changes are good that they suggest and keep the story tight. Just don't not do it because you're sensitive to criticism. Some good advice someone told me once: keep what is good and throw out what is bad. She was talking about criticism. <br /><br />All that's said, hurry up and move to your new place and then finish the sequal. Am looking forward to buying it when it's done. :o)Nikole Hahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10436308813116112509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056792574534014889.post-67042523787380412262011-07-06T10:59:03.192-06:002011-07-06T10:59:03.192-06:00If writing for others makes you miserable, why bot...If writing for others makes you miserable, why bother?<br />I did take my readers into consideration when writing the sequel to my book. However, at that point, I really wasn't sure what to write next! So I noted their thoughts and requests and then formed my own story around those ideas. And it was actually easier to write than the first one. Or maybe that was the pressure of NaNo...?Alex J. Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09770065693345181702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056792574534014889.post-5872674061940132902011-07-06T08:54:23.380-06:002011-07-06T08:54:23.380-06:00Michelle - i'm glad the publishing thing is wo...Michelle - i'm glad the publishing thing is working out for you. thanks for your honesty in your posts. <br /><br />Karen - yes, it's a good quote. thanks for stopping by.Michelle Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05747275507200268417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056792574534014889.post-52500486349716475322011-07-06T08:52:15.887-06:002011-07-06T08:52:15.887-06:00Just keep reading that quote at the top of your bl...Just keep reading that quote at the top of your blog, over and over!Karen Jones Gowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01153821980625034810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056792574534014889.post-57740019649487298152011-07-06T08:27:28.167-06:002011-07-06T08:27:28.167-06:00Thank you for writing this! I thought I might have...Thank you for writing this! I thought I might have similar feelings when I signed with a small publisher, but they've been so fantastic that I haven't felt forced into anything, so that's nice. I still write for myself, and that has been the beauty of publishing small and not with a big huge beast of a publisher looming over my head. :)<br /><br />I wish you the best of luck! I HSP too, and it's so, so, so hard at times. I think it shows through in my posts. Oftentimes they are very dramatic because I've got to get that stuff out there somehow.<br /><br />Just keep writing. Just keep writing for YOU and everything else will work out.Michelle D. Argylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09696465137285587646noreply@blogger.com