I am in training all week, so my ability to quickly and concisely analyze and react to articles like this one in the WSJ that revolves around the publishing world will be seriously curtailed and limited or this one that a reader sent in.
That being said I do have a lot of time to think about the plotting (or is it plodding) of my novel. This is good for my critique group because hopefully it will enhance the work and make it more worthwhile.
I'm really looking forward to my critique group meeting, but I just noticed something. I accepted the meeting date readily and excitedly, happy that I was in town that day. That's what I focused on, the day. It wasn't till yesterday that I noticed the time.
Eleven in the morning? Who sets up a critique group meeting for eleven in the morning?
That's when it hit me. Want to know who sets up critique group meetings for eleven in the morning . . . people who are serious about their writing, that's who. I have a full time job, I work at eleven in the morning. My fellow critique-ers do not have full time, nine to five jobs. They are more serious, obviously, about their writing than I. I wish I could take my writing as seriously.
When does one start to take it more seriously? When one becomes successful? Seems like a catch 22. How does one become a successful writer, by taking it more seriously. How does one take it more seriously, by becoming successful.
Is it a good thing to be immediately jealous of one's writing critique group even before anything has been read or critiqued? We shall see next week at eleven in the morning.
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